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by sorbus 16y ago
Whatsupedia doesn't work properly even in full screen on my monitor (at 1366x768) - by which I mean the "use these to view a more specific community" image pointing to the sidebar never becomes fully visible. Minor design flaw, but irritate
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by sorbus 16y ago
Might be worth noting that there's already a podcast called Podcastle, so that might present some naming issues - I was confused for the first few seconds. Also, seconding what roryokane said, your design does not look good. It's bland, it'
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by sorbus 16y ago
Hmm. What's your workflow for reencoding every file in a directory with a name matching a certain pattern and then renaming the reencoded files with a number based on the order that the original files were in? For example, M2441j.avi (an MP
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by sorbus 16y ago
"Whole Foods doesn’t stock the best salad topping of all — bacon bits, obviously — in its salad bar." A better summary: Most things at the salad bar are 70% more expensive than on shelves. However, there are some exceptions which are much c
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by sorbus 16y ago
I would expect that lots of publishers have many domains, which doesn't change that it sounds low, but perhaps explains why.
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by sorbus 16y ago
That fails the identical twin test: is one half of a pair of identical twins who share the same DNA able to be tried for any crime that the other commits? The answer is obviously no.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Ah, novelty accounts. Could we please keep those to reddit, if you don't mind?
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by sorbus 16y ago
Meanwhile, their home page: "Zediva.com is temporarily down for maintenance. "We experienced some exceptional customer growth this week as we officially launched Zediva to the public. We're delighted by the attention from the media, and the
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by sorbus 16y ago
You're at +6 right now, so the number of people (including me) who think that your comment was interesting and useful to the conversation outweigh the number of people who objected to it. HN is generally self-correcting; I would say that no
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by sorbus 16y ago
Yeah, more or less. We're learning more about what happens when it fails, but it's an old reactor, and we've seen them fail before. We also seem quite unlikely to learn anything especially revolutionary about how radioactive materials behav
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by sorbus 16y ago
So, "traveling longer distances is more dangerous than traveling shorter distances."
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by sorbus 16y ago
All of those points apply to coal as well. Increased risk of cancer, asthma, all sorts of health difficulties. Strip-mining literally destroys land, not just makes it uninhabitable (which is what you meant, not "destruction of a huge territ
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by sorbus 16y ago
It gives data about reactors that are, as I recall, 40 years old. That's entirely irrelevant to the designs of newer reactors.
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by sorbus 16y ago
> 9.25 deaths per TWh. It looks pretty dangerous then, given that. I'm sorry, you're saying that less deaths per TWh than Oil, Coal, Biofuel, and Peat looks pretty dangerous? That looks really safe to me, at least in comparison to our o
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by sorbus 16y ago
Or we could throw it into the sun (yes, exploding rockets, I know. It's not an especially viable option, but it exists).
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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone(outsideonline.com)
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by sorbus 16y ago
Also habitable in the sense that a lot of people still live there, in ways extremely similar to how they did before, with (apparently) few ill effects. See http://outsideonline.com/adventure/travel-pf-201103-chernoby...
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by sorbus 16y ago
I would call an earthquake (which was larger than it was designed to withstand) followed by a tsunami (which knocked out the emergency generators) pretty catastrophic.
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by sorbus 16y ago
To anyone who might not be familiar with the applications of timelike paths in computers: it's the quickest way to the singularity. Basically, you get a computer and wire its output (in the future) to its input (in the present or past). Dep
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by sorbus 16y ago
It applies to all in-app purchases, not just subscriptions. The rules also require all purchasable content that's available through the app to be purchasable within the app (so not going to an external site to buy it, as is done currently).
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by sorbus 16y ago
How many major nuclear disasters have there been in the last, say, 50 years? Three mile island and Chernobyl are the two big ones that everyone knows about, and considering that people are saying that this is the third largest [EDIT: actual
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by sorbus 16y ago
"Analysts expect Apple Inc to have sold close to a million iPad 2 tablet computers in its first weekend." So, no official number, although we do know that they've sold out in many places. That's somewhat less exciting, though I don't doubt
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by sorbus 16y ago
"I would like to call it "B.E.S.T. Scanner" so people kind of get stuck calling it "the best scanner". We can figure out what BEST means later."
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by sorbus 16y ago
Per the article, everywhere except Colorado, North Carolina, and now Illinois.
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by sorbus 16y ago
The first is technically true, though. There is very little new technology which would have to be developed to establish an outpost on the moon, it would just be ridiculously expensive to ship everything up there.
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Stross: Five year retrospective [2007](antipope.org)
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by sorbus 16y ago
The iPad 2 isn't shipping yet (it begins on march 11). So it would be more accurate to say that he does so when he's really close to shipping it, not on the day he is shipping it.
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by sorbus 16y ago
While, as other people have said, if you need to be convinced you shouldn't do it, I would say that if you're seriously considering doing so (which you probably are, given how much thought your second paragraph shows that you've put into it
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by sorbus 16y ago
I recall that there are half a billion facebook accounts (wikipedia says 600 million active users). The USA has around 307 million people. North america has a mere 352 million, while Latin America and the Caribbean have 589 million. Europe
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by sorbus 16y ago
If one part of a sentence is factually incorrect or an outright lie[1], it is entirely appropriate to point out that it is so, ignoring the other portions of it. > crappy netbooks running windows 7 on a tiny screen The iPad has a 9.7in

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