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Dell recalling motherboards containing malware-infected firmware(en.community.dell.com)
4 points by dfranke 16y ago|0 comments
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by dfranke 16y ago
So is the proof you're referring to actually asserting anything that isn't trivial? The identity function is one-to-one from the rationals to the reals.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Perhaps the political theorists behind it haven't thought it through, but emasculating men is policy. The first part of this sentence contradicts the second. Emasculating men is not policy. Emasculating men is an unintended side-effect
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by dfranke 16y ago
I'd phrase it by more carefully separating the "is" from the "ought". "Modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women" gets the "is" part pretty close, though I'd say it as "modern, postindustrial society is less well-suit
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by dfranke 16y ago
I've seen this asserted dozens of times before, and even though I agree with the observation, the way I see it phrased invariably drives me nuts. Out of all the traditionally "masculine" traits that are in decline, the ones most worth savi
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by dfranke 16y ago
How is that an alternative theory? It reads to me as the same statement, except with an implicit value judgment (men deserve/should-be-entitled-to something better suited to them) layered over top of it.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Bank of America ATMs do this. After entering your PIN, you just press the Fast Cash button rather than the normal OK button, and it'll give you your standard amount and then return your card.
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by dfranke 16y ago
There is no proper math. 99.999999999% is a very silly number. The probability of all of Amazon's datacenters being destroyed in nuclear war within the next year well exceeds 0.000000001%.
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by dfranke 16y ago
I can't take seriously the assumption that skill level in this context is a scalar.
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by dfranke 16y ago
your cash will be FDIC insured through their partners This is not something I'm willing to take their word for without seeing a copy of a legal opinion from someone independent. I don't want to find out after they go under that they've s
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by dfranke 16y ago
There's no reason it can't be if the app is well-implemented (though this is a big if). I suppose it opens up a concern about phone malware, but with checks that's pretty much the least of your problems. It's not like they're terribly sec
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by dfranke 16y ago
Server: <script type="text/javascript">window.location="http://reddit.com/r/netsec";</script>
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by dfranke 16y ago
Also, how many autistic sociopaths have you ever met? Those two traits just don't go together. I'm autistic and can recognize autistics very quickly. I've met Zuck face-to-face and didn't get any of that vibe from him at all.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Every once in a while I come across a post or comment that's been deaded or a user who's been banned for no apparent reason, which usually turns out to be a mistake by an admin. When I see these I email PG, but there ought to be a more eff
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by dfranke 16y ago
I forget whether picture tagging came along before or after I left, though I know I've seen the feature. It was probably some time in the grey area between when I stopped using it regularly and when I actually deactivated my account. Anyw
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by dfranke 16y ago
I was one of Facebook's earlier adopters, back when it was still restricted to a handful of universities. I found it to be a useful tool for getting to know classmates. Then the feature creep started and it turned into a product that I ha
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by dfranke 16y ago
I disagree with this advice. My bitvector solution was memorable enough that I spent a good portion of my in-person interview discussing it (it took advantage of multiple cores even during parsing, and had some passages of hand-written ass
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by dfranke 16y ago
So they've finally identified Windows as a virus? About damned time.
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by dfranke 16y ago
They're still hiring Lisp programmers. I got a "mostly Lisp" job offer from them a couple months ago but turned it down.
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Landscape sketch becomes Jules Verne portrait when viewed in cylindrical mirror(kikiriposzidoszi.blogspot.com)
3 points by dfranke 17y ago|0 comments
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by dfranke 17y ago
The reason that the first hit has "penis" embedded in the base64 is that I posted this to Reddit last night :-). I figured this sort of thing would be old news for HN, but judging by this having gotten 8 points in 12 minutes I guess I was
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by dfranke 17y ago
Open source is just as rigorously defined. http://opensource.org/docs/osd
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by dfranke 17y ago
Today is the day that tptacek gets to run around screaming "I told you so" :-). I don't remember when or why I created it, but I have an account on the compromised server. It was a non-unique password, but fortunately one that I've never u
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by dfranke 17y ago
The amount of money that is in circulation has been holding steady for the last year This has never been true at any point in recent history: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2?cid=29 Granted, the uptrend is a lot shallower
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by dfranke 17y ago
Anyone have a link to the original paper?
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by dfranke 17y ago
The profit you make on investment is taxed as capital gains. The law makes a distinction between short-term and long-term gains: if there's less than a year between when you invest and when you cash out, you pay the same tax rate as for or
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by dfranke 17y ago
This time I'm half-anticipating a flood of articles about Apple banning Erlang from the iPhone.
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by dfranke 17y ago
He banned you for that? Really? I was under the impression that such protests, when justly called for, were condoned by management.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Okay, this uproar has just passed the threshold of ridiculous. "No Private APIs" is well-understood to mean that you can't call undocumented system libraries, not that you can't implement your own. Can we as a community please go back to
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by dfranke 17y ago
What brandnewlow describes was definitely and obviously true in the very-early days of HN (then Startup News), like from its public opening in Feb '07 until the next couple funding cycle deadlines. At that time the readership consisted ver

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