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by agency 6y ago
As someone stuck on old (HughesNet) satellite internet and waiting on my Starlink pre-order, this is great news. I didn’t get into the beta sadly, though I was signed up and in the eligibility area since day 1.
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by agency 6y ago
The fact that anyone takes this argument seriously, let alone the supposedly hyper-rational, is baffling to me.
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by agency 6y ago
I noticed some weird results too. The first thing I searched was “dead bird”[1]. There are 2 results, one of which is correct, but the script and descriptions are flipped. The first result has the script for the correct strip but links to a
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by agency 6y ago
In what way is that like short selling?
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by agency 6y ago
* her [1] investigative process [1] https://twitter.com/natashenka
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by agency 6y ago
Why would these things need to be fully autonomous to be scary? The fact that there might be a human operator in the loop would be cold comfort with one of these things hauling ass towards me...
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by agency 6y ago
Did you even look at the link? The Senate report in question concerns the recertifications.
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by agency 6y ago
The IA terminology brings to mind the classic "Augmenting Human Intellect"[1] essay by Doug Engelbart (famous for giving "The Mother of all Demos"[2]) [1] https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view&#
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by agency 6y ago
The SEC disagrees re: Ether https://www.axios.com/sec-official-ether-is-not-a-security-9...
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by agency 6y ago
And the pop in Airbnb's case was pretty enormous. They priced at $68 and closed on the first day at $144.71
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by agency 6y ago
Fun situation I found myself in a couple of years back: My options were expiring for a company I had worked for (3 year expiration after I left) and the secondary market was not great. I was able to make a sale well above my strike price bu
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by agency 6y ago
I've heard these called unpaired words, and the wiki has a bunch more examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaired_word
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by agency 6y ago
Would this mean that if you shared a URL with someone you would be sharing your session as well?
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by agency 6y ago
I’m in a similar boat myself. I told myself I didn’t have any energy for things outside of work because of my job, though I never found the workload that overwhelming. I could get lost in the puzzle of the technical work and I’m good at it,
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by agency 6y ago
This Bloomberg article[1] claims the 2017 sale to Softbank was just $165 million. Compare that to SaaS valuations. Software is wild. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/boston-dy...
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by agency 6y ago
Also The Plague by Camus
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by agency 6y ago
He got pretty experimental with the format once he had the freedom to do so: https://i.imgur.com/ddU50.jpg https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/02/26 https://www.gocomics.
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by agency 6y ago
We’re inching closer to Matt Levine’s Certificate of Dumb Investment proposal[1] > Anyone can also invest in any other dumb investment; you just have to go to the local office of the SEC and get a Certificate of Dumb Investment. (Anyone
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by agency 6y ago
This is not vital to the point you’re making but XSS has nothing to do with CSS.
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by agency 6y ago
Sincere question: What kind of punitive counter-measures could they implement here?
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by agency 6y ago
See: the last sentence of my post
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by agency 6y ago
I think there were aspects of PRISM that required cooperation from providers like Google. Like the NSA would send queries to them and they would return emails or what have you that match those queries. Though of course this “cooperation” is
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by agency 6y ago
George Orwell has an essay, You and the Atomic Bomb[1], where he makes a very similar case: > It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of
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by agency 6y ago
The more I hear about this feudalism thing the less I like it.
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by agency 6y ago
I think the simple answer is just that children need more sleep than adults. It’s not just about a different schedule. The National Sleep Foundation recommends[1] 9-11 hours for school-aged children and 8-10 for teenagers. [1] https:/
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by agency 6y ago
Zolpidem is Ambien, which is notorious for its interesting side-effects https://www.healthline.com/health/side-effects-of-taking-amb...
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by agency 6y ago
Why does it best? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFIQIpC5_wY
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by agency 6y ago
Not the OP but I’m a heavy youtube-dl user. I live in a rural area where my only internet option is satellite (HughesNet) which is basically unusable for any kind of streaming media. I rent an office in town to do software work and use yout
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by agency 6y ago
It's definitely addicting. I've found that once I know I can crack a knuckle I keep cracking it. I didn't used to crack the last (distal) knuckle on my fingers and I remember one time in high school a friend of mine grabbed m
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by agency 6y ago
Re: Communications tech, the 2nd generation of SpaceX's Starlink satellites are supposed to be able to communicate with each other via laser interlinks [1]. A friend of a friend works on the tech there and described the accuracy requir

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