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by avn2109 11y ago
This strikes me as a great opportunity to use the "think of the children" argument against the government. Headlines should read like this: "FBI wants ability to steal dick pics from any iPhone, including children's pho
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by avn2109 11y ago
Question for HN in general: Is it possible in principle (for Apple or someone else) to construct a smartphone that can accept software/firmware updates, but that Apple cannot push malware to at some later time? E.g. can we implement al
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by avn2109 11y ago
They want your purchase data.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...(better yet) a large one with incompetent management." Luckily this is >75% of large companies, IMHE.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Wells Fargo will happily let me (but not force me to) take a highly-leveraged long position in the San Fransisco residential real estate market (in mid February 2016, arguably near the top of the market) which is a bet with ~comparable down
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by avn2109 11y ago
Nobody is forcing couples to (under) estimate their divorce probability or make bets about that probability.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "But once it becomes known that getting approved for one of these loans is a strong signal of getting divorced it seems like people would shy away from them." ~100% of couples, always and everywhere, are sure they will n
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by avn2109 11y ago
Good god please fix the scrolling. FWIW I immediately switch to reader mode, which strips all your ads/everything but the text out, because the scroll interaction is broken.
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by avn2109 11y ago
As a thought experiment, if you were the head of ISIS or the Russian ambassador in Washington DC, would you or would you not expect your snaps to be "really deleted" aka actually private? Honest question, not trolling.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Honestly, is there something stopping you from encoding a signal by modulating the airborne concentration of some particle? Maybe something that doesn't occur commonly - use e.g. helium instead of nitrogen or something like that.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Or you just have a better Software solution up your sleeve than what Google gave you." Honest question, have you ever seen any OEM modification to Android that was a net improvement over stock? Maybe someone has improved
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by avn2109 11y ago
A lot of that sounds good but you lost me at XML.
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by avn2109 11y ago
At least some MBP's and iPhones do this too (e.g. mine). In my opinion (though less reliable than the sibling's because I'm an ME not a EE) impedance detection is probably the easiest way to do this.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Guess I better jump on too: I've run flux on three machines with OSX's from Snow Leopard to ElCap: A white plastic Macbook from 2006, a late-2014 Air, and an early-2014 MBP with a triple-head display setup, and never had any probl
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by avn2109 11y ago
Similarly painful on my OSX Chrome.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Is this true in all countries, or just the ones (like my country, the USA) where the real estate market is rigged by various government/incumbent entities?
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by avn2109 11y ago
This is the correct answer. That missing money went to fund black budgets of all sorts, including the extraordinary rendition sites and a variety of other intelligence/security activities.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...police, hospitals, child protective services,..." Wait, are hospitals taxpayer funded in America? If so, why do they charge my insurance such vast amounts of money for tiny services?
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by avn2109 11y ago
There is a (small) spring-loaded reciprocating mechanical element - aka a moving part - in many (all?) spark plugs [0]. Lubricating this reciprocating interface is an active research area. [0] http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--EcUF
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...one side wants to advocate for equality..." The core premise of the linked article is that "equality" is merely a smokescreen used by one side to mask more nefarious objectives.[0] [0] Note that I am not m
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...Skype is so bad..." Dude you should try Hipchat video conferencing, it makes Skype look like the future.
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by avn2109 11y ago
This is less of an issue if your landlord is a giant faceless soulless holding company that operates many real estate businesses. Though such landlords have their own problems.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I thought Al Jazeera was run at a loss as a propaganda expense by the Qatari government. Is that untrue?
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by avn2109 11y ago
This is still very much the case uptown, too. Try finding a parking place in Flatiron on a summer weekday morning.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I thought the author was reaching for a questionable "Tale of Two Cities" Dickens pun :\
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by avn2109 11y ago
Or, isomorphically, you pay a premium to avoid being tracked.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...pay out when the driver is to blame..." That's what auto insurance marketing says, and sometimes it even works that way. But a key part of the business model is to take your money for years, and then when you do
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by avn2109 11y ago
Once the (very closed source) metrology hardware and transmitter are installed, you have no way of knowing if they decide to track you intermittently, constantly, or never. Can they remotely and silently activate the tracking system at arbi
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Bedrock is not needed to build a sky scraper..." True, but that's because of comparatively recent developments in geotechnical engineering. They needed it during the first wave of skyscraper development.
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>> "Billboards do not track." A competently-designed out of home ad setup will probably at least make an attempt to track its audience, often by doing some sort of telemetry to your smartphone or by literally photographing y

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