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by spdustin 10y ago
iOS apps are NOT able to send notifications if you do not allow them to when they prompt for permission. They must prompt for permission before using even local notifications. Built-in apps are pre-approved, but their notification permissio
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by spdustin 10y ago
From what little information we have so far, he was a good guy, with a minor criminal history who sought to improve his life, ultimately resulting in working the same job for over a decade. That last point is more than can be said about a
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by spdustin 10y ago
The officer was indoctrinated to behave this way, to exhibit forceful authority, and is clearly heard to be battling his personal instinct that he fucked this one up, and doesn't have a single clue what to do because his conscience say
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by spdustin 10y ago
Facebook added a disclaimer to the video. It was likely reported and automatically taken down, and they correctly added a disclaimer and brought it back online.
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by spdustin 10y ago
Awesome. Was looking for some of those media suites on the strip. There's one at Palazzo that has a piano! I miss Vegas. Your site makes me want to go back again. The data for the Palazzo media suite, however, isn't exactly right.
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by spdustin 10y ago
Two things are amazing (to me) about this picture. 1) When you look up in the sky at the Andromeda Galaxy, your retina is absorbing photons that have been screaming through space for 2.5 million years. If you were on the Earth then, you&#x2
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by spdustin 10y ago
I don't believe they've ever named it; it is indeed "supermassive" (around 2.3 billion of our suns). The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is called Sagittarius A* ("Sagittarius A-Star"), t
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by spdustin 10y ago
I created an account and tried searching suites in Vegas next month and got only a spinner. Console shows a console.log'd error: [Log] There was an error: 503 HTTP/2.0 503 (suiteness-564112e565.js, line 1818) Prior to that, t
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Bussard: A space flight programming adventure(gitlab.com)
113 points by spdustin 10y ago|29 comments
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by spdustin 10y ago
Can you help me understand, if charging differing rates to the insurers is verboten, why a "cash only" patient can often (and easily) receive a substantial discount off their medical bills just by asking for it? I'm not bein
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by spdustin 10y ago
iPhone headset ... Is the cable breaking down, or is it (sorry, have to ask) earwax impeding the sound? The EarPods in particular seem to get a coating on their protective mesh that needs to be removed.
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by spdustin 10y ago
I do believe that was his point; not at all similar, and missing an /s, like yours.
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Ask HN: What has “machine learning” done for YOU?
7 points by spdustin 10y ago|2 comments
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by spdustin 10y ago
But the 1/8" TRS/TRRS jack (headphone / headphone-with-mic jack) is analog when it's used for analog output (headphones/line-out) or input (microphone/line-in). The DAC is on the device side, not the acc
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by spdustin 10y ago
It is about climate change. The knock-on effects of the short-term changes made to benefit the climate include wealth redistribution. Stop taking that quote out of context.
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by spdustin 10y ago
Human digestion doesn't produce nearly the amount of methane as cattle. Our digestive processes don't rely so heavily on fermentation. Of course, if we stopped eating meat, our digestive processes over time would evolve to include
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by spdustin 10y ago
> affecting the ability of people to support themselves Well, that depends . Is it subsistence farming? Or is it for biofuel? Biofuels may, during combustion, cause fewer emissions, but add in the change in land use (with the attendant
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by spdustin 10y ago
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/exclusionary Of course, I did hear that gullible was removed from the dictionary during an annual meeting of linguists in Leeds last year.
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by spdustin 10y ago
What an exclusionary thing to say. Was that your intent?
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by spdustin 10y ago
Edit: reply was meant for GP Ketamine primarily acts on glutamate, one of the reasons it's such an "effective" anesthetic, as the specific glutamate receptor (NMDA) it acts on is involved both in memory formation and the rath
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by spdustin 10y ago
You are mistaken. "...we obtain no rights under this Agreement from you our your licensors to Your Content, including intellectual property rights..."
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by spdustin 10y ago
"...we obtain no rights under this Agreement from you our your licensors to Your Content, including intellectual property rights..." So yeah, it's a problem when they do that, because they affirmatively stated they won't
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by spdustin 10y ago
"...we obtain no rights under this Agreement from you our your licensors to Your Content, including intellectual property rights..." They could clean-room re-engineer it. So could anybody else. But, no, they could not simply take
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by spdustin 10y ago
What a horribly wrong post. First off, I'm confident that many big-boy lawyers have been over those terms with a fine-toothed comb, so I wanted to lead with that, since I'm not a big-boy lawyer myself. All emphasis is mine. 1) Sec
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by spdustin 10y ago
I think you vastly underestimate both the buying power and brand loyalty shown by people who choose to shop at any retailer, especially discount ones like Walmart.
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by spdustin 10y ago
Isn't your Slack channel link going to a Mailchimp list subscribe form?
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by spdustin 10y ago
I don't think there's a single blue badge (old colloquialism for "Microsoft employee") that believes BSD and nix are "competitors". Why wouldn't Azure run other OSes? It's not a virtualized Windows
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by spdustin 10y ago
If you engage with corporate America at all, you'll find that Microsoft is not only relevant, but immutably ingrained into the DNA of the company. Office, SharePoint and SQL Server are not to be trifled with in corporate America - do n
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by spdustin 10y ago
If I was on an aircraft doing a Dutch Roll [0], I'd definitely feel discomfort! (Note for readers: A "dutch roll" is when the plane rolls (when one wing dips down and the other rises up) and yaws (when the rear of the air
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by spdustin 10y ago
I wouldn't say it's a glaring error. It's a stylistic choice, though I will agree that most style guides' guidance (yeah, I chose awkward wording because emphasis) is that you should use the 's after the word if it&

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