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Getting Started With Competitor Research(onwardly.com)
6 points by sorbus 16y ago|1 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
You're being a bit hyperbolic[1]. The video included in the article, at least, is low resolution, jittery, and grainy. It says absolutely nothing about the methods used by Malaria to enter the blood cells, much less "at a molecular level."
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's accessible from wherever you have a computer with the necessary software and a fast enough connection. Sure, if you don't have your laptop then this could be useful, but that's like saying that a land-line based system for managing you
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NIH Scientists Advance Universal Flu Vaccine (nih.gov)
1 points by sorbus 16y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
Anyone who really cares can - and will - use HTTPS. EDIT: It appears that at least one person disagrees with me. So, a quick question: Which takes more effort for the end user, switching to a new search engine or switching to https?
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by sorbus 16y ago
I am fairly sure that the issue is the browser passing on the referrer, not that Google is making websites aware of any additional information. I might be wrong, of course; there's a lot of FUD about this floating around.
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by sorbus 16y ago
"Public," in this case, I believe, includes the need for them to disclose earnings reports.
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by sorbus 16y ago
> The NYDN must take the blame here for giving me the URL that it did. Nope, you get the blame for not editing the junk out of the URL; the filter here isn't especially smart, and merely adding a # to the end of a URL makes it think it'
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by sorbus 16y ago
That's a pretty huge key point. Do you happen to have a citation? The relevant granting of rights (the VP8 Bitstream Specification License[1]) doesn't seem to say anything about that: "a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royal
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by sorbus 16y ago
Also posted 8 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069672 ), 7 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073845 ), around seven hours ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2099369 ) and a bit over an hour ago ( http://n
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by sorbus 16y ago
Perhaps not a forced swim test, but having a human swim in place (or tread water) for as long as they can. In a swimming pool, with people around to rescue them if they stop swimming and start drowning, and being removed as soon as they giv
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by sorbus 16y ago
If I say "with additional research, it may be discovered that there's a correlation between eating corn and various degenerative diseases, and therefor you should not eat corn" with no evidence to support that assertion, it is FUD. Similarl
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by sorbus 16y ago
No, I would definitely remember something so unique looking. It was a DSLR, I think ... it may have been something like "press the button and take thousands of pictures really quickly, then select the best one," which is a bit different fro
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by sorbus 16y ago
Not so much the database as the algorithm; if it's sufficiently understood (as seems to be the case with Google's algorithm, or at least a lot of people claim it to be the case), then spammers can target it directly. Merely having the origi
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by sorbus 16y ago
One could, in theory, manually create a database of a few million (or way more) websites, and rate the content in each of them (including advertisements - just how the page is showed to the end user). This database could then be used to tra
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by sorbus 16y ago
Huh. I remember hearing about a camera which did this at one point (it was a setting, I recall), so there's certainly some market for this as a feature. Not sure if it coincides with iPhones (I would find it awkward to hold one up and point
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by sorbus 16y ago
Quite sorry about the confusion; but no harm done, at least. If you have showdead turned on, there are lots of spam posts around - mostly just bunches of links from users who are dead (they can post stuff and see their own posts normally, b
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by sorbus 16y ago
Wow, this is a new strategy for spambots. Taking the content of another comment (in this case http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086932 ), and posting it in the same thread (ensuring that it's somewhat relevant ... well, not in this cas
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by sorbus 16y ago
Germans (or at least Nazis) would, at the time, have considered it to be entirely worth it. I believe that the intended context was that the dignitary was a member of the same organization/country as the people trying to rescue him/her, whi
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by sorbus 16y ago
Something along those lines has been a common idea for a while - it was one of the major use cases for RFID tags when they were still fairly new, for example. I'm surprised that it doesn't already exist, given that I first heard the idea se
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by sorbus 16y ago
Well, if you have a national ID, it's a lot easier to require ID when taking public transit (especially if they have RFID tags: "wave your ID to activate the ticket kiosk!"). That is certainly a step towards, while not necessarily totalitar
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by sorbus 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that if Walmart sold something which was dangerous they would end up being sued along with the manufacturer; not saying that it is dangerous, just that you might have some liability. I am, however, not a lawyer, and the best
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by sorbus 16y ago
... because using codemonkey to mess around with webpages is an easter egg. You're completely missing the point. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's might be low[1]: in 2007, 1 in 31 adults were in prison[2] - 3% of the population. However, that may include all the people on probation, as wikipedia gives the number in 2009 as only 1 in 136 actually being incarcerated[3], with perha
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by sorbus 16y ago
Currently down to a 0.5% difference with samples of a bit over 3000. Seems pretty insignificant to me.
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by sorbus 16y ago
The victim of a scam is often known as a mark[1]. It seems to me that jonhendry was implying that Ferriss is a con artist, using his book to defraud people of their money, by making them pay for something which is worth far less than they t
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by sorbus 16y ago
> Much older Google and Amazon have monetized adequately. Google is an advertising company. Amazon is a retailer. Facebook is a data mining company, with the one problem that they're too focused on getting the data and not focused enoug
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by sorbus 16y ago
I would think that a 2 or 3 Ghz device with between four and eight cores would be more likely. However, everything else you suggest seems spot on - or at least I would hope it to be spot on, not being a time traveler.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Other things there is no such thing as a completely safe version of: Cars. Airplanes. Computers. Lamps. Electricity in general. Boats. Food. Ovens. Buildings. Knives. Trees. Swimming pools. Public transportation. Flash cameras. Paper. Other
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by sorbus 16y ago
As another person pointed out, "adverse events in the PDR or on product packaging are simply a list of all reported adverse events, with little data to demonstrate causality."[1] It is not implausible that the same symptom occurred in anoth

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