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gcb4··on Tire makers race to turn dandelions into rubber
yes. that's the one advertised but impossible to buy in the usa. i recall only place i found it at the time had a 4x price hike over the advertised market price.
gcb4··on Avoiding Event Chains in Single Page Applications
it's amazing how JavaScript is becoming the new java.

everyone thinks that adding a ton of extra complexity in the guise of a simpler api will make it more maintainable.

in this example you now have 4 events under the hood and two event dispatchers. but it seem simpler because you only "see" two and one dispatcher.

while it may make things just a little bit simpler to maintain you may enter debug hell when there's bugs on that added under the hood complexity... which will often be a code you're unfamiliar. making the article main argument (helping on debugging edge case bugs) kind of two edged

gcb4··on Atreus: My Custom Keyboard
the case is spiffy. but way too tall. i will probably use it bare. definitely will induce wrist pain if not used on a low keyboard tray (which no one has on any table from this century)

and nice project and documentation of it! thank you a lot for sharing.

gcb4··on Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future
you forgot some 12 "if"s on your comment.
gcb4··on Tire makers race to turn dandelions into rubber
Japanese's tires in early 2000 were mostly made of orange peel oil.

wasn't a commercial success.

today one brand still has one line that supposedly sell in the usa but i can't find it anywhere.

gcb4··on Earl Grey tea intoxication [pdf]
i will have the 8L lady grey, please.
gcb4··on Earl Grey tea intoxication [pdf]
at work i see people gulp more than 4 liter of, employer provided, water bottle with fake (sorry, "natural") fruit aroma..
gcb4··on Earl Grey tea intoxication [pdf]
tea. hot. Earl gray. four liter.
gcb4··on Debian and the PHP license
the part about Debian policy being the same is false. see msg 364 of the Debian bug.

im on mobile now ...

gcb4··on Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone
compile yourself.

or download from a source you trust and compare hash from another trustworthy source. just like anything you download. unless you run gentoo, but then how do you trust your sources, etc

and if you have a closed source phone os that only allows to install from their store... well you have to learn to crawl before you walk.

gcb4··on The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate
i just read several paragraphs of absolutely nothing.

really. how this person considers himself a journalist? or even a blogger?

the central argument appears to be patents, yet not even the titles are mentioned.

gcb4··on The $10 Minimum Wage in San Jose: the Impact on the Restaurant Industry [pdf]
that's a very awful and badly executed survey.
gcb4··on Diary of an atomic bomb technician
you just confirmed what he said.

where do you think? you just follow the same desire to belong by being efficiently obedient. that's exactly what the post you're replying to said.

ironically, the short story starship troopers tried to highlight that same point, and it also is seen as enlistment propaganda because that whole thing is so effective in us humans that while you're reading it you fall prey.

gcb4··on Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases
the issue is what founders think their clients think.
gcb4··on Introduction to Coreboot, an open source BIOS
this passage hit android right in the face for me. hopefully we can get rid of it now in less than 30yrs...

" In the 1980s the functionality of a microcomputer was determined at least as much by its firmware in ROM as by its hardware. The Apple MacIntosh might have had a similar hardware architecture to the Atari ST, but each had its own different operating system in ROM.

Of course there were those brave people who would replace the ROM chips inside their computers by ROMs they had programmed themselves, so they could regain complete control over their machines, which was lost when the front panel had disappeared. Coreboot is just such an endeavor. "

it's nice that everyone can compile an android rom, but with closed drivers and proprietary boot managers we are in that precarious state...

gcb4··on HTML Canvas in the terminal
phantom already does a full headless web kit browser. with screen shot capabilities.
gcb4··on Kindle Unlimited
i had the same shock you're displaying when i came to the us.

"what do you mean your bank own your home? what if it goes under?"

"what? you pay your car every month, are required to pay the most expensive insurance, and in the end the dealership still owns your car?"

... my guess is that in America anything that makes you pay a little less will have consumers. nobody cares about a bookcase full of old paper as you do. also i think that when the thing matures past the amateurs like EA we will see companies buying rights from other just like it happens with mortgage. apple went under with its flopped Newton watch? amazon buys all its drm licenses and continue to give you access to your media in hopes that your new purchases will come her way.

gcb4··on Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases
i for one would rather they block apps that are full of ads but the screenshots show none. those drive me crazy.
gcb4··on Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases
Google is the new Microsoft. the founders get down from their clouds and shit happens.

remember the history about why ctrl f in outlook is not search? this is the same.

probably someone was working a smart system to see when the game either had purchases or players dropped, and was working out a clever way to weed out the pay to win one... then one founder got fed up on pay to win bejeweled and dictated everything with in game purchases is now paid, even if it's just a donate button or skins.

gcb4··on GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
i will be taking round A for a direct marketing company for affluent consumers via the gotenna network.

:)

gcb4··on Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series
but nissan is already promising a 200 mile car for half the model 3 price... your argument is valid for prius today, not for model 3 whenever it's launched.
gcb4··on Show HN: Hacker News Redesign
the current design is perfect. it just needs a larger i upvote button and allow for mobile browsers to wrap long lines.
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