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by shutupalready 12y ago
We need to be thankful that pockets of extreme nonconformity exist to show an alternative to groupthink. People are so eager to mock or crush any diversity. Average people can't stand the idea that there are places in the world with ex
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> television has developed increasingly dense visual shorthand What are some examples of this "visual shorthand"? Preferably examples from a popular show (like The Simpsons) so I can really understand what you mean. Would a 1
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Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 and MH370 share similarities say aviation experts(news.com.au)
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> companies hoarding cash instead of spending it I've heard this sentiment many times but I've wondered if there's an economic fallacy there. Would the economy be better off if lots of companies stopped hoarding cash and h
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Wouldn't it be deliciously funny if the adapter was engineered such that all third-party k-cups worked, but Keurig's own k-cups ceased working. It should be possible; I thought of ways using electronics or a prism, but nothing sim
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by shutupalready 12y ago
I applaud the fact that they don't seem worried about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that makes it illegal to create devices that bypass DRM. DMCA is supposed to apply only to protecting copyrighted works, but prosecutors and la
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by shutupalready 12y ago
St. Louis streetwalker serial killer, Maury Travis, sent the local newspaper a computer generated map giving the intersection where he left a body. Investigators determined that web-based mapping software Expedia was used--based on symbols
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by shutupalready 12y ago
So you're bellyaching about Wikipedia having $51 million in the bank and spending $684,000 on furniture (if true)? Don't you realize how tiny those numbers are compared to the incredibly wasteful spending by any governmental agenc
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> The biggest factors in predicting long-term success are intelligence, knowledge, and conscientiousness I wouldn't dispute that those are important factors, but what about: - initiative and/or risk-taking (which is very diff
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by shutupalready 12y ago
I tried Google Chrome (v29 on Windows, fwiw), and it behaves just like Firefox; i.e., it'll render local text or image files but won't play local videos. I didn't try Chromium.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> I vastly prefer offline media players to browser-based tools Why don't browsers provide some way to play local video files, for example by typing "file:///c:/my_video.flv" into the address bar. Afte
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by shutupalready 12y ago
That brings up another thing that the average Joe doesn't think about: that nuclear weapons are transported on unmarked trucks right along major highway routes. For all we know, a couple shipments might pass certain cities every day fo
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by shutupalready 12y ago
A far more important issue that the article doesn't explain is why the Yucca Mountain repository was shut down. It had nothing to do with technology or safety, or even money. It was the NIMBY-mentality -- Not In My BackYard -- of a pop
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by shutupalready 12y ago
The blog says that a 9-year-old girl saw a man matching Luk's description wearing a purple hoodie jump off the Golden Gate bridge on the very afternoon he disappeared. The police report about this incident was tracked down months late
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Sorry, but that explanation doesn't hold up. Long distance calls in bulk are so cheap that the phone companies might be making a fraction of one cent for each call. On the other hand, this creates so tremendous ill will against the pho
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Ask HN: Real reason why phone companies can't shut down phone scams
3 points by shutupalready 12y ago|3 comments
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> do not teach non-technical people how to make a software business (expected success rate of people who buy that book: < 1%, if that) [but for example] write the book on Ruby on Rails developer integration testing, there is at least
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Why Don’t We Have Pay Toilets in America?(psmag.com)
2 points by shutupalready 12y ago|2 comments
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> Jordan’s “acid test” involved coloured discs showing different mixtures of pigment, such as a green made of yellow and blue. The mixtures were too subtle for most people to notice: almost all people would see the same shade of olive g
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> even if the original Satoshi steps forward ... nobody will believe it's really him I beg to differ. If the real Satoshi actually wanted to identify himself, he'd have no trouble convincing us beyond a reasonable doubt eve
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Three Myths About Police Body Cams(slate.com)
2 points by shutupalready 12y ago|0 comments
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Credit card idiocy: Turns out that authorization codes aren't really checked(businessinsider.com)
5 points by shutupalready 12y ago|0 comments
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by shutupalready 12y ago
So those 85 detectives and supervisors, formerly working on auto crime, now work on auto crime -- a subset of auto crime to be precise. The grandparent's comment has merit. Government has stayed exactly the same size.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
When I worked a few months in Silicon Valley, I noticed something similar there: There's a McDonalds in an area dominated by software and engineering companies. At lunch, people would go through the drive-thru, park in the McDonalds&#x
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> My dad is a lawyer and his firm still uses it today. I've shown him Google Docs I'm wondering if a lawyer's use of Google Docs or other web-based document storage app would be considered a breach of client privacy or vio
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OkCupid Lied To Users About Their Compatibility As An Experiment(forbes.com)
2 points by shutupalready 12y ago|0 comments
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Speaking of nuclear-powered aircraft, care to guess who holds the patent on that? It's none other than Richard Feynman, as related in this hilarious passage from his famous biography: --- quote --- One time when I happened to be home,
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Why is he doing this in Swedish and two versions of Filipino? He apparently speaks English, so I assume he could adapt his code to do English entries as well.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Unless there's some nuance that I'm missing, it sounds like that that is exactly what he's doing.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Your final demo is easily defeated because a link to cat.png appears right in the page source: I mean this line: <img id="cat" src="cat.png" width="237" height="235" /> in the source code t

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