everly

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by everly 10y ago
It's baffling/hilarious/concerning to me that there are multiple commenters saying they're not able to see the harassment and asking for clarification.
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by everly 10y ago
I think you're using a definition of 'evidence' that is too narrow or perhaps too logical, although I agree with pretty much everything you're saying. I think that the statistical theory is possible but certainly couldn&
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by everly 10y ago
http://i.imgur.com/3Cq2bGP.png
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by everly 11y ago
It seems reasonable to assume that a bad actor who is able to gain access to a computer's webcam could also override the software that activates said "on" light.
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by everly 11y ago
I'd be interested in finding out how many people do this with the front facing camera on their phone. It seems to be a much lower percentage than those who do it with their laptop webcam (from what I've observed at least).
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by everly 11y ago
Since pricing increases based on proximity to downtown SF, my intuition would lead me to think that pricing should also increase based on proximity to a BART station (or existence of a BART station) within a suburban city, since it positive
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by everly 11y ago
Good point, and to further your idea, even the GPS isn't necessarily required for this scam. If you've obtained a table with everyone in the city's home address along with every street name and speed limit in the city, then y
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by everly 11y ago
I particularly liked his 8th commandment of the con: "Never boast. Just let your importance be quietly obvious."
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by everly 11y ago
That's exactly what I said in the comment that you replied to: "Also, even if they didn't restore the broadband at the guy's apartment, couldn't they just take the router and plug it in back at the station, since t
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by everly 11y ago
Seems like that part is just bad reporting. I presume they mean the Comcast (or whatever provider it is) account is no longer active, not that a router has been simply unplugged (annoyingly, the average user/journalist doesn't und
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by everly 11y ago
Yeah, it still seems ripe for abuse to those who are so inclined.
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by everly 11y ago
Mims tweeted a correction shortly thereafter, saying that the employee gets the alert, not the employer [1]. However, employers do apparently get anonymized, aggregated data [2]. Still not a great situation but not quite as bad as origina
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by everly 11y ago
Well, I suppose I don't have the same reaction to those other examples mainly because Amazon/Bezos have shown such a clear desire to capture/dominate market verticals and thus I'd never want to put myself at his mercy in
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by everly 11y ago
I think this is the article you're referencing: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/05/03/upshot/the-bes...
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by everly 11y ago
I've always found it totally bizarre. I just picture Bezos in his office, cackling to himself over Netflix' shortsightedness.
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by everly 11y ago
Zuck just posted (literally yesterday) about FB's attempt to create an AI that could beat humans in Go. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1010261997969648...
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by everly 11y ago
An anecdotal example of my own: I was 'playing close to $0' and my bank (BofA) was clearly manipulating the order of my transactions to maximize overdraft fees [1]. After fruitlessly disputing the fees, I simply opened an account
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by everly 11y ago
They almost certainly have already become that.
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by everly 11y ago
This was a difficult headline for me to parse upon the first reading.
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by everly 11y ago
That's a fair point. Another way that it played out is that people like my parents were under the impression they still had to pay $9.99/month for AOL email as recently as like 2 years ago.
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by everly 11y ago
I've found that using AOL to make this analogy is helpful in explaining the issues with free basics (and net neutrality in general) to non-technical folks. For example, many people have experience with parents who think the only way to
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by everly 11y ago
Click the 'web' link below the title to be taken to the Google results for the article's title, which you can click on for unfettered access.
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by everly 11y ago
Yeah you're right, I had a poor definition of immaterial in my head.
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by everly 11y ago
Isn't irrelevant essentially the same as low in this context? And I tried to clarify that I don't think they're doing anything nefarious either. It's just seems like classic Elon spin, that's all.
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by everly 11y ago
I guess I don't hold a super negative connotation of the word ploy. I didn't intend to condemn their actions as unsavory. But if ploy is defined as "a cunning plan or action designed to turn a situation to one's own adva
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by everly 11y ago
I replied to another comment below with my thoughts on that.
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by everly 11y ago
"The cost of the worldwide recall will be "immaterial," the company said. The problem was discovered after a single report to the company in early November of a seatbelt assembly breaking." "A Tesla spokesman said F
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by everly 11y ago
I recently went to the Walt Disney Family Museum in SF for the special exhibit "Disney and Dali" (still there until 1/3/16). It's an interesting look at their mutual admiration and brief professional collaboration.
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by everly 11y ago
I was totally unaware of OneNote until it came with Windows 7 Enterprise at my first corporate job. I couldn't believe how great it was (at least on desktop), but I was too deep into Evernote by that point to make the switch.
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by everly 11y ago
Agreed; Google Keep has become my preference for immediate note taking. I think a major factor in Evernote's long-term survival is the friction of switching to a competitor (in conjunction with getting a lot of early traction with powe

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