bmunro

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by bmunro 13y ago
He's not in prison, he's in jail, and there's a big difference. What?! Jail and prison are synonyms. There is no real difference. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/prison - A bu
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by bmunro 13y ago
I parsed it as follows: Like it or not, Bitcoin - like Tor - (and this will continue to increase over time) is associated closely by the public with drugs, money laundering, gun running and so forth.
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by bmunro 13y ago
There's a long-winded description in the first blog post: http://www.urbit.org/2013/09/24/urbit-intro.html
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by bmunro 13y ago
Widowmaker was also the name used for the hammer drills used in the Australian goldfields. The dust from the drilled rock got into the miners lungs and killed them prematurely.
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In search of food deserts(flowingdata.com)
1 points by bmunro 13y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 13y ago
The homes of the people living (or the rock wall) there are probably the cause of the lack of beach. Beaches are dynamic things, they get eroded during storms and are built up at other times. They can recede inland hundreds of metres over t
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Topaz is Ruby in Python(speakerdeck.com)
4 points by bmunro 13y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 13y ago
The keyboard looks like the stock Android keyboard, but with black keys instead of the grey that Android has.
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by bmunro 13y ago
If the period of time that humans have been around was drawn to scale, it wouldn't really be visible. If we assume that the width of the bar for the life of the earth is 1500 pixels (the width changes depending on the window size), then the
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by bmunro 13y ago
The estimated closest distance is 110,000 km. As a comparison, that's about a third of the distance from the earth to the moon. That's pretty close.
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by bmunro 14y ago
I usually play Sim City by finding the unlimited money cheat and getting a large amount of money before I start. I can then build whatever I want. I enjoy the city design part of the game, not the economic part. I doubt that this way of pla
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by bmunro 14y ago
They have removed the article: "We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads."
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by bmunro 14y ago
It is probably referring to the fact that income for the bottom 50% of US earners has remained largely stagnant since the 1970s (after accounting for inflation) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/31/w... http://www.n
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by bmunro 14y ago
The US$199 would be with a two year contract with a mobile carrier. The A$799 is without a contract.
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by bmunro 14y ago
I repeatedly click and drag, click and drag. I have no idea why I do it.
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Google to unveil new Nexus phones on October 29th(plus.google.com)
19 points by bmunro 14y ago|1 comments
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by bmunro 14y ago
I think of lens-shaped objects, particularly lenticular clouds. Until now I did not know what the name of those moving images were. (I'm not the original poster)
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by bmunro 14y ago
This works fine on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm using Chrome. The only suggestion that I have is to do some smoothing of the values you get from the accelerometer. The movement can be a bit jerky.
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by bmunro 14y ago
My Galaxy Nexus fails the test at http://dylanreeve.com/phone.php Apparently the bug is fixed in 4.1 (I'm still on 4.0.4). I installed a temporary fix - TelStop. It just handles telephone Intents so that you get a popup asking you to choo
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by bmunro 14y ago
It makes sense to compare US prices with western/northern Europe, as they are similarly rich/developed. But to compare prices in the USA with those in eastern Europe doesn't seem right. In nominal terms, the GDP per capita of the USA is 6 t
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by bmunro 14y ago
Not quite, they went to Australia.
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by bmunro 14y ago
5 inches seems to be pushing it a bit. I think that the S3 is already at the upper limit for a phone. The 5.3 inches of the galaxy note is way too big for an ordinary phone in my opinion. My 4.65" Galaxy Nexus is a nice size, but I don't wa
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by bmunro 14y ago
There is a size selector on the left. S M L XL The XL is the actual size (pixel-wise) that you would see on a phone such as the Galaxy Nexus.
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If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet(wired.com)
2 points by bmunro 14y ago|0 comments
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by bmunro 14y ago
But if you compare figures for both cities from the same site: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun... You'll see that prices for just about everything are higher in Sydney. Except apples, oranges and tennis court
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by bmunro 14y ago
Off topic, but the right side of the paragraph is cut off on Android.
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by bmunro 14y ago
The article you linked to describes the angle of plane of the orbit - the circle it makes around the sun. These vary by only a small amount. The axial tilt is different. It is basically how far the axis through the poles of a planet is ti
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by bmunro 14y ago
I have a 'fake' account. It's used purely for logging into Spotify, as there is no other way to get a Spotify account.
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by bmunro 14y ago
Well, governments fund roads, schools, etc, and they don't expect to make financial returns on those. However, the national broadband network is funded through government loans, but expects to make a profit on the returns from it. So there
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Why you won't see hard augmented reality any time soon(blogs.valvesoftware.com)
35 points by bmunro 14y ago|8 comments

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