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by sorbus 16y ago
I'm 19, and I've worn a wristwatch for the last 10 years, at least. The one I currently have hasn't run down its battery for more than two years, and is comfortable and light enough that I never take it off. As a result, I'm often the only
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by sorbus 16y ago
Works perfectly fine in canary, though.
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by sorbus 16y ago
One person downvoted you, or at least you were at 0 when I wrote this. If the collective thinks that your post is valuable, it will be upvoted, and will eventually balance out those who think that it is not valuable. (Disclaimer: I upvoted
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by sorbus 16y ago
The first quotation, from Lucius Annaeus Seneca, contains no prediction.
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by sorbus 16y ago
The headline is a pretty clear statement that the author reported the bug; "Author finds pirated version of his book in a Google Code Project, files bug" can't really be read to mean anything else than that the author filed the bug. Coderdu
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by sorbus 16y ago
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by sorbus 16y ago
You're using anecdotal evidence to refute anecdotal evidence. A bit surreal, at least to my mind.
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by sorbus 16y ago
The news is actually further down in the article: they've figured out the processes by which telomeres cause these effects.
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Advanced sign-in security for your Google account(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
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by sorbus 16y ago
Far more annoying, to me, is comments on articles complaining that they're behind a paywall (especially when it's actually a registration wall). So, while I understand that it may be frustrating to some people, please don't post comments co
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by sorbus 16y ago
The current tendency of websites to use font-shadows to give text an engraved look is extremely irritating; it reduces readability (which is already very low given that you're using grey text on a light blue background), and makes the text
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by sorbus 16y ago
Do you happen to know how DDG is making money, then?
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by sorbus 16y ago
The actual quote: "Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [the population] by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent." You can read that to mean that he wants to kill people off using
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by sorbus 16y ago
If you read the source linked to in that article, the hoax wasn't that the tribe was uncontacted; it was that it was only just discovered. However, the fact that it's been known of for so long certainly does suggest that there has been at l
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by sorbus 16y ago
That would look, to me, extremely spammy. An email from a service I've never heard of offering to send me flowers if I give it my address? Yeah.
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by sorbus 16y ago
I'm not saying that it's inherently wrong, I was attempting to explain to you how your example (Google using A/B testing to determine which results are the most relevant) had no relation to what bing is doing.
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by sorbus 16y ago
That's not what bing is doing in this case. What bing is doing is taking information from Google, as collected by users, and presenting that information to their own users.
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by sorbus 16y ago
They only explained why it would be illegal in the US. Gitorious is in Norway, so they want Sony to explain why it would be illegal under Norwegian law, which is the only thing that applies to them.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Hmmm. The closest I can find is "If people are expected to behave well, they tend to; and vice versa."[1] There's nothing in the guidelines that's even similar, except for avoiding comments with no substance. I suppose that, as long as you'
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by sorbus 16y ago
>> Can you cite a reference there? > No, this is not an academic paper. If you can't support your assertions, they are worthless, regardless of what the context is. Asking for citations is a really common practice on HN, and one
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by sorbus 16y ago
> This is not a laughing matter. The fact that they're not actively pushing users to searching for certain bittorrent-related terms may not be a laughing matter, but the way people are responding to it certainly is.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Two questions: 1) What is this? Why would I want to register? (Also, why do you even have a sign up link if it just says "coming soon" when I click it?) 2) Why don't you have a fallback for custom fonts not working, aside from displaying a
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's not a statement of fact, because theft is "the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent."[1] Robbery, on the other hand, is "taking or attempting to take something of value by force or thre
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by sorbus 16y ago
Adjusting the contracting rate as needed to get $50/hour after taxes is also an option.
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by sorbus 16y ago
> Sure his comment was light on details -- but it was incredibly relevant to the overall discussion. The comment in question, in its entirety: "Security is a major issue and it is a top priority for us." While I agree that there are lot
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by sorbus 16y ago
Unprofessional and bad aren't the same thing.
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by sorbus 16y ago
The advantage of this would be sending a message which cannot be known until a point in the future - sort of like a time capsule with a lock that only opens on a certain day, but way more secure. While, for most purposes, merely storing enc
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by sorbus 16y ago
Those three accounts are also all new (two are four hours old - as are the comments - and one is four days old), with no other activity than saying that it's a great group.
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by sorbus 16y ago
> Narrow band filters get expensive fast. Way less expensive than a new airplane, though.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Link to the Reddit discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2127367

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