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by selmnoo 12y ago
Agreed, that was a stunningly beautiful way of showing fonts. They're not just showcasing the typesetting, they're also relating the emotion of it by using specific passages of text from different places that match the spirit of t
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I would be really, really happy if you can get a piano version out soon. :)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Really? In what terms? Can companies do that? I mean, are you suggesting they basically orchestrated this whole piece -- they have that much power over journalistic outlets? I actually believed it, my friends at Google pretty much say the e
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Yes, there actually already exist hardware solutions that let you do what Aereo does, except you don't have to pay a service fee. I really hope they do this. I commented on this on the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I've mentioned this before on HN, I'll say it again: Aereo should now do a pivot, becoming a hardware reseller of TV-signal-receiver/streamer devices like this one: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products&
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I appreciate that Cook shares the personal story of encountering clansmen, challenging them (at such a young age), but man there are some serious stretches of truths in the rest of the video. At 4:12 he says he found Apple and Steve Jobs to
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by selmnoo 12y ago
The greatest irony in all of this is that it's precisely the capital-rentiers, the venture capitalists (this post, for example), etc. who are complaining about this. Anyway, one place where I disagree with you is about the 'civil
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Apple Sued Over Vanishing Texts After IPhones Swapped Out(bloomberg.com)
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Apple being sued for iMessage not delivering text messages(businessinsider.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Wait, there's a proximity sensor in the Nest (thermostat, I'm assuming you're talking about)? What function does the sensor serve? And what is its capability exactly - it can detect a person within 10 feet - who happens to be
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by selmnoo 12y ago
This is a pretty confusing case, hard to make much of it, LavaBit 2 is of course a possibility. But while we're making these theories, I wanna sound my wild theory: Considering that: (1) TrueCrypt authors go to great to keep their iden
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Sorry, silly question, what's "y/y" that keeps appearing in this report?
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I can appreciate RG's leadership having the self-awareness to see the need to make an Adult Decision in this case, but I think it's probably a mistake for them to continue hosting the Rodgers diary. Rap Genius is in still som
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The 4K Blu-ray format could be dead in the water because of cloud threat(techradar.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I'd always thought Financial Times was a very decent news journal outlet, sure a little right-inclined but generally trustable much like the Economist. I thought they wouldn't be up to dirty tricks, then I saw the image they used
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> The jump is from "wealth inequality" to "power inequality." It's not clear that the former causes the latter. Well, there is that paper from Gilens and Page that argues otherwise ( http://www.princeto
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by selmnoo 12y ago
At least some of the data is available here: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/capitalisback
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Why is it a `problem`? In almost every interview Piketty says repeatedly that he makes the policy proposals very tentatively, that readers should 'make up their own mind' -- 'write their own chapter 4' (chapter 4 is wh
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Political intentions aside, I'm very impressed by Piketty's elucidative and insightful reply: > For the time being, we have to do with what we have, that is, a very diverse and heterogeneous set of data sources on wealth: hist
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I imagine Piketty would consider that a problem if he knew India existed. I have no idea why people keep saying this about Piketty. You know that he's written on India quite a lot, both in the book and seperately where India is th
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Four Darpa Projects That Could Be Bigger Than The Internet(defenseone.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> So why has the labor income of the top 1 percent risen so sharply relative to the income of everyone else? No one really knows. Really? Isn't this what the bigger half of the book is about? It's because of rentier/patrim
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Hey Matt_Cutts, sorry that this is a little off-topic, I don't really know what would be the correct medium for this... so here I go: could you please kill mypdfmanuals.com from Google hits? I was searching for some instruction manuals
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I think I could have written this article a few months ago, when I was a huge Python fan and would spend a significant amount of time telling my friends in academia to stop using Matlab and start using Python. Then I started working in a re
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by selmnoo 12y ago
That's interesting... (and a little too bad for you, since a lot of systems will give you student discounts and all just for the .edu email address), how come it is that way? Is that a thing with a lot of Canadian universities, or?
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> In my opinion they should focus on making larger YES! Please someone make it larger. I would've bought the thing by now (any printer, under $3k) that lets me print something up to 12x12 inches. I don't see why someone doesn
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Reminder to everyone: use downvote only for poor behavior, not disagreements. Appreciate that rayiner often provides intellectually honest contrarian viewpoints to many arguments. If people like him weren't here, this place would just
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I'd be happy to pay tax money to subsidize internet for low-income households. But I want that on my tax bill, not my cable bill. But you know it as well as I do that that's not happening. I had to hear it from my grandma, Ru
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Motorola introduces $129 Moto E, a smartphone 'affordable for all'(tomshardware.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
We already have a tremendous amount of socioeconomic problems when it comes to housing; only those who are privileged enough to be able to afford housing near good schools, good communities can get good education and a stable/safe life

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