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by whyme 15y ago
Out curiosity, why wouldn't PayPal just put categorical warnings on the payment page that allows merchants & buyers to assess the risk themselves? So if a merchant understands these relative risks, they can opt in to a high risk warning
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Anyone have a recommendation for a kick ass telescope that could see this thing? Best bang for the buck kinda deal.
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When Parcell asked: "What should I do?” .... is he not, in fact, spending his time on "what you might do" ? Kinda makes the story pointless, if you ask me.
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by whyme 15y ago
When I bought, I remember reading the free upgrades part, but I had thought it was only up "TO" version 2.0 not including 2.0. Somehow I just assume that major upgrades are fair game for upgrade fees. So...if 2.0 is truly a major upgrade I'
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I struggle choosing. I started both at the same time and keep going back and forth. Riak -> I love the fault tolerance -> easier to scale with a dreamworld of hash-rings I wish I could have. -> no indexes -> no Geo
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Apple granted horizontal docking iPad patent(news.cnet.com)
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> might be heading for the mainstream I hope so... I could easily have a dozen family members switched over in a heartbeat - if only iTunes were readily available (and not having to use vmware or such...). Sadly, until then they're S.O.
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Internet Explorer 9 speeds past the competition(computerworld.com)
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Hmm... I think the p-tags are a bug within HN.
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Poll: How many spam comments or attempts does your blog get per month?
1 points by whyme 16y ago|1 comments
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HTML tables are not evil. Using them is not a sin. They do not suck.(arclanguage.org)
3 points by whyme 16y ago|4 comments
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"Almost all programmers type fast, say 400+ characters per minute. So how long does it take to write one two lines of simple text explaining your code? 15 seconds maybe?" OMG - is this true? He can't be talking about co
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by whyme 16y ago
No, It's the maximum point in global production throughput. From which point, supposedly, our oil reserves will continuously decline and demand will continuously and progressively exceed supply. The hype generated from this is along the lin
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by whyme 16y ago
Peak Oil is only important when you look at the downstream effect. To me, the real question becomes - who has the oil, who needs the oil and who controls the oil?. The U.S. has made a habit of equating it's political and economic stability
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by whyme 16y ago
Obviously you have a limited interpretation for the word attack : Amongst the others: .. .to direct unfavorable criticism against; criticize severely; argue with strongly: He attacked his opponent's statement. In fact your
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I'm too chicken to vote!
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I would defend WikiLeaks and attack it's enemies!
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I would attack WikiLeaks and bring them to their knees!
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"My friend, after six thousand pinks, it's time you tried painting or computer programming." Interesting to note, he feels a bad writer should become a Hacker or Painter. Paul Graham, surely, would think otherwise? (i.e a good hacker or p
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First, How is that you believe "the professors themselves dont know anything" while at the same time your "grades were horrible". The question is not to pick on you, but rather I really just don't understand. Aren't the professors the one's
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by whyme 16y ago
I think you're missing the point. Imagine if everyone on hn posted a link that directed people to half of the content, and put the other half in a comment. That would make for a pretty crappy trend. Note that your original comment has 25 po
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by whyme 16y ago
The people who are nuts are the one's that don't have any other aspirations than a paycheck. You sir, are not. As I see it you have a few options: 1. Create something meaningful, on your own, and publish it. Having some applications even wh

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