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by arbuge 8y ago
Just curious, do you have a ~2007 Ford Fusion? Those cars are notorious for this particular issue. I tried hacking my evap sensor with a resistor as you described, but for some reason I couldn't get it to work. Ended up spending $700 t
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by arbuge 8y ago
Another famous example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada#Roman_siege The Romans seemed to have been particularly fond of this technique.
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by arbuge 8y ago
The part about the possibility of contracting these from your doctor's equipment when you go in for an eye exam is truly scary: "Undiagnosed CJD patients may seek testing. And the diagnostic equipment used to test them may then be
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by arbuge 8y ago
The two are closely correlated in practice. The boom in prices incentivizes developers to build more, leading to a boom in number of houses, which eventually leads to a bust. So the pendulum swings again. Control engineers would describe it
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How Criminals Steal $37B a Year from America’s Elderly(bloomberg.com)
133 points by arbuge 8y ago|87 comments
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by arbuge 8y ago
The upload buttons of those sites seem to be there mainly to create plausible deniability. If any content creates trouble which cannot be made to easily go away just by taking it down, the site owners can claim they did not upload it themse
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by arbuge 8y ago
> Home prices vary inversely with interest rates. This is true if all else is equal. In theory, however, the Fed is supposed to raise interest rates when the economy is heating up, which implies buyers are being paid higher salaries, whi
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by arbuge 8y ago
"His workers must agree to install spyware on their computers so Crossover’s productivity team can track the number of times they click their mouse or stroke their keyboard. The tracking software takes screenshots every ten minutes and
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How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts(theatlantic.com)
3 points by arbuge 8y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 8y ago
Do you speak Chinese fluently? I'm guessing this would be difficult to do if not...
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by arbuge 8y ago
> and exercise judgment This is specifically the part he will probably struggle with if he is responsible for cybersecurity but has never used a computer. Sometimes things sounds crazy simply because they really are.
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by arbuge 8y ago
"Wouldn’t it be great if we could all drive without dirtying the air we breathe? Alas, not everyone can afford an electric car." These claims always bother me. Besides the obvious pollution from the generation of electricity requi
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by arbuge 8y ago
> "At the same time, we have also accepted the responsibility to the people of Saudi Arabia, an obligation we take quite seriously to help them manage their financial resources and diversify their economy," said Son. “So conven
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Semaphore telegraph(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by arbuge 8y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 8y ago
> Chestnut and Kurzius have worked to keep that lifeline affordable: Mailchimp’s customers pay nothing for the first 2,000 subscribers or 12,000 emails sent, and then $10 a month after that. The low cost translates potentially into a big
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by arbuge 8y ago
You can get even cheaper than that by using phplist instead, which is free, and setting that up with your AWS account. Hard to beat $0.10 per 1,000 emails...
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by arbuge 8y ago
> I wonder what this would do to the startup landscape in the long term though. Will this make startups look more like big incumbents more than a sprawling landscape? I think it will support the trend for later stage startups to stay pri
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by arbuge 8y ago
> They can easily fix this by only paying out affiliate revenue for actual, legitimate affiliates, those that brought you a brand new customer. Not so easy. New customers like to shop with coupons too. There's certainly no guarantee
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The strength of a monopoly can be guessed at by calling customer support(blogs.harvard.edu)
330 points by arbuge 8y ago|130 comments
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by arbuge 8y ago
No. I was comparing to Walmart.com.
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by arbuge 8y ago
Yes, it is.
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by arbuge 8y ago
Correct.
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by arbuge 8y ago
Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly. Now that they've captured 50%+ of US ecommerce, they've also raised many prices, to the point w
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by arbuge 8y ago
Well, some of them definitely had flight...
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by arbuge 8y ago
Perhaps using university / work licenses they didn't pay for themselves...
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by arbuge 8y ago
"My chicken is fried."
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Relay API v1.0 is now live(blog.foundrytechnologies.com)
1 points by arbuge 8y ago|0 comments
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by arbuge 8y ago
"Analysts at China International Capital Corp. estimated on July 13 that no more than 200 firms, or about 10 percent of existing platforms, will still be around in three years." Even for a large nation like China, 2,000 P2P platfo
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by arbuge 8y ago
> Redfin, the Seattle-based home buying site/app, has been beating this drum for years, recently stating that we will see “mass migration” from the Bay Area based on housing. The CEO writes “Silicon Valley is going to leave Silicon
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by arbuge 8y ago
Alot of the party seems to have been concentrated in a few tech stocks - the usual FANG suspects, Microsoft, some newer IPOs, and a bunch of unicorn private companies. It seems to me that one possible outcome would be for that rather locali

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