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by cbhl 7y ago
It sounds like "customer" here is defined as "corporation paying for a bunch of its employees", and not "one poor person who had lots of doctors visits". Elsewhere in the S-1: "In 2017, 2018 and the nine m
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by cbhl 7y ago
If I recall correctly, Strava had precisely this unintended consequence -- if you saw someone using the app to run laps in the middle of nowhere, it was likely a military base.
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by cbhl 7y ago
"Make it cost money" is, unfortunately, the first line of defense when dealing with bad actors. This is why some folks get prompted for SMS 2FA if the ML model thinks they're suspicious: a cell line costs Real Money. Microsof
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by cbhl 7y ago
I noticed they needed eye protection in the lab. I'd love to see how they avoid needing eye protection for people near the train tracks in the field (presumably some shielding and very careful laser alignment?). I'd be particularl
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by cbhl 7y ago
The New York trains I remember would make sparks all the time; I would suggest any dry tinder near the tracks would be a risk either way. California has electrical wires entangled with dry trees after years of drought. (Trees are tricky, si
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by cbhl 7y ago
I feel like political opposition at the municipal level was also a factor. For example, San Francisco never gave any of the car-sharing services the ability to let renters park "anywhere" in the city.
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by cbhl 7y ago
That's a big difference from the starting state that Google had, which was that a single person could create a signed production binary from unsubmitted code all by themselves. (It was very convenient for iterating on one-off fixes i
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by cbhl 7y ago
> rogue former employee somehow acquiring IP rights over our core IP "Rogue ex-co-founder comes out of the woodwork X years later and claims they own half of your thing" is a horror story in startup land; see Facebook for an ex
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by cbhl 7y ago
If a single person can generate a signed binary by themselves, then restricting execution to signed binaries does not address the threat model in the article.
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by cbhl 7y ago
For one thing, all third-party code is checked into one top-level folder in the monorepo. This is publicly documented here: https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/ This means that dependencies on a third-party
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by cbhl 7y ago
It turns out that licensing doesn't work that way. Worldwide distribution costs more than domestic, and streaming rights cost more than broadcast-only. And PBS doesn't have as much leverage as for-profit broadcasters, so the negot
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by cbhl 7y ago
> Moreover this bytecode has the potential to entirely supplant native code and can do so with equal or better performance. I interpreted that part of the talk as hyperbole and sarcasm. It was saying that programmers will be so far remov
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by cbhl 7y ago
The reverse version of this is pretty sobering: Japanese or Chinese person makes it to Canada, and excitedly goes to the nearest KFC or McDonald's, and gets culture shock from how run-down it is. Especially if they're downtown in
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by cbhl 7y ago
It's amazing what lengths people go to in order to get custom colors and fonts: they'll decompile apks and upload new ones with a custom colors.xml; they'll root their phone and change the colors in the OS; or they'll in
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by cbhl 7y ago
I feel like I would mind NAT less if they gave all the devices IPv6, similar to how it works on some LTE networks. But IPv6 prefix delegation doesn't always work if you put your own router behind the ISP box...
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by cbhl 7y ago
"SpaceX chose to use an industrial grade (as opposed to aerospace grade) ... cast part" Hmm.. Isn't this a common cost-cutting strategy for Musk's companies? The touchscreen in the Model 3s was (is?) also industrial grad
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by cbhl 7y ago
Does any employer offer private offices during the day to rank-and-file employees? I'm assuming that's an unsolveable problem, but hopefully a salary would make it easier to rent an apartment.
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by cbhl 7y ago
I would start working on a plan to finding a quiet space that is yours. That might mean a small town, or it might mean a $3000/mo+ studio apartment. How do you get to having enough cash flow to afford that space? Can you nix the hotdes
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by cbhl 7y ago
This. This is why I am happy to use security keys at work (if I lose all of them, there is a way to be issued new ones using a manual identity verification method plus another person's security keys ) but I've been too nervous to
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by cbhl 7y ago
A smaller subproblem to get you started is to build a matrix multiplication library (with matrices, vectors, and the ability to multiply them). Note that when you're building test cases, matrix multiplication is not commutative. My hig
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by cbhl 7y ago
Article also says that the doctor charged 20 cents (presumably US cents) to treat a patient. Compare that with $300 USD to see my GP for fifteen minutes...
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by cbhl 7y ago
Believe it or not, on gender, it is actually possible for most of us (men) to verify this empirically. As a cis male, one way to do this is to represent yourself as female, and see how much more you get questioned. You don't have to go
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by cbhl 7y ago
Are the folks getting 451 in Europe? Might be GDPR...
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by cbhl 7y ago
The banks already know what happens when you issue every customer a 2FA token, because they issue you a bank card. You have to verify the customer is who they say they are before giving them the token, and have processes for dealing with a
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by cbhl 7y ago
SFO is even worse during the fog -- if there is insufficient visibility, they have to close one of the two runways because they're too close to use both using instruments.
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by cbhl 7y ago
I wonder how much of this was just somebody fat-fingering a "Publish Now" button instead of a "Save Draft for the scheduled publish later" button. (And then getting fired over it.) I'm reminded of the hawaii nuclear
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by cbhl 7y ago
The game changer between the 80's VR and 10's VR is basically the smartphone. In the old days, folks were hooking up big bulky CRTs to their face. Now we have cheap flat panel displays as a commodity. But there are still more tech
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by cbhl 7y ago
Even if you touch it and then lick your fingers?
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by cbhl 7y ago
The two bulls didn't have a child together; it's more like the family trees go up (through n generations) up to one of two award-winning males. This is like saying 1 in X men are descended from Genghis Khan...
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by cbhl 7y ago
Taking store-bought food and adjusting the presentation to make it look homemade isn't a purely Japanese phenomenon. Even in the United States, frozen apple pie sellers will tell folks to take the pie out of the aluminum tin and put it

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