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by eric_h 10y ago
How can you hide accidents that occur on public, urban roads? Perhaps accidents with very minor damage, but wouldn't any significant accident already be reported, as the police would be involved?
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by eric_h 10y ago
Okay, but aren't car accidents already generally a matter of public record? You're technically required to report accidents to the police when they happen, are you not? Edit: It just occurred to me that the requirements could mean
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by eric_h 10y ago
Is the $150 permit fee a typo? Given that it's likely that in the event of an accident, Uber would already create a detailed incident review internally - why on earth wouldn't they spend $150 and agree to submitting accident repor
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The Camera Band for Apple Watch(getcmra.com)
1 points by eric_h 10y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'm fairly certain any soap will do as long as you wash off the affected area within a couple of hours of exposure
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by eric_h 10y ago
Fair enough. I disagree that it's unprovable, but I'm certainly not going to reach any solid conclusions by posting on a forum :)
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by eric_h 10y ago
I wonder to what extent Michael Moore's Flint pedigree influenced the media. I'm guessing it's decidedly non-zero. Edit: this was not intended as a dig at Michael Moore or anyone else. The fact that he made a documentary feat
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by eric_h 10y ago
Felt I should add that this cat also figured out how to operate a light switch, with similar motivations.
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by eric_h 10y ago
> So I know firsthand what an impressive feat it is to cat-proof anything. The fact that it took 1/8" steel plate to cat proof it is an amazing testament to the ingenuity of those little serial killers.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Ha! Yes they do - I just posted an anecdote describing this very behavior https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13233945
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by eric_h 10y ago
Ages ago, when I was still living with my parents, we had an indoor/outdoor cat that had a habit of going to various high shelves in the house and accidentally knocking things off them. To curb this behavior, one of us would grab him o
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Inside GoMeta’s Plan to Built a Thousand Pokemon Go’s(variety.com)
2 points by eric_h 10y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 10y ago
From personal experience neglecting debts I believed to be unjust, I've not gotten any dings on my credit rating inspired by collections companies who acquired the debt for the cable box that I never returned, after paying 3x its value
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by eric_h 10y ago
I agree. What percentage of the eBay-using population has reduced their trust in eBay as a result of this and many other articles on HN, though? The brand awareness of eBay has given them a great deal of trust runway that, IMO, they can bur
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by eric_h 10y ago
> I managed to file a claim with the credit card company and reverse the fraudulent charge. The power of the chargeback is unappreciated by many, I think. I'm guessing a large chunk of people who use that power are people who'v
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by eric_h 10y ago
Once the debt has been sold and resold a few times, I doubt collections companies have much incentive to actually sue for this amount of money, let alone an ability to actually win the case.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Just wait until AI/ML gets good enough/easy enough to use that these scammers can go full auto. You'll send them a lawnmower and they'll dispute and send you back a pair of nail clippers.
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by eric_h 10y ago
They accept text though, right? URLs are text. Not that I'm convinced that this would actually work with a behemoth that still makes money in situations of this type of fraud.
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by eric_h 10y ago
In fact there's a disincentive. eBay made their commission on this sale, changing their policies would likely mess with both the top and bottom lines of their business.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Fair enough, I guess it's about differing usecases. The few labels that I do use on gmail are set up such that they are indistinguishable from folders (if they match a filter, they don't go in my inbox, and I don't have any o
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by eric_h 10y ago
> I don't like 2FA either That seems to be a rather dangerous position to hold these days. I personally dislike that googles 2FA is SMS based (unless there's a way to use e.g. Authy with it that I'm unaware of), but still
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by eric_h 10y ago
Beats headphones with the W1 chip in them have been available since the the iPhone 7 release. I am, admittedly, assuming that the AirPods will be as good at this as the Beats headphones with the chip, but I believe that's a reasonable
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by eric_h 10y ago
Likely obviated by their EULA
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by eric_h 10y ago
> I hate Google's mail interface Their IMAP interface is both standards compliant and fully functional. I'm not terribly fond of the Gmail web/native apps either, so I just don't use them (though I do occasionally hop
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by eric_h 10y ago
> Driving on winter roads is a lot like racing a car on a track with other drivers - everyone is near the limit of traction and a hazard can present itself very quickly That is an excellent analogy.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Indeed. The fact that the first use experience is (from what I've heard) the very best pairing experience for any bluetooth headset ever tells that story quite well (all thanks to Apple's proprietary W1 chip, of course). I've
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by eric_h 10y ago
My problem with apple headphones is that my ear holes are apparently different sizes. The right ear is always fine and the left is always less comfortable (if only just). I switched to over the ear bluetooth headphones a while ago and haven
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by eric_h 10y ago
I would imagine that the cable itself contributes more to the headphone falling out than the weight of the headphone itself. Also, I imagine you mean "likely lose just one of the pair", as losing one pair means losing both of th
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by eric_h 10y ago
I've noticed mds (the spotlight indexer) will occasionally, and randomly peg one or more cores on my machine. It seems to come in fits and starts, but it's definitely a battery hog when it's running.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Thanks for linking to that article. The most amusing part of it, IMO, is the last sentence: "privacy could be a more important election issue than ever." Makes the political consciousness of 2014 seem so adorably naive.

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