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by ekingr 8y ago
That is why there is also (in France at least) a system of points on the driving license. Everybody has the same count (12) at the beginning and will lose an equal amount in case of an infraction. If you lose all of them your license is sus
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by ekingr 8y ago
They will still loose points on their driving license. Everybody has the same amount (and not much).
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Yubico Launches Security Key NFC and Private Preview of YubiKey for Lightning(yubico.com)
3 points by ekingr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 8y ago
It would be interesting to know which tool & dataset the author used to produce those visualisations. Any ideas? I particularly enjoy the “old-school” 3D maps.
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Eleven researchers publish sharp critique of EPA fuel economy logic(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ekingr 8y ago|1 comments
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by ekingr 8y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20181010030152/https://blog.jonl...
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by ekingr 8y ago
Yes. Unfortunately it is still only OTP (vulnerable to fishing). Let’s hope that one day Apple opens full access to the NFC chip.
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by ekingr 8y ago
The wireless one has Bluetooth - which is the only way to go on iOS for now.
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by ekingr 8y ago
The description doesn't say if the keys are compatible with FIDO2 / Webauthn, which seem to be the new standard superseding FIDO (namely with password-less and multi-factor auth). It would be disappointing if not...
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by ekingr 8y ago
They do. If you want an order of magnitude of how huge the drifts are, have a look at the construction of the EPR of Flamanville in France[1]: started in 2007 with an initial timeline of 5 years and budget of €3.3bn, it is still not complet
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by ekingr 8y ago
Not to have to accept the tracking cookies policy, I guess.
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by ekingr 8y ago
It is true that LBOs can injure companies - like what happened to Toys'R'Us bankruptcy after the Bain Cap & KKR buyout. It is especially dangerous in times of inflated multiples like we are seeing these days, where PE valuatio
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TAPAS community challenge(challenge.tapas.sdi.tools)
1 points by ekingr 8y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 9y ago
See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14550060
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by ekingr 9y ago
The article explains in the "Cloudflare, Privacy and k-Anonymity" section how you can use k-Anonymity to query the API with (at least some) privacy, by just submit the first 5 characters of your password's hash.
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NYC sues oil companies for the cost of adapting to climate change(arstechnica.com)
3 points by ekingr 9y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 9y ago
> Far too often businesses define churn as no purchases after N days; typically N is a multiple of 7 or 30 days I'm working for a strategy consulting firm, advising large retail clients. Even though we have looked at doing this kind
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by ekingr 9y ago
And especially because of its flexibility (Young's modulus) - which is very similar to the bones' ones. That's why Ti alloys are preferred when a prosthesis needs to be anchored into a bone, like the stem part of a hip implan
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by ekingr 9y ago
Any chance iOS Safari enables it once Apple opens its NFC APIs in 11?
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by ekingr 9y ago
In the same vein, for French translation, Linguee[1] uses many sources from websites of organisations that display official content in several languages (eg. the websites of the EU, of the Canadian Parliament...). The fact that it's o
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by ekingr 9y ago
Same here on my iPhone.
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by ekingr 10y ago
Much less environmental-friendly than the Odeillo solar furnace[1]... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace
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by ekingr 10y ago
https://keeweb.info/ is also very nice. It has a very convenient Dropbox (& co) integration.
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The advantages of building your website from scratch(hackernoon.com)
2 points by ekingr 10y ago|1 comments
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by ekingr 10y ago
As you say, the Azure Key Vault helps making things more secure (by allowing to control, log and revoke keys usage), but it does not help at all with the problem of API keys in the source code - it's just another set of keys that you n
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by ekingr 10y ago
Source interview: http://www.mljournal-digital.com/meleadershipjournal/october...
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by ekingr 10y ago
Actually, one of the safest option I have found to import/export from Excel without the encoding going wild is to just copy/paste TSV data, and treat it as UTF-8 in your programming language of choice.
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GameBoy emulation in JavaScript (2011)(imrannazar.com)
3 points by ekingr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 10y ago
In that specific case, they plan to close the only road that allows to cross the centre of Paris smoothly (no red light, can be driven in 4th/5th gear all the way). Even if the number of cars decreases a lot, since the only alternative
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by ekingr 10y ago
Reminds me of a scandal with Tesco in London when they installed "anti-homeless" spikes in front of their stores. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/12/tesco-spikes...

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