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by sorbus 15y ago
Thank you for the clarification (and especially that link; it's an amazing clear and concise description of the issue).
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by sorbus 15y ago
My understanding is that if journalists don't say that things are alleged then they open themselves up to lawsuits - or at least that's the rationale I've seen presented for things like this in the past. It fits the meaning of the word, too
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by sorbus 15y ago
Seriously. Look at the list of top links (EDIT: by which I mean /best ) - 6 out of 30 are related to this story, and the top two (of three stories with more than 900 votes) are about this. Until something genuinely new happens, it would be
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by sorbus 15y ago
Would an effective way to forestall this be to set up a website and start suing anyone who visits it from the UK for copyright infringment? I would expect that such lawsuits would be laughed out of court, or strongly ruled in favor of the d
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by sorbus 15y ago
You don't think that the downvotes are due to your tone, or the fact that you're not really adding anything to the conversation? I enjoy insulting people who don't believe in climate change as much as anyone, but never in the context of try
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by sorbus 15y ago
A paid version with more features seems like a safe way to go; moving into the freemium model, somewhat. If not enough people buy it, you can always fold the features into the free version (though be careful about that; people who do buy a
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by sorbus 15y ago
Either don't use websites that use this (what the grandparent was suggesting, I believe), or block KISSmetrics in your hosts file. Apparently it's also blocked by Adblock Plus if you're subscribed to the right lists (which are linked to els
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by sorbus 15y ago
Aside from the lack of a dedicated GPU, anyways (the Wii's CPU is apparently just over 700MHz).
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by sorbus 15y ago
You're using "Isolated DNA" to mean cDNA (a point that I think needs clarifying; you can isolate DNA from cells through other methods). Your metaphor doesn't seem particularly solid to me; it would be more accurate to say that DNA is source
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by sorbus 15y ago
Does the fertilizer industry have a lobby?
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by sorbus 15y ago
Even if the police did arrest a member of LulzSec, none of the other members of LulzSec are going to admit this until they have no choice (assuming that they are fairly intelligent and not going to throw him away out of spite, which would b
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by sorbus 15y ago
This is a really good example of a difficult to parse headline. Why is the person who was arrested alleged to be Australian? Was he hosting a hacker, or hacking hosting? Or maybe he's alleged to be an Australian who happened to host a hacke
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by sorbus 15y ago
None of this is news. People complain about Google's lack of support all the time; it is a well known issue. Also, complaining about having to use POP or IMAP to pull out your email? Seriously? It's a standard, it lets you import them into
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by sorbus 15y ago
You're missing out too - and I say this as someone who used to only play DF. DF is amazing, but there are tons of other games that are just as amazing or nearly so (Minecraft, Fallout, Terraria, Portal, Spacechem ... dear deity, Spacechem.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> “When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the
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by sorbus 15y ago
By Lodsys, of course.
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's item 13 in the content policy. Of course, you didn't read that.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Personally, I'd be happy with settings of the form "To contacts in circle X, display the name Y", and "To strangers, display the name Z". Most of my friends are in multiple circles (a "friends" circle and a circle based on why I know
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by sorbus 15y ago
When I scroll down, the bar at the bottom of the screen stays in place in the middle of the image. So that's a bit irritating; it ends up covering up the middle of the image with a bunch of social media junk.
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by sorbus 15y ago
It would be fairly easy to determine whether the antibodies bind to commonly used drugs that are derivatives of cocaine (this is basically what ELISA testing is for, and computer simulations would give you a general idea of whether it would
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by sorbus 15y ago
The title on HN ("NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trillion times the world's oceans") is not the title NASA uses on its article ("Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water"). It appears to be have created by mas
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Google Kills Profile of Engineer on Google+(blog.makezine.com)
18 points by sorbus 15y ago|2 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
Ah, that makes perfect sense; thank you for clarifying.
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by sorbus 15y ago
You believe that 20% of students everywhere cheat, then? Parables aren't exactly the best way to convey information; when I read through it, I interpreted the city as being NYU and the neighborhood as being your class, not the city as being
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by sorbus 15y ago
That's been proposed in the bay12 forums several times. While I don't think that Tarn ever officially responded, the reason that's not going to happen seems to boil down to it requiring a complete rewrite of all the code behind the game. Wh
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by sorbus 15y ago
From what I remember reading when I was frequenting the bay12 forums, it's a mixture of pride (the code is very rough, and it would probably take a huge amount of effort to get it into a form where contributions from others could be useful,
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by sorbus 15y ago
My thoughts were "That's probably a great project, but no one is going to use it because they'll be worried about a back door." Although it couldn't be that hard to find one - log traffic on startup, see if it makes any requests to servers
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by sorbus 15y ago
> I hope NYU's reputation was not damaged as a result. If 20% of students at NYU cheat (I can't access the original post to check the numbers it mentions, obviously, but I remember it being something like that), then NYU's reputation sh
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by sorbus 15y ago
> The publication costs in PLoS journals are 20-50 times higher than your high end[1]. I would think that the cost of actually making it available (no vetting, just throwing it online) is probably much lower than the cost of publication
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by sorbus 15y ago
Sounds possible, though barely. A quick search hasn't found any sources for that, and I don't feel like wading through the millions of research papers about clean water, so I'm going to have to assume that this is untrue unless you can find

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