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by friedegg 7y ago
The funny thing is that Amazon actually did this several years ago. Many of the CDs I had purchased via Amazon were added to my Amazon Music collection as mp3s, including CDs I purchased as gifts and gave away.
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by friedegg 7y ago
In the mid/late-90s, my university email address used the last 4 digits of my SSN, and they also had other systems that used the last 4 digits to verify your identity.
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by friedegg 7y ago
Similar thing happened to someone in DC with "NO TAGS" https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/The-20000-Ticke...
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by friedegg 7y ago
There is a learning method called Spaced Repetition, which involves repeatedly quizzing yourself, with a decreasing frequency as you learn them. So, if you always know the word for dog, you'll get that one less frequently than the one
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by friedegg 7y ago
When I was a kid in Catholic school, we could get extra credit by going to Spanish language Mass, and I did it a few times as an altar server. Even though I didn't really directly understand much of it, I knew all of my cues, etc, bec
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by friedegg 7y ago
Excess glucose doesn't cause diabetic ketoacidosis, but rather too little insulin. You can run high blood sugar for literally years without going into DKA (although it does damage your body). It's even possible in certain, rare
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by friedegg 7y ago
Most insulin pumps are worn 24/7 or very close to it (some people will disconnect briefly when showering, plus switching out tubing/etc). Insulin pumps often use a faster acting type of insulin, so that within 3-4 hours, it's
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by friedegg 7y ago
Yes, dosages vary by your size, weight, gender, stress, and other factors. Part of type 2 diabetes is often insulin resistance, but people with type 1 can also suffer from it as well (although it's not the cause of type 1). Some peop
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by friedegg 7y ago
I guess it depends on how you define innovative. The iPad was unveiled in January 2010, and while there were other tablets before it, and it was similar to the iPhone, it has now started to replace a regular computer for many people.
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by friedegg 7y ago
You reach a point where if nearly everyone is blackmail-able for the same thing, that it stops becoming effective. If everyone is cheating on their spouse, then who is anyone to judge?
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by friedegg 7y ago
Not that the quality is great, but you can play a record with a needle and a paper cone. Obviously, figuring out that you need to spin it and play it is not necessarily an easy leap, but it doesn't require much in terms of actual techn
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by friedegg 7y ago
I think we will eventually see VideoHub or something along those lines with a similar hosting platform from the PornHub company, just for non-porn.
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by friedegg 7y ago
They can also be used to avoid some geographic restrictions, although some services now actively look to block people on VPN. I used to watch new episodes of certain show about a time traveler live via the BBC website despite being in the
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by friedegg 7y ago
RAR was great at the time because it offered "solid" archiving like a tar/gz combo. Zip and ARJ both compressed at the file level rather than the archive level.
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by friedegg 7y ago
On #2, I think people may forget that prior to 9/11, the idea was to let the hijacker go where they wanted, as the passengers usually ended up safe due to cooperation. Even on the day of 9/11 itself, once passengers realized coop
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by friedegg 7y ago
It depends on your threat level. If you're just trying to avoid phishing, it's great, something like 99.9% effective. However, if you're worried you'll be targeted, where someone will go through the effort to do this t
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by friedegg 7y ago
Obviously every Google product is different, but how many Google products have reached maturity only for Google to basically stop, and then eventually discontinue it after eliminating the competition in the interim?
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by friedegg 7y ago
Without ssl, someone could hypothetically intercept it, modify the instructions slightly, and lead you to installing something malicious. They could also do other things like inject javascript, etc.
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by friedegg 7y ago
A decade ago, my niece went in for pre-K testing, and the teacher showed her a list of animals, asking her to name them. Picture of a dog, spot. Picture of a cat, whiskers. Picture of a rabbit, hoppy, etc. The teacher tells her parents
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by friedegg 7y ago
I knew I had made it when I became a server op on EFnet.
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by friedegg 7y ago
I've been following her adventure in this area. She kind of had to become an expert on it quickly when her own apartment decided they were switching to one of these systems, and there was no opt-out short of moving.
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by friedegg 7y ago
Not a corporation, but that is the structure for most major athletes and actors. Managers can make significant money, but if they're not taking advantage of their client, then it's usually less, sometimes significantly less.
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by friedegg 7y ago
Yes, the number of pump models that were hackable was extremely small, which made them extremely valuable to anyone looking to do this. The new work on the Omnipod should open this up to many more people who couldn't obtain an older (
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by friedegg 8y ago
I can see why they're targeting type 2's, as they may need more of a fixed insulin boost than full insulin replacement that I and other type 1's need. Part of the fun being type 1 is figuring out proper adjustments to your i
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by friedegg 9y ago
It's been a while since I've watched the movie, but I don't think they specifically needed transparent aluminum, but it's how Scotty paid for them getting what they needed. They didn't have money to pay for it, so