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CrunchBang - a nimble Openbox Linux Distro(crunchbang.org)
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Reddit rolls out its front page-changing multireddit feature(venturebeat.com)
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Why Moving to California Won’t Make You Happy(farnamstreetblog.com)
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Organizational Charts(bonkersworld.net)
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Announcing Readium.js, a JavaScript library for browser-based EPUB 3 reading(readium.org)
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Psychology influences markets(phys.org)
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AuraJS – event-driven architecture for developing scalable applications(aurajs.com)
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Researchers create mini-magnetosphere for cancer-free interplanetary travel(extremetech.com)
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by wamatt 13y ago
The ideological debate is potentially interesting: Does DRM belong in HTML5? (and yes, it's hard not to view the Netflix/MS situation cynically) That said, ditching that godawful Silverlight plugin, is probably a welcome change fr
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by wamatt 13y ago
There has been much talk of Microsoft as the model of a floundering corporate, stagnant and lacking leadership. So, and this is perhaps a small detail, it does seem somewhat interesting, that both Google and now Apple, appear to have adopte
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by wamatt 13y ago
>And it's a lack of awareness of this point that often frustrates me about discussions here on HN. Would possibly expand by saying, in my experience, self-awareness in society as a whole , appears to be a scarce and somewhat underrat
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by wamatt 13y ago
>If your "opinion" is stated in the form " x is y ," then maybe you are the one who should be more conscious of the way people communicate. Irony much? :) >"It [ x ] is irritating and intellectually backwards [ y ].
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Former Microsoft exec has big plans for marijuana(seattletimes.com)
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Even with defects, graphene is strongest material in the world(sciencedaily.com)
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by wamatt 13y ago
> What a surprisingly naive post from Timothy! The reason these events did not affect Bitcoin's price is simply because they are all (except 1) affecting mostly the US market, wich is a tiny fraction of the worldwide Bitcoin market. W
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Hemoencephalography(en.wikipedia.org)
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by wamatt 13y ago
>I've never understood why people dislike the commercials so much. Speaking from a purely speculative and subjective opinion, it could be partially due to neurodiversity within the population. The root cause could be that differing cl
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by wamatt 13y ago
>Musk had very little to do with PayPal. That's rather inaccurate. Musk's company was X.com and Thiel/Levchin/Noseks's was called Confinity. They had a 50/50 merger in early 2000, and at first the new company was called X.com. Further
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NixOS - Declarative configuration OS(nixos.org)
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by wamatt 13y ago
>And, if Apple were to switch, why would they pick a language as shitty as Javascript? That seems to be a fairly popular dismissal for a language designed in 10 days, and perhaps rightly so. JavaScript probably classifies as mediocre
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The Nix Project(nixos.org)
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by wamatt 13y ago
There used to be an understated, but strong implication, that Google is 'good', Microsoft is 'evil', and perhaps justifiably so: Microsoft didn't exactly make a good impression on geekdom during the 90's. These days however, and speaking fr
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by wamatt 13y ago
> That's scary to me; one is proving beyond any shadow of a doubt that one was present at that place at that time. To some, I imagine they feel could the opposite: Reassurance against wrongful accusations of crimes not committed.
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Interfering atoms could help detect gravitational waves(physicsworld.com)
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by wamatt 13y ago
While I can agree with the spirit of your message, OTOH... > Not only do private corporations buy shiny buildings, but they also have a legal obligation to make as much money for their shareholders as they possibly can. This seems to
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by wamatt 13y ago
Same here. 2012 Macbook Pro, 16GB Ram, SSD etc. Pretty sure the issue relates to thermal throttling. It's particularly bad when in clamshell mode, plugged into the Thunderbolt display. kernel_task CPU usage shoots up when CPU throttling kic
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by wamatt 14y ago
It's turtles all the way down, until you reach Philosophy
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by wamatt 14y ago
Um, there was definitely DDOS'ing going on. I witnessed it myself with a bunch of other sites (bitcointalk, bitstamp, bitcoincharts etc). Mt Gox was trying to do damage control and spin it positively. That failed and now they are reporting
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by wamatt 14y ago
>The bitcointalk forums and /r/bitcoin are full of paranoia like this. 'The HN forums is full of smug dismissiveness like this' It's a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things, and tons of sites were DDOS'd and simultaneously
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by wamatt 14y ago
..and this is probably going to look foolish when it goes to $1000 later this year. Your actions looks like someone trying to pat themselves on the back and reassure the "right decision". I wish online P2P wagers were legal in the US :) I w

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