georgeott

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Straffic-It is impossible to create a immune system, and these things can occur(straffic.io)
2 points by georgeott 7y ago|0 comments
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by georgeott 8y ago
Ahh, that's why it's $4. I kept waiting for the low price to expire.
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by georgeott 8y ago
I do a search for canceling that business, before I sign up. If I see a bunch of horror stories, then it's time to walk away.
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by georgeott 8y ago
How did the car not even apply the brakes? How could it fail that bad?
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by georgeott 8y ago
This may be the most civil discussion I've ever seen on the web. Spread out over 11 years! Amazing. I love HN.
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by georgeott 9y ago
Steve Gibson did some research on this topic. https://www.grc.com/health/vitamin-d.htm
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by georgeott 9y ago
Expedia? The #1 Dark Patterns? Wow, this should end well.
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by georgeott 9y ago
I think weight limits would be a good start. Do we really need 400 pound linemen? I also think game play would improve with lighter, faster players.
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by georgeott 10y ago
Not if I have to allow untested 3rd party Javascript / malware onto my system. No thank you.
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by georgeott 10y ago
Will Snap exist in 5 years?
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by georgeott 10y ago
What if you are just a passenger in the car? How will they determine this?
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by georgeott 10y ago
Also, 30 for 30 was another Bill Simmons idea...and he's gone.
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by georgeott 10y ago
30 for 30 is by far the best ESPN original content in the past 10 years.
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by georgeott 11y ago
I don't get it. Why shouldn't Yahoo pay the taxes? They invested in Alibaba, and have made HUGE gains, and if they want to realize those gains, they need to pay the taxes.
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by georgeott 11y ago
Here is my daily git workflow: 1 - Clone the repo (only need do this once) 2 - git checkout branchname 3 - Make some file changes 4 - git add filenames 5 - git commit 6 - git pull (make sure you are up to date BEFORE you push to remote repo
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by georgeott 11y ago
I hope they fixed the damn broken power button issue that my 16 month old Nexus 5 died from. Damn that phone broke my heart.
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by georgeott 11y ago
Who will pay the majors the billions of dollars then?
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by georgeott 11y ago
How do we change this? It's so ingrained in American culture, I'm not sure we can.
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by georgeott 11y ago
Link is down for me.
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by georgeott 11y ago
Confirmed - 39 comments. All negative.
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by georgeott 11y ago
As long as there are never any commercials, I'll be a customer forever.
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by georgeott 11y ago
It must be fascinating and challenging to work on the Netflix CORE team. 37% of evening web traffic under your control. Wow.
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by georgeott 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
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by georgeott 11y ago
Pandora Radio has $450M laying around?
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by georgeott 11y ago
The first thing I do before signing up for ANY new service, is search for "How To Cancel".
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by georgeott 11y ago
They removed all the "Yield / Unprotected Left Turn" lights in my town, just for this reason. People simply don't understand. It's a bummer to sit and wait, but it does save lives.
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by georgeott 11y ago
LOL! I can only dream of code that cleanly formatted.
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by georgeott 11y ago
Correct. But none of the most popular sales channels were created by the record industry. (iTunes, Spotify, etc)
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by georgeott 11y ago
15 years later, the RIAA finally realizes this... How about you build a platform that let's us purchase the music we want?
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by georgeott 11y ago
Exactly this. Minor collisions should move to the side of the road ASAP.

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