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by awongh 10y ago
Is it possible that a startup could come into this space and solve some of this problem? Something between all your passwords are belong to us walled garden touch id scheme and tin foil hat must memorize new 20 char randomized password ev
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Mirai iot botnet code leaked online(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by awongh 10y ago|0 comments
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by awongh 10y ago
Here's one summary that's rather bland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases And here's one that's more... opinionated: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/010
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by awongh 10y ago
Refusing to talk wouldn't work if you were black or brown though. Either the cop would have looked in the car and found the drugs anyway, or they would have gotten the warrant and found the drugs. At which point you would be threatened
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by awongh 10y ago
I'm sure they do, but their mo seems to be vendor lock in / price fixing vs. open ecosystem. Nothing wrong with making a profit, but I feel that plenty of their practices are criminal / actively harmful. One of the powerful t
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by awongh 10y ago
Hm this is interesting. One question would be if any of these approaches is scalable outside a single climate / area- exportable into a repeatable system that will help breed crops given the inputs of a specific local ecosystem. I hear
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by awongh 10y ago
I don't think the big vision of production needs to be novel, but I could envision, if not GMO, then genetic analysis / breeding to start re-localizing what kinds of crops are being grown. I think there are plenty of ways you can
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by awongh 10y ago
this. The thing is that we've designed these systems (of governance, regulation and technology) that appears to have solved the problems of food, but we really haven't- bee population loss, inefficient subsidies, free-trade and ov
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I ate crab bisque cooked by a robot chef(theverge.com)
2 points by awongh 10y ago|0 comments
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Phononic solid state refrigeration raises $30M(techcrunch.com)
2 points by awongh 10y ago|0 comments
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by awongh 10y ago
What's the default rate for private student loans for a public 4-year school?
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by awongh 10y ago
Did you get anything out of your experience there?
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Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping problem (2015)(blog.phusion.nl)
20 points by awongh 10y ago|11 comments
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by awongh 11y ago
Feels like there should be some kind of website or service that tracks these drug price arbitrage / differences.
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by awongh 11y ago
This makes a lot of sense since the government could issue an order through FISA and afaik apple would be required to comply with it. The fact that they can resist the order and in a such a public way feels a little bit theatrical, given wh
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by awongh 11y ago
I don't know much about ML, but this was a good talk!
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by awongh 11y ago
I thought that the hardware drivers were independent of the distro? or at least debian? I lazily assumed hardware support on other distros would be crappier. I think the big issue here is that if a piece of hardware is listed as officially
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by awongh 11y ago
I had a thinkpad running ubuntu for a couple of years, around 2010-2013, but I was forced to switch to a mbp for one simple reason: About 1/10 of the time when I would be at a coffee shop or something and would try to connect to the wi
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Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s – in pictures(theguardian.com)
3 points by awongh 11y ago|0 comments
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by awongh 11y ago
They reference this article, which was also interesting: http://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/the-most-important-tech-compa...
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by awongh 11y ago
Apparently that person made 5 million dollars last year: http://fusion.net/story/38924/the-highest-youtube-earner-of-...
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by awongh 11y ago
I've used vagrant for a big rails 3 app with a lot of dependencies and services, i.e., solr, a redis backed delayed_job queue, etc.- stuff that would have difficult or impossible to manage on a mac. The vm environment was also as close
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by awongh 11y ago
This is also an interesting contrast to the (I assume higher quality) kind of work being put out by their other engineering departments- how can they make other sound engineering decisions on the rest of the car and it's manufacture, b
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by awongh 12y ago
ECMC Innovation Lab / collegeabacus.org - Washington, D.C. Looking for full stack devs, preferably with rails or angular experience. The ECMC innovation lab was created to originate new products generally relating to ECMC's core b
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Dumb Wi-Fi Network Name Delays Flight for Four Hours(gizmodo.com)
1 points by awongh 12y ago|0 comments
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by awongh 12y ago
I hope that some of this work gets open sourced. Is this the next logical step from balloon cameras?
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by awongh 12y ago
I think the point is that your phone is a proxy for the internet/cloud where your information is encrypted and stored, able to be reached from any other internet accessible device through the use of a key/password. (at least in th
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by awongh 12y ago
Or, what are the chances that things get bad enough that people begin to request payments for goods or services in bitcoin? This would solve the problem of shortage of physical us dollars.... Or in the case that you have the ability to requ
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by awongh 12y ago
I agree that it is fear mongering to say that you'll get cancer or schizophrenia (!?) from a certain additive... but on the other hand I think to simply dismiss any warnings is to throw the baby out with the bath water.... Maybe the ar
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by awongh 12y ago
I thought this was another pseudo-science overreaction too, until I read about what azodicarbonamide actually is.... I understand that it probably is safe at low concentrations, but I also feel like it's a logical fallacy to say that b

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