Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 10y ago
A person who is running a business focused on this kind of privacy should have counsel for their company set up and ready to go. The fact that they didn't was another sign that the company was unprepared for the business that they were
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> The original case concerned law enforcement’s authority to compel the disclosure of an SSL/TLS private key, which belonged to Lavabit, and was used to protect the communications of all 410,000 customers, when only one of those cus
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How do you know if your tip is one atom wide or not? Also, what would the shape of the tip look like if you drew it? I'm wondering what kind of general angles the surface has. Is it like a cone with a single atom at the tip? What kind
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
How can you tell for sure that it's counterfeit? Just to be clear: I'm with you; this looks sketchy. I'm just wondering what particular signals you've picked up on. I thought that when third parties sell on Amazon, they
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What if there was an EBay like action site where you couldn't just sign up, and rather someone had to "vouch" for you? When fraud starts happening, you can see who vouched them in and shut down the network. If people start
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How are solid and liquid wastes dealt with in this town? What does it smell like to walk around the area? Edit: found an answer further down the thread: > The hygienic conditions are very poor - people doing their business squatting on t
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I think you're making a good point overall. If a trait is heritable then it will vary by populations. People should understand the consequences of the position they're arguing. However, why do you believe that IQ is not heritable?
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I have also heard that this is a reason why childcare is so expensive relative to a primary caregiver staying at home. I'm trying to remember the details - it was something like: - When you purchase child care, you pay sales tax - The
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What tax advantage does this provide? I'm curious to learn more. Are we talking about tax avoidance, or tax evasion?
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Could you be more specific? What literary magazines and abstract art did the CIA fund? What about the way basic income is developing gives you the impression that it's a CIA program? Without detail this seems like an unsupported conspi
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The abstract of link [4] says the following: > Gender differences were found [] due to an increase in girls' gaze behavior. Girls also made more eye contact in female–female dyads and in the second interaction over the first. Boys&#
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> We know that there are sex specific physical characteristics that differ between men and women. Nobody is arguing that's not true. Extending these to mental differences however is a stretch and not easily observed. Yes, it is easi
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There's a "Download the Whitepaper" button on the site which leads to this PDF: http://velocity.technology/doc/velocity_whitepaper.pdf
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I would be more interested to see the opposite: limited salary and extremely generous stock options, vesting at each time period in the future at a price that's the company's current price projected forward with the average expect
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
What about a browser plugin? Perhaps support could be added through browser plugin, without explicit support of browser vendors. Then when adoption is significant enough, perhaps browser vendors will get on board. (Hypothetical future in wh
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Is this something that reasonable people should try to protect themselves from? I spend most of my time indoors. Will my house's roof protect me, or is this the kind of ray that penetrates everything? Is there some simple insulation on
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
Nice! Lowering barriers to the use of technologies like these is important. Would anyone else be interested in hosting Mozilla Persona? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona
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What do you believe is the better alternative, though? How will the better alternative come about? Currently a child has a job making rugs. The conditions of their lives are such that this is the best option for them. This is deplorable, bu
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I've read the paper that's available on Arxiv and agree it's quackpottery [1]. The paper does not introduce concepts in a scientific way. It seems to me like a series of ramblings or ideas about how things might work, with no
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
Immanuel Kant came up with an idea that's known as the categorical imperative. It is best known under the formulation: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law
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> Because the percentage of black GitHubbers in management positions is far below e.g. the percentage of e.g. black people with CS degrees in the US Where's the data for this? Often people talk about these things as assumptions, but
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Do you know what part stood out the most to me? His difficulty getting access to scientific papers: > Graduate school wasn’t much better. Medzhitov arrived at Moscow State University just as the Soviet regime collapsed. The university wa
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by Pyxl101 10y ago
If the news agency accepted compensation in return for writing the piece, then they are required to disclose it. Relevant FTC guidance: > A basic truth-in-advertising principle is that it’s deceptive to mislead consumers about the commer
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Not necessarily. Have you ever run Linux in a browser on OS X or Windows? http://bellard.org/jslinux/
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Some of the fires in those videos have a strange purplish or blue glow at their edges. Is that flame burning outside the visible spectrum and can it be seen with the naked eye? Example: https://youtu.be/Fym6X-JvEOs?t=1m8s O
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> almost beyond their means So, within their means?
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Nice engineering work! This is a really interesting case study. Has the investment into bespoke storage technologies and data centers paid off already, given the real costs to build and set it up, and opportunity costs for other uses of eng
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You're making a good point, and I'm sad that you're being downvoted. People who win a fortune by the lottery often lose all their money shortly afterwards, even those people who intend to save and invest it. The reality is th
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Good points. I don't know if the Mexican one counts though. They're saying "Si, se puede" which I believe translates to something like "Yes we can". You can also hear that chanting alongside. It does not appear
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Does Amazon typeset the physical books they sell in their store? Should they be expected to typeset ebooks that they aren't involved in publishing?

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