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by soneil 9y ago
I'll admit, I homed in on the moon hoax because that's what the screenshots in the article show. But I am struggling to come up with any valid conspiracies which were unravelled on youtube, or disproven on wikipedia. Suffice to sa
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by soneil 9y ago
Balance truly is a case of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". When we see a crackpot on TV, we see cheap amusement. A slow news day. A good idea (balance) gone horribly wrong. But for those who believe the crackpo
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by soneil 9y ago
The most glaring problem is that it simply doesn't work. The only people who take conspiracy videos seriously, are people who have already decided they don't like the truth, and either want someone to agree with them, or want some
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by soneil 9y ago
We have a sales tax of 23%(!), so for each $1 ticket, 23 cents goes in the coffers and 77 cents goes into the lotto. So a $500m prize would mean 650m $1 tickets were sold, and the state has already collected $150m. It sounds like the state
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by soneil 9y ago
They basically have to. I get the notion than it doesn't seem fair, that no person is using a $300m share of the state's resources. But math just doesn't back it up. The US federal budget is somewhere around 4 trillion dolla
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by soneil 9y ago
I think ASICs are still winning for bitcoin itself, but they currently have two big problems for a lot of buyers. First, absolutely zero resale value. Once either the difficulty raises, or the value of the coin falls, to the point where yo
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by soneil 9y ago
That's in the article. In the US, the copyright term (for the relevant period) was the date they were published plus n years. In (most of) Europe, it's the life of the author plus n years. So for a book published 50 years before
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by soneil 9y ago
This isn't unusual with the BBC. A lot of the article ends up shaped by who would actually talk to them, or who would go into the details. If Mr Entrenched gives you the same canned statement they've been giving you for years, an
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by soneil 9y ago
I don't think it's just when it was that's significant here. Some works simply age slower than others. Stephen King's "It" is 30 years old. It doesn't seem insane that he should be making money off the
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by soneil 9y ago
As I understand it, this is the whole reason for this coasting. They're chilling out in the van allen belt specifically to tick off that box.
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by soneil 9y ago
> I don't think I am the only one who finds that as a non-prime customer my packages take a really long time to ship. This is precisely why I refuse to even try Prime. It feels like a protection racket. It's not unusual for t
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by soneil 9y ago
We're a little too proud of "break things" sometimes. "Break things" should not extend to human beings, or fragile aluminium tubes containing human beings. You wouldn't accept "move fast and break things&
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by soneil 9y ago
Doesn't it seem more likely Photos.app simply communicates with photolibraryd?
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by soneil 9y ago
I don’t think industry is the floor you think it is. They’ll happily pay as little as they can for it. I think the more honest measure is simply how many people have faith in it. Bitcoin and gold may be logically equivalent for this functio
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by soneil 9y ago
Unfortunately this is the kinda stuff that creates red/blue divides. I used to live somewhere I could drive the 12 miles to work without seeing another car. Telling people around there that they can't have their trucks because ro
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by soneil 9y ago
I get the same reaction watching people doing tower work. Full equipment, hardness, ropework, PPE, etc, just as gutwrenching to watch. Just interesting to know you can get the same value without someone putting their life at risk for your
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by soneil 9y ago
We've pretty much got it in the Raspberry Pi. Having a distro that boots straight to a python REPL is not a significant challenge at all. I mean, you can do the same on any computer, but SBCs seem to make people approach them differen
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by soneil 9y ago
> If you are trying to fix a watch and someone comes and suggest to hit it with a hammer, there's really not much place for being "respectful" with an answer. That's actually the opposite of what I see in Linus. He s
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by soneil 9y ago
I don’t think we really need a few guinea pigs to teach us about surface water. Most of us have learnt everything we need to know from three decades of TV adverts begging us to send £2 a week to help dig wells in Africa. I’m fully in fav
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by soneil 9y ago
"price" doesn't really describe this concept well. It's more like .. trying to judge the value of your laptop, by looking at what identical models have sold for on ebay. This is where the "supply vs demand" ad
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by soneil 9y ago
The act is criminal. It's just that the recipient isn't the victim, but merely incidental.
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by soneil 9y ago
That's basically the gist of it. Everyone's decided what they want the answer to be. Now it's just a case of trying to shoehorn the facts to fit. If they didn't scale back on lower voltages, people would just claim they
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by soneil 9y ago
> In fact, in 1992, the speed of broadband, as detailed in state laws, was 45 Mbps in both directions — by 2014, all of us should have been enjoying gigabit speeds (1000 Mbps). This doesn’t sound quite right to me? That’s not how I reme
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by soneil 9y ago
I see it this way; in the US, if a content publisher chooses to apply DRM, this provides them additional legal protections - whether the DRM is broken or not. Even if stripping DRM is "click Next" simple, it's still illegal.
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by soneil 9y ago
I don’t see it as either/or. You can disclose responsibly, and go for publicity once the fix is in circulation. Responsible disclosure is nothing to do with protecting Apple, it’s about protecting the users.
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by soneil 9y ago
It is a difficult question. One example that always springs to mind, was Australian friends online in the early 2000's who told me their ISP had linux mirrors - which was of great value to them, because they were charged less (if at al
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by soneil 9y ago
Pretty much exactly that. He tried kickstarter, reached $310, and then turned to the flat-earthers. Their GoFundMe uses the terms "awareness" and "sponsorship". His stated goals (headlining the kickstarter) are to beco
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by soneil 9y ago
This is a huge difference. Argentine submarines reportedly average 10 hours per year submerged. Hours. The UK’s Vanguard-class boats remain submerged for entire 10-week patrols. At one time, Argentina had the most extensive navy in South
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by soneil 9y ago
I’d think that still stifles competition. If netflix and youtube don’t count towards your data cap (which seems to be how this particular example works), surely that’s going to influence how you view other streaming services? “I could use
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by soneil 9y ago
Interesting. I assumed it was just a generic parser, and the url fragments don’t contain anything that’d require any effort - but adding quoting, commas, tabs resulted in identical output too.

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