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by Mtinie 9y ago
Job sites, especially those in the throes of major structural construction, are a horrible place if you are seeking consistent wifi or cellular coverage. Generally: The thick concrete walls, exposed rebar, and intentional and unintentional
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by Mtinie 9y ago
> Every time I see something like this I get nauseated because people are willing to hand over all their personal data for some shiny new technology that really doesn't do anything really amazing at all. It isn't clear to me if
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Do you have a different level of expected privacy with Amazon's services than you do with Apple, Google, or Microsoft? Alexa Calling will compete with FaceTime, Google Duo, and Skype (amongst others). Do you feel the same way about tho
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Good to know, thank you. I must have run into the duplicate detector on widely discussed items in the past and that's why I thought it was triggered on all matching URLs/titles.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Very strange, it appears that the HN submission algo didn't flag this as a duplicate of @grej's post of this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291548 My apologies for the duplicate post, @grej
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by Mtinie 9y ago
To mitigate against the concern of parasitic capacitance raised by @pmoriarty, I would decouple the display layer from the computational layer using a shielding substrate. You could get a very similar effect to what you're proposing if
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Can anyone with a background in oceanography help me understand the mechanisms that would enable this event to occur? Was this a case where the bulk of the original sand that had been lost in 1984 was trapped offshore in a location that was
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Irish beach washed away 33 years ago reappears overnight after freak tide(theguardian.com)
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Interesting idea. To take it a step further, for sites/accounts you want to reduce the chances of someone gaining access to from a single compromised device you can split the one-time password into two (or more) different parts:
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by Mtinie 9y ago
In that case, I hope that Uber in Guatemala is run as a subsidiary that survives should it's corporate parent cease to exist.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
> But hey, in Guatemala I've got no alternative and Uber works great and is far safer than a taxi, so hey... No local upstart competitors that are worth supporting?
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by Mtinie 9y ago
So if supported allegations of rampant corporate sexism and sexual harassment[1][2], legally suspect actions during corporate events[3], the "Greyball" toolkit[4], departure of at least seven high-level executives in recent months
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by Mtinie 9y ago
>>> It would be cool to do it in such a way that you ship the crypto "fund" as a binary that users run on their own server, kind of like a smart wallet. The program would make automatic trades to rebalance some BTC
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by Mtinie 9y ago
I have no issues with your question and was happy to provide a response. Not sure why the downvote brigade decided to drop by your comment.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Easily explained as an artifact of just how accurate Google's ML systems really are. What you're seeing is a hyper-accurate snapshot of the exchange rate between "a shave and a hair cut" and "two bits"[1]. Typi
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by Mtinie 9y ago
No, I'm not worried about targeted ads, per say. I'm more worried about the future misuse of all the accumulated data from their access and version control logs for cloud-based documents, internet browsing behavior, multi-player g
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by Mtinie 10y ago
That's a very real concern. As a parent I think about things like that all the time. My son has a personal Chromebook and both my son and daughter use Google school accounts. The alternative, in this case using a Microsoft Surface Lapt
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Yes, but it was concurrent with the automobile-ification of the US, so it's hard to trace that to causal effect vs. correlation. Here's a decent review from 2013. There may be new research, so if you have a better source, please s
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Congrats, @unityByFreedom, I think you're the first person to suggest "LSaaS". The VCs should start lining up in ...five...four...three... :)
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Don't relax just yet...it could be part of the Shadow Brokers' next data dump.
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by Mtinie 10y ago
This probably isn't the same source that your'e thinking of, but here's a well-considered answer on SO to the question "Why are the <b> and <i> tags deprecated?". https://softwareengineering.s
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by Mtinie 10y ago
No appreciation for humor, I see.
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Ok, that's a different situation, thank you for the clarification. Automation will most likely force a reworking of the ATC network in the near future. For example, if delivery drones really do take of at scale updates will be needed.
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Charitably, "anything" also included "reality", "the truth", "potential negative outcomes". She was just telegraphing her intent all along :) /s
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Why not? Are you taking issue with their use of the word "personalized"? The implied statement that I take from what they are pitching is "I can request my pickup and destination" vs. having to head to the airport where
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. A private plane charter would have been significantly cheaper and no one would have been the wiser.
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by Mtinie 10y ago
I appreciate the tool you've built. Having options is awesome. That being said, when you know that Comcast and others prioritize their traffic through Speedtest AND you encounter subpar speeds even with this allocation in place, you kn
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by Mtinie 10y ago
What still isn't clear to me is why Uber is involved in the development of self-driving cars, vs. profiteering and duplicating once the first viable examples have been released. On the surface autonomous vehicles appear to be a long-
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Folllow-up question. Do Doubleclick ads typically employ a cache control policy of "no-cache, must-revalidate"?
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by Mtinie 10y ago
Watching the requests, there's a huge number of mixed content warnings in the console. Attempting to hit https://www.latimes.com to remove the reason for all of those failed requests triggers Firefox to throw a certificate

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