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by Zikes 10y ago
If you replicated Britain it'd just vote itself out again. Clearly a very, very large portion of the country felt underserved by the model.
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The two viewpoints are completely opposed, and there is no reasonable compromise. One side says that guns designed with the obvious and explicit goal of effectively killing numerous people should be banned so that they cannot be misused. Th
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by Zikes 10y ago
> between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death https://www.propublica.org/article/how-many-die-from-medical...
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by Zikes 10y ago
An emoji is the name for an image/drawing which represents a single specific unicode character, not a series of characters. The name comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character") [1] Multi-character
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by Zikes 10y ago
I was already aware of that hack, which was made possible because of two conditions: * Outward-facing wireless channel * Computer controlled acceleration accessible in some way from the same network the outward-facing wireless channel is on
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by Zikes 10y ago
I wish I could search their system and see where my car falls on each of those lists, rather than just the top/bottom 25 in each category.
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by Zikes 10y ago
If it were e.g. a Tesla, no there would be no difference. But a Mercedes C250 Coupé? How would you hack that remotely? How would you program it to accelerate uncontrollably? Does it even have computer controlled acceleration? I would have t
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by Zikes 10y ago
There is a juvenile murder mystery story involving someone hacking the climate controls in a house to alternately make a room hot and cold, inducing a heart attack in a sleeping elderly resident while making it look like natural causes.
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by Zikes 10y ago
Assuming it was foul play, it wouldn't qualify as you couldn't accomplish it via purely software hacking. What brobinson is suggesting is that a hypothetical hacker, thousands of miles away in front of a console, could accomplish
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by Zikes 10y ago
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. In a competitive online scene, any remote potential for an unfair advantage should be taken very seriously. To ensure that their employees aren't using insider knowledge, tools, or access to gain an u
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by Zikes 10y ago
I've had friends fly in from Sweden, Canada, and the UK several times, and they have had no notable issues with border control. That's not to say it never happens. Clearly if it were an endemic issue we'd hear about it far mo
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by Zikes 10y ago
"Being compliant and truthful with the authorities in a routine border crossing was her mistake." Whether or not it "just works", or how often people do it, that is just insane.
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> Other major security compromises which have hit the news recently include a Myspace hack that involved over 360 million accounts The buried lede for me here is that MySpace has 360+ million accounts. I thought it was DOA.
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What I want most out of a watch right now is something that for every outward appearance is a normal analog watch, but has a small motor in it to vibrate when my phone receives a notification. I had a first-gen Kickstarter edition Pebble an
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by Zikes 10y ago
I understand, but maybe if you're blogging for the purpose of political dissidence you could look elsewhere? Home-grown authentication adds a lot of overhead to web apps, so it makes sense to hand that off to one or more standardized i
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by Zikes 10y ago
My work proxy is blocking most of the page's JS/CSS resources, which are being served from a different domain that our firewall doesn't approve of for some inane reason.
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by Zikes 10y ago
Beats asking for a password over HTTP and storing it as plaintext, at least.
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#define supposing if #define whereas else
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by Zikes 10y ago
Everybody in the chain of responsibility capable of doing so stands to financially benefit from this practice continuing. For a business to claim it's "based in" East Texas it'll have to pay its taxes there. Local litiga
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by Zikes 10y ago
So we can't carry cash, because they'll seize that directly. This device could probably do some sort of run around the new chip system in cards. Bitcoin is nearly useless in the real world. So where does that leave us? Google &amp
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by Zikes 10y ago
> "If you can prove can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you. And we've done that in the past," Vincent said about any money seized. Literally the opposite of how presumed
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by Zikes 10y ago
PostgreSQL and jsonb might make it a more seamless migration that some may think: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_... JSONB values are indexable and queryable, so there aren't very many
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by Zikes 10y ago
Wikipedia's definition[1] is "In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries." It ca
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by Zikes 10y ago
This presumes the election process is fair. Gerrymandering, fraud, bribery, voter suppression, it's a wonder we even call the US a democracy anymore.
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by Zikes 10y ago
I'm also getting a 2.8mb file, which the server is having trouble sending in a reasonable timeframe under the heavy load HN is putting it under right now. http://i.imgur.com/OmFGf7D.png
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by Zikes 10y ago
Decisions about color are made all the time in some industries.
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A most clever ruse, to be sure.
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by Zikes 10y ago
I would be seriously very surprised if Google didn't know (or very much want to know) its users' nationalities.
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by Zikes 10y ago
Trello and others are mostly based on Kanban[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
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by Zikes 10y ago
When the Steam Machine was first announced, Windows 8 was new and the Windows Store was shaping up to be a possibility. Windows could make their store a walled garden, such as others have done on mobile, and effectively lock Valve/Stea

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