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by dspace 15y ago
"He had just sold 400 Bitcoins, he told Betabeat, which he planned to buy back in the morning." "You can’t do more sophisticated strategies." Which just shows that the entire finance sector is a side game of the market. Literally a casino w
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by dspace 15y ago
I was a freshman in college in 1996 and remember PowerPoints being used in my courses then, so that change is pretty old... and we're still using them today. The reality is that we haven't advanced very much in "presentation technology" in
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by dspace 15y ago
> Yes, there is, to the extent that that rule is legitimate. Usually, just powers arise from the consent of the governed. For example, sane people pay taxes because they understand that they have need of the canonical services of roads,
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by dspace 15y ago
The last one is ok, but I like thinner fonts. MS fonts are legally available on Linux (just accept the license). I know that may be blasphemy to some, but here's how fonts look on my system: http://i.imgur.com/vBi93.png If anyone cares:
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by dspace 15y ago
> I'm not sure if vocabulary size matters once you reach around 25,000 words. This is what I was thinking. I scored 34K, and rarely encounter a word that I don't understand in regular speech or reading. I also know several thousand ja
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by dspace 15y ago
Peacekeeper Benchmark Firefox 5.0 - 1650 Firefox 8.0a1 - 1972 19.5% improvement. Pretty much dead on. Specs: Core i3 M330 2.13 GHz, Linux i386 http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper
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by dspace 15y ago
If there's a place anywhere on G+ for a reddit-style up/downvote system, it is Sparks. Let me teach it what I am interested in.
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by dspace 15y ago
If I'm reading that article correctly, GoDaddy is more than $1 billion in debt?
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by dspace 15y ago
I'm ok with apps on G+ if they provide an option to turn off all notifications / spam. You can "turn off platform apps" in Facebook but still have to hide the posts individually. I've probably manually blocked 30 apps at this point, which
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by dspace 15y ago
No, no. Stupid and ignorant adults are a wildly profitable resource for corporations, advertisers, and marketers. That's not exploitation; it's capitalism. But the children, they must be protected.
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by dspace 15y ago
And Gmail was a calculated and intelligent response to Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail?
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by dspace 15y ago
The killer advantage that he didn't mention is that Google search is used by a billion people worldwide, and is probably the start page for at least half of them. You still have to go out of you way to visit Facebook, by explicitly selecti
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by dspace 15y ago
I was wondering how long the posts could be and hoping that it could be like a blog integrated in your social feed. Yet another thing about Google+ that pleasantly surprises me.
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by dspace 15y ago
"The Enterprise" operates at a glacial pace and has been holding back innovation on the web. "The Enterprise" is the reason why 10% of Internet users are still using IE6. I'm glad Mozilla is ignoring the Enterprise.
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by dspace 15y ago
Right, Circles only solves the sharing problem. Diaspora has a much larger ambition. Federation allows for communication between instances that are owned and operated by different people, but it also preserves your privacy better. Google wa
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by dspace 15y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking, since I saw that presentation last year. It could be that the Diaspora guys were inspired by the Google research, and not the other way around. It just took Google longer to push it out to a product.
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by dspace 15y ago
This is more "crypto nerd imagination", a la the XKCD comic. The FBI doesn't care about the encrypted passwords because it has access to all the content in plaintext. And what else would they need the passwords for? Other accounts on othe
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by dspace 15y ago
Here's the ultimate hosts file. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/