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by danjoc 9y ago
No surprise. ~40% of Americans are obese, up from 30% in 2000. http://time.com/4980225/obesity-rates-adults-children/ Compare to another developed nation like Japan with ~3.5%.
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by danjoc 9y ago
AWS seems like a pretty good deal.
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How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME [pdf](blackhat.com)
543 points by danjoc 9y ago|107 comments
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by danjoc 9y ago
We learned from the Equifax breach that salary is part of the information collected. "So, it's illegal to ask? Who cares, that guy's just going to lie anyway. Let's make him give us permission to check his credit report
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by danjoc 9y ago
I'll stick with the Rockchips, thanks. Snapdragon requires binary blobs for ARM trustzone, which makes it as bad as Intel ME or AMD PSP. It also has integrated LTE with baseband backdoor. This only signals to me is that Qualcomm decide
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by danjoc 9y ago
>Comcast's spending likely would increase regardless of whether the net neutrality repeal and tax cut happened. There it is. ARS is salty because "Restore Internet Freedom" worked, and they want to imply Comcast would have
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by danjoc 9y ago
"Young people are just smarter," he said, with a straight face, according to VentureBeat. "Why are most chess masters under 30?" he asked. Has Zuckerberg retired yet? He's old now. 33 in fact. He should have passed
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by danjoc 9y ago
>You may be earning x10 more than a the average "poor" person, but after income taxes, sales tax, property tax, etc, it's barely x5 to x6. lol, you made me laugh. "Look, I know it looks like I make more than you Mr Gr
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by danjoc 9y ago
Famously, Trump sent Germany a $370 billion bill on overdue defense payments. This story is unsurprising in that light.
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A War Trump Won(nytimes.com)
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by danjoc 9y ago
You'll let them have it, even if you don't, right? Other people upload your pictures to Facebook all the time. They give FB permission to use facial recognition, then your photo is theirs to do as they please. Does the EU have any
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by danjoc 9y ago
In the US, wouldn't they need to do a Meaningful Use attestation? http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ehr-vendor-marketshare-... It seems like a solid number for those should be available somewhere.
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by danjoc 9y ago
What sort of market share does OpenEMR have? How many customer installs are there? 10s? 1000s?
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by danjoc 9y ago
Excellent title. It conveyed the entire meaning of the article in this context. That's wonderful, because the moment I clicked through, I realized I would not be able to read the article without enabling javascript. All I receive is a
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by danjoc 9y ago
>80% of Americans Biased poll with leading questions. Ask them if they think the FCC should outlaw unlimited video streaming on T-Mobile Binge On. The 80% evaporates immediately. >you can use that in future elections as evidence that
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by danjoc 9y ago
Nevermind they don't have enough power in either house. Nevermind that the President would veto the thing. You've gotta wonder what the Dems are thinking. Party of the people? Telecom employs orders of magnitude more voters than T
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by danjoc 9y ago
>Of these, shenanigans notwithstanding, Firefox is still the least bad of the bad actors. I would say Brave is better here. By default Brave blocks 3rd party cookies and ads. Brave has browser fingerprint blocking as well, but that is
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by danjoc 9y ago
That's not a large amount of money for a startup. Silicon Valley VCs threw away that much on the Yo app.
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by danjoc 9y ago
We can build our own ISPs. I've read many good posts today that dispute your statement. Here's one, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926261
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by danjoc 9y ago
>cite examples I did, in the post you are responding to. >>>>Do you have any examples? Or any reason to believe that the startup ISPs will bother with anyone outside of a major metro area? >>>the Wireless Internet Se
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by danjoc 9y ago
There are specific examples in the comments I quoted. Mr Pai named more specific examples in the transcript I linked to. You seem to be in a state of blind rage and unable to read anything. If you'd like a deep dive level of informatio
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by danjoc 9y ago
Pai focused primarily on those in his comments today. From Mr. Pai's comments: https://www.recode.net/2017/12/14/16777356/full-transcript-a... "The main complaint consumers have about the Inter
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by danjoc 9y ago
I would suggest you read what Mr Pai said. He went into this subject. https://www.recode.net/2017/12/14/16777356/full-transcript-a... Small internet services were being shut out due to the Title II regul
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by danjoc 9y ago
The current NN repeal is working out exactly the way Pai said it would. As he cited, the problem is lack of competition. The solution is competition. All the discussion happening today is about how to start an ISP to prevent cable monopolie
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by danjoc 9y ago
The original stream is here, https://www.fcc.gov/general/live
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by danjoc 9y ago
This is ruining America's future. That's 5M people who can't even qualify for a car loan now. The penalties for default are punishing. Even bankruptcy isn't a realistic option. This is ruinous for these people. They&#x27
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by danjoc 9y ago
"plane" That's Santa Claus making a test run.
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by danjoc 9y ago
You can find plenty more to downvote here https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danjoc But I will highlight a few key points I've made recently, 1) Racism and death threats against Ajit Pai and his family are not acc
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by danjoc 9y ago
I do. downvoted until invisible >See, nobody wants it guys!
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by danjoc 9y ago
>some of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2QorHUU-Kg read comments read most upvoted comments > You can't say "One thing that should remain Sacred is family, wife, and kids"... when there are families w

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