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by jff 9y ago
Yeah, my phone died recently and I'm really considering replacing it with this. I can hold out on an old spare iPhone until then, I think.
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by jff 9y ago
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up when an internet lynch mob gets you fired because you said "dongle" or something similarly bad.
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by jff 9y ago
Simply observing cryptocurrency users and exchanges in action does enough to delegitimize them, I'd think.
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by jff 9y ago
I found that line quite interesting. The wording seems to imply that someone is going to read this tablet to Ea-nasir, and possibly that someone wrote the tablet on behalf of Nanni. In an age before near-universal literacy (i.e. most of hum
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by jff 9y ago
The Pokemon game was itself just a slightly modified version of Ingress!
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by jff 9y ago
I typically only watch Cartoon Network when I'm traveling for work and I only wish it was King of the Hill. They use Family Guy as a firewall and it's fucking interminable, I keep flipping back hoping it's come around to Robo
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by jff 9y ago
Check your local over-the-air stations; PBS has a separate digital channel for children's programming here, so it's always available.
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by jff 9y ago
> let's download his file list to see what kind of porn they like. this was the experience at my college, anyway
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by jff 9y ago
It's funny they pejoratively described the housing developments as beige, when all the pictures of Arcosanti are... beige concrete.
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by jff 9y ago
> The worst part is that this kind of stuff is ammunition for the Trump supporter view that Amazon is doing harm to the American economy by promoting goods manufactured by cheap labor abroad. So you're saying the worst part isn&#x27
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by jff 9y ago
I think you'd be surprised how easily Grandma cottons to the idea of cheap knock-off crap, and that by typing a code from her multivitamin bottle into product-validation.gov, she can verify it's not full of heavy metals.
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by jff 9y ago
Well that's embarrassing, I've been reading his name online for years and always read it as Gerrard. I'll just blame small fonts, that's it.
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by jff 9y ago
Andrew Gerrard worked on both and apparently didn't think Camlistore was the right basis for what they wanted in Upspin. But I'm sure you, who I'm not sure has used either project, know better than Andrew and Brad and Rob.
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by jff 9y ago
Brad Fritzpatrick's response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13700968
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by jff 9y ago
> Apparently the Nation of Islam was in favor of racial separation, and had a highly-placed anti-semite I'd be pretty surprised if the Nation of Islam had only one highly-placed anti-semite.
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by jff 9y ago
> You have no more need to use a mobile phone today than the Romans did. Don't tell that to the 'digital divide' people
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by jff 9y ago
Yeah, with a different 'face', I think boys would think this was cool too. I know 9 year old me though 'secret codes' were very cool, so I'd have probably been into it.
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by jff 9y ago
If you think it's just western civilization, you haven't spent much time looking at non-western civilizations.
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by jff 9y ago
When I was in school (90s and early 2000s), it would have been considered extremely embarrassing to have your mom drop you off and pick you up every day. I think it was about the time I graduated that things began to shift. When I was in el
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by jff 9y ago
Nope! My Internet connection is less than perfect but better than the national average. The local sandbox is still laggy crap on a recently-built i7 desktop with a 1-year-old NVidia card, though.
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by jff 9y ago
I've played with High Fidelity. It constantly disconnects, and it can take over a minute for an area to load enough to provide basics like 'a floor to walk on' or 'the shapes of buildings'. Second Life ran a hell of
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by jff 9y ago
Well, it's been flagged. Didn't match what everyone on HN already knows to be true, so it's gotta go.
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by jff 9y ago
They presumably call it the Big Fucking Rocket at SpaceX. But if Musk says "Big Fucking Rocket" on stage, TV news can't quote him. That's counterproductive to his goals, but using a heavy implication both allows him a br
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by jff 9y ago
> Ummm....WA actually, as in Seattle. Give it a few more years...
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by jff 9y ago
You're getting downvoted because everyone hates when Bitcoin idiots force it into every damn conversation.
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by jff 9y ago
Better get a real estate license while you're at it, since that's where the extracted money ends up.
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by jff 9y ago
Given that the current practice for anyone with money in China is to get that money out of China and converted to foreign currency as quickly as possible... I'd counsel against it.
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by jff 9y ago
> Just because you can do it, doesn't mean it has anywhere the same likelihood of happening. Not even sure what argument you're trying to make. Ok, go stand in the street and I'll hit you with a bicycle. I can come to the
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by jff 9y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPilot I'll give it a shot when I get home from work!
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by jff 9y ago
We actually do this at work; our repository is a full GOPATH layout with subdirectories for src/, test/, doc/, etc. We vendor our dependencies. To build, we have scripts at the top-level that compile all of our components (we

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