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by zyxley 11y ago
Surely there could be something business-related that would bring in more money than just ads, though? The most financially beneficial thing that comes to mind for me would be a front-page category of car electronics and other vehicle widge
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'd feel more sympathetic towards Mr. Nissan if the nissan.com website was actually being primarily used for a business instead of being plastered with ads.
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by zyxley 11y ago
It's the whole point of the linked article. > The LESS it has to do with your category, the better.
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by zyxley 11y ago
This kind of thing is why adverse possession laws are good for society as a whole despite the inconvenience they can cause on a personal level.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Probably this one: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10677106/
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by zyxley 11y ago
> whether they were really permanent residents I think it's pretty strange not to think of somebody as a permanent resident of the place they've lived since birth.
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by zyxley 11y ago
"Things I've already seen" is the worst part of it for me, and is making me more and more likely to cancel the service out of (possibly misplaced) anger at feeling like Netflix is just regurgitating the same content at me to
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by zyxley 11y ago
If any user of the service is in California, then the state can potentially take legal action against you. Whether this really matters to a particular company depends on where they are, but full-faith-and-credit means that at a minimum an
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by zyxley 11y ago
Nope. Has to be linked from the homepage, among other requirements. http://leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=...
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by zyxley 11y ago
Not to mention some jurisdictions requiring a privacy policy, like California.
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by zyxley 11y ago
And, of course, there's the niche but real case of people who only have a single name. For example, at a previous job, I once worked with a man whose legal name was just "Steel".
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by zyxley 11y ago
> political power This is the big one for me. I deal with assorted systems that I can't get migrated off ancient shitty middleware platforms because any comprehension of them vanishes into the ether somewhere around the upper manage
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Personally I'm all for harsh sentences for violent offenders Why? There's no clear evidence that particularly harsh sentences actually reduce recidivism.
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by zyxley 11y ago
As someone who uses 1Password for everything, the one thing that bothers me most is when passwords are limited to specific characters or to painfully short lengths. What the heck?
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by zyxley 11y ago
Space is like that one time you're in another country and you look out over the ocean, and there's a little boat there and then you realize it's actually a very large sailboat and for a moment you're struck by vertigo, w
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by zyxley 11y ago
Probably something to do with ideal orbits for different purposes.
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by zyxley 11y ago
In relation to the moms, I am reminded of Nordic prisons: enforce something approaching a normal life, including basic luxuries and general responsibilities (actual things-to-think-about-and-manage responsibilities, not just "do X repe
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by zyxley 11y ago
I wonder if it'd be possible to recreate Magic: the Gathering cards using this. It'd be nice to have an alternative to Magic Set Editor for high-quality cards.
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by zyxley 11y ago
The most important part here is probably that they give access to a room full of instruments, then will use anything that can contribute to a song, even if it's just two notes alternating on a beat... and get the kids into that before
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by zyxley 11y ago
Why focus so much on automatic detection? Just do the simple way that Car2Go does: When somebody gets in, they give a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" in regards to the car's internal cleanliness. If the car gets too ma
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by zyxley 11y ago
Radius?
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by zyxley 11y ago
The same folks were on HN a while back attempting to justify their poor decisions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9642186
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by zyxley 11y ago
> and the size was gratuitous with most of it wasted to peripheral vision From what I understand, movies shot specifically for IMAX are meant to be framed something like a stage play, with your eyes wandering around the screen rather tha
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by zyxley 11y ago
You can also potentially wire this up to CI services, to automatically build and deploy a release binary for every new commit on a given branch.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Even in a far-future holodeck scenario, strategy games don't change a whole lot. I dunno, the classic Civilization style could benefit quite a bit from it. Imagine having a virtual giant globe that you can arbitrarily turn and zoo
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by zyxley 11y ago
As noted in a different comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9708878 ), substantial amounts of hip-hop and rap music are essentially long poems set to a beat.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Two examples that come to mind... Grandmaster Flash's "The Message": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqky4dSGJnE http://genius.com/Grandmaster-flash-and-the-furious-five-the... Kanye's &
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm guessing that they were easily able to prove that the money went into unrelated projects, rather than "just" being spent wastefully on things related to it. Given that Keith Baker and Lee Moyer (the main game designer and
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by zyxley 11y ago
A real gem of gibberish interpretation by the thread: https://i.imgur.com/AWTQ0bM.jpg
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by zyxley 11y ago
A pair of good articles on just this kind of thing: http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/12/can-you-solve-this-p... http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/

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