hornytoad

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by hornytoad 2y ago
Agree. And for relative pitch training, I love this tool! The creator should read the paper to get ideas on how to turn it into an actual training tool for absolute pitch.
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by hornytoad 10y ago
Datomic has a centralized transactor serializing what transactions, whereas Blockchain is decentralized. So they are at opposite ends of the spectrum, each trying to solve a completely different problem. Of course "centralized" is
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by hornytoad 13y ago
"International Media Is Asleep At the Switch", only this guy somehow manages to see the truth. Yeah, right. Interesting so many people on hn seem to be jumping on this. So I went back to his oldest blog entries to see what his gen
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by hornytoad 13y ago
How about working to change America? In theory, it is a democracy, so if what you say is true, people should be able to change it. 50 million on food stamps in "the richest country", while "poorer" countries fare much be
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by hornytoad 13y ago
Keeping all our money to ourselves, not only having enough to keep us warm and our stomachs stuffed, but actually being able to spend on a lot of luxury, e.g. most of the tech gimmicks around, while other people are literally starving is ob
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by hornytoad 13y ago
> Once we have a more stable financial picture in the next 10 years or so Dream on. You'll never donate. How pathetic. Who do you expect is able to give except Gates and Soros?
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by hornytoad 13y ago
Instead of revealing your ignorance, you could read up on ECHELON, which was becoming a bigger issue in Europe already in the 90's, there was an investigation by the European Parliament in 2000/2001, and coincidentally 9/11 i
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by hornytoad 13y ago
stackoverflow and servfault are back. superuser is not.
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by hornytoad 13y ago
and now, is it still down?
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by hornytoad 13y ago
As is all (?) of stackexchange.
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by hornytoad 13y ago
Greenwald seems to be the only journalist in the mainstream really doing his job. The consecutive US governments' continuous sheltering of fallen dictators, successful terrorists (and I'm not talking about the one terrorizing Paki
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by hornytoad 13y ago
Nice: Populations all over the world pay their respective governments to snoop on them. That's of course in addition to all the other things our "representatives" are doing in our names, often enough without telling us. If th
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by hornytoad 13y ago
AWS will just lock you (or wikileaks) out on gov't request, although they'll claim that to be "inaccurate": http://aws.amazon.com/message/65348/
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by hornytoad 14y ago
Trying to login with emacs-w3m, I get the error message: "Post request without Content-Length." Sniffing the POST request that emacs/w3m sends: Content-length: 38 I get the feeling news.ycombinator expects the more common form "Content-Leng