mercurio

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by mercurio 10y ago
Please fix the title change. 'Trivial' and 'elementary' have specific meaning in mathematics and are not interchangeable. Roughly speaking, 'trivial' means easy or obvious, while 'elementary' means a
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by mercurio 15y ago
It might be that the Siri functionality is tied to the A5 chip. The A5 design is a lot larger than other dual core ARM A9 designs (even after accounting for the larger GPU) and thus has lots of spare silicon to use for specialized circuits.
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by mercurio 15y ago
I don't think Siri is in beta. I think only the 'voice dictation for arbitrary text input' feature is in beta.
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by mercurio 15y ago
Actually, in your link above, iPhone 4 prices start from $859. $719 is the price of the 3GS. I don't know how it is in Australia, but the contract price discrepancy between Android phones and iPhones is well known in England. For example, O
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by mercurio 15y ago
Except that Windows vs Mac was something like 95% to 5% in favor of Windows, while the smartphone market is likely to end up more like 60% to 30% in favor of Android. The situation is different qualitatively . The data consistently shows t
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by mercurio 15y ago
iPhones get a much bigger subsidy from the carriers. This can be deduced from the ASP that Apple, HTC, RIM etc report. iPhone ASP has always been $600+, while HTC, RIM have ASPs around $300-400 (Samsung smartphone ASP is even lower). This c
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by mercurio 15y ago
I must disagree with the Organic Chemistry bit. I took advanced organic chem as an elective in college and I absolutely loved it. Yes there are a lot of different reactions, and there is some memorization involved, but there is a very beaut
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by mercurio 15y ago
The FAQ has nothing to do with it. Nobody is contesting that cell tower location information is being used. The differing claim is this: the O'Reilly researchers claim that the co-ordinates logged are those of the device itself and these co
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by mercurio 15y ago
I just used the original headline from the blog. You're correct that it makes sense in context, but that is why the "recording your moves" part is in quotes. It's a direct quote from the O'Reilly headline. Anyway the larger issue is that it
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by mercurio 15y ago
I'm not the author. But I believe the O'Reilly researchers claim that the co-ordinates logged are of the device itself. It is not clear at all that this is true and the author of this post presents some evidence that would suggest otherwise
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Apple is not “recording your moves”(willclarke.net)
157 points by mercurio 15y ago|78 comments
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2009 ACM Turing Award winner: Charles Thacker(blogs.wsj.com)
2 points by mercurio 17y ago|0 comments
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by mercurio 17y ago
[Microsoft is] dictating rigid specs for 7 Series devices (a specific CPU and speed, screen aspect ratio and resolution, memory, and even button configuration), and doing away with carrier or partner UI customizations such as Sense or Touc
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Apple Now Allowing VOIP Over 3G(i.gizmodo.com)
1 points by mercurio 17y ago|0 comments
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by mercurio 17y ago
Copyrights are monopoly rights that the state assigns to individuals for the public good . The public good here is not just creation of works (both original and derivative) but also their consumption. Copyright law has always been concerne
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by mercurio 17y ago
Not to belittle ISRO's achievement, but the scientific instrument responsible for this was developed by US scientists for NASA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Mineralogy_Mapper
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by mercurio 17y ago
He probably meant to write 'trawling'.
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The Pennsylvania Start-up That Changed The World(forbes.com)
3 points by mercurio 17y ago|0 comments
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Baywords: A free and uncensored blogging service from the piratebay(baywords.com)
1 points by mercurio 17y ago|0 comments
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by mercurio 17y ago
I can't believe a comment that essentially consists of irrelevant objections to the article is sitting at the top. Please don't upvote emotional rants masquerading as arguments. The bottom line - an American economist supporting Hugo Cháve
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by mercurio 17y ago
It is hardly a debunking if the author writes in an update at the end of the same article that "My critique is thus wrong".
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Paulo Coelho Supports The Pirate Bay(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by mercurio 17y ago|1 comments
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by mercurio 17y ago
The issue really is weakening of free speech rather than holocaust denial. Distorting facts should never be a justification to suppress speech. This is exactly the justification the Catholic church used for a long time, and they even have a
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YouTube is morphing into a popular search engine and a new entry point into the Web.(nytimes.com)
12 points by mercurio 18y ago|6 comments
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by mercurio 18y ago
Wait... don't the two solutions have the same time complexity? The bitwise XOR approach should depend on the maximum size of the numbers (say k) along with the length of the array (say n) as O(nk), and just using radix sort on the array wil
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by mercurio 19y ago
A couple of days ago, Fred Wilson made a relevant post about his near escape from the auction rate bond market. Its an interesting read, with more detail on how these bonds usually function and how the recent malfunction developed. From wha
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by mercurio 19y ago
I read the wiki article and it turns out the horn uses precisely that dimensional difference in a very clever way. The radius varies as 1/x along the x-axis, so the volume grows as 1/x^2 while the surface area grows as 1/x. This means the g
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by mercurio 19y ago
This one is particularly cool, as on the face of it, the sentence just seems totally harmless. You think "well the sentence is not true and Santa Claus doesn't exist" and there's no hint of paradox.
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by mercurio 19y ago
That's the definition of lie as a verb. I used lie as a noun. I hope you didn't think I was accusing you of lying. All I meant was that the statement was technically a lie, so the humor fell a little flat.
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by mercurio 19y ago
Yes, the interesting number paradox is particularly weak. But even it has an argument that seems puzzling initially, and has a much stronger version (called the Berry paradox, that has deep connections to Godel's incompleteness theorems). T

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