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These pictures were taken "only" 1,000,000 miles away, so the Moon is significantly closer to the camera than Earth was, which makes it appear larger compared to Earth than it really is. The true size comparison is more like [0]. The effect is also more because the

[0] http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5bff56bc0b31f8b7395bdbe...

The another blog post originally[1] had the phrase:

"We want users to understand that they’re pretty much cheating the system when they choose not to pay for software."

And like, they have this on their home page:

"100% Free elementary OS is completely free, both in terms of pricing and licensing."

So it's weird to mention cheating or talk about making it harder to download for $0 while talking up the free pricing in their ad copy.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150211113458/http://blog.eleme...

The section header underline has one "-" added, so the final "s" has a "-" under it.

When I've tipped online for pizza, and tip pretty well, I tend to get my pizza very quickly with a driver wanting to please me (like one time an order was messed up slightly and he immediately drove back and brought a new one without me even asking).

My vague guess is that if you leave an above-average tip on an online order, the order gets immediately grabbed my a delivery person since they know they'll get at least that much of a tip.

Of course, sometimes I still type:

  D.get(key, None)

since I forget that dict.get and getattr() have different behavior in the case of missing keys/attributes...

I've seen lots of people mentioning they've unlocked the boot loader on their Moto X 2014 Pure Editions (I think the carrier ones don't have unlockable bootloaders), including in this video[0], showing how to side load Lollipop (which doesn't need an unlocked bootloader, but his screen say it's unlocked).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Zb...

Do you have any links to actual studies that find you can get high by burning fat "even years later"? Everything I've read has said that some of the metabolites of THC can be stored in fat--and those are the actual compounds tested by "marijuana" tests, but THC itself isn't stored in the human body after the initial processing even if it is fat soluble itself.

Lengths of high vary, but so do lengths of being drunk. And lengths of undergoing caffeine or nicotine withdrawal or being high on them.

I'd say there's two types of "intentional" complexity. There's the complexity that comes about because we feel like some actions should receive preferred tax treatment over others. So, tax expenditures like student loan and mortgage interest deductions and so on. They had some complexity because "we", as a government, decide to do that.

But the darker side is the complexity that exists to let people with enough income and the means to obfuscate their true tax rate. We may have a top marginal rate of 39.6%, but even people who have a huge income pay nothing close to that. And it's in high income people's interest to keep it that way. It's also in the interest of the companies we're talking about to keep the tax code complex both because they're run by high income people and if the general population has a sense that the tax code is super complex for themselves, they're more likely to use tax preparers even if they actually have very simple taxes or just mildly complex.

So, yes, with a huge economy the tax code is going to be very complex. That's just politics and the nature of the beast, but there's more complexity than there needs to be because of interests who drive it to complexity for their deadweight gain and strive to keep it complex.

That is mostly true. So they oppose most things that make our current style of taxation--mildly progressive with a lot of deductions. So they want to make it as painful as possible for Americans so they can try to get what they want.

I'm not sure you actually agree with Intuit. They're saying that the IRS and state-level agencies should not provide free online filing services--even though they already provide free paper filing systems.

As far as I've seen, no one has done a movement to ban tax paperers (either online or in person). If Intuit or H&R Block can provide a better website for $39 or whatever, they can. The question is if the agencies in question shouldn't develop their own replacements to paper tax forms.

Can you imagine it was 30 years ago and if, instead of getting tax forms mailed to you every year (or photocopies from the local library for a pittance 5 years ago), you had to walk down to the local H&R Block or other private company and pay them $40 to get the forms they wrote based on the tax code to file your taxes? It's pretty much the same thing.

Virginia's Department of Taxation used to have a pretty decent online tax website. It was shutdown because of lobbying such as this. There was a year when no free online filing so I took the extra effort to do a paper return that year. Even FreeFilableForms are run by the Free File Alliance which is part of the group that lobbies against the IRS and state taxation departments from doing their own filing websites for personal profit. So they make sure that their own free filing options are just good enough to be barely acceptable while making their paid (for filers with income over ~$58k) options seem much more attractive.

Between this and intentional complexity of the tax system that hinders making the IRS more efficient and hides true tax rates that corporations and higher income people... I dunno, it's one of the blacker marks against America in this aspect of policy.

But I've without doubt decide I'll try as hard as possible to never, ever pay a company like that to file tax returns.

The programming equivalent that I've heard is: "Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning".

Dell XPS13 "Sputnik". One of the few Linux laptops from a major maker. I have the pre Haswell (but with a 1080p screen) and it's light and fast. The only downside, for me, is the wider screen compared to the squarer screen of the Airs. But having neither Windows nor OSX come with it is important to me as a developer.

Men can be sexy too.

Do we really need random Atom extensions posted two hours after the first commit? Is this the shortest time from initial commit (like, it looks like this is the real first commit instead of a squash-like commit for release)?

You could do it through redirects to from x.com to y.com/login, which sets cookies on y.com's domain, and then redirects back to x.com. Either only do it on login or set another cooking on x.com once you've done it once. (I actually work on a web property that does similar, although for different reasons.)

