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by sorbus 16y ago
Everything about anyone being able to join the network and become a taxi driver (from about the sixth paragraph onwards) is pure speculation; technically, there's nothing preventing it (well, aside from modifying the app to require more tha
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by sorbus 16y ago
I'm not sure if HN tracks this, currently; it's pretty obvious that clicking on a story doesn't send you through an intermediate redirection page, which is the simplest way to monitor that sort of thing, but there could be some fancy javasc
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by sorbus 16y ago
I didn't realize that you were talking about using it with existing boats; doing that instead of robots is pretty obviously a better solution, assuming that the material can be produced in large enough quantities, which may or may not be th
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by sorbus 16y ago
Well, little ones are easier to prototype. They also are less likely to get in the way of anything. Focusing on effectiveness, though, would probably be better to retrofit a bunch of large ships to drag it around and process the fabric on-b
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by sorbus 16y ago
Lots of small, easily replaceable robots are cheaper than a few giant robots (and probably easier to develop; certainly cheaper). Also, when one breaks it doesn't need to be replaced, whereas with a larger, more expensive one it's harder to
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by sorbus 16y ago
Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. Of the first six programmers for the ENAIC, all were women. Of course, that isn't quite as well known as it could be, and recent role models are more important than historical ones, but still.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Is it really necessary to use a shortened link here? There's no reason to save space, so shortened links, to me, seem like their main purpose is to conceal the destination.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Probably talent acquisitions: people who already know the field, and who have demonstrated their ability to create a social network. I wouldn't describe it as cobbling, although I suppose they are cobbling a team together from lots of diffe
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by sorbus 16y ago
I think that the main issue was that he didn't use a condom in those additional encounters, which resulted in the withdrawal of consent. One assumes that consent may be offered conditionally, such that consent is withdrawn automatically if
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by sorbus 16y ago
From the guidelines: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will se
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by sorbus 16y ago
Training voice recognition, perhaps? Or monitoring all your calls and using them to target advertisements, as they do with email. It's all probably in the fine print. Note, however, that I don't have any proof of it; these are just my first
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The BP Cover-Up(motherjones.com)
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by sorbus 16y ago
I would assume that one would just go through all the browsers, find the shortcut, and put it onto a list. ... or are you asking for a list, and disguising it as a question about how to make a list?
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by sorbus 16y ago
"(The research was done on cell cultures; no rhesus monkeys were used in the study.)"
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by sorbus 16y ago
"Stop taking yourself so seriously."
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by sorbus 16y ago
I'm sure that they would be really interested to know that, then. Can you provide citations for your claim?
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by sorbus 16y ago
"Maybe the battery lasts longer, but they maxed out that spec when they hit 7 hours use per charge." My 1005HA was rated for 10+ hours; running linux I generally got 8-9, but another person on HN reported 16 hours with Windows 7. It's not l
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by sorbus 16y ago
Stealing credit card numbers, creating accounts with those CC#s, and using purchases to drain them into your account is the first thing that comes to mind, though it's probably only one possibility.
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by sorbus 16y ago
I hate to do this, but I'm going to quote the guidelines at you: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clickin
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by sorbus 16y ago
Don't allow arbitrary tags, then - require each tag to be linked to another entity, and give control of the text of the tag to that entity. A harder problem to solve is people mentioning true names in text.
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by sorbus 16y ago
So if I, as a company, release something as open source (licensing the patents[1] with no royalty to anyone who's interested, as long as they follow the rules in the license), then I, as the same company, can turn around and sue anyone who
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by sorbus 16y ago
No. You're charged for the connection your server has to the wider internet. The end-user is charged for their connection to the wider internet. Note that I'm talking about the total bandwidth available, not the speed of the connection to a
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by sorbus 16y ago
Would you mind explaining the difference between them, other than that one is capitalized while the other is not, then? Focus on how I would be inaccurate if I replaced every instance of "internet" with "Internet" in my previous post.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Sites only accessible to people on a network which is linked to the internet are not part of the public internet (for instance, my router's configuration page is most definitely not part of the public internet). A proprietary browser-based
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by sorbus 16y ago
When you increase bandwidth for A but not B because A is paying you more money, you are behaving in the exact same way that the internet does: paying for a faster connection leads to more bandwidth. When you slow down B but not A because A
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by sorbus 16y ago
No, the message they are sending is that, when you confess to a mistake and say that you're going to fix it, everyone starts attacking you. Keep in mind that Google announced that they made a mistake by storing packets from wifi networks; i
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by sorbus 16y ago
Stealing a car is not the same as recording a conversation.
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by sorbus 16y ago
That's the exact same behavior my laptop, running windows 7, has when connected to an HDTV (multiple monitors work fine, and it's never messed up my desktop, as well). There's no adapter needed, either, which seems to be what that point was
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by sorbus 16y ago
This is from 2009; plug computers, while extremely cool, aren't exactly news, and have been discussed several times here before.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Nothing stopping you from making a much larger one! Or a lot of different ones, if it's automated.

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