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by dmckeon 9y ago
As a person of similar height, I would happily pay 10% more for a seat pitch that is 10% greater, just as airlines now charge for exit rows, bulkheads, etc. Make a few rows deeper, charge more for seats that pax reserve in those rows. Don
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Given the "leetspeak" file names mentioned, this smells more like a bot or malware than a smoking gun for collusion, or lack of competence rather than malice. On the technical side, how could this work? How could a third party c
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Trump’s Connections to Russia – They Are Just a Ping Away(unhackthevote.com)
2 points by dmckeon 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask the guy shining shoes outside J.P. Morgan. He always knows where a market is heading.
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Cell game: Novel software helping inmates find a home(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by dmckeon 9y ago|0 comments
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by dmckeon 9y ago
In a disaster, buying a few bags of ice, or a few gallons of gasoline is unlikely to cost more than $50. What cash-only vendor will be able and willing to provide change for a $100, let alone a $500? If any cell service were available (thi
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Physical key rather than TFA. Blog version at: https://www.blog.google/topics/safety-security/googles-stron... Previously discussed pre-release in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15369964 &
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Google Advanced Protection Program(landing.google.com)
2 points by dmckeon 9y ago|2 comments
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The phrase: > our journalists is used 14 times. Do the serfs go with the land, or can they have any private/personal online presence? I get that the Times is using "our journalists" as a shorthand for "journalists
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I think they covered that: > On our perspective the diffusion of bogus content is someway related to the increasing mistrust of people with respect to institutions, to the increasing level of functional illiteracy -- i.e., the inability
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Down to 30cm - good! Now all we need is a GPS-enabled app for urban pedestrians that reminds them to look left or right just before they step off a curb into oncoming traffic.
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by dmckeon 9y ago
As technologists, let's not overlook Thoreau's tech work [0] - he made the lead pencil into a profitable product in the US: and could be said to have invented the "Number 2 lead pencil" in that the technique of blending
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by dmckeon 9y ago
While the central premise that replacing SSNs with something like "chip and PIN" is good, note that the EU moved to "chip and PIN" decades ago, while the US moved to "chip and signature" recently, and that mov
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Usenet news user apps had individual blacklisting (and whitelisting and scoring) "killfiles" in the 1980s. They made reading popular newsgroups more tolerable, but did not scale in the face of "endless September" (1993).
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How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus(theatlantic.com)
4 points by dmckeon 9y ago|0 comments
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Next time you're on a road trip, stop at a good-sized truck stop and spend some time looking at the technology and radio aisle. These are folks who use a lot of technology, of many flavors.
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by dmckeon 9y ago
The file name (or entire path) should be where-ever the user expects to find it. Having fixed width columns makes using sort(1) trivial. For the "all the information" part, I've been using something like this: fn () {
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Or, the "Big Rewrite:" https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Regarding the graph of perception, it shows "% saying there is more crime in the US than a year ago." That's more like an estimate of slope than an estimate of number of crimes. Also, if you drill down to the Pew image, and
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by dmckeon 9y ago
For a recent view that covers this troubling period, see: America Aflame - How the Civil War Created a Nation, by David Goldfield
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4. Format of whitespace
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/science/ticks-lyme-diseas... > Although deer help spread ticks that carry Lyme, Dr. Esvelt explained to about two dozen residents at the meeting, the disease can als
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Since the metadata in the document the Maddow show received matches the metadata in the document that The Intercept published, Occam's razor would suggest, as TI quotes Maddow: "someone appears to have used your [TI's] doc as
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by dmckeon 9y ago
> 232 media executives control the information diet of 277 million Americans. > That's 1 media exec to 850,000 subscribers More like 1,194,000 subscribers. How can one take such a presentation seriously when the authors fail at
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by dmckeon 9y ago
The demand for housing is high enough that agriculture is getting squeezed - high rents make labor cost more than growers can afford. Details covered in the report TFA mentions: https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/885
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> “State election officials are very sensitive about what they perceive to be federal intrusion into their process,” Johnson said, noting that he often encountered officials pushing back and arguing that “it’s our process, our responsibi
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Newsweek title was: > Massive Craters From Methane Explosions Discovered in Arctic Ocean Where Ice Melted but to clarify the not-recent time frame, perhaps: Methane Craters from Ice Age Melting found in Arctic Ocean
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Well, the government has thought of it, and, at this point, appears to think it is legal. Look up "family limited partnership" or see: http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art... https:&
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by dmckeon 9y ago
The owner could have gifted a small interest in the company to each daughter, grand-daughter, and perhaps their spouses in each year of those decades, letting subsequent value growth and inflation accrue to the surviving family members. And
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Sorry, I did not intend to conflate immersion with charter (and voucher) in the US, and have edited to reflect that.

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