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by cbhl 8y ago
Installing and signing up for an app is high friction, and integrating with every country's payment providers is a pain in the ass. Basically, it's the Uber effect -- I want to get off the plane anywhere in the world, take an Uber
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by cbhl 8y ago
Bikes are in a no-mans land because of speed differences -- they're too slow to go on the road, and too fast to safely mix with pedestrians on sidewalks. I personally prefer dockless bikes over scooters, but I will admit that scooters
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by cbhl 8y ago
Regulation can both help make people safer and also get in the way of innovation. A more realistic example: Regulations say cars are required to have steering wheels. They also say cars are expected to be under the control of a driver at
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by cbhl 8y ago
Yeah, the $40/month offering is supposed to be comparable to a Cable TV bill. There's also the $12/month YouTube Premium (separate product, and you can subscribe to both at the same time) which combines music and original con
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by cbhl 8y ago
Netflix has been increasing their spend on "Original" content, which I think gets us closer to this goal. (If you pay for it, you get more rights in exchange.) You might also want to try YouTube TV ($40/month). (Disclaimer: I
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by cbhl 8y ago
I really wish non-profits could have for-profit endowment components in them, instead of having to ask for money every year. Rather than giving now or giving later, we could be giving forever by only spending the interest on the capital.
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by cbhl 8y ago
Google and Facebook do try to mitigate their impacts by building new housing and paying for shuttle buses -- the problem is that city councils regulate these efforts into tokenism.
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by cbhl 8y ago
I feel sorry for the designers that had to work on the redesign that introduced these icons in the first place. They had to add a bunch of padding around the buttons in the toolbar based on a top-down redesign mandate. Buttons needed to be
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Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future (2012)(marshallbrain.com)
1 points by cbhl 8y ago|0 comments
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by cbhl 8y ago
I wish that the EFF had actually taught people the math of running an ISP, rather than just writing a puff piece. Here's Comcast's Form 10-K for 2017: https://www.cmcsa.com/static-files/111ba611-eb85-4edc-9000
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by cbhl 8y ago
I really miss having the Pebble as a silent alarm clock. The motor in it was really strong, and my Fitbit Alta just doesn't compare.
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What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (2012)(javlaskitsystem.se)
471 points by cbhl 8y ago|186 comments
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by cbhl 8y ago
It's worth noting that Google Assistant has been able to make reservations with OpenTable since 2014. No need to have Duplex talking to Duplex; it's just protobufs or JSON or XML or whatever people use nowadays for RPCs. Google Du
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by cbhl 8y ago
Chrome OS puts the core operating system on a read-only partition, which is why people have been using chroots in developer mode up until now.
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by cbhl 8y ago
apt-get is still the golden standard for installing apps on Linux because of its dependency resolution system, and being able to "sudo apt-get install <package>" is a core use-case for end-users (i.e. students who are learni
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by cbhl 8y ago
Until you discover in X months that moving from the beta to release versions that get security updates requires wiping your phone.
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by cbhl 8y ago
It sounds like this is targeted at machines that are attached to Active Directory, in which case the fallback is the same as before (you call a help desk/sysadmin, and they "reset your password" aka verify your identity and g
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by cbhl 8y ago
Concepts can have more than one name. An important part of preparing a training or presentation is understanding your audience, and using names that resonate with them. If this had been a freshman college crypto class, the word "oracle
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by cbhl 8y ago
Isn't this exactly what incorporation sets out to solve? It limits the liability between the person and the company / website. I feel like Stripe Atlas should be getting a surge of sign ups from people who realize they need to put
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by cbhl 8y ago
Hmm... looked at this again and it looks like Rogers may have rolled out IPv6 last year. I recall on Teksavvy I had to pay extra for a "static IP" to get IPv6. Not sure if you're with Bell directly, though.
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by cbhl 8y ago
TIL! Thanks for the correction.
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by cbhl 8y ago
Security Keys are often used as a second factor, but the original vision was that they could also be a primary factor in lieu of a password. Humans are bad at passwords, but they carry around house keys every day. Why not also carry around
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by cbhl 8y ago
Even if true, best practice is to strictly restrict access to and create audit trails for reading raw logs from production. Ideally, you'd only need to read raw logs tied to a test account, or, maybe your own personal accounts. Stack t
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by cbhl 8y ago
This is a great checklist! Do you have it posted in "blog post" format somewhere for posterity?
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by cbhl 8y ago
If you're in Ontario, Rogers doesn't support IPv6 yet. If you want IPv6, then your only option is Bell (or a reseller, like Teksavvy).
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by cbhl 8y ago
I can't imagine Apple offering this option -- it doesn't really align with their strengths (privacy first) and weaknesses (data centers). They'd need to fix so much of iCloud first.
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by cbhl 8y ago
In the DSM 5, "Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Sepcified" (PDD-NOS) and others (Asperger Syndrome) got refactored into a single unified Autism definition.
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by cbhl 8y ago
I really don't think the problem is Electron, or even JavaScript. I think the problem is Chrome, which the Electron runtime requires. Each separate Electron app has its own copy of Chromium in memory. (What happened to shared libs?) I
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by cbhl 8y ago
I still can't believe Buzzfeed is now considered a top source of investigative journalism. Funded by the ad revenue from clickbait, quizzes, memes, and listicles, it was actually able to afford to pay for the long-form content that you
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by cbhl 8y ago
So I can have me and my four friends? Realistically, as the early adopter, I'd have to pay for myself and my 731 facebook friends, since none of them would want to pay for it. So, like, closer to $18k a year.

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