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by egwynn 9y ago
Right. Plus your KB identity will still have all of your other online identities vouching for it. So an attacker would need to commandeer a large fraction of your accounts in order to get people to trust the fraud.
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by egwynn 9y ago
According to http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2... Suicide attempts using a firearm result in death 86% of the time; ingestion of drugs or poisons with the intent to commit suicide
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by egwynn 9y ago
Seems ok for me (iOS 10 in Reeder's embedded browser)
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by egwynn 9y ago
Not to get into the weeds too much here, but a completed suicide has a lot to do with the speed/effectiveness of the tool in question. Almost nothing is as fast/effective for this as a gun. Plus, suicide is frequently attempted
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by egwynn 9y ago
This sounds like a lot of smoke and no fire to me. Are men having trouble finding jobs in tech because of their gender? Is Damore even having trouble finding a job in tech despite his claims that he’s the target of a witch hunt? Was there
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by egwynn 9y ago
Murderer? Accident? Clearly this is your story to tell and not mine, but those two words don’t usually go together. There’s probably a sense in which using the word “murderer” is technically correct, but it goes well against the grain of wh
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by egwynn 9y ago
First up, was I correct in my interpretation of your initial comment? Nothing else makes sense if we're not talking about the same thing. Second, I'm not suggesting that the threat posed by Flash wasn't ever a factor in any d
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by egwynn 9y ago
Sorry if I came across as condescending, that wasn’t my aim. It sounds like perhaps I misread your comment above and that maybe our respective arguments weren’t actually about the same thing. It’s easy to make too many assumptions about wha
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by egwynn 9y ago
I guess it’s ironic if you ignore the DRM part. Apple took two hardline positions on web tech and not everyone is playing by both of these rules. It kinda looks like a temporary lapse on the part of Spotify while they go through a transitio
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by egwynn 9y ago
I must be misreading you. It sounds like you’re saying that Apple’s reasoning for not supporting Flash on the iPhone was because “Flash portals” were competing with the iPhone App Store. Is that right? The iPhone was released in the summer
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by egwynn 9y ago
You get my upvote, because I respect your perspective and I agree in principle. But at its logical conclusion, this idea puts up some serious practical barriers. Even if you only use an OS that you’ve personally audited, and even if you’ve
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by egwynn 9y ago
I don’t know for sure, but I believe the betas are stripped of references to unreleased hardware.
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by egwynn 9y ago
Not that I think writing a feature-complete shell is “easy”, but pipes, specifically, were the main feature of this shell implementation (besides reading, forking, and executing).
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by egwynn 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the motivating factor is waterproofing. The more places where the insides of the phone need to connect to the outside, the harder it is to protect from water damage.
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’m not sure if you watched the video or read its description, but pipes are the focus of this implementation. He describes pipes as “the core of the UNIX shell” in the video. I suppose that is somewhat up for debate, but building complex t
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by egwynn 9y ago
Might be worth noting that three of those twelve left because they left their jobs with their respective companies, and one in protest of a different matter in Juny. It looks like eight left in the past two days in protest of Charlottesvill
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by egwynn 9y ago
Terminals are, generally, expected to behave like terminals, which brings along a host of legacy compatibility things about how keyboards used to work over the past 40 years. Not saying that’s an excuse, or that they shouldn’t try to, but b
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by egwynn 9y ago
It sounds like one thing you’re describing is a vicious-cycle in the world of startups. One where: 1. Founding/funding seems to encourage lying about mental state (financial incentive to say you’re doing great when you might not be) 2.
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by egwynn 9y ago
Most shells let you do some arbitrary work before/during the display of the prompt line (in Bash, you can use `PS1` and `PROMPT_COMMAND`). Some people then install special fonts that let them render these fancy “bar segment” things. [P
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by egwynn 9y ago
Title (disappointingly) suggests they have evidence that the Nazca did use hot air balloons. No such evidence is presented. This describes the creation of a proof-of-concept hot air balloon using period technology. That’s neat, but it’s p
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by egwynn 9y ago
Just because we’ve removed a perverse incentive from the past (the oversight of the wealthy) doesn’t mean we haven’t replaced it with an even worse incentive (engagement-first monetization).
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’m not sure if I have a great “all around” solution to propose, but I do like the idea of trying to remove the incentives to sensationlize anything/everything.
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by egwynn 9y ago
The article isn't arguing for underreaction. It argues that overreaction is worse now than it was before because the new platforms for publishing have dispensed with a number of editorial checks that would have tempered the sensational
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by egwynn 9y ago
Begins? Wasn’t Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent connections ten years ago more like the “beginning”?
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by egwynn 9y ago
Are people with brain implants afraid to go through automatic doors? EDIT: Hi downvoters! Is it common knowledge that they are afraid of automatic doors? This is the first I’ve heard of such fears. I know maybe two people with brain impla
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by egwynn 9y ago
Yup, this is a typical “modern” way to get terminals over serial connections. For instance, my home server is headless, but I can use its onboard serial connection (via GNU screen) to manage it “remotely” even if, for whatever reason, it’s
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by egwynn 9y ago
The board in question can be found between $2 and $3. Once you’re at the point of wanting to build "an electronic thing to notify you of something", the actually cost difference in the BOM between the simple approach and the “IoT”
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by egwynn 9y ago
Yep. FTA Take off for the Intelsat 35e mission is scheduled for 7:37PM ET on Monday from the launch pad at 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. There’s a 58-minute launch window, too, so the Falcon 9 can take off up until 8:35PM ET. Origina
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by egwynn 9y ago
Is that first graph acting super funky for anyone else? I can't really read past it because it seems to keep growing vertically forever (on my iPhone)
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by egwynn 9y ago
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673603

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