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901.
by codex 14y ago
That's not my experience with Chrome on Linux; everything worked.
902.
by codex 14y ago
Did you read the second paragraph, where I make this same point?
903.
by codex 14y ago
Blowing up a plane by embedding a bomb in a body cavity is still plenty easy post 9/11. The terrorist need only head into the restroom and detonate the bomb under the cover of privacy. Bomb making technology and the willingness to be mart
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ASTA Praises TSA for its Risk-Based Screening Initiative(travelagentcentral.com)
3 points by codex 14y ago|0 comments
905.
by codex 14y ago
One could make the counter argument that some terrorists are discouraged by the difficulty and no longer try. For example, how many plane bombings have their been since Lockerbie? None. Does that mean that we should stop inspecting lugga
906.
by codex 14y ago
Actually, there is some evidence of benefit: there has not been a successful terrorist attack on a US commercial aircraft since the TSA was formed. Is that evidence good enough to say that the TSA is effective? Not really; terrorist attack
907.
by codex 14y ago
A fair point. I spent only about 30 seconds on this, but found: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4943959 , "Surprise Gallup Poll: People Think TSA Does A Good Job". This is a poor article: it's merely reporting on a public poll of the
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Surprise Gallup Poll: People Think TSA Does A Good Job(forbes.com)
2 points by codex 14y ago|0 comments
909.
by codex 14y ago
HN has quite an anti-TSA bias. The TSA has problems, but so does every large organization. I suspect HN'ers glare at the TSA because they travel frequently, and it would benefit them disproportionately to cut down on travel time and incon
910.
by codex 14y ago
Many startups accomplish the same thing via the performance review process. Equity is usually in a state of constant dilution, so each employee's total effective slice the pie can be adjusted over time, to a certain extent, by giving them
911.
by codex 14y ago
Moving is pain in the ass. You need a reason: bigger family, great upgrade, or economic necessity. The U.S. birth rate crashed between 1960 and 1975, declining over 25%. That removes a lot of moves into bigger houses during that period. F
912.
by codex 14y ago
Stop turning over PG's every word like some soon-to-be unemployed English major. It is pathetic. You need experience with the real world through use, and not by the cool reflected glow of the Internet on your monitor.
913.
by codex 14y ago
This is actually an argument for why an armed populace isn't necessary to defeat oppressive regimes; ultimately the rebels are armed by other interested nations (see: Syria, Libya, Afghanistan). The US would still be under British rule if i
914.
by codex 14y ago
Hear hear! I only wish the founding fathers had the foresight to anticipate advances in technology. It is my right to carry a nuclear weapon and I don't understand why that isn't more widely recognized.
915.
by codex 14y ago
The problem with Belltown isn't so much with crime as its antiseptic feel. Endless highrises with nothing interesting for retail underneath. No supermarket. The coffee shops have no character. On a Sunday morning the streets are barren
916.
by codex 14y ago
The problem with Seattle isn't as much the rain, as it is the cloud cover and lack of sunlight in Seattle. In the wintertime, those two combine for a fairly negative effect. That said, sometimes it does rain a lot in Seattle. Some years a
917.
by codex 14y ago
The assumptions in this paper are quite weak. It's like testing whether or not your code is running in a virtual machine. It can be done, but only if the virtual machine authors have made some glaring mistake. Yes, computation is finite,
918.
by codex 14y ago
This article is from a site with a clear agenda rooted in identity politics. I would not treat it as unbiased. Personally, I think that photography is essentially surveillance, which should be considered a potential threat. In this respec
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by codex 14y ago
This is good news, but being cash flow positive over a week is not really an impressive achievement. It's easy enough to game this milestone by rescheduling payments, if they chose to do that. Even if they didn't, it's such a short time fr
920.
by codex 14y ago
I should point out that multi-word passwords have at least one disadvantage: if you can figure out which letters were used and/or the password's length, and you know the password is multi-word, then it becomes easier to derive what the pass
921.
by codex 14y ago
Before we checked luggage for bombs, bombers took down entire aircraft by checking in explosive laden bags. Before we checked passenger shoes, a bomber attempted to detonate theirs. If we relax our security, how do we ensure these things
922.
by codex 14y ago
I don't understand why Tesla's losses keep increasing; now they're losing $33M a month, up from $20M a month a year ago and roughtly the same as last quarter. That with $50M in revenue this quarter and actual shipping product. Can someone
923.
by codex 14y ago
This looks very promising. Can anyone compare and contrast with supercapacitors, flywheels, and/or simply pumping water uphill and running it through a generator when needed?
924.
by codex 14y ago
Ignoring the fact that this post contains refer.ly links and is really just SEO bait produced by the refer.ly CEO, I find that carbs and caffeine do not make me more productive at work. I used to think they did, but in reality they only bo
925.
by codex 14y ago
If traditional political journalists assume that the race is too close to call because both campaigns tell them so, then they are gullible chumps, plain and simple. The losing campaign will try to claim the race is close because they don't
926.
by codex 14y ago
I think one can spend an infinite amount of money on one'e health--from research into diseases you are likely to get, all the way to immortality. Splurging on these kinds of buildings is only satisfying a paranoid, irrational urge, IMHO.
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by codex 14y ago
Interesting use of resources that would have been better spent on one's health.
928.
by codex 14y ago
It's quite like like a combination L2ARC + ZIL. However, the L2ARC isn't persistent across reboots (otherwise block writes would need to be journalled, adding complexity) so you don't get the speed benefits until the machine's uptime gets
929.
by codex 14y ago
Linux has several similar implementations, as does ZFS with the L2ARC.
930.
by codex 14y ago
I use MicroMemory 1GB battery backed PCIe cards for my ZILs. They work quite well.

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