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by sorbus 16y ago
You seem to think that the filter that the ISPs come up with is going to be impossible - or even difficult - to get past. I'm extremely doubtful about that.
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by sorbus 16y ago
It seems to be a typical "how quickly can you get from one wikipedia article to another solely by clicking on links within articles" thing. However, it also shows all of the article links at the top of the page, and can hide links (so if yo
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by sorbus 16y ago
"I don't have any evidence for this, just a hunch. If you can confirm or debunk this, please do!" So, are you actually trying it yourself? If so, you should have at least anecdotal evidence. If not, not only is your idea worthless but you'r
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by sorbus 16y ago
Only if you pledge less than $25, which is just supporting the project. Anything more is considered a pre-order, and gets you one of the watch variants. Of the 13510 backers, only 128 pledged in the <25$ bracket - so less than 1% are me
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by sorbus 16y ago
Lots of things are theoretically possible. However, I'm going to bet that it would be a lot easier to just go off and find the guys with the plaintext (or keys) and hit them until they give you whatever information you want.
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by sorbus 16y ago
So, they've found patterns in the cosmic background radiation which, statistically speaking, would be incredibly likely to be there (you can also find triangles in it). And they're claiming these random fluctuations as proof for an entirely
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by sorbus 16y ago
Not really a problem for facebook: "For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you
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by sorbus 16y ago
Size+Weight: Thickness: ~14 mm Width: 191 mm Length: 269 mm Weight: ~1.6 pounds http://www.notionink.com/techspecs.php
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by sorbus 16y ago
My (possibly incorrect) understanding is that the only thing about the viruses which is important is that their capsules greatly increase the surface area; the genetic material inside is completely unnecessary. It is therefor an extremely s
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by sorbus 16y ago
Until we're hit with a coronal mass ejection; that would do a pretty good job of killing pretty much all advanced technology.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Surprisingly, that last claim about marijuana decreasing infant mortality is correct: see http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/1... As is the part about increasing IQ, with the caveat that it only applies to light us
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by sorbus 16y ago
Your wording is somewhat misleading, as the flooding was entirely accidental in all of the incidents mentioned.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Every weekend, the balance of stories shifts, with more fluffy stories being upvoted. Come monday, it will all go back to normal again.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Google Translate says that it's arabic, and translates the title of the article as "Earn." The two arabic comments posted by alhdhd are, respectively, "Visitors additions Commercial" and "Earn visitors Pak Commercial additions and lots Link
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by sorbus 16y ago
While that's an argument which sounds good, I find myself wondering why the population is increasing so much if the populace is half-starved. Having children when you are unable to feed yourself is extremely counterproductive.
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by sorbus 16y ago
During the grace period they would be decreasing result quality. I don't care if all the junk cluttering up my searches will be gone in a few months, because I'm not going to wait a few months to try to find the information I'm looking for.
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by sorbus 16y ago
The author seems to have missed the core argument about spam websites: They reduce the quality of search results and therefor devalue google and other search engines as a way to find information.
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by sorbus 16y ago
I recall reading, at one point, that the FBI is the largest distributor of child pornography in the united states, with the goal of identifying individuals who are interested in it and either keeping an eye on them or arresting them.
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by sorbus 16y ago
You clearly misunderstand. Why, on a tablet, would it be necessary to hold a finger over a button for a fraction of a second in order to activate the button? Why not just tap it, just as you would click it with a mouse?
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by sorbus 16y ago
I generally don't use the buttons on my laptop, except when I need to right-click. Instead, I just tap on the trackpad. Is there anything preventing this from being done with tablets?
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by sorbus 16y ago
"The researchers isolated the organism and found that when cultured in arsenate solution it grew 60% as fast as it did in phosphate solution — not as well, but still robustly. The culture did not grow at all when deprived of both arsenate a
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by sorbus 16y ago
That's the Great Filter, right there. Something which goes around killing off technological species, or something inherent to their development which prevents them from causing lasting change in the universe.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Asking what tool was used to make an image is, often, like asking which text editor was used to write a program. Unless whatever tool they used had some unique capabilities to make it easy to create images in the same style, it's irrelevant
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by sorbus 16y ago
People had to know different things, but not necessarily a lesser quantity of information.
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by sorbus 16y ago
intj, actually. Wikileaks has now left amazon[1], after amazon was extremely unreliable. So, it was on amazon for a few days, and then went back to Sweden - according to your theory, pressured to be removed by the US government, which I'm n
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by sorbus 16y ago
Wikileaks only moved to amazon really recently, to avoid the DDoS attacks against it (or at least to lessen their impact on the site's availability), I think. Your conspiracy theory doesn't really have much weight behind it, unless you have
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by sorbus 16y ago
The fact that they were proved wrong only makes their stance worse.
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by sorbus 16y ago
You can edit comments for an hour after they're posted, but not later.
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by sorbus 16y ago
No one has mentioned that in any of the articles I've read, or the comments on HN (though, again, I haven't read all of them). Citations, please?
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by sorbus 16y ago
If you want to throw gaming mechanics into HN, sure. But then you get a situation where the only people who are able to keep up good karma scores are those who comment really frequently (or, I suppose, irregularly but always get tons of upv

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