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   by silveira 11y ago

   I remember when massive dragnet government surveillance was a conspiracy theory.
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   by silveira 11y ago

   For a moment I thought I was at twitch.tv. Great copy.
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   by silveira 11y ago

   Civil forfeiture laws in the US. I don't feel safe carrying a reasonable amount of cash. Here the police can just rob me, and now I'm guilty until proven innocent. In DC it costs up to $2500 for the right to challenge a police sei
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   by silveira 11y ago

   Robots are comming to restaurants regardless. There is already touch kiosks where you can order in some restaurants, there is one at a Panera Bread near me, and many in some airports.
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   by silveira 11y ago

   Yes, compared with what a bird can do. This is what a single bird (vulture) did in to a a small airplane in Brazil recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICbWN3XTcig (strong images). This was what another bird did to a l
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   by silveira 11y ago

   These links don't work on twitter. :(
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   by silveira 11y ago

   1. I take a picture of the restaurant bill, in case my memory is obstructed by alcohol. 2. Bill people using Venmo. Email then the picture I took. For more complicated stuff, life travels, I keep a Google Spreadsheets which calculates what
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   by silveira 11y ago

   Wow! It worked super well on Firefox 38.0.5/OS X 10.7.5.
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   by silveira 11y ago

   This is what I'm using now: http://seesparkbox.com/foundry/semantic_commit_messages . chore: add Oyster build script docs: explain hat wobble feat: add beta sequence fix: remove broken confirmation message refactor
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    by silveira 11y ago

    Beautiful. I would download if it was for Ubuntu, which I thought it was.
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    by silveira 11y ago

    How to create logical gates (XOR, AND, etc) using water: http://www.blikstein.com/paulo/projects/project_water.html And more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics
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    by silveira 11y ago

    Step 1 . Extremely altruistic people join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Step 2 . Extremely altruistic people cease reproduction. Step 3 . Humanity goes on. If there was a gene for altruism (or a set of genes and their relation
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    by silveira 11y ago

    I have been using Flickr for almost 10 years. I got the 2 years of Pro Account for free in a event, and since then I have being paying a pro account, mostly as a backup service. Recently they changed their pricing and I was said I should no
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    by silveira 12y ago

    Their ads are ubiquitous. Everywhere I look I see them, phone, computer, and tv.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    Yes, all the time. I lost the count but I'm probably in my Apple 5th power adapter. During the same period, I'm still using the same Dell power adapter with my Dell laptop.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    This is utterly amazing. I recommend downloading the presentation slides that explain the algorithm in more details. There are some very interesting ideas that can be reused.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    True or not, this story is amazing.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    I wonder if he can create a Missingno this way.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    In DC in theory you have 3 providers but in practice that's not how it works. Even though my neighbors had RCN or Verizon they could not serve me. I ended up stuck with Comcast and everything this implies. Then I moved to another place
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    by silveira 12y ago

    That's a problem, but not a DMCA problem.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    I don't like the idea. Devices should inform users about possible violations, but ultimately the decision should be upon the user. This is probably more about the drone maker showing a good behavior to regulatory agencies and governmen
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    by silveira 12y ago

    Wow, impressive, I think I now more about ffmpeg now. And I fixed the (50,415), thanks.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXD5DxbXog Final video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdB28QD-QSY
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    by silveira 12y ago

    I have played a little bit with OpenCV in the past ( http://silveiraneto.net/tag/opencv/ ) but I wouldn't know how to do it with OpenCV, while with ImageMagick it seems simple. I'd love to see an example w
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    by silveira 12y ago

    I think I could. I'm encoding one to compare. I converted to JPEG because I originally was going to use a encoding that required jpeg input.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    Hi, I'm the author of the post. I've been using JDownloader on Linux for years and never noticed a problem with Adware. Can you please elaborate? I'd really like to know more.
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    ImageMagick, four point perspective distortion in a video(silveiraneto.net)

    145 points by silveira 12y ago|60 comments
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    by silveira 12y ago

    That's the first week. See http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2439-my-experience-with-angular...
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    by silveira 12y ago

    Logistic/economic and most importantly, legal. ISP have deals with local governments to have monopolies.
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    by silveira 12y ago

    I tried 3 times on Firefox and it was always saying 4/5 correct. Then I tried on Chrome and I passed to the foobar terminal.