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by skore 14y ago
That video also seems to be a pretty good way to demonstrate the limits of lossy video encoding.
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by skore 14y ago
From his history, it seems like he came over during dongle/fork-gate. (edit: Not sure about the downvote - was just wondering myself how such a comment ends up on HN.)
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by skore 14y ago
I've been wondering that as well. Am I missing out on some premium reserve of frustration? I really gotta try harder to feel disenfranchised.
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by skore 14y ago
I have a number of problems with this. First off - the project itself is just not worth the effort in my opinion. There are a lot of email clients already in the FOSS world and most of them are pretty good. Not perfect, sure, maybe lacking
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by skore 14y ago
This ushers in a new era of annoying and pointless "This website prevents right clicks" popups. Just the other day I said to my coworker everybody, by now, knew how to use firebug/inspector (he disagreed and, being in support, he does see m
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by skore 14y ago
That does not address what the post you're replying to stated: That PPS is a more trustworthy metric than PPC. The user is rarely, if ever, asked in this - it's all tracking.
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by skore 14y ago
I honestly don't know: Is a million copies a lot? I faintly recall other games selling multiple times that on launch.
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by skore 14y ago
I did cry a little. Hit too close to what is sometimes home[0]. [0] https://plus.google.com/u/0/111011776153281260419/posts/GWdk...
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by skore 14y ago
> Another interesting idea could be turning a city into a sort of MMORPG where each user has control over a smaller section of the city [...] There are indeed a number of ways this could make for an interesting multiplayer experience. I
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by skore 14y ago
Sure, you can check out some of my stuff on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sk0re It's somewhat mixed, but there is a good amount of ambient stuff in there as well. (Also note that almost all of it - except for the one remix - is CC li
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by skore 14y ago
Do I hear a kickstarter coming? ;-) Holler if you need somebody to make some music. Heavily into making ambient stuff right now anyways...
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by skore 14y ago
True, but it would still be debatable to what extend the service would be as useful as the USPS if it was "economical". Today, though, it is more likely to be somewhat decent, so that is debatable as well, but not so when the postal syste
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by skore 14y ago
Crossing my fingers real hard for somebody to pick this up eventually to make a no-nonsense FOSS SimCity clone out of this. Please, please, please.
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by skore 14y ago
(Not strictly a reply to you, but following up since I found that interesting.) The original quote was > that, simply, is why mailing a letter through UPS is so expensive. So the actual reason is: Mailing a letter through UPS does not e
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by skore 14y ago
> I just can't see any utility gain from subsidizing rural folks. Ah, so it's "government subsidy" and you have a hard time imagining how that is good for society. Understood, you really are trolling.
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by skore 14y ago
> If receiving mail is a basic skill, then so is having a mailing address. Thus, Alaskans should subsidiz my rent. No, that does not follow. > As for your arguments about subjective feelIngs, if the minor grudge people feel when the
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by skore 14y ago
There are things that make sense to socialize, others - not so much. Conjuring up a weird one that makes little sense isn't a proper argument, it's a straw man. Being able to send mail is a basic skill required to participate in society - t
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by skore 14y ago
I'm confused as well. I thought the reason why mailing a letter through UPS is expensive is because using a system set up for delivery of packages to deliver a letter is a bit wasteful and thus they have to set higher costs to make any mone
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by skore 14y ago
"Code golfing" is a truly marvelous term.
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by skore 14y ago
Tried - one or two. Actually used, productively - zero.
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by skore 14y ago
I've read that a good mnemonic is going roughly by the beat of "Stayin' Alive".
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by skore 14y ago
> In a sense, the past can be used to predict the future, via movements and policies Asimov coined it Psychohistory[0]. Reminds me that I never finished the Foundation series. (In my defense, it is quite a long series.) [0] http://en
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by skore 14y ago
I'll give you my humanity when you pry it from my cold, robotic appendages.
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by skore 14y ago
I upvoted you, but while we are nitpicking: "a little meaningless" is quite like saying "a little pregnant" ;-)
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by skore 14y ago
Ah ok, I had the slight impression that you didn't want to discuss this and instead just voice your opinion. Confirmed and noted.
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by skore 14y ago
> Regulated campaign finance...who writes the rules? Ideally, > the people I think the "people -> government" relationship is broken in the US and I'm not sure whether all the "blood of patriots and tyrants" talk helps or hurts
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by skore 14y ago
> Having said that, I never used Formspring and didn't know anyone who ever had. Yeah, lies, damn lies and statistics ;-) I rarely ever saw a formspring Q&A that was bustling with activity while it was quite the opposite for Instagr
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by skore 14y ago
I also remember them having pretty much exactly a bazillion more users than formspring. That is to say: the evaluation of a business plan is a completely different horse than the price at which a company is purchased later on. The former sa
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by skore 14y ago
Minor nitpick: You have "Global Reach" on the frontpage. With an image above it that shows almost exclusively the Americas.
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by skore 14y ago
And that's exactly why I'd like to try out something that is a lot more different, not just slightly different ;-)

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