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by dwg 8y ago
I am reading novels in Japanese. My method is similar but without the flashcards. I read a page at a time, looking up and writing all unknown vocabulary in a notebook. There could be dozens of new words on the page. I then reread the same p
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by dwg 8y ago
Reading the replies to this post gives me the impression that this is a major problem, but I haven't witnessed anything like it in the half dozen or so times returning from an overseas trip in the last couple of years. It's not th
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by dwg 8y ago
Is this comment just made off the cuff? I've called customer service departments at about a dozen or so US based companies in the last couple of years, and haven't found this stereotype to be fair at all. Most of them were from th
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by dwg 8y ago
Aside from using biometrics, which makes it much easier, you might consider using a long passphrase as the master password. A passphrase is easier to remember and to type than random characters. It’s what I do, and it’s pretty easy to type
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by dwg 9y ago
Twitter is pretty noisy. An app more focused on local news sounds interesting, if they are able to jump start it.
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by dwg 9y ago
Improving privacy is great, but I find the extreme approach to erase all history taken by DuckDuckGo and others make them difficult to adopt. I often use the history feature to re-find sites I remember visiting before. Bookmarks don't
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by dwg 9y ago
Very cool... Some areas for improvement I noticed off the bat while using the app: * Scrolling sometimes feels slow. * Doesn't seem to work with 1 password autofill. Not sure if 1password, DuckDuckGo, or both are needed to address this
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Using NPM global modules as project dependencies(medium.com)
1 points by dwg 9y ago|0 comments
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by dwg 9y ago
Making "legitimate" purchases on Amazon gets more difficult every day. The obvious solution is to buy directly from brands, but I keep using Amazon because it's less risky than spreading personal and credit card details acros
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by dwg 9y ago
Both are great. Originally I used react-bootstrap. However I switched to reactstrap to get support for bootstrap 4. Reactstrap is more barebones, which is good or bad depending on your style and needs.
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by dwg 9y ago
Should also mention that it's probably just a matter of time, especially given that "mixed" approach doesn't really work in react-native.
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by dwg 9y ago
Ton of discussion/debate on this topic and there are clear benefits to an inline style approach, but so far nothing (that I'm aware of) has proven to be scalable enough to completely take over (yet). For me a combination of approa
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by dwg 9y ago
For React users I'll point out a great integration library http://reactstrap.github.io/ which supports Bootstrap 4 when installed with the @next tag. I've been using this for a while without any issues.
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by dwg 9y ago
Growing pains on the way to a true digital personal assistant. The industry has to figure out how to deal with privacy concerns, because a digital assistant which is continuously aware of your location and what you're doing will be tre
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by dwg 9y ago
Of course it's all just going to depend on your situation: * How often you travel * How much you will be able to take advantage of perks * How close you are to various terminals/airports * How far you regularly need to go * How yo
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by dwg 9y ago
Yeah I see no problem with more choices if they make sense. My reply was in refutation to the point that flying is not faster than high speed rail because of time needed at airport, which is not my experience. Since travel time to/from
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by dwg 9y ago
Two points on this: 1. I'm not sure how that affects my point. 2. In my experience the price difference for last minute on Amtrak has been at most about 20% (though I'm not a frequent Amtrak traveler).
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by dwg 9y ago
True. However assuming the price of high speed rail tickets will be fixed because it is a public service, the government could similarly operate an airline instead of high speed rail using the same fixed price system. What would be the cost
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by dwg 9y ago
Travel time to/from the station only matters if you're closer to the rail station than the airport. As for time to fly, I've made the trip between various airports (SFO, OAK, SMF) and LAX via Southwest many times. I try to ar
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by dwg 9y ago
How so?
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by dwg 9y ago
> That's a big assumption. Are you also assuming the FDIC will extend its coverage to personal wallets, that the FBI will automatically involve itself when yours gets stolen/hacked, etc.? The banking system involves a lot of co
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by dwg 9y ago
> The same could happen to Coinbase etc. Sure, you can store it yourself in a wallet, just as Cyprus citizens could put money under their mattresses. Assuming eventual widespread adoption of bitcoin or a competing coin, storing your own
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by dwg 9y ago
I've come across a few "tax plan impact calculators" which are great but tend to focus on how the tax plans affect me personally. Obviously that's important, but I also want to know how the tax plans affect others. With
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Show HN: Compare the tax plans(politisee.com)
1 points by dwg 9y ago|1 comments
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by dwg 9y ago
Even though the bills are not finalized I think people would like to have an idea of what changes they may be facing, and it also benefits people who like to get informed before debating the issue with others.
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by dwg 9y ago
Looking really good! I recently started working on something similar: http://politisee.com , with a little different goal. Rather than calculate the net result for a single person, Politisee for a single person, Politisee tries
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by dwg 9y ago
Many such efforts exist, but getting universal consensus let alone adoption isn't easy.
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by dwg 9y ago
This would be quite hard to maintain. Instead they could create a "password complexity requirement specification" to allow sites to embed a universally machine readable description of their requirements, which all password manager
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by dwg 9y ago
1password could be improved to be sure, but looking at RememBear didn't give me the impression they are competing on ease-of-use as compared to 1password. The UI is pretty similar.
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by dwg 9y ago
What differentiates RememBear from other password managers? After looking through the blog and website it's not immediately clear to me. What makes (or will make) RememBear better than, say, 1password, which appears to have the same fe

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