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9,800karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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> "A person or vehicle appears as a pixel, essentially a moving dot on the screen." > "I was able to watch several killings caught on camera as they unfolded: ... a victim toppli…
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Oh, I wasn't saying one was better than the other. Just observing that no matter what one did, someone would be unhappy about it :)
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It is annoying.
But on the flip side, if the link was included, someone would have invariably commented that the "article reads like an ad". The authors can't win.
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The carrier for gravity may also have wave-particle duality, via the graviton[0]. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton …
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Are public/private settings implemented? I thought that was a "stretch goal" for their recent fundraising campaign[0; $60k goal]. 0. http://mediagoblin.org/pages/ca…
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> This strategy won't work if the questioner is persistent, but usually they aren't. I think it may only seem to work to the person answering the question. Having sat in on many talks, it…
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it's not obvious that "bipartisan" and "nonpartisan" are always auto-antonyms. it may often be the case in practice, but there are are other parties for voters to choose from.…
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i believe GP mentioned bipartisanship to point out that its unlikely either a D or R administration would actively try to rectify the situation because there's no political gain and there's …
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> I'm 29 and it's been years since I've sent a casual email to a friend... I've noticed the same thing. I exchange emails with a few friends, but it's generally only to swa…
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Upon compiling TextSecure from source and installing it on my phone (I don't have the play store), I've discovered it requires the Play Store to do the "iMessage" style messaging o…
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I'm pretty sure Whisper Systems never get any private keys, because the private keys are only stored on the end user devices.
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> They didn't really have a good answer for whether that e-mail would stick around after I graduated. Or whether access to that account would be available forever, or whether it would be free.…
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> Though it seems a bit odd to host his work on his own personal site, rather than one hosted by his institution. Anecdotal experience of mine is that there's a trend for some academics (at le…
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Do you have an article link for the graph? It would be good to see the caption and also to know what type of dollars they're plotting (inflation-adjusted, etc.).
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s/submittion/submission/
rough day for me, spelling-wise!
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Your submittion and this one link to different URLs (mobile vs non-mobile site), so to the HN system they're different articles.
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Now someone just needs to build an API and and app for the Pebble so there can be a pulsar wristwatch.
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Gateway 486/33DX.
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That states rights and nullification have sometimes been used for bad purposes doesn't mean that any use of states rights and nullification is automatically bad. Your statement reads as though th…
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> and save that (along with the question title) in your (properly backed up!) password safe. To be fair, this could render the security question useless. If you lose the password (by losing the pas…
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Definitely. I was more thinking about cloning the card so I could just use my phone to unlock the door instead, rather than trying to use it at some future date.
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I was able to read the RFID card at an Aloft hotel (they were mentioned in the article) using NFC on my phone. In principle, it should have been possible to clone that room card to my phone so I could…
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> (unless you plan on going to another office later on...) Just curious, has a president ever done that?