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by ballenf 6y ago
There's also this gem in the FAQs: > If I decide I don’t want to use Amazon One any more after signing up, can I delete my biometric data? > Yes, you can request to delete data associated with Amazon One through the device itse
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by ballenf 6y ago
I'm really curious how this reached #1 here on HN. Not accusing anyone of foul play, just really curious why this is so popular. As for quickJS, I've really enjoyed using it and was surprised how easy it was to get started with a
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by ballenf 6y ago
I don’t think the article makes it clear that the issue here is the use of an auction to decide what choices users have in search engine. Instead of just looking at user preference or market share. That method naturally favors the bottom f
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by ballenf 6y ago
When you say doing without object prototypes -- are you advocating moving away from the entire prototypal inheritance model? Or just not exposing it? Your requirements list makes me wonder why you want to stick with anything related to JS a
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by ballenf 6y ago
> I can’t imagine you never slapped the door of your fridge and it didn’t properly close. You gave it a nudge when you realized it, and it was fine, but it must have happened. And your whole food supply would be rotten if you didn’t noti
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by ballenf 6y ago
How did they define "extremist" in that analysis? And how many total people are we talking about? Seems like the relevance of that line really depends on answers to both. I.e., if extremist is super narrow we may be talking about
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by ballenf 6y ago
> The whole follow your passions thing is an upper middle class developed world thing. I'm convinced it's worse advice if you can afford to follow it without tremendous sacrifice or time to save up for it. If you can't aff
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by ballenf 6y ago
Not to fight over terminology, but in most of the US, cable companies are given an explicit monopoly "franchise" from the local municipality. There are some areas that might be a natural monopoly anyway due to low density populati
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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe it was myth, but during a tour of one aging warehouse, they talked about the weather's impact on the aging process -- temperature and airflow were factors. These warehouses were basically large wooden barns with upgraded structur
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by ballenf 6y ago
> to be considerate of users of GitHub Which users?
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by ballenf 6y ago
If it's an empirical fact, how much objection from how many (and which) people is enough to cross the line into controversial? You can always find at least one upset person about any significant decision of any company, thus it's
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by ballenf 6y ago
And Apple has a few weeks of damages accruing in the other direction while Fortnite on iOS has/had a 3rd-party payment option. Technically, I think you can still launch a pre-installed Fortnite and buy stuff even if you can't play
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by ballenf 6y ago
Don't forget the average American can't afford a forced 2-week unpaid vacation, based on stats about debt levels and cash reserves.
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by ballenf 6y ago
If you're going to analyze things that way, you should have rented and bought some Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon stock.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Ok so the change from a decade or two ago is that young people want to live in places they can't afford. In the past they were evidently more content to live in places they could afford. Doesn't really feel like cost of housing is
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by ballenf 6y ago
Deno stripped types from internal code due some headaches and development issues it was causing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_WvwHl7BXUPmoiSeD8G83JmS... It will still support TS as a first-class language f
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by ballenf 6y ago
It's also an indication that there are no default passwords in use. So even if you know what port SSH lives on, there's a lower ROI to attacking it than a default port.
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by ballenf 6y ago
My point was not that Covid vaccines will be ineffective, just that people have relatively little faith in flu vaccines right now (although I still get one every year, because better than nothing). And I think people will see a covid vaccin
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by ballenf 6y ago
But the current ecosystem depends on selling the hardware at a loss. We would still have consoles, but the ecosystem would necessarily change. If consoles were not price subsidized like now, their prices would go up and sales would be affec
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by ballenf 6y ago
"surveillance and monitoring device" would also work. Since they also detect proximity and some capture device IDs of other nearby wifi devices (used for home/away in smart homes).
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by ballenf 6y ago
Anyone who's been getting flu vaccines surely has a pretty good idea how ineffective they can be.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Castro has listening history. But it doesn't handle in-order bingeing of podcasts any better than any other client I've tried. It's puzzling how no one has done this yet: - play podcasts in chronological order, keeping x of t
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by ballenf 6y ago
Castro is another. I like its "Inbox" structure and switched to it from Overcast after subscribing to both for a year. The Inbox is where all subscribed podcasts go by default for you to decide whether to add to queue or skip. You
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by ballenf 6y ago
Someone sent a link to a recent episode and I didn't hear any of that. Maybe I just got lucky? In fact I heard more mocking of those type conspiracies than promotion of them. Biggest turnoff for me was the "private jokes" or
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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe their ad targeting criteria is "people who don't want to hear about us".
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by ballenf 6y ago
> There's a presumed ~2W difference in power consumption between 5.4K and 7.2K drives. Is that purely extra friction due to higher speed? Or is it spin up from sleep needing more power?
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by ballenf 6y ago
Wire transfers are not reversible after about an hour - as I mentioned the other day a good friend lost a house down payment due to fraud. But I generally agree with the advice that the service banks and fiat currency provide is probably wo
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by ballenf 6y ago
It was the down payment on the house in this case. And was actually a lot more than $12k. It has to be a wire transfer since checks take so long to clear and the title can't transfer with that uncertainty. My advice to anyone buying
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by ballenf 6y ago
Toward the end of the article, the several lawsuits and FTC actions are discussed. The end result of them is a disclaimer on the Intel compiler that it's not optimized for non-Intel processors and that Intel can't artificially hur
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by ballenf 6y ago
Have a friend who lost more than $12k in the process of buying a house. Scammers sent the wiring instructions a few hours before the legit closing attorney sent the real instructions. The email looked exactly right except for a minor chan

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