protothomas

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by protothomas 8y ago
More interestingly perhaps searching for “<term> -n to n” where n is an integer returns no results (e.g https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=google+-1+to+1
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by protothomas 8y ago
Posthuman - Mutant City Acid ( https://bleep.com/release/111312-posthuman-mutant-city-acid ), released a few days ago as it happens.
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by protothomas 10y ago
But forking is a consensus decision of miners on the chain. Nothing to do with the DAO or its implicit or explicit terms. By that logic I can write a contract that dictates future behaviour of anyone choosing to mine this particular block c
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by protothomas 10y ago
This [1] is a recent album produced entirely using a (physical) Synthi A - shows what can be done with one. [1] http://www.fsoldigital.com/product/synthi-a-ignition-of-the-...
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by protothomas 11y ago
A well written and brutally honest article - the author should be commended as this kind of honesty is what's needed in beginning to address mental health issues. I did feel the last throwaway point "don't date the crazy chic
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by protothomas 11y ago
It's worth pointing out that Chrome had a similar issue on iOS at one point [1] - not that it excuses them in any way. [1] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2298553/chrome-for-...
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Repurposing the Microsoft Kinect for external head motion tracking for brain PET(m.iopscience.iop.org)
3 points by protothomas 11y ago|0 comments
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by protothomas 11y ago
To be fair it's on the Newsbeat "magazine" section of the bbc which is intentionally more informal / gossipy and also aimed at a young demographic. Still a fairly shoddy article though I'd agree.
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by protothomas 11y ago
For the purposes of European research funding it effectively is.
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by protothomas 11y ago
A lovely map, but the scale could be calibrated slightly better - 5% growth is coloured the same as 25% growth, it would have been interesting to see areas of extremely high growth highlighted as well.
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A Mantra for the Privileged(ssireview.org)
2 points by protothomas 12y ago|0 comments
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by protothomas 12y ago
What was your hypothesis out of interest?
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by protothomas 12y ago
Do you have any comment on the claims relating to the Department of Defence?
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by protothomas 12y ago
On that note, this ( http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus ) is worth watching if you can get hold of it. It appears to be on 4od for uk viewers.
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by protothomas 12y ago
Why mention it at all, the possibility that one party is attracted to the other applies to all interactions.
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by protothomas 12y ago
Or it could have been that Turing was a friendly person. The fact he was gay doesn't mean that any interactions he had with men where on the basis of attraction.
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by protothomas 13y ago
The raids were part of an operation cracking down on gangs - the parts were found during that raid. It was not that the police raided somewhere because they suspected there were printed gun parts there.
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by protothomas 13y ago
I think the reason people got slightly sniffy about it was the use of the word 'foreign' in a negative context, which, whether or not it is intended, will be interpreted by some as xenophobic. Had it been stated as '...having
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by protothomas 13y ago
That's part of it but mainly this - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald...
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Steve Ballmer to Retire(businessinsider.com)
6 points by protothomas 13y ago|0 comments
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by protothomas 13y ago
To be honest the outcome is probably beyond their wildest dreams.
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by protothomas 13y ago
I suspect it would be to do with spotting visitors bringing in illicit mobile phones not prisoners.
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by protothomas 13y ago
I doubt there are 475000 take-off and landings per day from Heathrow despite how busy it is!
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by protothomas 13y ago
And the death of Steve Jobs -> http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/20111005.html
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by protothomas 13y ago
Pressing tab will move the focus to the send button, hitting return will then send the message. Presumably this is what you did. Possibly not ideal, but I'd disagree it is an invisible, undiscoverable (tab to move focus is standard), and ir
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by protothomas 14y ago
I honestly thought from the title that the post would be a mea culpa for just that.
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Pearson launches Catalyst, a 3-month education tech startup incubator program (thenextweb.com)
4 points by protothomas 14y ago|1 comments
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by protothomas 14y ago
Look at what happened with DNA sequencing[1]. Linear extrapolation isn't always the best predictor of progress. [1] http://www.dnasequencing.org/history-of-dna
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by protothomas 14y ago
The link goes to a project last committed to in 2000. You surely can't be objecting for that reason.
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White House won't rule out $1 trillion coin(politico.com)
2 points by protothomas 14y ago|0 comments

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