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by akaij 5y ago
> I'm not familiar if users are forced to use the Google Home app Yup. On a related note: I haven't been able to find a way to root it for OpenWRT. Does anyone know of any resource, other than the OpenWRT website, that could be
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by akaij 5y ago
I think it was 2018, because that's when I was looking for a way to install OpenWRT on it.
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Some Latency Measurement Pitfalls(danluu.com)
47 points by akaij 5y ago|7 comments
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by akaij 5y ago
Do you know something we don't? For example, the algorithm behind HN voting? How do you know it was "voted straight to front page"? Right now (T+1h20m) it has 9 points.
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by akaij 5y ago
Threats to civil liberties only ever come a few dollars at a time.
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Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than TVs themselves(pluralistic.net)
390 points by akaij 5y ago|245 comments
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by akaij 5y ago
Firefox uses Frecency: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.frecency.%28visit_type%29Vi...
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by akaij 5y ago
/s Here! You forgot the sarcasm mark :)
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by akaij 5y ago
I think we can safely shorten them to M1P and M1X.
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by akaij 5y ago
Ah, yes. The eternal dilemma of "time, money, energy, but you can only choose two at a time".
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by akaij 5y ago
> This article is about someone lying to their team about how much they work The article is about that if you only read the first five paragraphs. Gavin and his shenanigans aren't the real focus of the article.
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by akaij 5y ago
I don't agree with this. Even though the attempt fails, the experience stays with you. Could you explain your reasoning?
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by akaij 5y ago
For Mac, there's yabai: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
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by akaij 5y ago
I don't follow. Can you elaborate?
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by akaij 5y ago
A quick glance at any exchange disproves this. The common agreement right now is that a single Bitcoin has ~$50000 value.
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by akaij 5y ago
You also can't pay taxes with US$ in most countries outside the US. They only accept local currency. The IRS not accepting cryptocurrencies is irrelevant; you can take a look at any trading platform and find that there are people, righ
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by akaij 5y ago
Things have value because we say so. How else can you explain the worth of a $100 banknote being higher than the paper and the ink it's made of? Bitcoin is the same. All money is make-believe.
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by akaij 5y ago
Pretty sure the actual reason was to prevent exploits that lead to piracy.
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by akaij 8y ago
just a small correction: it's Wikipedia that's blocked in Turkey, not YouTube (anymore).
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by akaij 8y ago
how would that work?
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by akaij 8y ago
I think they are referring to Alibaba (allegedly) being a front for the Chinese Communist Party to launder money.
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by akaij 9y ago
You definitely don't need a career to be happy, let alone one that pays well. This is usually the society we're in that tells us that this is the only truth. Same with posts about {m, b}illionaires being portrayed as "success
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BeyondCorp – Google Cloud Platform(cloud.google.com)
3 points by akaij 10y ago|0 comments
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by akaij 10y ago
All of those projects are related to Chrome/Chromium, and maybe P0 is a part of the same team, all under @laparisa? http://www.googblogs.com/why-attend-usenix-enigma-2/ here you can see her introducing Ben Hawkes.
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by akaij 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym
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by akaij 10y ago
I think you missed the last bit of the text: > Ex-Design Ethicist & Product Philosopher @ Google Ex.
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by akaij 10y ago
> and when that wasn't enough you posted a request for more I think that was very much intentional.
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by akaij 10y ago
They're not wearing suits to work either, so not really a serious company anyway.
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by akaij 11y ago
'“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful' actually exists: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by akaij 11y ago
My thoughts exactly. It sounds like the co-creator of Maglev thinks he created the ultimate transportation vehicle, and is completely unwilling to accept that while expensive, those problems can be overcome using new technology.

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