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by ddlatham 5y ago
There's a great Planet Money episode explaining the story https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1044598674
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by ddlatham 5y ago
Wirecutter performed a similar experiment a few years back. Their results were somewhat different, showing that the DIY version helped significantly, but not nearly as well as the best of the commerical ones they tested: https:/&#x2F
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Russia Threatens Apple and Google over Alexei Navalny App(wsj.com)
4 points by ddlatham 5y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 5y ago
It's worth noting that quote was actually first published 5 years ago, and its veracity is in dispute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman#Drug_war_quote I do believe the War on Drugs has been a terrible
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by ddlatham 5y ago
I think that's a great example of the "smoothing" that I was alluding to, though not in a format accessible to most programmers. However it is still just using a function of upvotes and downvotes. I think true rating can be
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by ddlatham 5y ago
I'm the author of #6 on the same list. It's definitely interesting to see it has been used thousands of times on GitHub, and who knows how many more in proprietary code. I don't think it's buggy, but I now think it cou
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by ddlatham 5y ago
I agree that defining where the boundary should be is tricky in practice, and it's a good point that this was hardly a unanimous decision, not to mention overruling the appealed ruling. On the other hand, the underlying law, the CFAA,
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by ddlatham 5y ago
Looks like it has now been updated and returns images of various tanks and male athletes, but still no images of what seems most relevant to the phrase - the iconic Tiananmen Square photograph that goes by that name.
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by ddlatham 5y ago
Perhaps it would be helpful to consider an offline analogy. Suppose there were no computers involved and all the information was stored in files in a locked room. Now Van Buren is given a key to access the filing room for his duties, and th
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by ddlatham 5y ago
It looks like the main reason why the first Ask HN story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925 ) disappeared was because it was flagged. But that's just the surface reason. The deeper reason is because of HN
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by ddlatham 5y ago
> In the hours that followed, RSA’s executives debated how to go public. One person in legal suggested they didn’t actually need to tell their customers, Sam Curry remembers. Coviello slammed a fist on the table: They would not only admi
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by ddlatham 5y ago
The setting controls whether Flurry can retrieve the advertising id (IDFA) which allows for cross-app identification. Without that, Flurry can still count devices using an app, but cannot identify if they are the same across apps. So they
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by ddlatham 5y ago
As with many interesting topics, there's a great Planet Money episode about this too: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/16/440951873/epis...
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by ddlatham 5y ago
Yes. I'd guess he means Ian's Secure Knot, which I also now use. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
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by ddlatham 6y ago
Wow that's a huge shift in public support after the experience of a single winter. I wonder if we're doomed to repeat it.
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by ddlatham 6y ago
I remember it was slow to load up at the beginning, but that since it held all my music, I wasn't constantly switching what music was on the device, only occasionally loading a small new set of files, so the slow transfer didn't m
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by ddlatham 6y ago
I totally agree that having enough storage space for your full collection was an important differentiator. But the thing is that the iPod wasn't the first to market for that either. I remember having the https://en.wikipedia
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by ddlatham 6y ago
One difference I noticed from my memory of watching it 20 years ago is in the original video there was a delay between the visual of the explosion and the audio, which makes sense because of the distance. In this version, they appear to ha
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by ddlatham 6y ago
since the domestic programs deployed were lawful at the time Just last month: > Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an a
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California Property Tax Interactive Map(officialdata.org)
4 points by ddlatham 6y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 6y ago
What would it take for you to be convinced after you wake up this morning that you had this condition and the year was actually 2035 right now? Rot13 after you've thought of an answer: Abj nfx lbhefrys, ubj uneq jbhyq vg ernyyl or sbe
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by ddlatham 6y ago
This reminds me of how the Continental Congress ended up appointing a Baker General to serve with Washington during the Revolutionary War. After the barrels had been transported by wagon out into the field and their contents distributed, s
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by ddlatham 6y ago
I'm not sure how that would affect perceptions of relative latitude.
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by ddlatham 6y ago
As a native to the US west coast, I was very surprised to realize that Toronto, Ontario is further south than Portland, Oregon.
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Lawmakers Leave Washington Without Renewing Expired Surveillance Powers(wsj.com)
2 points by ddlatham 7y ago|2 comments
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by ddlatham 7y ago
So the most equal solution is no school for anyone. Of course, that likely has more impact on the kids without family support than those in families that can manage some education on their own, and actually makes inequality worse than start
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Coronavirus Cases Strain New York City Hospitals(wsj.com)
19 points by ddlatham 7y ago|2 comments
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by ddlatham 7y ago
Your comment asked: >> Would it weaken the arcile's point to report that 20-44 year olds and 45-54 year olds both had around 20% chance of being hospitalised? But I think that's unfair to the article. The data are not showi
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by ddlatham 7y ago
I think the article groups 20-54 because some people believe that only older people are much affected by the disease. They picture hospitals filled with the elderly. However, the data shows here that if you visited a US hospital filled wi
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by ddlatham 7y ago
It's not just the elderly who will die if the system is overwhelmed. Nearly 40% of those that are sick enough to require hospital care are between the ages of 20 and 64[1]. If everyone is getting it at the same time and there's no

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