Kadin

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by Kadin 10y ago
> experienced an attempted-blackmailed by a company in India Is this a well-known thing? I haven't heard of it before. Is there some sort of common pattern that such attacks follow? (E.g. most phishing attacks seem to be categoriza
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by Kadin 10y ago
> How is it possible that these properties are not being rented out? Maybe they are, and it's just all being conducted on a cash basis. Or if a Chinese owner is renting to another Chinese expat, they could be handling the rent paym
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by Kadin 10y ago
Calling it "tax evasion" is probably incorrect, since foreign owners are exploiting the rules in a way that is technically correct, but not anticipated. The solution is first to fix the rules, and then, of course, to enforce them
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by Kadin 10y ago
> to include homes owned and occupied by able-bodied people who don't work for a living and never earned the kind of money that would be needed to afford such a home. That sort of means testing isn't required (and would be open
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by Kadin 10y ago
It reminds me of any number of apocryphal-but-true-enough stories I've heard over the years, which always take the same form: (1) young engineer / machinist / programmer gets rare and unfamiliar task, and makes judgement cal
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by Kadin 10y ago
I am in complete agreement, with the exception of this statement: > there is virtually no way for the nuke to "fail" in a way that would be even remotely close to a detonation sequence That is not true, at least not universally
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by Kadin 10y ago
> That's not survivable for people. (Or probably sparrows either.) A peregrine falcon can take 20Gs [1], at least over short periods. Maybe we need to start an astrobird training program. [1]: https://www.quora.com/
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by Kadin 10y ago
Seems plausible, although I suppose it depends on what you want to do once you're in space and where you want to go. If you could get a mass driver system to work very reliably (more reliably than chemical rockets), I could see it bein
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by Kadin 10y ago
> but maybe they should focus on getting one or two people to LEO That seems to be exactly what they're working on. The fact that they may have ambitions beyond that doesn't mean that they're not working on the immediate
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by Kadin 10y ago
Presumably if the President decides to pardon someone, as opposed to commuting their sentence, it's indicative of a feeling that they shouldn't have been prosecuted or punished in the first place. So there's at least some re
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by Kadin 10y ago
> What does it even mean, apart from lip service to those who disagree with their vote? Just what you suspect it does: nothing.
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by Kadin 10y ago
That idea also figured heavily in one of the Jack Bauer TV shows. I had an interesting discussion with a couple of lawyers over beers about it once. As far as anyone could tell, there's no precedent to suggest that that it would work
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by Kadin 10y ago
I thought you could get a similar behavior in Windows by dragging a folder into the path bar at the top of the 'Save' modal window. (I don't have a Windows machine or VM handy at the moment to test it, though.) You can de
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by Kadin 10y ago
Not really sure the numbers make the point you're suggesting they do. The "Classic" Mac OS UI developed incrementally over about 15 years, in a mostly evolutionary process. Even Platinum wasn't an especially dramatic ch
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by Kadin 10y ago
> The only mail client that does real HTML is Thunderbird (because under the hood it uses the fully featured Firefox engine). And this is widely considered to be a bug and a source of insecurities, not a feature. The few remaining peopl
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by Kadin 10y ago
I actually find this version, with commentary added in 2004, somewhat more interesting than the original: http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/index.html The 2004 comments are now of course 12 years old, so they&#x2
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by Kadin 10y ago
It's a good thing Dropbox isn't doing that, then.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Which VAR do your work for or which would you recommend? I wouldn't know who to work with to buy Dell, aside from typing "dell.com" and buying it. I thought that was their whole business model -- direct sales, no inventory,
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by Kadin 10y ago
I think there's some sample bias going on, because I basically don't know anyone who uses wireless headphones, except for Bluetooth earpieces that are increasingly socially unacceptable for use anywhere other than in a car. Gym?
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by Kadin 10y ago
Make a list of the reasons why you live in Seattle and not in rural Wyoming, and you'll have your answer. :) Typically it's "jobs", followed distantly by everything else, to include things like walkability, cultural att
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by Kadin 10y ago
> What is NIMBY for microhousing based on? This is an ongoing argument in Northern Virginia (which is not quite as expensive as SF / Seattle / NYC, but probably only one cost tier below that) and the major arguments are basical
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by Kadin 10y ago
> No, but I can expect them to suffer if they do have one. The problem, and the reason why parking requirements exist, is because people externalize that "suffering" on others. They decide they need a car anyway, and then they
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by Kadin 10y ago
I think there is a reasonable middle-ground for validating the domain side of an email address. There are RFCs on all this stuff; it's not just a total free-for-all. The RFCs just aren't nearly as strict as a lot of badly-design
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by Kadin 10y ago
Sure, but what if two humans share an email address, but both of them want to sign up for your game/service/whatever independently? This is a fairly common situation if you are (say) designing a game that might appeal to kids. O
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by Kadin 10y ago
As of a year or two ago, Garmin wouldn't accept email addresses with "+" signs in them when registering for some (but not all) of their services. I think they would let you register for the main Garmin Connect service, but
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by Kadin 10y ago
Apple gets reportedly $4 per connector [1] for each 3rd-party device that uses a Lightning connector -- and that's with their new, kinder/gentler licensing scheme. The adapter that comes in the box is the proverbial drug dealer&
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by Kadin 10y ago
I find it interesting how hard people are trying to find some reason for Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack, aside from the very obvious one: they're going to make a shitload of money by forcing everyone to buy new head
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by Kadin 10y ago
Most of Apple's products have a status-display thing going for them, at least when they initially hit the market. When the iPod first came out, the white earbuds were a sign that you were listening to an iPod and not to some cheap Walk
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by Kadin 10y ago
If someone isn't warming up an injection-molding machine right now to produce a lanyard / anti-loss-thing for these, they are leaving money on the table.
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by Kadin 10y ago
> Yeah, not having a desktop client was one of the reasons we went with Hipchat over Slack. Is Slack's desktop client a new thing? I'm relatively new to it, but they certainly have one now.

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