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by cfitz 7y ago
Second this, with my DigitalOcean VPS's. DigitalOcean posted an incident report yesterday. They say "global networking issues" were caused by a "major provider", but unfortunately there isn't much more detail t
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California tests mental health app which tracks patients' usage of their phones(gizmodo.com)
1 points by cfitz 7y ago|1 comments
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by cfitz 7y ago
Do not buy a new one until some other fool (like me) purchases one sight-unseen and shares whether the machine runs without issues. I did this with a top-spec'd 2016 MBP that eventually got replaced with a 2017 due to the frequency of
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by cfitz 7y ago
I am happy to pay for well articulated content that can sometimes reach 45min/piece in reading duration. Medium will slowly learn what you’re interested in and send you opt-out’able weekly newsletters with recommendations. I’m surprise
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EU fines 5 banks $1.2B for foreign exchange rigging(uk.reuters.com)
3 points by cfitz 7y ago|0 comments
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by cfitz 7y ago
Thank you, I appreciate the added historical context. Will give the Fast Company article linked above a read.
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by cfitz 7y ago
It would be helpful to others if you explained what exactly your purported fallacy entails. I can find only one other reference to it and it's on HN.
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by cfitz 7y ago
Original letter from the senators to the FTC chairman here [PDF]: https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5.6.19_Lette...
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Bipartisan Senators Call for FTC to Reassess FB Fine [pdf](blumenthal.senate.gov)
2 points by cfitz 7y ago|0 comments
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by cfitz 7y ago
> But one problem remained: Fordlandia was not producing any rubber. Jungle foliage continued to be cleared, but efforts to plant rubber trees yielded discouraging results. The few trees that took root were quickly beset by blight. This
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by cfitz 7y ago
People will hurt themselves because of the difficulty in repairing the device, not because everyone trying to repair an iPhone (or other Apple device) is incompetent. Of course you are more exposed to injury when you need to simultaneously
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Ultimate Software is going private for $11B(sun-sentinel.com)
1 points by cfitz 8y ago|0 comments
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I Failed. Again. (Zula to Slack, ZCast to Anchor)(technmarketing.com)
2 points by cfitz 8y ago|0 comments
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by cfitz 8y ago
I find your "accomplishing something difficult that can only be done economically by a large manufacturer operating at immense scale" point very interesting. Perhaps they should focus on building a reliable premium product rather
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by cfitz 8y ago
I've had my latest gen MBP (retina with touch bar, top spec'd) replaced twice, and on the latest replacement, the whole keyboard assembly - with whatever was attached to it - also replaced. (Yes, I fully regret selling my previous
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by cfitz 8y ago
> My post 4 months ago is why I'm here today. It's the singular action that pushed me to talk to my work, to talk to a therapist, and eventually to talk to my parents. The truth is it's easy to hole yourself up when you re
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by cfitz 8y ago
Just downloaded this on High Sierra (10.13.6) and having no problems so far. Did you see their downloads page [1]? [1]: https://brave.com/download/
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by cfitz 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17843339
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NASA Spotted a Vast, Glowing 'Hydrogen Wall' at the Edge of Our Solar System(amp.livescience.com)
7 points by cfitz 8y ago|0 comments
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The U.S.'s 2.5 billion pounds of surplus meat, visualized(vox.com)
20 points by cfitz 8y ago|4 comments
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by cfitz 8y ago
Came here to say just this. I was really hoping to find a mention of the cost at the end of the article after seeing none within the "acquiring materials" section. This would help fellow makers budget properly should we want to pu
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by cfitz 8y ago
Can you please share how GDPR affects the second workflow? I'm curious, as I've performed similar work.
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by cfitz 8y ago
This is not exclusive to Asia. I know more individuals whom have found success doing this than attempting to sell software which is the result of a one-off idea. It might seem rare in the States, but only because 1) the entrepreneurs headin
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by cfitz 8y ago
Am I disappointed? Yes. Am I surprised? Absolutely not. They truly fear for the safety of their industry, which is responsible for ~$7.5B in revenue between the two (per annum).
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An Open Letter to Magic Leap(forbes.com)
3 points by cfitz 8y ago|0 comments
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by cfitz 9y ago
While I would also personally prefer this functionality as an extension rather than as "bloatware" (although it's not exactly useless), I believe having it built-in will better the majority of Chrome users who are not savvy (
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by cfitz 9y ago
Irrelevant to the content of the article, but I am such a fan of the direction the NYT has taken with their interactive articles. Breaking up long-winded articles via relevant images is no longer sufficient to maintain most readers' at
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by cfitz 9y ago
From the (overly lengthy) Patent Description section: A challenge-response test may include a type of authentication where one party (e.g., security device 240) presents a question (e.g., a “challenge”) and another party (e.g., attacker de
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How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js(stackshare.io)
6 points by cfitz 9y ago|0 comments
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by cfitz 9y ago
From a capitalistic point-of-view, congrats to Midnight Labs for successfully repeatedly pivoting until something stuck. From a cultural point-of-view, I'm afraid for my (future) kids.

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