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by cbhl 9y ago
Operating a domain registry and issuing EV certificates require different levels of trust. Don't read too much into Alphabet/Google using other gTLDs instead of .com, like https://abc.xyz or https://blog.goo
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by cbhl 9y ago
What state do you live in? Credit freeze rules vary from state to state.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Each of the credit reporting agencies has a process for requesting your credit report by snail mail. The form is hidden away on the various websites, but it has generally worked for me when the online form didn't work (it turns out ano
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by cbhl 9y ago
Today I learned something. Thanks!
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by cbhl 9y ago
> "Xen is a type 1 hypervisor that runs on bare metal, and KVM is type 2 that runs as processes in a host OS." Is it not the other way around, that KVM runs on bare metal (and needs processor support) while Xen runs as proces
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by cbhl 9y ago
In my opinion, the engineers that work on Chrome are the saddest about Alphabet products that are Chrome-only, because it makes it harder to cooperate with Firefox, Edge, and Safari engineers on open web standards. I disagree with the idea
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by cbhl 9y ago
Unfortunately, the part they didn't tell you was that you should put more users first before putting fewer users first. (This is what "impact" means on the job ladder.) Given two otherwise equal tasks, if one helps 60M users
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by cbhl 9y ago
Okay, but why does an ambulance ride in America cost $4,000 a pop? An Uber travelling the same distance would cost $4, maybe $40. This is health care costs being out of control right there.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Maybe. I got stuck trying to imagine whether a five-year-old would understand what "headless" means in a software context (as opposed to, "headless dragon" or something).
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by cbhl 9y ago
Automated integration/regression tests is a pretty big use case. You spin up a copy of your server, point the headless browser at it, run some JavaScript to simulate some user interactions, and verify the page contains the right string
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by cbhl 9y ago
The big companies gave up on it. Google, Facebook, etc. Everyone wants their product to be the new hotness. See the copying of stickers, voice messages, and payments from Chinese/Japanese messaging products. Or how Skype became a Snapc
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by cbhl 9y ago
It turns out that the little space to the left of the virtual [esc] is a "ghost key" that also registers as Escape (just like the hidden t/g/v/y/h/b keys on the split iPad keyboard), so I just put blindly
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by cbhl 9y ago
Having used Oculus, Daydream, and Vive, I still think Vive provides the best experience. Vive is "room scale", whereas Oculus and Daydream both are "pivoting in an office chair scale". (Oculus has experimental tracking c
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by cbhl 9y ago
Snow is challenging because the lane markers are obscured by the snow -- human drivers guess at where the lanes should be, or remember where the lanes were yesterday. Tesla being able to record sensor/map data from human drivers drivin
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by cbhl 9y ago
Right. The way of dealing with NPEs in the short term is to have patents (encourage employees to file for patents, and acquire companies with patents before NPEs do). My understanding is that Facebook's long term vision is that no prod
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by cbhl 9y ago
It's worth noting this "you can't sue us for violating your patents if you use our non-free open source software" is working as designed. Facebook claims that if every company adopted a React-like license, that softwar
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by cbhl 9y ago
The SFMTA Commuter Shuttle Program is only allowed to recover costs of the program itself, for regulatory reasons. Locals don't actually want to fix this problem -- ethnic groups are afraid of losing their homes, because historically t
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by cbhl 9y ago
Municipalities can choose that! But they don't, because the tax revenues from having jobs there is too lucrative. Every year, you'll see parts of the bay area add xx,xxx new jobs but only x,xxx new homes.
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by cbhl 9y ago
What about the Internet Archive?
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by cbhl 9y ago
If $180 is significant, then this person is probably a student or on a budget, not a business. So they'd probably prefer the downtime.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Not expanding public transit already happens. Google/Cisco/Apple/Facebook was running its own shadow public transit system for free to the cities, but the anti-techie lobbies demanded that SF regulate it to a shadow of its
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by cbhl 9y ago
The Khan Academy is a great resource for those students. Ideally we would fix the system, but in the meantime we can point them to how they can use software to catch up with (and eventually surpass) their peers. Fixing high schools for real
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by cbhl 9y ago
> First of all, isn't failing the placement test prima facie evidence that you need remedial courses? No. An anecdote: In my tenth grade science class, they had a quiz where you have to memorize the name, atomic number, and atomic
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by cbhl 9y ago
Would single payer cover prescriptions though? Canada has single payer, and you still have to pay something whenever you get a prescription at the pharmacy.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Only if you've rooted your phone, and $EMPLOYER doesn't let rooted phones access certain resources.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Lessig's Mayday PAC did pretty poorly (spent $10M to support 8 candidates, only two of them won their races). Did The United Slate take lessons learned from Mayday PAC into account for its strategy?
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by cbhl 9y ago
I remember in the late 90s running into a "mysterious" problem where www.hotmail.com would fail to load, but hotmail.com (without www.) worked just fine. Spent the better part of a year just remembering to not type "www.&quot
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by cbhl 9y ago
This is a false dichotomy, and derailing from the conversations about women in tech. Even the most generous estimates of autism prevalence put it at 1-3% of children -- you could hire every man and woman with autism and it would have an e
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by cbhl 9y ago
Are you saying that this is the start of a "white male rebellion" inside silicon valley?
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by cbhl 9y ago
The main issue I have with this design is that it doesn't account for the cost of implementing the proposed changes. For paper boarding passes, it's prohibitively expensive to upgrade the printers and self-check-in kiosks to suppo

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