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by declan 11y ago
I used Twitter quite a bit for work purposes (before I left CNET/CBS last year to found a recommendation startup) and might have paid for it then. But the value for me was in interacting with a large number of people, and I suspect eve
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by declan 11y ago
>"guessing exactly who/what you’d be interested in without tons of info is virtually impossible." That was my intuition as well. But it turns out that you can generate good recommendations without tons of info -- as long a
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by declan 11y ago
I don't think it's a surprise that Tesla would not exist without government subsidies (I say this as someone who thinks the Model S is an excellent car). From a piece in today's WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/article
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by declan 11y ago
That court opinion describes a list of alleged chats that the Feds planned to introduce as evidence. It does not say the court accepted that evidence as true in the form of a finding of fact. (Put another way, that document does not say w
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by declan 11y ago
> Build a strip mall and rent bays to surf shops and restaurants The government would not allow this to happen. The California Coastal Commission prohibits any such development. I've talked to a local architect who had his plans to
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by declan 11y ago
> network in Android land has been that Lollipop remains a disaster That's merely anecdotal, and my own anecdotes run in the opposite direction. I'm building https://recent.io/ for Android and iOS and have a N
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Letter: Politicos trying to fix Patriot Act, curb NSA spying oppose renewal [pdf](lofgren.house.gov)
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House approves asteroid mining bill by 284-133 vote(govtrack.us)
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Call in to Obama admin conference call on restricting security-related software(twitter.com)
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Support Builds for Export Controls on Cyber Monitoring Technologies (2013)(wilmerhale.com)
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by declan 11y ago
This is a great list -- thanks for posting it. FYI it looks like the IRIS+ is now $599, and the IRIS Solo is $999 and is scheduled to ship next month: https://store.3drobotics.com/products/iris For general use, is ther
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by declan 11y ago
> Anyway, in the US it has been illegal for some time to say Note the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this threat against the life of a sitting president was protected by the First Amendment: "If they ever make me carry a rifle the fi
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by declan 11y ago
This really could be Uber for trash. I pay something like $50 a month for trash collection services, or around $12 a week. That includes yard waste and recycling. If I can fit my trash and recycling into two bags per week and find something
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by declan 11y ago
I'm sorry to say (as someone who has worked at Wired two different times) that this is not one of Wired's most convincing pieces. First, the pro-seasteading folks are not "letting go" -- as far as I can tell, they'r
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by declan 11y ago
Business Insider's writeup of this discussion: http://www.businessinsider.in/A-hacker-site-says-it-has-disc... Headline is: "A hacker site says it has discovered the apps Mark Cuban loves - and those he doesn&#x27
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by declan 11y ago
HN is a "hacker site." Sigh. Note this version of the story has a different headline: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-apps-mark-cubans-loves-an... The discussion that sparked this article: https://ne
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A hacker site says it has discovered the apps Mark Cuban loves...(businessinsider.in)
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> Alice's email needs to be sent as plaintext Thanks for your explanation! Though in your hypothetical Carla uses Gmail, and Google supports SMTP TLS. So the email would be encrypted in transit to Google's servers. The proble
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by declan 11y ago
Well, it depends on what you mean by "law startup." There are plenty of document-processing startups that help with what lawyers call e-discovery. There are also some startups that will help you do some standard legal tasks, like
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by declan 11y ago
As you say, apocalyptic thinking seems to be deeply wired into the human psyche. If your threat model predicts a high probability of nuclear war, civilization-threatening pandemics, or other end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenarios, you sho
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by declan 11y ago
Agreed about keeping some emergency supplies on hand. I live in earthquake country (the SF peninsula) and the Red Cross recommends two weeks of food and water: http://www.redcross.org/prepare/location/home-family&#
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by declan 11y ago
I met my now-wife at a privacy conference in Washington, D.C. I was at the conference for work, and she was working for the summer at a non-profit group, which had sent her to the event. Both of us ended up talking at the dinner and sitting
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by declan 11y ago
Today's ruling should be a lesson for future NSA/CIA/DOD/FBI/etc. leakers: get your hands on those original documents. Telling reporters about illegal activity, without those documents, isn't enough. We've
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Quite welcome! Engineers (I take it you are one) seem to make natural pilots, in my experience. I don't own a plane but have in the post thought idly about commuting to the SF bay area from the Sierras. I've heard of pilots doing
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That's cheaper than I thought it would be! But if you're trying to get to a job in San Mateo from someplace like Gilroy or Hollister, that would be a bit of a hellish commute. Maybe you could pull it off more easily if you work of
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by declan 11y ago
If you honor robots.txt or provide a straightforward way for sites to opt-out of your search engine, you're in better shape than you would be otherwise. Google honors robots.txt but few site owners enable it because of the cost of deli
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by declan 11y ago
>I've been looking to purchase some land just outside the Bay Area to build a small cabin... You can do this in the Bay Area itself, though in general the closer you want to be to a supermarket, bank, etc. the more you'll pay.
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by declan 11y ago
>I took this twitter bird from https://www.iconfinder.com and it has license "Creative Commons (Attribution 3.0 Unported)" First, Creative Commons licenses only deal with copyright, as far as I can recall, not trade
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by declan 11y ago
>Snowden has never seen a successful decrypted RSA-1024 intercept. But he also believes that the good stuff is kept under wraps... Here's a piece I wrote for CNET about RSA-1024: http://www.cnet.com/news/faceboo
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Circa seeks buyer after failing to raise another round of funding(fortune.com)
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