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by slackerIII 16y ago
I think Chrome is still the winner here. I don't even notice when it upgrades itself.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Well, it's not like you are just going to grab the whole thing and bring it back. But I agree, a new source of rare metals would change the pricing. But, platinum is an interesting metal -- engineers could do a lot fun things with it if i
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by slackerIII 16y ago
"For example, there are millions of asteroids of different sizes and composition flying throughout space. One category, known as S-type, is composed of iron, magnesium silicates and a variety of other metals, including cobalt and platinum.
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Ask HN: Laptops in high school?
4 points by slackerIII 16y ago|6 comments
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by slackerIII 16y ago
"How did he do it? By giving away his work for FREE" That has less to do with it than the fact he is really, really good at what he does.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
I'll be happy as long as one of them solves the "route this question to the best person to answer it and then motivate them to answer it" problem.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Does anyone really make much money doing the amazon affiliate thing? I'm genuinely curious -- anyone have any numbers they can share?
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by slackerIII 16y ago
As a taxpayer, I'd just like to say, "screw you".
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by slackerIII 16y ago
John Boyd would be proud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
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by slackerIII 16y ago
One important reason is that you can't be good at everything. Having someone else who can focus on skills A & B while you focus on skills C & D is nice, if you can trust the other person to be competent. Especially consider that s
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by slackerIII 16y ago
I'm sure they are working hard. I don't think anyone is resting on their laurels. But I'm not seeing any results. I'm guessing that they keep running into problems shipping an overly designed new thing, but since it will be ready any day
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The Android Market(tomkleinpeter.com)
86 points by slackerIII 16y ago|26 comments
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by slackerIII 16y ago
I'm guessing he means "raise the age when folks begin collecting social security benefits"
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by slackerIII 16y ago
It is, for the first time in history, a garden of pure ideology.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Heh, these guys could probably get a grant from the same folks funding the EATR [1] research. Sounds like a great combination to me. 1: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10287597-71.html
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by slackerIII 16y ago
UFC is a lot less violent than boxing (and you simply haven't watched both if you claim otherwise), a sport that it is a rapidly displacing.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Darfur, from wikipedia: "Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians [72] while certain non-governmental organizations, such as the Coalition for International Justice, controversially claim that over 400,000 people
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Try reading about Ixtoc I a little bit. "[over 9 months] Approximately an average of ten thousand to thirty thousand barrels per day were discharged into the Gulf until it was finally capped on March 23, 1980" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Please study some history before you make claims like that. Have you seen any witches burned recently? Have 100K Japanese people on the west coast been put into camps recently?
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by slackerIII 16y ago
After estimating the height I needed to raise my desk, I bought some cinder blocks and pavers from Home Depot for about $10 and just put them under my desk legs. I used some old books to prop up my monitors, but blocks of printer paper wor
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Hm, you are probably right - I'm used to thinking about things from a civil suit perspective. http://volokh.com/posts/1197670606.shtml
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by slackerIII 16y ago
What is your plan for when the judge tells you to supply the decryption key?
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by slackerIII 16y ago
As a University of Texas graduate, I always smile when I see the tower when I mistype a domain.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Wow, that sounds nice. Easy screenshots makes the quality of bug reports go up so much.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
I've using alt-printScreen then ctrl-v to do this for years. Does insert screenshot do something differently?
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Now if only I could paste screenshots in.
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by slackerIII 16y ago
Maybe we are part of a test to see if female bloggers get more upvotes on social news sites.
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by slackerIII 17y ago
Ars Technica has a few: "Chen twice wrote that 80 percent of user traffic depended on pirated videos. He opposed removing infringing videos on the ground that 'if you remove the potential copyright infringements... site traffic and virality
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by slackerIII 17y ago
Why can't he just be a crazy person who did something crazy?
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by slackerIII 17y ago
So you could write a mobile app in F#? Neat.

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