amhokies

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by amhokies 4y ago
I’m sure you correctly guessed that I’m American
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by amhokies 4y ago
My mother-in-law works an office job and is easily able to do her job from home with no impact on productivity. She also has had a heart transplant so is immunocompromised. Recently her bosses have started pushing her to come back 100% to w
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by amhokies 6y ago
You probably shouldn't be uploading sensitive pdfs regardless.
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by amhokies 7y ago
The reason this stuff is acceptable is we just shrug it off as "normal politics". Politicians should not take advantage of emergencies by tacking wish list items on to bills that address the emergency.
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by amhokies 7y ago
In theory, it's only for things that can "cause harm to national security"
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by amhokies 7y ago
The word "de-orbited" used in the article seems to not be the normal use of the word. Normally if you de-orbit a satellite, you lower its orbit until it either burns up in the atmosphere or hits the Earth. Satellites in GEO don&#x
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by amhokies 7y ago
From the HN guidelines: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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by amhokies 7y ago
Money is important to people.
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by amhokies 7y ago
I think once we have self-driving cars that are able to coordinate with each other, it will improve traffic significantly.
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by amhokies 7y ago
My most recent Google search is "reddit brushing teeth at work"
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by amhokies 8y ago
But it's still 50 million...
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by amhokies 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to type this comment?
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by amhokies 8y ago
This is why I switched to a Kindle. I can comfortably hold it in either hand without having to pry the pages open.
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by amhokies 8y ago
What about a feature to read just the headlines of articles, since that seems to be what most people do.
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by amhokies 8y ago
Reading comprehension is difficult when there's missing punctuation. For example, "Let's eat grandma" versus "Let's eat, grandma".
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by amhokies 8y ago
You're able to send voice messages to other people that have an Alexa. Basically like voicemail.
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by amhokies 8y ago
Yeah, a profanity filter sure is a sophisticated algorithm.
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by amhokies 8y ago
Just don't read the Youtube comments.
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by amhokies 8y ago
I wonder if it would be able to tell if it was talking to another Duplex bot and instead of speaking in English, it would communicate more efficiently.
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by amhokies 8y ago
It's not 7 days from when you last connect it to a computer. It's 7 days since the phone was last unlocked.
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by amhokies 8y ago
Wouldn't that make it easier for someone that has access to hashed passwords in the case of a database leak? They would just have to submit the username and the hashed password (which they now have).