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by ZainRiz 8y ago
Pretty cool comment overall, though I'd like to offer one correction: Iran doesn't force women to be veiled. They say women should wear head scarves, yes, but not a veil that covers their faces. In fact, if you go to their capital
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Uh...it's right there in the blog: Underlining this, as part of our Project Strobe audit, we discovered a bug in one of the Google+ People APIs: Users can grant access to their Profile data, and the public Profile information of their
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He does. He referenced it when referring to the color of functions: "I've enjoyed Bob Nystrom's What Color is Your Function[1] for explaining how annoying the model of "non-blocking only here, please" is." The
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Fact check: It's more like 5-8% according to Wikipedia. Still a significant number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
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The "pin" could be the new form of "bookmark" where you're almost guaranteed to never loose the page that you bookmarked
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This is a reasonable point. The main benefit of this approach is that it centralizes the whole process (meaning, gives it a single Api) without making any one entity dependent on another entity for business critical functionality. The issu
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The benefit of the model I proposed is that from the perspective of the agency receiving a notarized document, they only have to make a single API call to validate any notarized document. Their system becomes much easier to validate and tr
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Notarizing documents sounds like it could actually benefit from blockchain technology. Have a set of Established Authorities who can grant notary status. They give notary status to people according to their own set of requirements. The nota
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Maybe there's a difference of perspective here. My parents are both one of many, many siblings who were all born in Pakistan. Their opportunities in Pakistan were pretty poor, so most of those siblings chose to emigrate and leave. Now
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That link didn't say anything about why the homeless population went up, other than "rents went up". It doesn't explain what stops people from looking for jobs in other, cheaper places, which is something I'm stru
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One bit of clarification: Amazon doesn't set the prices for most of the goods, the individual vendors do. But yes, those vendors are probably taking advantage of the effects you're talking about.
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No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (2010)(spiegel.de)
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Internationally, there is a lot of concern over US cultural imperialism. This appears to be an outgrowth of that.
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To take the EU's perspective, it's not about restricting individual's choice, but to encourage other local choices as well
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I agree. Quality is a subjective word, hence the parenthesis around it. I'm sure we can think up of a better goal. My point was that ensuring people get paid is not what our end goal is. We should identify what our end goal should be
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"You disagree with the notion, that people that produce content should be paid for it?" Is that really that value that governments should be optimizing for? What about people who's content isn't all that good? Should th
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That's why T-Mobile's on-call engineers carry around AT&T phones. (source: friend who's an engineer at T-Mobile)
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It's tough to be in your situation. Not being able to drive really does block you from moving into the cheaper rent areas. I'm wondering if you've thought of how much having that portable income would have helped you if you w
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But there is affordable housing. The only problem is that the affordable housing is not in the big cities that those people would like to live in. Go to a smaller town and housing is pretty cheap there. If you get a larger influx of people
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How do you read through arxiv? I haven't see their equivalent of "popular" articles, which makes it really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff
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Not HN though, right?
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Whole Foods doesn't require you to have a college degree to work their cash registers? Shocking
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Finding Crazy Stuff in Mobile Apps(troyhunt.com)
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Clojure for the Brave and True(braveclojure.com)
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Except they're not really "bad actors" Most people in prison today are there because of "drug offenses" which usually means they got caught doing drugs themselves (not dealing drugs or being involved in drug induced
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Harry Potter has more fanfiction about it than any other storiy. The most famous one is on hpmor.com, but you can find tons of others on fanfiction.net.
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People are much more interested in hacking into voting machines than they are in hacking into public air planes. Planes and elevators are not connected to an internet, unlike most voting machines, making them harder to hack into. Also, when
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Learn Keras by Example(github.com)
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Right. The author seems to talk about typos and simple bugs in the code, but every programmer makes those on a regular basis and no way anyone could deny such a bug when it's pointed out to them. This cognitive dissonance seems like it
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It's funny how the article simultaneously complains about using the "wrong" name for East Cut while also saying that the same area has three other names the locals know it by. It seems like no one agrees on the official name

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