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Ask HN: How do you know if you can trust?
1 points by chimi 7y ago|1 comments
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by chimi 7y ago
They have been for quite some time: Cosmetic Surgery. I remember watching a TV show years ago about a woman who had had lots of plastic surgery, found the man of her dreams, and was now pregnant. She was afraid the baby would come out looki
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by chimi 7y ago
Or you could do it with a camera watching and extract the numbers from the image. I've considered this route many times for many types of devices.
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by chimi 7y ago
We are still at war. Just look at the wikipedia list of ongoing wars. They are just in parts of the world we "don't care about" except for their resources. Wars have always been about resources and we still have those wars. W
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by chimi 7y ago
To get better than 10mb down and 2mb up, I'd have to buy it from another country. Please let me be the first customer. How can it be worse than literally all I can get?
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by chimi 8y ago
The good news is, eventually it'll just be so loaded with bots that we can stop talking about Twitter all together.
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by chimi 8y ago
VB and Pascal were way ahead of their time.
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by chimi 8y ago
Computers have already created proofs for what we have known but been unable to prove. They are doing that too.
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by chimi 8y ago
Humans will begin to be the pets we want to be. Taken care of completely, all our needs provided, by our more intelligent owners. Like royal families today.
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by chimi 8y ago
Which I never understood. USA provides free healthcare for people who are poor because they don't work and healthcare for people who are retired and don't work. But the USA does not provide healthcare for people who work and keep
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by chimi 8y ago
Clearly. A full page piece on a semantic argument. Most newspapers don't waste our time like that. There's nothing of value in that article.
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by chimi 8y ago
With all the hands out on that web page, I think it's The Guardian that's broke.
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by chimi 14y ago
This sounds a lot like Security through Obscurity to me. Why does it work with DDOS, but not source code?
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by chimi 14y ago
What he said does make sense. Your numbers are incomplete. You're saying "All firearm deaths" which include drive-by's, hunting accidents, etc. If you can't break down the numbers to ONLY those children who died from a gun that was stored i
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by chimi 14y ago
Just out of curiosity, why have it blink for 2 minutes, then faster for 1 minute?
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by chimi 14y ago
No, I think Broder was describing with words and memory an experience he had with the car and it was probably as accurate as any mortal could write. Our brains aren't designed to log data like a car. When I read the article and looked at th
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by chimi 14y ago
One way would be to alter the algorithm calculating potential distance achieved based on temperature and energy storage capabilities of the batteries. Batteries don't power as well in cold temperatures, it's something many of us have experi
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by chimi 14y ago
Elon Musk was my hero until this Times feud. I loved him. I thought he was moving the world forward. He is. I just don't respect him anymore, not like I used to. I mean, I do, just not like I used to. I looked at the chart. I read his respo
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by chimi 14y ago
And you have provided no evidence that the best programmers you've worked with aren't actually below average programmers.
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by chimi 14y ago
This is a tired argument born out of ignorance. You have no provided no evidence that the pirates would pay for it if they could, nor have you provided any evidence that HBO would make more money selling Game of Thrones to individuals than
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by chimi 14y ago
For the record, I 100% agree with you, and still I am left with this question: How do I, as a producer of a product worth money, find customers for my product without contributing to the advertising system I loathe for all the reasons you m
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by chimi 14y ago
If anyone but you has the source, you no longer control access to it. You and they do and if they decide to upload it to BitTorrent, what are you going to do?
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by chimi 14y ago
I asked some engineer friends of mine who work for a govt contractor building helicopter control systems how they felt about their work being used to kill innocent people in foreign countries. To answer the question, they rubbed their finge
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by chimi 14y ago
It's a cloud based database application development environment.
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by chimi 14y ago
I'll get downvoted to oblivion for saying this, but conscience is why I choose closed source over open source. If I open my source code, anyone in the world can use it to do whatever they want, evil or otherwise. With closed source, I can c
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by chimi 14y ago
Do you think your semantic debate strategy will save any suicidal lives?
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by chimi 14y ago
You can, but some people have a big conscience and want to deliver on the expectations people have of them, so some people can't just "walk away." It's those people who are suicidal in failed startup scenarios.
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by chimi 14y ago
That perspective varies by the individual. I know people who have taken money and consider themselves to owe their investors a return. The depression experienced from a lack of ability to deliver that return can be extreme. There are also l
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by chimi 14y ago
As a former employee of one of the US's largest electric utilities, I can answer this question. The reason is quite simple. Most power plants are in the middle of nowhere and people with the capability to manage them don't want to live near
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by chimi 14y ago
It's important to find a good property manager in the area you are investing. They do the work for you but the returns are less of course. Just like anything...

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