tomflack

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by tomflack 13y ago
Hah, my first thought is "humans also make the government" and I know which one I'd optimize first... sorry about the snark though.
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by tomflack 13y ago
> Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealan
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by tomflack 13y ago
No, because working schedules are based on the clock face.
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by tomflack 13y ago
Looks like a standard catalogue photograph to me. Opportunity wasted.
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by tomflack 13y ago
Is there a way, given consensus among the bitcoin community, to mark these coins as "bad" and effectively destroy their value?
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by tomflack 13y ago
Right now I'm listening to "Chronojigga" a Jay-Z/Chronotrigger mix. IT's great.
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by tomflack 13y ago
This occidental fascination with Japanese sex is embarrassing. Or perhaps I just feel that these "reports" don't lend enough academic gravitas to the subject and end up being weird, discomforting vouyeristic pieces that confl
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by tomflack 13y ago
If there is one argument it's impossible to win, it's an argument with people trying to impose their own "original" or "traditional" word usage over the more colloquial understanding of it's meaning.
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by tomflack 13y ago
While I appreciate what you're trying to say, it seems obvious that "viewing" and "editing the content of" a website are quite different concepts. If you've been told to no longer edit the content of my website
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by tomflack 13y ago
I had registered with Microsoft my copy of Windows 98, and they mailed me a CD with an upgrade to SE for free when it was released.
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by tomflack 13y ago
> And setting up transcoding to mp4 just made me realize that there are better uses of my time than dealing with such piddly issues. I'd rather be learning rust for example than dealing with streaming/transcoding issues to my p
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by tomflack 13y ago
World first? I've seen a cake delivery company by drone in Shanghai months ago. http://www.popsci.com.au/technology/shanghai-company-claims-... Then it seems they were grounded http://www.dailymail.co.u
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by tomflack 13y ago
Perhaps he means used these systems through upgrade/transfer installs via a firewire system transfer or similar
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by tomflack 13y ago
Partially related: Is it technically possible to "blacklist" the bitcoins that the FBI seized given a great enough consensus, to make their value effectively worthless?
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by tomflack 13y ago
OP's logic I presume, is that certain government services aren't available for that time so why is he being asked to pay for them?
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by tomflack 13y ago
They don't need to pull anything, just have their lawyers tell Google's lawyers that their iMessage trademark is being infringed. Gone.
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by tomflack 13y ago
They collect them in OK, CA and GA. Probably more. I'm not even American and that took four seconds to find on Google.
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by tomflack 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking here? The articles are sinocentric in the same manner Medium articles are typically occidental in nature.
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by tomflack 13y ago
> And the government has announced they will rip up the cable and give everyone 25-50Mbps down and 4-5Mbps up. The government needs to re-negotiate it's deal with Telstra, and I expect the HFC network remaining with Telstra as a who
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by tomflack 13y ago
I can only think to keep costs down. But it does seem odd.
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by tomflack 13y ago
It's indeed VERY different to "opt-out" as they had stated. What a mistake!
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by tomflack 13y ago
Breaking news: on ABC News 24 right now Abbott just said he doesn't support a filter and got the policy wrong.
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by tomflack 13y ago
He's referring to the AMCA blacklist, which while not a filter in the sense we usually discuss is a kind of internet censorship.
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by tomflack 13y ago
If the Liberal/National Coalition manages to achieve a majority in the Senate, I think this will be the time we see a filter become law.
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by tomflack 13y ago
How long until their regional affiliates update their design? For example: http://au.yahoo.com (Yahoo! 7) http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ (Yahoo Japan) I really feel that while these spinoffs seemed like a good idea at
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by tomflack 13y ago
...licensing the KitKat brand from Nestle. Moral quandary remains.
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by tomflack 13y ago
Market share vs units sold. One is sliding down (market share) while units sold are still going up as the pie gets larger.
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by tomflack 13y ago
Apple didn't always have a low market share and built up a huge importance for developers before their share started to slide. There are still millions of iPhones sold every year, even if they're a smaller piece of the overall pie
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by tomflack 13y ago
The only way that Windows Phone ties to Microsoft's enterprise offerings better than iPhone is the name. Literally everything else can be done on iOS, often better.
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by tomflack 13y ago
What's the difference between an automated train failing to stop at the end of a line in a system with 200 stations to an automated train failing to stop at the end of a line in a system with two stations? Of course in the rest of the

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