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by eco 8y ago
They included a full amortization schedule in my mortgage signing documents. I imagine they always do but don't know for certain.
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by eco 8y ago
> If you've ever read a popular press story in your area of expertise, you immediately see how many things writers oversimplify to the point of absurdity, or just get plain wrong. I could have sworn there was a named Effect/Rul
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by eco 8y ago
A few days ago I told my wife that Instagram was owned by Facebook and she was shocked. She had no idea. There are clues scattered around, mostly related to trying to get you to add your Facebook friends on Instagram or trying to get you to
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by eco 8y ago
Green lock is probably easier to describe to someone not proficient as a web user but you can still just say, "Make sure it doesn't say Not Secure and verify the domain name".
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by eco 8y ago
It's kind of a weird how it works. Users will be looking at the field they are typing on (or even the keyboard for some users). Then they'll look down for the next field and so on until they reach submit. I think users will often
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by eco 8y ago
Yeah, they had an ATX-3000 Sidewinder. http://www.vetexinc.com/vehicles/sidewinder.html
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by eco 8y ago
I'm no expert on this but I do know that their 7nm will switch to their long in-development EUV lithography process. I'd assume the work on 10nm is completely separate from their work on 7nm (there are even rumors that they'l
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by eco 9y ago
They've actually talked about why they haven't done this here[1]: "So why not just move Visual Studio to be a 64-bit application? While we’ve seriously considered this porting effort, at this time we don’t believe the returns
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by eco 9y ago
Coinbase only supported Bitcoin Cash support after some backlash. They'd previously announced (pre-fork) they would not be supporting it and that you should withdraw your Bitcoin if you wanted access to the forked currency post-fork. D
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by eco 9y ago
I have a 10 week old and we've kept meticulous logs of diaper changes[1] (and everything else). We get 12 diaper change days a couple times per week. 9 is more typical. $1000/yr is pretty high but not unbelievable. A lot of grocer
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by eco 9y ago
My interest in smart TVs ended almost instantly after I bought my first. I went to adjust the volume and there was an advertisement below the volume slider. Not an ad for Panasonic. Just a regular old banner ad for some random company. I di
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by eco 9y ago
I filed two abuse reports with Mailchimp just in the last week over unsolicited ICO mailings. One was for an AIDS vaccine ICO (I don't even know what that means and I don't want to know). I hear they also shut down some legit bloc
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by eco 9y ago
I feel so bad for the Kodi project. They've done amazing work over the years and their reputation is being destroyed so quickly by people taking their open source work, adding a bunch of piracy addons, and selling a set top box. I have
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by eco 9y ago
Tried to search for "kodi" on it. https://i.imgur.com/Eew8wA7.png
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by eco 9y ago
Cool. So if I just make a Mickey Mouse cartoon from scratch I should be good.
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by eco 9y ago
Child abuse and neglect laws started in the 1940s after a series of articles were published by a doctor with accounts of children with injuries clearly caused by adults and by the 1970s most states had passed them. They were well meaning an
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by eco 9y ago
After some high profile incidents states started passing laws to protect the children of reckless parents but in their panic they didn't spend enough time defining what endangering a child really means. Child protective laws are diffic
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by eco 9y ago
DeBeers having a monopoly isn't really true anymore. DeBeers lost an antitrust lawsuit in 2012 and had already sold off its stockpile by 2004 under increasing pressure for a lot of new mines opening up, particularly in Russia, which wr
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by eco 9y ago
> Now, if only permissions could be granted temporarily This flow would be much nicer but you can go in and revoke a permission later in App Permissions (not sure how many people know this).
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by eco 9y ago
I've been using one of those salt deodorants for awhile (just a block of salt that you wet and apply). Seems to work great though I've been fortunate to have never really had to deal with bad body odor so it's hard to say if
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by eco 9y ago
I'm not sure I would characterize it as optimistic. The subtitle is "Fifth Times A Charm!" and the bulk of it is talking about how many times Google has (mostly unsuccessfully) tried to make a product in this space. I find Ro
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by eco 9y ago
Took awhile to figure it out but it's "Notebook Sales" (as opposed to DT, Desktop).
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by eco 9y ago
I think Big Bang Theory is terrible but I don't think the people who like it are dumb. Just a different taste in humor. I've heard a similar observation but contrasting Big Bang Theory with Arrested Development (or Community or Ri
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by eco 9y ago
There are download stats for dmd, the reference compiler[1]. Anyone doing production work is probably using gdc or ldc though so that's not the whole picture. They have an orgs using D page: https://dlang.org/orgs-usin
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by eco 9y ago
It really is something. If you've never seen it, switch to satellite and start scrolling out. That's realtime cloud information that appears and as you keep going you get realtime night/day location rendering (complete with a
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by eco 9y ago
That's what I remember about it too. It was such a drastic improvement over the old MapQuest site where you'd have to click arrows around the edges of the map and wait for it to load to scroll around the map. I was immediately sol
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by eco 9y ago
Firefox's Tracking Protection just uses the list provided by Disconnect. I imagine this will do the same.
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by eco 9y ago
My guess is that the backup camera has an IR light to assist with nightvision. Some security cameras support triggering alerts if they get too much IR light because blasting them with an IR floodlight is a common way to blind a security cam
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by eco 9y ago
Dropbox feels like the wrong thing to compare it to. IPFS isn't really for storing files privately. Public S3 buckets would be closer. I don't have any numbers to say if it's overvalued based on how much public cloud storage
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by eco 9y ago
The way you've written this is implying that Pai said that line but it was actually a sarcastic Former Chairman Wheeler and the quote has since been edited out. The Chicago Tribune still has it though.

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