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by cracell 9y ago
Sounds like the thinking is "Anyone can use backdoors so they are bad but we have to have access to everything. So give us access without a backdoor." I suppose tech companies could give them a backdoor and call it a front door?
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by cracell 9y ago
This has been my experience as well. Etsy in just a few years has gone from a artisan marketplace to a bunch of mass produced junk. From the articles I've read they've done this to increase the number of sales (cheaper items = mor
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by cracell 9y ago
The scams and reduced quality are entirely Amazon's fault. They've done very little to cut down on them. But I don't think they have an appropriate system in place for any sort of custom device like this. Maybe they should bu
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by cracell 9y ago
I would never buy an Echo because of privacy concerns but this does appeal to me. I don't have fashion sense. And I know something as simple as an algorithm telling me if the colors match would improve how I dress. That said I'd p
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by cracell 10y ago
Also have to think about all of the businesses impacted. Previously viable businesses may become non-viable because of those 46,000 people not crossing the river.
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by cracell 10y ago
Yeah pretty telling that they are following in the footsteps of Best Buy and Yahoo. Two companies that no one considers leaders in the innovation space right now.
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by cracell 10y ago
In general but I believe this is the first time wikileaks has had specific exploit information so it's the first time they are doing it.
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by cracell 10y ago
I'm also curious if they'd be able to match different encodings of the same video or would only be able to match against specific encodings in their collection.
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by cracell 10y ago
I hope the market punishes them for removing the ports we regularly use from the MacBook Pro so when I'm ready to buy a new one in a few years they have brought them back. In particular the removal of the magsafe power connector is mad
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by cracell 10y ago
Depends on price for me. I have trouble hearing in noisy environments. When I was young I was diagnosed with an auditory processing problem so I assume it's related to that. When I meet with someone in a noisy environment I just accept
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by cracell 10y ago
Interesting idea but wouldn't a satellite to car connection be pretty unreliable? Since the line of sight would often have things in the way. I'm assuming trees, bridges, and being in a garage would interfere with it.
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by cracell 10y ago
Here's saying if you own the whole system you can optimize things to be more efficient than if you have a ton of separation between the people who run the different pieces of the system. So in the this case maybe AT&T having vertic
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by cracell 10y ago
Completely disagree. There's a tons and tons of ways to use them. Sure it can be gimmick or it can be an extremely valuable tool and usually they are somewhere in-between. In my own experience I've found they are a great replaceme
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by cracell 11y ago
That's the problem though. The VR PR machine is making it sound like these new VR headsets are something anyone can just buy, plugin and play with! But it's more complex than that.
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by cracell 11y ago
Cool idea but there's no way this is going to be finished along their timeline and budget. The CEO's resume doesn't make me think he has the experience to get this done https://it.linkedin.com/in/francesc
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by cracell 11y ago
That's just stupid. Heroku rarely gives a proper technical explanation of their outages and under reports the length and severity of them drastically. I assume this is to maintain their SLA. We really need independent third parties to
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by cracell 11y ago
Seems like battery swaps are the solution to this. Essentially the battery pack is designed to be easily removable and you just "lease" it in one way or another. You go to a fuel station and swap your battery packs with some that
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by cracell 11y ago
While I can see how this could hurt his future employment prospects what legal ground is there to sue over this post? Seems like slander would be a very hard case to win and what else is there that you could sue him for?
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by cracell 11y ago
The scenario you give with the iPhone may have been planned marketing as well. It's not that hard to conclude that a $600 dollar cell phone would not sell very well when the iPhone debuted. But releasing it at that price made it "
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by cracell 11y ago
What? With that attitude do you not believe in regulating anything? No laws are perfect but that's not a valid argument against having them. There's a big difference in a company legally operating a facial tracking system and a co
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by cracell 11y ago
> The problem is by then it might be too late to fight it. It is never too late to fight something. Everything changes with time. It might be too late for an easy victory but if you study how things change and evolve over decades you&#x2
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by cracell 11y ago
Why not both? We should retain the right to conceal our identity in reasonable ways and governments should enact laws that protect their citizens privacy from biometric recognition technologies.
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by cracell 11y ago
Why can't apps like this have a accessible demo available to try it out? Not interested enough to spend time signing up and I avoid SSO whenever I can for various reasons.
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by cracell 11y ago
This isn't going to stop scumbags. How would it?
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by cracell 12y ago
How could you pay someone by job performance? Anything you use to measure their job performance then becomes the metric that is optimized for. And the things you can easily measure are almost never the important things that you need out of
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by cracell 12y ago
The solution here is to help teach everyone how to negotiate their salaries. Not to let companies completely dictate the terms of your employment. Also "We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let
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by cracell 12y ago
The relevant point of your link is "We find that alcohol consumption fell sharply at the beginning of Prohibition, to approximately 30 percent of its pre-Prohibition level. During the next several years, however, alcohol consumption in
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by cracell 12y ago
The producers that are usually referenced here in California are ones that do environmental damage and/or are associated with violent gangs. Few examples: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/uc_bre
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by cracell 12y ago
The risk I'm concerned about is it evolving to be contagious prior to showing symptoms. Which becomes more likely the more it spreads. And of course seeing two US nurses get it from one patient illustrates that our healthcare system is
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by cracell 12y ago
Trader Joe's is a privately held company and doesn't franchise ( http://www.traderjoes.com/about/general-faq.asp#Franchise ). Seems like starting to franchise would not necessarily fit with their long term grow

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