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hackeyed

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    Comment #27368314

    Looks incredibly serviceable and well engineered. I would expect reasonable and consistent results from the rig. The biggest question would come down to the cameras. With these kin…

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    Comment #27367155

    Right, step 1 -> get page images, step 2 -> author images into book file. While OCR is obviously useful for search, a rotated phone screen will let you comfortably read a pdf book …

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    Comment #16848896

    For those that are digital subscribers and wish to suggest exactly this turning off of 3rd party tracking for logged-in users, this looks like the most relevant email address: memb…

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    Comment #16792895

    Might check some of the credit unions you can join. I know at least FirstTech uses chip and pin for their credit cards.

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    Comment #16584950

    These steps are generally split between the image processing ones, the OCR one, and a final step of combining/compressing pages into a single "bound" pdf/djvu file, at least if you…

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    Comment #15117261

    The trouble is that only the most engaged minority of users would be willing to pay for the service directly. What I'm interested to see is whether we can build services where the …

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    Comment #14892130

    Optical ballots provide a verifiable trail that can be used to audit the electronic counting machines. Seems that whatever system we use could benefit from some randomly selected m…

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    Comment #14709571

    Many of the journals currently publishing these kind of Registered Reports only publish special issues, which might help with your concern about journals being given control over w…

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    Comment #14709545

    The format is called "Registered Reports" and a current list of journals that use it is available at https://cos.io/rr/

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    Comment #14709532

    The problem with using the blockchain for this is that there are legitimate reasons to withdraw such a registration ranging from misstyping (s/increase/decrease anyone?) to, depend…

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    Comment #11684825

    I realize you are replying to part of the discussion but your comment seems to be a nice point in support of the original article and I would like to see if you agree. You mention …

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    Comment #11684449

    They share some areas of focus but philosophy also overlaps with history, religion, literature, and logic. All ideas are human ideas and it is important to understand the historica…

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    Comment #11684216

    "Philosophers believe at least, that they are doing work more along the lines of mathematics than underwater dance (that is, searching for truth)" Thinking that you can search for …

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    Comment #11683981

    Having gone through an undergraduate philosophy major and taken many classes on non-western thought, all offered by other departments, I strongly support the article's position. To…

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    Comment #10010988

    Not to mention Kdenlive, which is being actively developed again and has been the most capable and stable of the free video editors I've used this past year (including Openshot, Pi…