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by a_c_s 12y ago
The chance of death with proper treatment is roughly 40%: so while certainly terrifying, it is far from a certain death.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
“The vast majority of OS X users are not at risk to recently reported bash vulnerabilities… With OS X, systems are safe by default and not exposed to remote exploits of bash unless users configure advanced UNIX services. We are working to q
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Drawing a legal distinction between a password to unlock and a fingerprint to unlock is absurd. Legally, the method of restricting access (physical key, combination safe, fingerprint, password) should have no bearing on whether somebody can
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I agree! This is why I'm more excited about Volvo's technology than Google's: I'm sure people in Sweden have snow at the top of mind when developing this technology, rather than sunny Californian roads.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
If that were the motivation, then why are PayPal, Dwolla, Venmo... etc. still in the store? And why would they have changed the rules to allow BitCoin apps into the app store?
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The iPod is a great counter-example: there have been times Apple was selling 4 different lines of iPod at a time, most of which came in an array of colors. The apple watch basically comes in two sizes with an array of 'colors' (me
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The way I see the metaphor used, A players are 10x as productive as B players. The group you describe seem to be actively trying to get nothing done, which would put them in an different category (C players? F(ailure) players? I(ncompetent)
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Not sure about the first part, but this part I like: >But yes, there are B and C players. And they do drag down teams. If you have a good manager, they're able to coach the B players, and they'll shed the C players. If you have
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by a_c_s 12y ago
It would be great if the HN crowd would stop critiquing things before learning how they work. - If your iPhone gets stolen then you deactivate it via Apple's existing Find My Phone feature. Deactivating your device will block payments
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by a_c_s 12y ago
"unreleased products" are definitionally neither successes nor failures in the marketplace.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Counting Google's unreleased moonshot products as innovation seems like counting one's chickens before they hatch. It is easy to innovate in the abstract, much harder to fully realize a vision in the form of a product.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I don't know how they do it, but if you drive by the Pentagon with a GPS unit you'll see it go crazy.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Zero minutes. Once start walking your route, feedback will be given via haptic feedback to let you know which way to turn so you won't have to look at it again. (Source: the keynote)
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Remember this system was rolled out in 1993, meaning any hardware/software combo started development before that. So the question is: do I believe it likely that a system developed before the internet became widespread has an archaic,
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Absolutely 110%: people can should raise concerns without knowing their complexity. The problem comes in when these same people make uninformed proclamations of how easy or simple things are to fix.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The author, clearly not a developer, doesn't seem to see the potential for high cost in making a software change. This particular change involves training for all customer-facing employees and making a change to the software on each of
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Fired after 1 month but paid for 1.5 months: seems generous to me.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The point is that the TSA model, with minor variations, seems to be the dominant model of airport security. So, aside from Israel (which has far more invasive procedures), there doesn't seem to be an alternative model to subscribe to.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Yeah, all of this scrap-the-TSA talk makes me wonder how much people have flown internationally: in places I've been, security has been very similar to the TSA with minor variations. It seems like for every policy that had something a
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I seriously doubt that a $5.60 fee has a significant effect on demand for $200-$500 plane tickets. If that were the case, one could argue that the overpriced food at the airport also kills people. As for your sources: The paper linked by Bu
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by a_c_s 12y ago
"...is enough to have a warm place to live and healthy food to eat, with enough left over to provide security during times of famine" That's a great definition of being middle class. I'd argue being rich involves having
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I think this has far more to do with the difference in how children and adults are taught languages than structural differences in the brain. After all, 2 year olds aren't sat down with pages of conjugation tables to memorize, rather t
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Nope: long term appreciation may make it a good investment but a poor store of value. Lets say you have two magical safes, and you put $100 in each one. The first safe gives you the real-dollar value of what you put in, less $0.50 per-month
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by a_c_s 12y ago
We've gotten smallpox and rinderpest, and we are getting close (a few hundred cases per year) on others, including Polio and Dracunculiasis. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_disea...
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Good list, I'd also add: - trespassing - political protests
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Being user-friendly has nothing to do with liquidity. Stocks, which most people don't understand and can't be sold without contacting a broker are considered liquid. Jewelry & stamp collections are not considered liquid assets
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Net neutrality is the non-discrimination policy you want. It is also what has existed since the internet began. Anti-trust doesn't help small companies when they go out of business before they can afford a decade-long court battle with
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The issue with allowing net non-neutrality isn't packet shaping: it is that an entrenched player (say, Vonage) will be able to pay for a fast lane that a startup (in this case a VOIP competitor) wouldn't be able to afford, thus pr
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by a_c_s 12y ago
What was the difference in pay with the 12 weeks of vacation? Given the norms in the USA I, as an employee, would never initiate such an arrangement. I feel like it would result in at the very least an indelible assumption of laziness by my
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Given the immense cost of leap-seconds, why not just wait for 60 of them to accumulate and add a leap-minute every 60ish years or so? Being almost a minute behind would have far less impact than all of these unpredictable, tiny changes to U

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