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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Yes, my idea was a intension counter measure to 'mouse' jigglers.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
It's meaningless what amount of currency needed for the equivalent value in 1996. You're trading that day. The percentage increase in value is astronomical 426500% increase, but "Not buying 10 shares in 1996" is hardly
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Good point.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
10 shares of AAPL in 1996 isn't that large of a windfall today. The stock has had 3 splits 2:1,2:1,7:1 in that time frame. 10 shares in 1996 would have had a cost of $7.50 and a present market value of ~$32,000.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>the attacker will simply wait until the laptop is unlocked. A potential counter measure is for the machine to periodically encrypt itself again and prevent use until a password/key is supplied ("clamming up"). This would
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Are you the only proprietor of your C-Corp? "Corporations. Corporations (both C corporations and S corporations) have the strictest internal requirements, including holding initial and annual director and shareholder meetings, adopting
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
For the latest version, those are the only two location-services options.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
I was astounded at how classist and elitist Gladwell comes across in the article. His point is essentially, because Snowden didn't have a PhD and didn't talk to the right people, the civic value of his leaks are mute. The differe
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Lawyers write human readable code that's compiled and run by a judge or interfacing APIs (institutions such as financial ones) Your advice is akin to saying "hey you inexperienced coder, write some production ready code but don&#x
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>The economy still works if banks go down, it just gets messy. This is not accurate. The _ability_ of an ISP to route packets is not affected if another ISP stops routing packets (their ability to rout packets is independent). There will
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Source?
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
The difference in your comparison though is the internet still works if Google goes under. If a TBTF bank goes under [1] the financial system can halt/implode. Which is the main argument to break up the banks to a level where there is
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
If you concerned about security, you should have full disk encryption (FileVault) turned on and be powered down anytime you walk away. Though you question still has value for the low percentage of times one forgets to power down.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Because one user on a multi-user workstation could prevent all of the other users from adding an interface, I believe.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>even the libertarians should be on board with this tax No, Libertarians would not support this. The reason why there are empty properties is that there are capital controls so severe that it's more lucrative to buy a house (and no
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Ministry of Truth
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>The Apple II was launched for $250K, or $996K in today's dollars Delusionally reductive to use rate of inflation to estimate the capital and labor costs associated with bringing the product to today's market.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
"Hi this is an automated message from Facebook alerting you that the police have been called to your husband's/friends/boss's location to prevent him from killing himself" "Actually just kidding, we had a
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
A discussed version of the paper[1] says: >A new study shows that computer technology known as machine learning is up to 93 percent accurate in correctly classifying a suicidal person P(+|suicidal) = .93 I want to know P(suicidal|+) [2]
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
> if no one gets sick then it was the algae, otherwise they will need to continue poking around to figure out what's wrong. Chemistry and biology doesn't work like this. This is excessively simplistic/reductive. Food is
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Zero Knowledge proofs offer properties of anonymous, cryptographically verifiable votes https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/46709/can-a-zer... http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Groth&#
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>If two "experts" can look at the same evidence and come to entirely different conclusions, how is this science? Scientism is a mental disease perpetuated by people who seek social persuasion through whatever means convinces a
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>message the host and wait for 24 hours for a revert. Airbnb has an instant book feature that obviates this process
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>We notice flaws in others more easily than flaws in ourselves. Yes, before you see this entire article as a list of quirks that compromise how other people think, realize that you are also subject to these biases. I found this section w
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>I can't stand the proliferation of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies in a world where people don't have to pay for the externalities of the energy they use. Not a fare comparison; all of visa/mc's servers have externali
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>in SF, collection of any sort of hotel tax (or any attempt at following regulation) on these units is a joke. This is incorrect. If a user on Airbnb requests a stay that qualifies for a Transient Occupancy Tax, Airbnb collects the tax
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
By that definition so are long-term rentals, or even home buying and selling. A Colorado court has ruled that there's no substantive difference between a renter who rents for one month or one week.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Increasing the costs of a PC would make the comparative cost worst. The article claims equivalently spec'd systems >Previn says that while a Mac initially costs anywhere from $117 to $454 more than a similarly configured Windows PC
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Another case of an attacker using phone porting to attempt to compromise accounts: https://medium.com/the-coinbase-blog/on-phone-numbers-and-id...
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Relative of mine completed a coding boot camp. Even if there are free methods to learn, I'd imagine, even if you didn't see value in having personal tutelage that there's a benefit to putting your skin in the game to get the

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