samolang

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by samolang 13y ago
It also attempts to notify the sender if the receiver takes a screenshot of the message.
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by samolang 13y ago
There is a larger discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7293741
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by samolang 13y ago
You realize that would put Google out of business?
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by samolang 13y ago
I've never heard of an 8-month internship. What sort of program is that? Like a semester+summer?
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by samolang 13y ago
This reminds me of Google's internet balloon project. The balloons navigate solely by changing their elevation and relying on the fact that the wind travels in different directions at different elevations. http://www.google.
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Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language(youtube.com)
14 points by samolang 13y ago|2 comments
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Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video](blog.stephenwolfram.com)
190 points by samolang 13y ago|71 comments
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Netflix Said to Agree to Pay Comcast for Faster Web Access(bloomberg.com)
1 points by samolang 13y ago|0 comments
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by samolang 13y ago
This seems insane. I love WhatsApp, but I recently switched to Google Hangouts because it also supports SMS and I don't really miss it. I don't understand how it can be worth this much when Google has already released a direct com
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by samolang 13y ago
On reddit the site creator said that is what his lawyers advised. http://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/1xmfby/i_jus...
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by samolang 13y ago
My understanding is that both bitcoins and cash are stuck at Gox. But you are still able to do internal bitcoin transfers within Gox. Person A transfers their "gox" bitcoins to bitcoinbuilder.com's "gox" bitcoin add
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by samolang 13y ago
For anyone that is interested there is now a market for trading "real" bitcoins for "gox" bitcoins. https://bitcoinbuilder.com/
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by samolang 13y ago
Apparently as of a couple weeks ago the R-squared value was ~90%. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ghost-of-1929-haunts-as-199...
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by samolang 13y ago
And it has been consistently expensive. http://camelcamelcamel.com/Nuclear-Energy-Landolt-B%C3%B6rns...
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by samolang 13y ago
I believe that's intentional. They have a kindle fire app.
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by samolang 13y ago
"If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would said a faster horse" - Henry Ford Sometimes it is hard to know what you want and marketing can help you figure it out.
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by samolang 13y ago
This would make an awesome wallpaper/screen saver.
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by samolang 13y ago
Running into the path of a moving car is only fraud if you claim the driver is at fault. If you admit responsibility and pay for any damages then it is not fraud.
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by samolang 13y ago
I know. I just thought this was a good illustration of this commonly stated aphorism.
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by samolang 13y ago
I agree that they may have violated the spirit of the contract. But the contract specifically handles the case of cancelling an order (including some restitution), so I would hardly consider it fraud.
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by samolang 13y ago
If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
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by samolang 13y ago
And they paid cancellation fees.
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by samolang 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
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by samolang 13y ago
Perhaps I am being too trusting of their service. Thanks for the wake up call. I'll back up my data.
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by samolang 13y ago
If my hard drive breaks it doesn't delete the file from their servers. You'd need to have a hard drive break in a specific manner in which it corrupts the file and then have the corrupted file be replicated. Even then Dropbox main
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by samolang 13y ago
Not to mention redundancy. That's the biggest plus for me. Don't want to have to worry about hard drive failures.
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by samolang 13y ago
I pay $99 a year for >100GB. You don't think that's cheap?
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UltraCart now accepts bitcoin payments with Coinbase(docs.ultracart.com)
1 points by samolang 13y ago|0 comments
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by samolang 13y ago
The price of the OS you are upgrading to does not equal the total cost of upgrading your OS necessarily.
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by samolang 13y ago
Interesting concept. Simplify the sensors as much as possible and do all of the work in the software. I'm guessing they have profiles that allow you to determine how a sensor's data is interpreted. I wonder if they allow you to de

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