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by DINKDINK 11y ago
how would you filter out Bluetooth signals that are and aren't cheating signals?
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
I'm not sure each sect's restrictions but in Herzog's "lo and behold reveries of the connected world" it showed a group of Eastern monks using cellphone in the US
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>The solar panels are effectively free, because they will pay for themselves in energy savings By that argument, anything with a return on investment is 'free'. The problem here is that you are forcing new homeowners to be for
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>Never attribute to malice with what can be explained by stupidity Hanlon's razor
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
> I would be a lot less pissed if an account that I've never touched in 10 years got compromised Depends on what that account controlled.
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
I heard from someone who worked for government contracts that they were told to 'do production testing on equipment' at the same time they wanted to use it in situations that would have required a warrant.
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
An interesting tangent that I expected someone to bring up but not applicable to the scenario I illustrated: > How much income tax do you pay to _countries you don't live in?_
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>Is there really such thing as a passive fund? To me passive and active are ends of a spectrum which specify how much labor and trading is done with the fund's assets.
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>Apple with large cash reserves being held offshore should be dealt with individually. What evidence is there that the money Apple holds offshore was generated 'onshore'? If it is the case that funds that Apple holds offshore w
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
Signal is pretty simple. Even my relatively technologically illiterate mother uses Signal.
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
Significant metabolic costs that have proved for several thousands of years a compelling survival strategy. Nature is the ultimate field tester.
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
In case you were wondering: "About the Visualizations The visualizations in Data USA are powered by D3plus, an open-source visualization engine that was created by members of the Datawheel team."
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>letting them know they were able to hack into the phone without Apple's help but at the same time, making a mockery of Apple's entire security claims. What proof do you have that the FBI hacked the phone? The only piece of ev
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
I was in country with an oppressive regime and a friend got that notice on their gmail account.
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
Nixon was most certainly a bigot. If you doubt that statement, listen to him confirm it for yourself in this great documentary: "Richard Nixon In His Own Words" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbWataLl9k8 ) which
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
> I rarely see offers that are even 80% of what my salary expectation is I'm suspicious that this is a silent-evidence phenomenon. I'd assume that the duration a job listing is up correlates inversely proportional to the compe
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
Might you be able to test this out for yourself? Is your job location the main reason you don't live in your university town? For me it's not.
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>the same arguments and [...] the same mistakes. Would you elaborate?
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0B7F5UbTOQ
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
Metrics behind the primary purpose of blood circulation, oxygen/CO2 and energy delivery (to which you allude), aren't the parameters they found fluctuated: >single fingerpricks on multiple subjects varied substantially on resul
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>did you know that windows can crack from thermal stress like cookware that you cool too rapidly? This is called thermal shock [1]. Basically thermal expansion mismatches cause internal stress beyond the material's Ultimate Tensile
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
This provides some interesting perspective in wage gaps: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender... The TLDR is the strongest correlating parameter that affects wage gap is child-rearing but not ne
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
IPFS proposes a distributed solution to link-rot and long-term storage solution https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5...
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>The entire sky would be about as bright, and as hot, as the surface of the Sun. Not so according to “The Inverse Square Law”.[1] If one measures the light flux through a hypothetical sphere drawn around a light source and then doubles
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
Thanks for replying with some well-thought-out arguments. Why are free rider effects acceptable when someone moves from New York to California but not when it's India to California? There are two, distinct forces at play here. Free-ri
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>Do you consider citizenship an artificial barrier? Actual barrier to a job: knowing how to deliver that type of service. Artificial barrier: Something arbitrary synthesized by a party not involved in an A<->B transaction. Such as
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
Can anyone elucidate why having artificial barriers to employing certain types of people is beneficial? If so, why not create the same restrictions on, say, a company in California from hiring someone from New York? Or is this a guise for x
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
> By the time you find this out, it might occur to you to just type in a different name, but now you're violating ICANN policy. Why not just "sell"/transfer ownership of your domain to another entity (one that you own
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
>IMO the entire goal of encryption tech should be to make the government incur significant costs for every invasion of privacy The entire goal of encryption is to preserve the consent of whomever is using it. Two people wish to speak pr
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by DINKDINK 11y ago
GoPro's stock still has positive EPS and a healthy EPS

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