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by JamilD 11y ago
There is a legitimate argument to be made if the naming was unintentional or if people were making a big deal out of nothing. But with Application names like 'Handjoob', 'Boobsize', and 'Flatboob', I think the
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by JamilD 11y ago
I use emacs+evil; tried out spacemacs but found it over-customized. I want to know what everything in my .emacs does, and if I don't like something, how to change it. Spacemacs was way too overwhelming for me.
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Hacker Says He Printed Anti-Semitic and Racist Fliers at Colleges Across U.S.(nytimes.com)
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Statistical Analysis of PIN Numbers (2012)(datagenetics.com)
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by JamilD 11y ago
According to DataGenetics, after an analysis of 4-digit PINs: "Statistically, one third of all codes can be guessed by trying just 61 distinct combinations! The 50% cumulative chance threshold is passed at just 426 codes (far less than
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by JamilD 11y ago
To your second point, Joe Biden's former economic adviser wrote an op-ed in the Times [0] to this effect; that free trade is hardly free. "… various countries with whom we compete have historically managed their currencies to gain
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Workers See Costs, Not Benefits, to Global Trade(nytimes.com)
119 points by JamilD 11y ago|206 comments
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An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole(nytimes.com)
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Lessons from the Crypto Wars of the 1990s [pdf](static.newamerica.org)
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers(github.com)
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Fitbit for Addicts Could Predict Relapse(spectrum.ieee.org)
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A Model to Generate Images from Natural Language Descriptions(github.com)
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Google Invades. (2013)(lrb.co.uk)
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Apple shareholders reject plan to recruit minorities as company leaders(theguardian.com)
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U.S. To Further Scour Social Media Use of Visa and Asylum Seekers(nytimes.com)
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Quantum Computing with Ordinary CMOS Transistors(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Silicon Cochlea Mimics Human Hearing(spectrum.ieee.org)
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To Keep America Safe, Embrace Drone Warfare(nytimes.com)
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Changing Date to January 19, 2038 disables Android devices (2011)(code.google.com)
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by JamilD 11y ago
"The two most important points are that you have to book at least seven days in advance, and can have at most four one-way reservations active at any point. By my math, that means you’ll get at most 16 one-way tickets booked per month.
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From ‘Bold’ to ‘Bastard,’ Readers Debate Role of Working Women in India(nytimes.com)
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by JamilD 11y ago
There are more detailed results, including regional demographic breakdowns, at the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/primaries/iowa
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by JamilD 11y ago
I live in Canada, and have started to use this almost exclusively as a substitute for "you're welcome". No idea where or when I picked it up, or why I've started using it. Would have never guessed it was a relatively new
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The 1941 Sports Hoax That Fooled the Papers(nytimes.com)
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by JamilD 11y ago
I'm surprised there are so many people in on this game on HN. This isn't the first time an article about FFPs has been on the front page. I wonder if there's any traits about engineers or programmers that creates an affinity
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Watchdog: FAA failing to ensure pilots are trained to fly manually(thehill.com)
31 points by JamilD 11y ago|7 comments
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Norway Pioneers the Digital Radio Future, Abandoning FM(spectrum.ieee.org)
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16 Companies Exposed Customers' Unencrypted Credit Card Data(wandera.com)
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by JamilD 11y ago
Tripdelta can't do anything ITA Matrix can't as well -- you just have to know what you're doing with Matrix (input alternate airports via the suggestions, or use advanced routing codes). But Matrix will give you far more flex
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by JamilD 11y ago
Searched YYZ-SFO on Dec 22. Google Flights gave me US$206, Tripdelta gave me US$248 with SMF (Sacramento) as the destination, with approximately the same airtime. Tripdelta doesn't even show the $206 flight as an option. Better off usi

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