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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...technically impossible for them to betray their customers' trust..." Impossible is a very strong word in this context. Let me take the opportunity to remind everyone that an iPhone is a very complicated device ru
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by avn2109 11y ago
This is just more evidence supporting the claim, which has already been persuasively argued elsewhere, [0] that fingerprints are usernames, not passwords. [0] http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are
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by avn2109 11y ago
Can you give more details on how this works? I just tried and couldn't get it.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Honestly I might not mind being unable to control the vehicle as long as I could adjust the temperature with a hardware control.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "The control panel will be all big screens and apps." Noooo - tactile feedback is so important in vehicle subsystem control! [0] Please do not take away my knobs and dials. [0] http://www.ecnmag.com/articl
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by avn2109 11y ago
In fairness, lots of police departments would love to have X-ray vans. But probably only the NYPD and a few of its peer departments can afford them. Likely as the tech gets cheaper, Podunk USA's cops will also get them.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...I thought the iPad was silly." In fairness, the Ipad is silly. The general population is slowly figuring that out. [0] [0] http://fortune.com/2015/07/16/apple-ipad-watch-analysts/
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "...the FBI searched my hotel room..." Interesting story. For completeness, how do you know it was the FBI that searched your room?
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by avn2109 11y ago
The judge does make mistakes all the freaking time. But in practice the system is so stacked against the defendant that this effect is negligible.
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by avn2109 11y ago
This is a serious question: Why does my washing machine not dump the clothes into the dryer for me? Why do I have to come back and manually move them? Can't we put the washing machine on top of the dryer and build a gravity fed vibrati
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by avn2109 11y ago
The NFL cares about gambling now because this time they are getting a cut. And the total gambling pie is gigantic.
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by avn2109 11y ago
The NFL's army of lobbyists and attorneys will insure that some form of legalized digital sports betting is available mostly-nationwide. It might be called "Fantasy Sports" or it might be called something else, but it will be
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "No, because nobody would do that..." This is literally the most breathtakingly naive comment I have ever read on HN.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Not possible; they interpret their mandate as universal.
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by avn2109 11y ago
There are some alterations that are expensive/impractical. Mostly the structural ones, like raising the drop of a pair of trousers, changing the overall silhouette, or having a sports coat's shoulders altered.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I only wear Bonobos pants. If you have a tall athletic build and do a lot of heavy squats and therefore have a gigantic butt/thighs, they make the one model of pants on earth that fits you off the rack. Pants from Jcrew/Zara/
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by avn2109 11y ago
It's the fit. If you have an athletic build they are a godsend.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Probably the best plan to fund road infrastructure would be to make all (most?) roads into toll roads, with tolls whose price floats as a function of instantaneous supply and demand, and is low for trucks/commercial traffic/motorc
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by avn2109 11y ago
That's true in a strictly literal sense, but we really want the demand-destroying effects of a per-mile tax on private automobiles so as to incentivize a modal shift to other transit options. From that perspective, there's nothing
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "Plus, in a lot of domains people are required, by law, to get insurance." It's almost like the insurance industry is large, wealthy, and politically well-connected enough to capture regulatory bodies in order to ins
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by avn2109 11y ago
I remember being baffled by the file tree as a Linux n00b, and a scheme like this would be way more discoverable.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "In a situation where the treasury defaults your best investment is probably guns and food." With the fall of the Soviet Union as a guide for crumbling monetary systems/empires, guns and food are nice to have around,
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by avn2109 11y ago
I just mean that the surviving Stasi records are incomplete. The Stasi parallels to our own surveillance state are indeed eerie.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Undoubtedly the guy has a system and has diversified in either time or by parallelizing in several "leagues."
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by avn2109 11y ago
If history is any guide, you've got the surveillance directionality mixed up here. Most fallen regimes that we have good records for - e.g. the Khmer Rouge, the Nazis, and (kind of) the East Germans had various factions competing overt
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "What's worse,..." One man's worse is another man's best. This sounds economically optimal to me - the people using the asset (roads) are paying for them, instead of being subsidized by all taxpayers. Also,
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by avn2109 11y ago
How about landlord negotiations? When your landlord tries to raise your rent to above-market rates, it's a pain to look up what the fair rate is and then draft a competent counteroffer letter.
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by avn2109 11y ago
That was my first thought as well. This has to be either a consortium of advertisers or a single big player.
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "First degree price discrimination would be an auction system." There is in fact a limited, semi-open, semi-public admissions auction system at many elite schools, most famously Harvard [0-1] and Brown [2], though their p
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by avn2109 11y ago
Agreed. Which leads to two questions: 1) Why is this post so far down the page? and 2) If anyone is qualified to combat automated (or perhaps even human) astroturfing by technical means, it's YC. Dang/other mods, are there effo

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