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rweir··on Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency
well then lobby to get your electoral system fixed instead of copping out. not voting for Hillary Clinton increases the chances of Trump winning, and who even knows what his actual policy on drugs are?
rweir··on CVS Disables NFC Terminals, Stops Accepting Apple Pay, Google Wallet
note that in practice EFTPOS is getting beaten down by still not doing contactless, while Visa Debit/Mastercard Debit contactless cards are ubiquitous in Australia, and banks pushing Visa/Mastercard Debit for the higher interchange fees.
rweir··on iOS 8 reviewed
eh, totally ditched? the 5s and 5c remains available.
rweir··on Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas
think of Bell or the oil companies of the early 20th century.
rweir··on Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas
it was initially to stop manufacturers vertically integrating all the way from building cars to running stores.
rweir··on Mosh: A replacement for SSH
> I feel like mosh is fixing problems at the wrong layer. Instead of making application protocols connectioness, we should make Mobile IP work

I look forward to using regular SSH to connect to my servers hosted in the floating city of New Chicago!

rweir··on Submarine Cable Map 2014
pretty well documented, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Halibut_(SSGN-587)#Special_...
rweir··on Why The iPhone 6 Will Be The Device Of The Year
it's techcrunch.
rweir··on Reserve your favorite username in new startups
perhaps state that on the signup page, so people don't bother, then? there are identical sites that actually exist already, so why would anyone be interested in signing up here?

edit: to be clear, I mean: there isn't value in "testing a market" when the market is already tested.

rweir··on Reserve your favorite username in new startups
would it be fair to say that your site currently does absolutely nothing except for take usernames, email addresses and passwords?
rweir··on Ask HN: Does the world need a new API standard?
no.
rweir··on Phantom
maybe you want to reconsider lying in the description?
rweir··on [dead]
tldr summary of http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
rweir··on Why Killing Cash is Key to MasterCard’s Competitive Strategy
that's incorrect. in practice, MasterCard cannot do any of the things you suggest, aside from "arbitrarily refuse to accept payments for a business", which they have already done. your bank could shut down your card due to fraud, which may suck for you, but you can switch banks if you disagree with them. unemployed people can absolutely get visa/mastercard debit cards. ditto homeless people.

mastercard deserves criticism, but try to actually stick to things under their control (e.g. their appalling but now discontinued ban on wikileaks donations).

rweir··on Why Killing Cash is Key to MasterCard’s Competitive Strategy
all of your consumer-side complaints are about banks not MasterCard.
rweir··on Getting Started with Modern Web Development
is that a yes?
rweir··on Getting Started with Modern Web Development
Wouldn't it have been better to not post it until you had more to offer?
rweir··on Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to/watch?
The Bugle, an important reminder than entrepreneurship is a fancy term for "not a successful business owner yet".
rweir··on Show HN: Get a Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page Free
that's not a useful answer, since it's not "free" as stated in the headline, but $5/month/user. "title would be too long" is a completely idiotic excuse for lying in a headline.
rweir··on 3 Reasons Why Bulletproof Coffee is a Bad Idea
OT, but that's a mindnumbingly stupid name for coffee with butter in it.
rweir··on On being targeted by the NSA
the details in these stories would be of no use to "other governments to construct similar surveillance systems.".
rweir··on Show HN: Get a Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page Free
ah, and by "free" you mean "$5/month"? perhaps you want to update the headline to be less totally false?
rweir··on Poll: Are you moving to the Amazon Fire Phone?
how much do you think other high-end smartphones actually cost?

iphone 5s 32GB: $US749 samsung galaxy s5: ~$us800 etc

rweir··on Ask HN: Help me validate my idea
little reason for it to be an app, and lots of websites along these lines already exist.
rweir··on A Dark Room: The Best-Selling Game That No One Can Explain
it seems likely that it is worth 1/3rd of a coffee, yes.
rweir··on Microsoft ends support for custom domains in free email service
Hm? How is free email hosting a great opportunity in 2014?
rweir··on Note the commit hash
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they're hashes of the /commit/, which is the code + metadata including time + previous commit(s).

rweir··on Malaysia says there's sealed evidence on MH370
Who knows if it is true, but the article is useless given it says things like:

The coordinates in the picture indicate that the photo was taken within 3 miles of what Google officially gives for Diego Garcia. It is NOT EXACTLY what comes up on Google. It is off a couple miles, so NO ONE GOOGLED THIS, thus helping to confirm it’s authenticity.

and

If anything was used to re-tag this image, it would say so in the software tag of the image. Any time software modifies any aspect of the image, the last thing to touch the image gets put in the software tag. The Iphone’s standard software is in the image tag and nothing else. That means this image has NOT been re-tagged and that is the FIRST THING I checked before posting this story. And NO, YOU CANNOT MODIFY IT WITH A PROGRAMMING EDITOR UNLESS YOU ARE A MACHINE LANGUAGE GENIUS.

the former doesn't confirm anything, and the latter is stupid, since it should be obvious that anyone can edit EXIF tags to say whatever they want.

rweir··on GnuTLS certificate verification vulnerability announced (CVE-2014-0092)
perhaps read any of the other comments? tldr, license and it's also terrible.
rweir··on Servo Layout Engine: Parallelizing the Browser [video]
Note that Rust was a personal project of Graydon's before it became a Mozilla thing - they picked it up a few years.
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