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by RickHull 16y ago
> I'd rather be alive than have a couple more percentage points of economic growth every year. That seems rather disingenuous to me. The real question is: would you pay more up front to reduce the risk of a catastrophe? When the gove
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by RickHull 16y ago
> The credit card number (and security code, and expiration date, and account holder name -- i.e. everything you need to "use" a credit card) is printed right on the card. This information is not sufficient for a majority of transaction
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by RickHull 16y ago
> What's the difference between using Square, swiping a customer's credit card and storing the data, or using a POS system, swiping a customer's CC and storing the data from that? Nothing, really. Most POS systems are resistant to data
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by RickHull 16y ago
> It doesn't matter if they're using Square, Veri-whatever, or some beige-colored plastic card reader with a register that looks like it's from the 90's -- my data is vulnerable before it ever gets to the card reader. How is your track
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by RickHull 16y ago
> I don't think that kind of difference matters in the eyes of those who created the directive. Note: what matters is the difference in the eyes of those who interpret the directive . In this sense, the actual verbiage (and not author
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by RickHull 16y ago
> It seems their problem with Square is that it allows you to get the credit card number in plaintext if you use their hardware. Of course, this is nothing new: you can buy a cardreader that acts as a USB keyboard for $20 The point is t
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by RickHull 16y ago
I don't have a good sense of Myrvhold's overall stance or intention, but I was dismayed to find Neal Stephenson heavily involved in IV. Perhaps only to cure my cognitive dissonance, it occurred to me recently that perhaps IV is performing
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The Philosophy of Liberty(youtube.com)
2 points by RickHull 16y ago|0 comments
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by RickHull 16y ago
Yes, I agree the strategy tax analogy is misplaced, in accordance with a since-deleted comment: > Apple isn't facing a "strategy tax," per the Microsoft example; it's making a strategic mistake. Except that a mistake is when the dow
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by RickHull 16y ago
Gah, this is even worse than I expected. > Paul, I like you, but (big but): the mortgage bubble of the 2000s didn’t have anything to do with increasing productivity in a “new economy” or money being moved from bonds to stocks, and that
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by RickHull 16y ago
> Ok, so I go to the site and the default settings have $20K per month in sales with $440 for Paypal and $478.90. The difference is $38.90. Or 0.2%. I believe that default was chosen to illustrate the 'inflection point'.
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by RickHull 16y ago
The graphic showing what actually happened vs. what he planned.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> what kind of net benefit to society do you think Zynga produces? Zynga produces entertainment.
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by RickHull 16y ago
The knowledge part is confounded because buzzer performance preempts knowledge performance.
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by RickHull 16y ago
That's because the buzzer competition confounds the knowledge competition . It's a shame, really. But I'm sure IBM is happy.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> I would consider a source code file to [be] a song. To be fair, a song basically stands on its own. It may be part of a larger work, like an album or symphony, but these things are collections more than structures. The album does
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by RickHull 16y ago
Funny, I can't imagine being overweight as anything but irresponsible (mod specific health issues). And it is pretty much all on you. One thing that can be very helpful is to schedule exercise with other people (e.g. spouse). It's easier
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by RickHull 16y ago
Holy crap, I bought a pair of these from Radio Shack about 6 or 7 years ago and LOVE THEM (for what they are). They are falling apart -- one foam earpad is shot and the other has been replaced (badly); the headband adjusters lost their rat
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by RickHull 16y ago
Terrible headline. It took me about 30 seconds to boil it down to "Lessons ... Disrupt ... Launch". And it turns out that this is incorrect. It is really "Lessons From ... Launch", awkwardly noting that Badgeville won the Audience Cho
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by RickHull 16y ago
It seems odd, too, that they would use both CentOS and Ubuntu. Why not run Redis on Ubuntu?
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by RickHull 16y ago
Your ISP likely is throttling Netflix data.
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by RickHull 16y ago
You seem to present a dichotomy for employment motivations: securing talent (i.e. so Facebook can't have 'em) vs. increasing headcount. However, Google is probably hiring because they have more opportunities and workload than their existin
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Slate on female participation in Wikipedia(slate.com)
5 points by RickHull 16y ago|1 comments
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You still need power, though.
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by RickHull 16y ago
> In my (biased, but well-founded) experience, it comes down to a question of whether I'd rather be distracted by a cute girl or an old man getting reprimanded for looking at dirty pictures. Ha! Reminds me of my Brooklyn Public Libra
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by RickHull 16y ago
> What I don't understand about all this is why there isn't a way to use these clearly failing schools for experiments in alternative styles of education. As a resident New Yorker, I can answer this one: entrenched interests. There a
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by RickHull 16y ago
> I really don't think that Google wants to get into a fight over who sucks up users click streams to advance their business... Presenting your competitor's clickstream as your own takes it to a new level. > Those who live in gla
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by RickHull 16y ago
> strong passwords will still be strong. I think you meant: strong passwords will be truncated down to 8 chars, making them weak.
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by RickHull 16y ago
Yep, the $139 price point did it for me. I bought myself one for Thanksgiving ;) I've bought like 15 ebooks since then, and now if it's not available for Kindle, I just won't buy a book.
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by RickHull 16y ago
(co-founded by Moxie Marlinspike of sslsniff and sslstrip fame)

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