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1081.
by donkeyd 12y ago
That might be true, but it wouldn't change much about my point, so I don't really care...
1082.
by donkeyd 12y ago
Absolute numbers are useless... Pretty much any statistic put into absolute numbers ends up being a stunning number of people.
1083.
by donkeyd 12y ago
To put this in context: 0.2% of women and 0.01% of men become rape victims every year. So the chance you get raped in the next year is 27 times bigger than the chance Apple disclosed your data to the government. Seems like we have worse thi
1084.
by donkeyd 12y ago
If I'd have a billion dollars of worth gold in my Basement I'd be impressed if somebody managed to steal it. Since 1bn USD in gold would weigh 22603KG...
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by donkeyd 12y ago
The Dutch police force set-up two teams: - One team of people with experience in scouting houses, who were sent on the road to find targets - One team of IT experts wo were given the assignment to find targets via social media The results w
1086.
by donkeyd 12y ago
I see what you did there!
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by donkeyd 12y ago
The case of using the info at a hotel to get your room key is pretty reasonable. On the home break-in story however there's a lot of evidence that this hardly ever happens if it happens at all. There are plenty analog ways in which cri
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by donkeyd 12y ago
You're missing my point, I'm not talking groups of armed criminals, I'm talking groups of armed people. In the US anybody could be armed, not just criminals. So even when meeting with regular citizens they need to be prepared
1089.
by donkeyd 12y ago
Interesting how in situations like this Americans seem to forget about the Second Amendment... The right to bear arms also means that the police has to be prepared for groups of opponents bearing arms.
1090.
by donkeyd 12y ago
Try changing the message or try a cold-call, give you the chance to get instant feedback on why people don't use the product.
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by donkeyd 12y ago
I've seen a stratup take beta user metrics and offer their most active users the first year free. If you give out 10 free years of service to your most active users and promoters this might actually give them the motivation to start us
1092.
by donkeyd 13y ago
I have to agree with what you posted, even though I'd like to know why the provided ID wasn't valid. A voice of reason like this is what the internet needs more of. Unfortunately the majority doesn't seem to understand the co
1093.
by donkeyd 13y ago
Because of the lack of documentation I have a hard time trying it out. Haven't been able to get a JSON source working correctly. Do have to add that I have pretty much 0 experience with this kind of thing.
1094.
by donkeyd 13y ago
"Darwin takes the place of a prophet" Wait, what? As an atheist, I never realized I believe in and worship Darwin as a superhuman controlling power. Thanks for pointing this out to me! I'll make sure to put a Darwinian altar
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by donkeyd 13y ago
I think this kind of proves your point: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
1096.
by donkeyd 13y ago
This reminds me of the graph correlating a decrease in the number of pirates to global warming.
1097.
by donkeyd 13y ago
Took me a while to figure that out...
1098.
by donkeyd 13y ago
Awesome, I was just about to comment that making a game out of it would be cool!
1099.
by donkeyd 13y ago
This is because questions on hacker news are usually rhetorical.. This title is actually right on point, if there was an answer in the article it should have been: Why Americans write the month before the day.
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by donkeyd 13y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while, from a technological standpoint I agree with this story, from a sociological standpoint I don't. People for the most part don't trust machines at the moment, which will slow down acc