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by eks391 2y ago
> Show me earplugs that REDUCE equally across all frequencies and I’ll invest every dollar I have to my name. It has been a long time since I worked tangentially with frequencies, but IIRC it physically isn't possible to block/
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by eks391 2y ago
How do you determine if an AI is sentient? By it's nature as the execution of code, even if we reach AGI I don't consider it sentient. They wouldn't require rights unless that was required to prevent an apocalyptic scenario.
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by eks391 2y ago
I know about the identity protection PIN, so I've been assuming this whole time that's what I was choosing a number for. It is possible I was just doing the self selected PIN and wasn't aware that I should be doing something
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by eks391 2y ago
During tax season (in US), for security, you may optionally create a 5 digit pin. I wanted mine to be unaffiliated with any existing pin I have, and chose a 'random' number and wrote it down. A year later I repeated this (and had
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by eks391 2y ago
I have a pin lock on a shared device, that friends use occassionally. Of the three friends I have given guest access to, all three asked for their pin to be 1234, to which I said no. One had the audacity to follow up with 123456
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by eks391 2y ago
As a former employee of a 100K+ person company, I've had these exact thoughts several times. I worked in acquisitions, and constantly was finding out that we were reinventing (or rebuying) the wheel internally in independent department
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by eks391 2y ago
Know Your Customer. It's when you are asked for legal docs so a business can verify your identity. Like what banks do
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by eks391 2y ago
> I can't think of any US service I am using that doesn't already require KYC? None of the large providers will let you get far without a credit card, as far as I remember? There are several credit card vendors that do not requ
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by eks391 2y ago
Deleting the app does not delete your data from their servers. Even wiping your apps local data before deletion, or deleting the account, does not wipe it from their servers. If you don't want them to sell info you provided as needed t
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by eks391 2y ago
It's hard when you are the only TA for 260 students who get 3 assignments per week, you must also hold free hours and you aren't allowed to go over 27 hrs each week so the school isnt breaking federal laws.
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by eks391 2y ago
I have notifications disabled on everything except for when my credit cards are used, calls and texts. Even then, I have a whitelist for call notifications and a blacklist for text notifications, and silent hours at night that only my mothe
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by eks391 2y ago
"A house divided aginst itself cannot stand," part of a speech by Abe and thus credited to him, is also from the Bible: Mark 3:25. I'va a hunch he was religious.
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by eks391 2y ago
I am familiar with vendors that provide a similar service, but none quite as you described. Which one do you use?
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by eks391 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the oldest astronaut (real astronaut, not billionaire who bought a 10min trip) is currently still going to space and is 65. Conveniently I couldn't find a source so I could also be making this up, but I'm 95%
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by eks391 2y ago
Why can't you be an astronaut? Sounds to me like you are limiting yourself... https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/astronaut-se... https://www.usajobs.gov/job/779261100
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by eks391 3y ago
That stat is so impressive that I'm struggling to believe it. Is there a source you can point me to?
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by eks391 3y ago
I don't believe whether ones finances allowing someone to have children is the factor for whether they will. From my observation (i have not researched this; this is anecdotal), wealthier people opt to have fewer or no kids, and larger
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by eks391 3y ago
I currently use nextcloud, but while I was deciding my infrastructure, I also tried syncthing. I'd recommend trying it out since your preferences make me think it may be a better fit for you. Its pretty painless to set up, auto syncs b
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by eks391 3y ago
Angelbroz is not an outlier, nor out lying. Several premium payers who use adblock for other sites and dont disable for YT have the same issue
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by eks391 3y ago
Thanks for the corrections. I didn't realize how behind/mistaken I was on this tech
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by eks391 3y ago
I'm not saying it is limited to 2D, rather that they missed out by using something that can render 3D to only render 2D objects. Everything they showed off was just apps with layers at the most. When they showed the recreation of the g
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by eks391 3y ago
Everything is 2D, making it just a TV/phone on your face. Although these other products were never released commercially, the google glasses and microsoft's hololens both envisioned adding 3D objects that interacted with your real
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by eks391 3y ago
Where are these advertised? This is the first I've heard of a meetup
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by eks391 3y ago
Just because you can spread out doesn't mean you want to. I have enough plates at dinner for my kids to spread out, but both of my kids want the plastic red one and will fight over it. Anciently, people are going to fight over what the
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by eks391 3y ago
I'm getting a blank page from your link
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by eks391 3y ago
And to clear any ambiguation, it's not the Bitfrost security used in the Childrens Machine[0] , the 2012 laptop for developing countries [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO
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Ask HN: Linux/degoogled-Android tablet options(fydetabduo.com)
1 points by eks391 3y ago|2 comments
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by eks391 3y ago
I found this product and am leaning towards it, because it could adopt the roles of both my PC and phone, since it can run both Linux and Android aplications as a degoogled fork of ChromeOS. I still have reservations, so I am interested to
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by eks391 3y ago
> I have been looking for a good book about that (some kind of "ethics for engineers 101"). When I was in school for my engineering degree, a few required classes had ethics sections. It always wound up talking about an interna
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by eks391 3y ago
> otherwise there's no reason for modifying software to affect a warranty on hardware. I think you bring up a really good point. Except for extreme cases, such as a software that is designed to be self destructive on the physical co

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