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by computator 4y ago
> Equifax is now receiving records every pay period from 2.5 million companies. Information in the reports comes from employers and payroll processors. But why do employers and payroll processors give any data to Equifax? I can unde
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by computator 4y ago
Do these "This Does Not Exist" sites do live image generation (they are so fast), or do they generate the images slowly over days and weeks and show us images from a cache?
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by computator 4y ago
I thought so too, so I tried to find out if they were scraped from the web. I saved about a dozen generated images and used Google Reverse Image Search and TinEye to see if I could find a match on the Internet. But no luck. Maybe the cat im
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by computator 4y ago
For black & white (grayscale) text, my experience has been that laser printers are just as good, or superior (esp. if your laser printer does 600dpi or higher), and they don't smudge as easily as ink jet prints.
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by computator 4y ago
I wanted to find out how the media could mess up a simple factual story on whether or not a famous person had died. It proved to be quite difficult to google for "Gorbachev death/died/dead misreported/erroneous/fals
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by computator 4y ago
I've seen hundreds of photos from the summit looking out, thousands of photos looking toward the summit from below, but this is the first time I saw a photo that really gives a feel for how much room there is at the summit. The point i
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by computator 4y ago
One more classic story in the same category of humour: Some poor downtrodden men in Leningrad during the height of the Cold War have been hearing about all the wonderful jobs, weather, and food in Siberia. They are eager to move there but t
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by computator 4y ago
As someone who keeps an ideas file as well as files for quotations, new words I learned, and Hacker News submissions I didn't have time to read, I think it's freeing for my mind but I find that I never go back to review them. I fo
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by computator 4y ago
I assume eBay would write its terms of service to be in their own favor to the maximum extent possible. So why do you think they allowed an exception for small claims court?
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by computator 4y ago
> The Food and Drug Administration moved to make hearing aids easier to buy over the counter without a prescription or medical exam But you can already buy hearing aids without a prescription or medical exam. I do mean the United State
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by computator 4y ago
Third, if police never bother with "trivial" thefts like bags, cellphones, laptops, and purses, it means that a single thief can steal hundreds of such items and never be caught. If the police make an occasional effort to solve
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by computator 4y ago
> I watched them sit at the rental car terminal for weeks Do you mean that the car rental office actually did find your AirPods and kept them in their office for 30 days? It sounds like that's what you mean since you say that the
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by computator 4y ago
In the late 1990s, after watching the movie WarGames (1983), I saw a scene where Matthew Broderick's character is researching the computer scientist Stephen Falken to try to guess his password. There was a brief glimpse of a Scientific
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by computator 4y ago
A fun question I was thinking about: If I were able to go back in time to 1948 and ask the coroner if it might be possible identify the mystery man by finding people related to him by using microscopic hereditary information extracted from
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by computator 4y ago
I wonder why one's history with a company stopped being a huge factor? Aren't credit scores still heavily based on a history of on-time payments of your bills? The OP says he had never filed a dispute before in his long history as
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Part of India Is on the Verge of Becoming a Complete Surveillance State(slate.com)
32 points by computator 4y ago|4 comments
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by computator 4y ago
It does need to be fixed but I’m curious to know how this submission got upvoted to the current 8 points when the URL[1] is clearly bogus? Do people upvote on the basis of the title alone? [1] In case it gets fixed later, I’ll mention that
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by computator 4y ago
> You’re not missing anything if you don’t those articles. I love the irony that something is missing in her closing remark. Almost makes me wonder if it was intentional.
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by computator 4y ago
Two ideas: (1) Might you have had an ISDN modem and two 56kbps channels? Or are you certain it was a plain 56kbps modem and an ordinary POTS line (plain old telephone service). (2) Are you sure that the P2P software wasn't lying to y
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by computator 4y ago
He says he was downloading an already compressed file (a zip file which uses the Deflate algorithm by default). Even if the system was uncompressing and recompressing with a better algorithm at each end, such as bzip2 (Burrows–Wheeler algor
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by computator 4y ago
> So Taxi services have gone through these stages ... Defacto de-regulation (via effective non-enforcement) Could you talk a bit more about that part? I'm glad that Uber exists, but I don't understand how they got around the
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by computator 4y ago
> store-brand adhesive bandages "Band-Aids" On a tangent to the topic of adhesive bandages, as a bit of a connoisseur of tapes myself, I want to mention that the best band aids I've ever found are Nexcare Waterproof Band
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by computator 4y ago
As a bit of a tape connoisseur, I want to point out that gaffer's tape is very different from duct tape. People often confuse the two. Unlike duct tape, gaffer's tape is easily removed, doesn't leave a sticky residue, and is
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by computator 4y ago
A sort-of related idea is: How small can an image of a human face be and still be recognizable? I remember X-face images from mail headers years ago -- these were just 48 x 48 x 1 pixel images, i.e., just 288 bytes (yes, bytes, not KB or
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by computator 5y ago
> I'd rather use OS level UI scaling you will have sharper and better picture I tried various OS scaling methods. The problem with "magnify or zoom in on the whole screen" is that it's very cumbersome for an elderly
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by computator 5y ago
> If their eyes are unable to resolve the smaller pixels it will offer no benefit. Sorry, I don't understand. The pixels would be bigger in the idea I'm proposing. > A 27"+ monitor made ~10 years ago would be ideal.
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by computator 5y ago
Do you think such a setup would be helpful for an elderly relative whose eyesight is getting worse? Even with glasses, the relative has trouble with a 27-inch desktop monitor with 2560 x 1440 pixels. Specifically, I was thinking of using an
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by computator 5y ago
> let me recover archives that suffered physical media damage > Usability nit aside, I'd love to hear about alternatives. Make two or more copies on different media. Sure, RAR or another archiver can save you from partial med
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by computator 5y ago
> They exclude alternative web renderers and javascript implementations. What's the rationale for that? If I were to take a wild guess, I'd say it's for security. Apple trusts their own implementation but they wouldn&#x
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by computator 5y ago
If you have a credit card that charges no foreign exchange fee, could you overpay your credit card (i.e., leave a balance in your favor on the card), then withdraw cash at foreign ATM machines, thereby avoiding both forex fees and credit

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