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by specialp 12y ago
I hope whomever bought it was not planning on reselling the properties piece by piece on ebay and other places. A lot of these types of homes are sold that way to someone that is like wow I can buy a house for $1500! Then they realize there
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by specialp 12y ago
Fingerprints are not bad for local authentication. For instance if phones become more used for payment I would expect my phone to contain a secret key for payment that is unlocked easily which a fingerprint could do. So in order to compr
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by specialp 12y ago
Palantir though in my opinion is kinda like a cult. I visited their offices (sick by the way), and they all had this mentality like they were the Seal team 6 of developers. The do not even call their devs devs, they call them "forward
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by specialp 12y ago
Risk assessment != allowing someone to steal from you. Surely the casino knows that any game can be fallible and they could take a loss from it. I guess banks know that their computer systems could have problems and they can lose money from
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by specialp 12y ago
"I assume the answer is ultimately that legitimate high-rollers sometimes have crazy requests, and you make more money from accommodating them than you lose from cheaters. But the response from the casinos (getting this guy thrown in j
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by specialp 12y ago
Casinos make money by providing games with various house edges to gamblers. Gamblers and casinos know this, and if it is unfair you have the choice to not gamble. Suppose there were a glitch with the machine that caused it NOT to pay out
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by specialp 12y ago
This paper was originally published in Physical Review Letters in April and covered pretty widely by the press back then.
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by specialp 12y ago
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112... This is the original article that the APS published in April. Someone posted the PDF here: http://www.slideshare.net/joseluism
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by specialp 12y ago
The reasons why people watch other people play video games are several: 1. People like to see someone of a very high level play a game that they too play. 2. You often get to see someone playing a game that you never heard about. For instan
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by specialp 12y ago
I stream primarily fighting games (Street Fighter) which is a much smaller audience than the games I mentioned, but EVO world championships does over 130k live viewers every July. EVO is the largest tournament in Fighting games. Our demogr
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by specialp 12y ago
I am a Twitch partner and just last week I received a survey asking me my thoughts about affiliate marketing in regards to promoting free to play games, selling games, and relate peripherals. Seems timely now.
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by specialp 12y ago
Depends on your definition of mainstream. I know some huge games like League of Legends, DOTA2, and Starcraft routinely do 6 figure concurrent viewer counts for tourneys. That is higher than a lot of TV. I personally have had 8,000 live v
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by specialp 12y ago
This could certainly be possible. Jay Neitz did experiments on monkeys to cure colorblindness using gene therapy and was successful. [1] He has said that perhaps one day humans can have genes for more color receptors added to be able to se
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by specialp 12y ago
Two incomes in a home is not required, it is just that our lifestyles have evolved to "require" that. Home prices over last 40 years adjusted for inflation have not changed very much (besides in the bubble in mid 2000's). Pr
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by specialp 12y ago
Strategy for consumers: Use Instacart until they run out of investors' money or raise their prices. Then use competitor when they are funded and repeat taking advantage of loss making enterprises. Once bubble is popped, go to the stor
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by specialp 12y ago
No they should try as hard as they can. Bent meaning look at the amount of resources they put in to have a piece in every aspect of someone's internet/app experience. The reason why they got involved with everything is that they f
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by specialp 12y ago
Yes this is true which is even more risky for the fate of a standardized web. Right now and in the past it was very important for Google to do this for 2 reasons: 1. They get to be the default search for a huge amount of people, and 2: The
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by specialp 12y ago
This is actually very true. Having Chrome/V8 out there has definitely improved the state of browsers as far as performance; especially in regards to JavaScript. But now we face a situation where Google is getting such a market share w
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by specialp 12y ago
Image does not mean anything when you are entering a business that is already super competitive, and is amongst the most highly regulated industries. Suppose they actually do get direct to patient testing going, what is to stop Quest/
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by specialp 12y ago
I also have worked in the Clinical Laboratory field and the above poster is right. The laboratory business is already very competitive, and unless they have some crazy technological revolution going on this is a lot of hot air. Getting the
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by specialp 12y ago
The main power for me in email is that I actually own it. I have my own domain. While I use Slack, Google Hangouts, Hipchat and a bunch of other services, none of them replace email. It is standardized and despite social media/chat ser
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by specialp 12y ago
Yes this is true, but this is the wrong way to do it. I have stayed at many places reviewed badly by people who just do not get it. Like I stayed at a wonderful rustic place in Maine [1] but there were quite a few reviews complaining about
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Detection of B-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2 (journals.aps.org)
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by specialp 12y ago
The fact remains though that if you are doing anything that could result in injury or death to third parties, you should never bow to management pressure. I used to inspect amusement rides for safety when I was in college. Occasionally the
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by specialp 12y ago
Google is not mining all networks for cleartext email. They are mining gmail which they have control of the "end". This is a huge advantage for Google as ISPs are starting to offer ability to advertise to end users by mining tra
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by specialp 12y ago
A /64 in IPv6 is 2^64 IP addresses (it is 128 bit). 256 IPv6 addresses is /120. The simple reason why they do not give smaller blocks is the VPS company themselves are assigned a minimum of /64 for network purposes. That me
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by specialp 12y ago
Well then all of the customers of said transit providers would leave and switch to one that can reach the millions of Comcast customers. As Level 3 said if there is a problem with peering amongst transit providers someone can switch to ano
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by specialp 13y ago
When it comes to groceries and other very time sensitive shipments then yes they should deliver on their own, but making your own nationwide to door delivery system would be a disaster. These are not easy businesses and it would be hard to
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Citibank credit cards login presenting revoked certificate(accountonline.com)
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by specialp 13y ago
I think this is a change in the New York area mostly. Back in the 70s-mid 80s NYC was a much more dangerous place and living in the suburbs was cheap. Young people in the city then moved to the suburbs to escape rents and high crime. How

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