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by benmarks 7y ago
"The final total is unknown, but experts project another trillion dollars in costs over the next 40 years as wounded and disabled veterans age and need more services." Add to this the unquantifiable lost opportunity from dead civi
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by benmarks 7y ago
Appreciate the point, but that's a lot of work to even consider (my wife has her instrument and commercial tickets). Combine that weather, and you see why the AOPA's GC (or was it head lobbyist?) flies commercial when he needs to
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by benmarks 7y ago
Only recently discovered Mr. Stoller's media/reporting, and I have been absolutely impressed with his weekly mailing. Can highly recommend subscribing.
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by benmarks 7y ago
Some great numbers from Tobi, team, and ecosystem. I just wish they weren't so gung-ho on the "one million stores" metric, because the two figures juxtaposed don't do them any favors. As a Magento person though I am keen
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by benmarks 7y ago
We need legislation which deals with the reality of the PII loophole. While the ACR data on its own may not identify me/my household, it absolutely does once it's combined with the rest of my fingerprint in the cloud.
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by benmarks 7y ago
> Additionally planes age. What's your failure point after 10-15 years of service? In practice there is/are none, because would-be points of failure are continuously replaced at a schedule well ahead of the number of cycles at
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by benmarks 7y ago
“There’s a simple explanation. MCAS is not meant to control an unstable aircraft. It is meant to restrain the aircraft from entering the regime where it becomes unstable. This is the same strategy used by other mechanisms of stall preventio
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by benmarks 7y ago
Given that "[i]t will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition and he used a team of rotating pacemakers," Mr. Kipchoge's attitude represents the best of sport: "Now
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by benmarks 7y ago
This seems more like coincidence than irony.
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Social media posts help me break into your company(fastcompany.com)
3 points by benmarks 7y ago|0 comments
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The New Nomads of VanLife Reflect an Enduring Divide(daily.jstor.org)
47 points by benmarks 7y ago|25 comments
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by benmarks 7y ago
I think the term you're looking for is "liquefaction map" - I only know this term because we're exposed to the risk here in Charleston, S.C.: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/4/15/18311670/e
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Mozilla's New Tool for Tricking Advertisers into Believing You're Filthy Rich(gizmodo.com)
3 points by benmarks 7y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Responded to a Frustrated Open-Source Developer(businessinsider.com)
1 points by benmarks 7y ago|0 comments
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Stripe warns small firms most at risk from ‘€57bn’ EU security rule(irishtimes.com)
6 points by benmarks 7y ago|2 comments
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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned(troyhunt.com)
700 points by benmarks 7y ago|145 comments
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by benmarks 7y ago
I'm really excited to see these heading into Normandy! They will fly from the UK and will have a massive parachuting contingent. Program info at https://www.daksovernormandy.com/
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by benmarks 7y ago
> "With access to proprietary guides and tools, hackers can more easily circumvent security protections, harming not only the product owner but also everyone who shares their network" Of the many consumer insults present in
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by benmarks 7y ago
> Citrix said in a later update on April 4 that the attack was likely a result of password spraying, which attackers use to breach accounts by brute-forcing from a list of commonly used passwords that aren’t protected with two-factor aut
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by benmarks 7y ago
Reminder to fellow travelers: disable biometric-based device access when crossing the US border. It may not prevent your stuff from being cloned, but it may matter down the road as more case law is established.
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by benmarks 8y ago
Couldn't help but think that this news was/is part of some April Fools' Day setup.
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by benmarks 8y ago
Would you not be "associated with that article" regardless? You clicked the link, and that action is a tracked conversion regardless of destination.
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by benmarks 8y ago
A lifetime of worry to varying degree, a seeming resolution, an absolutely unnecessary assault on a group of people who seem to embody exactly what the American spirit is all about.
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by benmarks 8y ago
...are there stats on that? It's my impression that poor pre-departure decision making - especially regarding WX and w & b - are the very, very simple things which tend to kill private pilots.
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Huntsville CEO embezzled $10M, bought BMWs, Porsches, lawsuit says(al.com)
1 points by benmarks 8y ago|0 comments
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by benmarks 8y ago
Wow, the "bitcoin" responses to that thread. Talk about trading one problem for another....
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by benmarks 8y ago
Most likely (as in, very most likely) not bad [1], though it's theorized that the second largest mass extinction event on Earth may have been due to a GRB [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Ra
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The Future of Zend(thephp.cc)
17 points by benmarks 8y ago|0 comments
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by benmarks 8y ago
I'm wondering if even Atwood knew how right he'd be.
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by benmarks 8y ago
This guy is one indecent exposure instance away from potentially serious legal issues.

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