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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...the phone (which after all belonged to them)..." Pretty sure the phone was the property of whomever was named as the dead guy's inheritor in his will. Absent a will it should have gone to the next of kin or proba
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "The entire northeast ... is reasonably safe from natural disaster" Hurricane Sandy hit parts of NYC pretty hard.
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Presumably the DPRK secret police are using the tried and true low tech surveillance method of turning everyone into an informer, a la the Stasi.
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by avn2109 11y ago
If we add "blockchain" to this headline it will be the perfect storm of tech hype.
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by avn2109 11y ago
From the article: >> "...historically low inventory" >> "...many sellers are sitting this year out." >> "...The median sale price ... fell by 1.8 percent..." The article's authors are con
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by avn2109 11y ago
At the very least, every site should clearly explain its password policy. e.g. you must have a letter, a number, no slashes, 8-40 characters, whatever. As I write this, I am locked out of my 401(k) plan's website because it allows you
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by avn2109 11y ago
Not only practice, but also training. Every shooting coach in the league will tell you that the deep two is the worst shot in basketball. Kobe had it drilled into his head since he was seven years old that you never shoot a deep two .
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by avn2109 11y ago
Out of curiosity, why do CMU grads leave?
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "no terrorism-proof reactor design" I notice that not one of the American Navy's many nuclear reactors has ever been successfully targeted by terrorists. Which suggests that we have a well-understood design for terro
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by avn2109 11y ago
If I still lived in Seattle and had the choice between a) Functional transit for a one time payment of $15 grand and then chump change for train fare for the rest of my life and b) Buying, fueling, insuring, maintaining, and driving a car a
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...good for expanding transit where you aren't sure about." Is Ballard going to move anytime soon?
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by avn2109 11y ago
Somewhere in the depths of my brain I recall IBM developing a "secure" architecture from hardware up a long time ago, but the project was killed for some reason. Pretty sure HN user nickpsecurity originally posted about it.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Probably the Cadillac CT6.
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>> "lowest-common-denominator set of phonemes" They already spent a bunch of time and effort finding these phonemes to build Esperanto, right?
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by avn2109 11y ago
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, my friend. I've been seriously contemplating for about a year now whether America is a sinking ship and it's time to leave and head back across the pond.
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by avn2109 11y ago
By definition, the bad pilots have or will soon crash their aircraft, removing either themselves or at least their equipment (and unfortunately maybe their passengers) from circulation. I say this as myself a bad pilot, but one who is aware
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by avn2109 11y ago
Also youtube.
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Oops that was an accident downvote, sorry :(
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Might not be a current sitting Senator.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Note that there is already a bank called Apple Bank [0] and a software product called iBank [1]. So what are they going to name their hypothetical Apple-computer-financial-institution? [0] https://www.applebank.com/ [1] ht
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by avn2109 11y ago
Reading this, all I could think of was that they had a once-per-century chance to do this [0], but they blew it. From the photos it looks like they built the usual gross car-centric suburban quasi city, with a few apartment buildings thrown
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by avn2109 11y ago
Long ago, like anyone else who was paying attention. See among (many) others the PC mag links given elsewhere in this thread.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...which of these have been...compromised...? ~All of them, though likely without bothering to intercept your specific hardware, since you were relatively unimportant. Instead, the breaches were built into commodity hardware
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...transported like a bank shipment..." If you think the NSA/state level adversaries have not penetrated bank shipments, you are dangerously naive. Instead, maybe transport it like the CIA moves the communication ha
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by avn2109 11y ago
But they do degrade over time (slowly).
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by avn2109 11y ago
If this claim were true, the admissions rate at Yale would be rising. In fact it is falling/steady at Yale and most (all) of Yale's peer institutions.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...what if other manufacturers turn out to have better or cheaper self-driving cars?" Cheaper, certainly. Everyone will have cheaper SD cars than Benz, just as everyone has cheaper cabs than an S-class today. But better?
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...don't have a more holistic approach to product development..." Interestingly, the article's author works at Twitter.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Even ebooks need specialized design and typesetting" I must confess to being baffled by all this talk of typesetting, for the following reasons: 1) My ebook readers (Calibre and iBooks, mostly) algorithmically render and
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "The CTR is typically around 1%" That's pretty optimistic, on some ad networks representative CTR's are lower by an order of magnitude or two.

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