You can use https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack to get a newer X server and kernel while otherwise staying on 12.04 LTS.

Upgrading from any Debian 7 upgrade should just be:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade

What's wrong with uploading 200 photos to Flickr? Sharing 1.8GB of photos more than once on Dropbox (who deletes things like this?) means you need a paid Dropbox account. So even if this was in the Past when Flickr didn't have an "unlimited" free account, you'd still need to pay for something.

The only way I've found Flickr isn't good at sharing a large number of photos if you want/expect some people to have high res versions of all or a large percentage of those photos on their computer so they could print them offline or something.

Still an unsolved problem there, but if all you were going to do was "host them on a hostname", I'm not how Flickr doesn't address the need very well.

All phone numbers in the US (actually, North America and some Caribbean islands) are the form AAA-XXX-YYYY, and there's a finite number of AAA (or area codes) that have been issued so far. And some types of numbers are not possible, mostly for historic reasons. I'm not sure how much a block of numbers actually cost in the US, but they're not free. I know a company I worked for tried hard to compress the range of numbers they had so they could give back part of an exchange to save money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Numbering_Plan#N...

Original source (and higher quality than the imgur gallery):

http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists...

and what the heck, I submitted it: xxx (argh, the dupe detector didn't see the original one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6281864, please use that.)

Managed with https://github.com/gmarik/vundle here are the plugins I'd say I use every day:

https://github.com/airblade/vim-gitgutter show git change/deleted lines

https://github.com/bling/vim-airline light weight, pure vimscript status line

https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim fuzzy file finder that mostly works

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive very nice Git wrapper

https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic generic in Vim syntax checker plugin

https://github.com/sjl/gundo.vim undo tree viewing

Both _Attack of the Clones_ and _Revenge of the Sith_ were projected digitally as well as on film. And yes, if you looked closely at some points you could see the pixels on the projection. (Although _Attack of the Clones_ was also one of the first movies shown in IMAX via process of taking a 35mm film print to IMAX film[0]. So with _Attack_, instead, they upconverted a 2K master that was derived from 1080p source to IMAX film stock (as far as I know). Yes, it had a lot of weird smoothing artifacts when seen projected on an IMAX screen.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMAX_DMR_films

Not quite: cw deletes until the end of the current word from the current position and then enters insert mode. ciw deletes the entire your current position is in and enters insert mode. Go ahead and try them.

My bluray player (a Sony from a couple years ago) does this perfectly fine with my Samgsung TV. So, some devices use it.

Linux 3.3 came out 2012-03-18, that's just less than 12 months ago.

"Yahoo says ... is contemplating putting Axis on other mobile platforms such as Android."?!

I can understand not supporting Linux at launch (but not forever). I can't understand only targeting iOS and then publicly saying you're not even planning on doing Android. Just that you're "contemplating" it.

Why shouldn't a government offer such a service?

In fact, most large cities in America already do--parking! Most parking in America is priced well below the market value. (Slightly more arguable but still true: all non-toll (and some toll) public roadways.)

Another example are the quasi-governmental agencies that run mass transit systems; none of them approach full revenue recovery in America that I know of.

Perhaps an example closer to the "information" and "technology" bent of public broadband? Public libraries function at a loss, in that the direct fees they collect through fines and other revenue generating services come nowhere close to their cost to operate. There are very few (almost none) direct calls for state governments to ban local public libraries and nearly every decries attempts by book publishers in their attempts to crowd out libraries by restrictive, number of check out limited DRM on eBooks.

We have long accepted in America, for many arenas, that if a government (whether local, state, or federal) chooses to provide a service at a below market price because they think it's a net benefit to their community. Most private companies don't even complain that much normally, since they can compete against the government at better service or quality, of course. People are willing to pay a premium for that. This is an especially odd place to defend the companies attempting to restrict governments from providing services to their residents, when Telecoms have received huge government subsidies and government sanctioned monopolies for years that allowed them to create a huge infrastructure and head start.

If they're really doing so poorly that they feel threatened by much maligned (everybody remember DMV jokes?) local government, they've just been horrible companies and it is a proper place for governments to step in and provide better service.

It's not a really a "myth". Both have zero or a small amount of fraud liability (i.e., they give you back all of the money, or all but say $50 of the fraud). But! If you have fraudulent activity on a credit card, you're out that much credit until they remove the charges. If they do that much fraud on a debit card, you're out that much cash out of your checking/savings account until they credit your account back.

I'd much rather have one of my credit cards less usable for a day or two than have the account I use to pay a lot of bills from drained for a day or two

Pretty cool, but is there a reason it doesn't have the actual product name/title on that page? Like the headphones and knife, unless you're a super expert, you can't tell what it is from looking at the picture.

And having to following links to see what it is seems kind of like busy work. (And the HDMI cable, "Don't get ripped off by more expensive cables that are no better than this one." since that doesn't appear to be pulled from an amz review, it seems intentionally obfuscated.)