sorbus

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by sorbus 16y ago
It's not instantaneous; there's no conflict, no FTL to see here.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Posted slightly earlier, with some discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2437944
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by sorbus 16y ago
> clocking in at 30.01% in March according to Hitwise. That was a rise from its February tally of 28.48%. Google in the same time period dropped from 66.69% to 64.42%, ceding that ground to Bing. So Bing gained 1.53% while Google lost 2
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by sorbus 16y ago
Previously posted by the same user 12 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2381780
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by sorbus 16y ago
Nor is this. From the guidelines: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
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by sorbus 16y ago
How does Google deciding to hold back on releasing the source code for a tablet version of android until they merge it with the phone version have anything to do with Google building up a larger patent portfolio, other than that they're bot
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by sorbus 16y ago
In that case, please explain why it is wrong.
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by sorbus 16y ago
There's also a rather longer discussion on the same event at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406681
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Car-B-Gone: Mitch Altman’s Newest Universal Remote(blog.makezine.com)
1 points by sorbus 16y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Gmail Motion(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
5 points by sorbus 16y ago|1 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
Yes, possibly the next few paragraphs: > This number needs to be placed in context, however. Norman and co say: "If a person were to drink a typical amount of water per day containing the EPA limit of I-131, then in one year he or she w
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by sorbus 16y ago
On the other hand, telling Google "you know this exists but it's useless" is a useful bit of information. It's not like your blocked websites would be shared in a list, they would just be used to influence the ordering of search results.
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FCC testing broadband speeds, giving away free routers(testmyisp.com)
2 points by sorbus 16y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
> Further, why is he running a full-system security scan on a fresh installation of Windows? Is that normal? If you're a bit paranoid or don't trust the manufacturer (with good reason, apparently) it makes perfect sense to run a scan on
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by sorbus 16y ago
> It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology. Dropbox buys their storage from Amazon, using S3.
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by sorbus 16y ago
> We have at least two decades of cheap oil ahead. [Citation needed]
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by sorbus 16y ago
Target issues with information flow. Paper patient records, for instance: everything should be computerized, with symptoms sorted by severity and time. The computer should highlight historical symptoms and diagnoses - perhaps a timeline of
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's just impostor syndrome. Lots of people get it, and posts by people who have it crop up fairly regularly here. Admittedly, they tend to be by people who at least have some evidence for their worries, not by top-1.5% achievers who obsess
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by sorbus 16y ago
Steam-propelled spacecraft. I fully approve. However, this would likely not be especially cost-effective if we have to pull all the water into orbit from earth; while the article mentions mining water from asteroids or moons, it puts that i
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by sorbus 16y ago
I believe that this is a reference to one of the guidelines: "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)" It's not a very good way to refe
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by sorbus 16y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about your implication that nuclear power plants reduce property prices: "In each of the seven regions, housing and real estate values have benefited from the operations of the nuclear facilities: total property values
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by sorbus 16y ago
By comparison, the total incidence of cancers among males aged 0-14 in SEER areas in the USA (representing 28% of the population, per their website) is 149.5 per million, and for females aged 0-14 is 128.7 per million. Thyroid carcinoma is
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by sorbus 16y ago
I've been wondering about that for a while. The application is vulnerable to GPS spoofing (you can get your phone to tell it that you are somewhere you aren't), and while all the stuff it does to identify location (amount of light, listenin
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by sorbus 16y ago
No, it's a figure of speech. A metaphor is also a figure of speech, but similes are not a subtype of metaphors (I went to look it up both before my last statement and before this one, because I refuse to believe my own memory. You might wan
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's not a metaphor, it's a simile.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Hmm. There are about 2 billion internet users, and Dropbox's cheapest paying plan is $99/year. Assuming 50% profit or so, and that no one buys the more expensive plan, it would take a billion paying customers to hit $100B/year, 50% of every
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by sorbus 16y ago
Dropbox is a killer application if you have multiple computers or don't want to care about keeping backups. It's completely removed my need for flash drives, caring about which computer I have documents on, and so forth. I wouldn't underest
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by sorbus 16y ago
... because the dearth of web developers using IE* led to few consumers using it. Right.
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by sorbus 16y ago
If Facebook is a common carrier, than that is true. However, it is not, and if you read through the TOS you'll find that they're able to censor whatever they want.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Entirely relevant: It's way easier to threaten an opponent with an extremely long legal war that would be quite damaging to them (and then come up with a cross-licensing deal) than it is to engage in a long legal war to invalidate patents.

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