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yincrash
11y ago
Except the loss-leader is being used to steal users from other streaming radio services that _are_ currently paying labels & artists. So any users that switches from Spotify to Apple for example is a user that was paying artists but is
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11y ago
Why complain about the supply chain if the problem that's being fixed is only the customer experience?
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Uber does exist in more than just California.
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Buried in Jeb Bush Website, a ‘Die Hard’ Surprise
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What prevents someone from doing this with a 1 px junk image that is many GB large? edit: to clarify, i'm talking about in the page itself rather than the favicon.
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11y ago
that would require new infrastructure in _all buildings_ to have two sets of pipes. edit: apparently i misunderstood the parent and it cost me 5 downvotes
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California Announces Restrictions on Water Use by Farmers
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There are also websites that try and pump up the currencies as get rich schemes.[1] [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/2gzafs/spou...
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the tolerances and quality assurance on the off brand bricks seems to be lower according to reviews. tolerances are super important if you're making something relatively big and complex. it's up to you to decide if the difference
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11y ago
so ~7ms RT. The satellites will be moving in the sky relative to the ground, so users will need to be able to switch satellites often?
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11y ago
~250ms RT latency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access#Signa... Hubble is a pretty low orbit. Geostationary orbits are @ 36,000km
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I suspect it is because he is being very repetitive (besides being disparaging). Repetition does not add to the discussion.
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11y ago
Yes, wifi scan location takes less power than GPS location. Rolling your own wifi location service in an app will take more power than the framework's service, however, and it will almost certainly be less optimized.
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11y ago
Basically doing what the coarse location provider does anyways, which is corollate visible APs on the device with a db of mapped APs. Yes, it's possible, but constantly scanning for APs will have the side effect of an app draining batt
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Doesn't this knowledge completely invalidate any legitimate use case for the pat down? If a bad actor only requires a simple lie to avoid a pat down _and_ the mm wave machine, what advantage is there to having either?
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Why not link to the original ABC News story? http://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests...
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I suspect that the average EU citizen or South American would say as long as it's NIMBY, why should I care.
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Not that many people respect font licensing, but the Roboto font has been Apache licensed since it was released (like the rest of AOSP and fonts previous to Roboto in Android). Moving to a full open production and tool chain is interesting
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11y ago
This has nothing to do with Instagram's TOS. This is an argument about whether or not this falls under the US's Fair Use doctrine to determine whether or not the instagram user can assert copyright over the images being used by Pr
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People trade in ForEx (possibly more than any other market?). Holding currency doesn't have a contractual return.
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One way to mitigate this is with removable batteries, so you can replace them between scenes. Both the iris and this sprite both have that feature. The lily's battery does not appear to be removable.
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11y ago
doing more listening/processing/data transfer than just the initial setup + occasional button presses would make it drain its single AAA battery quite fast.
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I think the main problem with your suggestion is that different jurisdictions have different police needs. Should a single officer department in a rural county enact the same programs that NYC has?
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Nuclear is the safe bet. However, in your block out the sun scenario, we will have lots and lots of problems beside just power generation. Such as crops.
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Is there proof that this is his?
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12y ago
The game still has to be paid for to play the mod. Bethesda _already_ got their cut when the user paid for the game before even considering the mod.
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12y ago
This is just a guess, but I think the odex pass on dalvik switches the endianness to the architecture's native.
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12y ago
Do you have an alternative way to determine whether you are a contributor to avoid displaying ads to you?
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Veritasium also made a video about the article subject in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI
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12y ago
Essentially a video form of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416062 where the host investigates what the public thinks as well as animation of the actual mechanisms.
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