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by ak217 7y ago
Thanks. None of these are peer-reviewed articles or scientific conference presentations (although it will be great to see what comes out of the meeting). The original poster was pointing out that this is, so far, vaporware because Toshiba h
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by ak217 7y ago
I don't think so. The concept of having spare land, sure. Private ownership of land is and always has been a social construct, subject to limits imposed by both society and physics. To claim that it is "sacred" is to misunder
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by ak217 7y ago
Can you please post links to the research that you mention?
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by ak217 7y ago
That's not a great idea. If you don't use open, the app won't show up in the Finder app switcher.
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by ak217 7y ago
Yes, he's poking a shiny target, because that's the only way things will change . Just to repeat what is said in the interview: they are targeting Apple because they otherwise respect Apple as a company and consider it responsibl
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by ak217 7y ago
Please watch his interview ( https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/11/11/full-interview-with-au... ). He explains specifically why they are calling out Apple in the interview. Credit access is definitely a &quot
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by ak217 7y ago
Or perhaps they are leveraging Apple's known sensitivity to this kind of publicity to highlight a serious issue with equity of credit access and opaque algorithms running our lives.
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by ak217 7y ago
I have a lot of respect for the AWS team, but... > one insanely-complex routine task that we do all the time is hiring. You know what the LPs are at hiring time? A checklist. Now even the typical all-day interview marathon isn’t gonna re
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by ak217 7y ago
jq is one of the most intentionally designed pieces of software I've seen. In due time, I expect it to become as ubiquitous and indispensable as ls, grep, sed and awk. The jq language could use a formal spec, but other than that jq has
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by ak217 7y ago
As a California resident, this is all very familiar, except our equivalent NIMBY-enabling law is called CEQA. Can someone knowledgeable about CEQA/SEPA compare and contrast the two?
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by ak217 7y ago
I think Vinge is a genius in these two novels. Great stories, rich environments, superb hard sci-fi, good social commentary, and no magical leaps of faith (aside from the central plot device of A Fire upon the Deep , which is completely up
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Google faces scrutiny from Congress, DOJ over plans to encrypt DNS(engadget.com)
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by ak217 7y ago
Great points. I'm not sure how baybal2 arrived at their conclusion. To add to your list, newer cars have NHTSA/IIHS-advised brake assist and obstacle detection, more and better airbags, seat belt load limiters, better use of high-
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by ak217 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375
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by ak217 7y ago
You missed the most sane thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20018535 and in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375 .
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by ak217 7y ago
My Garmin Forerunner is about the size of the larger Apple Watch. While it only lasts 3-6 hours with GPS/HRM/Bluetooth on, it goes for at least 3 weeks on standby, which is what I want from my watch.
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by ak217 7y ago
For me, the single biggest problem with Apple Watch is battery life, and they seem to have done nothing to improve it. Garmin has always-on, reflective screen watches that can last for weeks on a single charge. I shouldn't need to baby
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by ak217 7y ago
Part of the NSA's mission (which they have failed at, and an acknowledgment of that failure is conspicuously absent from this article by the NSA's general counsel) is to help secure domestic information infrastructure against atta
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by ak217 7y ago
I have a lot of trouble taking this guy seriously given the amount of hand-waving and fearmongering in this article, especially around "A.I.". Last time I checked, the NSA did very little to fulfill its mission to help secure exis
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by ak217 7y ago
The way to prepare for changes is by communicating, building alliances, and demanding security standards. Being able to keep secrets is important, but keeping too many things secret and compartmentalized is self-defeating. You want the US t
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by ak217 7y ago
Not OP but the trackpad on the Thinkpad X1/P1 is still not good compared to the MBP. It's small (much smaller than the 2015 MBP). Because it has a hinge, you have to either turn on tap-to-click (which has poor palm rejection) or f
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by ak217 7y ago
I think the failure of Perl 6 was caused by a lack of community building and implementation leadership, not by trying to be too many things at once.
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by ak217 7y ago
I don't know of any resources for this, though I'm sure there are some good pages on this that are googlable. Here is my experience, having owned a few tiny positions in stocks that went through a merger. - The moment the merger t
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by ak217 7y ago
Also morbidly fascinating is why real estate companies are so much more into compartmentalizing themselves into all these LLCs/LPs/corps. Most of the time they seem to do it to maximize the tax advantages and entitlements (and con
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by ak217 7y ago
There are plenty of dams, such as run-of-river dams and specific locations with no fauna, where they do not have a significant negative environmental impact, and may create new habitat where previously there was none.
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by ak217 7y ago
http://xacmlinfo.org/2013/06/28/how-saml2-single-logout-work... The scenario you describe would be addressed by a logout request or session expiration.
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by ak217 7y ago
Any examples? How does Broadcom do it? And if Broadcom and others do it by licensing from Qualcomm, why wouldn't Intel do the same?
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by ak217 7y ago
You're trying to dismiss a series of technical reports on Toyota's software engineering defects - reports that directly acknowledge that it's impossible to prove causality beyond reasonable doubt because of the software engi
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by ak217 7y ago
Well put. Talk to us about Caltrain DTX and SF Planning's holding of that project hostage in their quest to demolish the I-280 from Mariposa north.
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by ak217 7y ago
Putting aside other aspects of your bias, it's ironic that you insinuate that a "slander" happened, because the opposite effect occurred (as described by slide 9 in my second link). The US Transportation Secretary claimed tha

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