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by gujk 15y ago
Print "e" is even faster, but also missed the point.
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by gujk 15y ago
Ads are not the only model for providing free rides. Other Sustainable models exist: Peer balancining: producers earn free credits for consumption. This is how Internet backbone peering and Team Fortress 2 work. Freemium, or light users ar
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by gujk 15y ago
How is Facebook different from telephone service, or USPS, or an ISP, under your analysis? (Sidenote: USPS actually is ad-supported by bulk mail, and "heavy users subsidized" by parcel post. First class letter postage is really a nominal fe
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by gujk 15y ago
Maybe you aren't giving Amazon the credit they deserve. MLP is huge in the hipster geek set that frequents HN. Cf http://www.google.com/m?q=my+little+brony
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by gujk 15y ago
When I hear an odd conclusion with no evidence, I usually disregard the conclusion, not infer the existence of fascinating undetected evidence.
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by gujk 15y ago
Of course Elon Musk built his own character around Tony Stark of the comics, so the development is circular.
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by gujk 15y ago
Who wants to live in a world where the rules of life stipulate that only one person can meet the definition of success?
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by gujk 15y ago
I recently last sentence is social democracy in a. nutshell.
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by gujk 15y ago
SOPA gives all siezed domains to godaddy. It is corporate welfare for them.
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by gujk 15y ago
Up next: red-octothorpe-free zones.
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by gujk 15y ago
It also works with a as 7.
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by gujk 15y ago
At the that scale, CPU and developer time are mostly orthogonal. If you need to crunch 1000x more numbers, you won't be able to program your way out of the problem. If your code is 1000x inefficient, it should be easy to optimize a bit. If
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by gujk 15y ago
What does your scale mean? Paying nearly nothing to get to -80 is a great deal compared to speculative painful expensive surgeries and drugs.
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by gujk 15y ago
Would you accept a free blog, email, photo album, and realtime chat software, with Web and mobile cliens, hosted in the cloud? OK.
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by gujk 15y ago
Amazon fails over data centers at least once a year in fire drill testing. Amazon has more backups, testing, and monitoring than 99.9% of small or midsized organizations.
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by gujk 15y ago
My company's data center has suffered a fire at least once in the past 5 years.
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by gujk 15y ago
To precise, pharmaceutical companies are concerned that bad counterfeits will harm the reputation of their products, which will cut into order volume and profits.
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by gujk 15y ago
Why would you use a credit card company that locks yo right account, ever? Fraud is the merchant's problem, not yours. Fraud investigation is a courtesy you provide to merchant customers, so the CC company should never have any reason or lo
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by gujk 15y ago
It takes less energy to accelerate an object away from both the Earth and sun (assuming your launch pad is on an appropriate spot on the Earth surface), than to accelerate an object away from the Earth but into the sun without just getting
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by gujk 15y ago
It is interesting how games differ from sports or academic contests. In sports, losing is OK because it makes you work harder to become stronger or smarter. In games, losing (or winning) is almost pointless because getting better at the g
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by gujk 15y ago
If your players are mutually anonymous, have the worst player play against multiple other teams each week, soaking up the losses. Each player gets their own Potemkin village where half their opponents are actually copies of the worst playe
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by gujk 15y ago
In the traditional Unix network environment, printing and billing is a famously hard problem.
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by gujk 15y ago
I recently started reading now algebra book with a goal of understanding the Galois theoretical proof of his understanding unsolvability of the Quintic. This is generally considered the capstone of a complete 2-semester undergraduate study
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by gujk 15y ago
Build an HTML generator of function PreHtml -> HTML that is quirk compatible with all browsers. Yes, you will has many bugs to fix over time. Now have all your templates code emit output of type PreHtml and your final page generation
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by gujk 15y ago
That doesn't matter so much, because this project is about highlighting delicate code regardless of reason, not assigning blame.
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by gujk 15y ago
Homeschooling is not solitary confinement.
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by gujk 15y ago
If ads were proxies through he content site, the site would still send your ID to Google to personalize the ad, but you would be unable to block it.
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by gujk 15y ago
Think of it as "block of ads"
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by gujk 15y ago
Conflict of interest how? Isn't their more of a conflict of interest when a drug developer is paying the fees of the drug tester?
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by gujk 15y ago
How is the action of manufactured drug more natural a process than a cotton gin ginning cotton?

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