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by gbhn 14y ago
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/skimming-threatens-debit-card-... says fraud "in 1% of transactions". I don't know whether those transactions tend to be larger or smaller than average. I'd assume the detection systems are quite good, and cr
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by gbhn 14y ago
Directly, yes. But there's a significant effect in overtreatment that is substantially higher. Hard to tell how much higher, because of course, all this overtreatment is justified somewhere. What we know is that we're paying about $10k/fami
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by gbhn 14y ago
Hospital billing is an outrage, just like the article claims. This corresponds to what the NPR report on the topic concluded: chargemaster rates are absolute fiction, invented to offer insurance company negotiators good deals, and utterly u
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by gbhn 14y ago
Most would-be providers of bandwidth to consumers are guarding legacy premium bandwidth sales. The phone company would like to sell you differentiated phone bandwidth at 10x market rates. The cable company would like to sell you differentia
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by gbhn 14y ago
[knitting perl]
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by gbhn 14y ago
So how would one short bitcoin?
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by gbhn 14y ago
Perhaps something like this has more valuable for big-ticket items. I'm personally put off if I go to what I think will be a product page but instead get offered marketing spam. In my mind, it's a sign that the product on offer is no good,
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by gbhn 14y ago
I do, and yes, every boy I know loves to play Minecraft. I'm sure there'll be a next thing, but it's really cool to see them get so much enjoyment out of an awesome game.
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by gbhn 14y ago
Prosecutors are supposed to inform defendants of the sentencing guidelines, which are usually quite different from the maximum allowable penalties. I think the office must have done this. Whether that was shaded with "and that's what'll hap
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by gbhn 14y ago
I think the political points were stronger: the revolutionary war was clearly unlawful. The constitutional convention was, well, perhaps not quite unlawful, but a sort of de facto coup-de-etat that a lot of powerful people thought was neces
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by gbhn 14y ago
That's why the issue is contentious. Was the government of South Africa justified in taking special deterrence measures to deter Nelson Mandela from pursuing his anti-democratic efforts to unlawfully oppose the government? This is absolutel
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by gbhn 14y ago
MIT is doing an investigation ( http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/letter-on-death-of-aaron-... ). Presumably the outcome of that will be these kinds of details. It's looking to be a hard time for those responsible, to be honest. If the HN
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by gbhn 14y ago
Really? Those seem like PR gimmes. You can't ask for better softballs.
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by gbhn 14y ago
It's way worse than that. Obama's track record on abusing DoJ power against citizens is well established. Indefinite detention. Whistleblower prosecutions. Bradley Manning. The list is not short. It'd be great to see the president forced to
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by gbhn 14y ago
Perhaps the triangulation with dismissal rates here is informative -- cases the end in dismissal sound like they are a sizeable portion of those that don't get pled. I don't know the exact numbers in our world, but that number ought to be v
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by gbhn 14y ago
No. It is, however, a win to separate from prosecutorial power those who misuse it.
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by gbhn 14y ago
I'm curious about this. A 7" phone seems a certainty rather soon -- the Note 3 will be close, and shaving the bezel off the N7 would make it more pocketable.
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by gbhn 14y ago
As someone who suffered through the Silmarillion, I can attest that it sucks. If you read it, you'll wish you hadn't. Partly as a result of this, and partly due to other idiocy through the years, I have some schadenfreude knowing the Tolkie
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by gbhn 14y ago
But that's the opponents' point -- the values of such coefficients make excellent trade secrets, but the fact that you can, for instance, invert a matrix, is poor material for a patent. Personally, I think the limits of software patents sho
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by gbhn 14y ago
I got solar a while back, and the company seems desperate for customers. They call and want to throw parties for my friends at my house, ask for referrals, etc. I think part of the challenge is that solar here in the US is still a pretty bi
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by gbhn 14y ago
Perhaps a good intuition pump is how we react when this breaks down. If some group within a state's borders is using violence (i.e. sending soldiers to attack skyscrapers in another country), the attacked country has a cassus belli against
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by gbhn 14y ago
There's new ICC support in Chrome 22. Perhaps that is interacting poorly with some setting in your system?
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by gbhn 14y ago
I think the ship has mostly sailed on email -- most sites use email password recovery, so that choice isn't up to you unless you get a different email address for each site. You should definitely use 2-factor authentication for your email!
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by gbhn 14y ago
I'm kind of surprised there isn't more patent defense on the doctrine of teachability. That is, my defense is that your patent is written such that it doesn't teach me how to do what you did, therefore it is invalid, no matter what the cont
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by gbhn 14y ago
This is a huge point. A single uninsured mistake with an expensive car could potentially wipe out carwashing earnings for months. (See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4492619 )
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Would this tend to politicize the court? As it is, the court can at least ostensibly maintain some distance from the political lawmaking process. If it was an integral part, judges would be subject to a lot more political pressure.
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by gbhn 14y ago
Agreed this is a big problem. If you could pull in, swap batteries, and be back on the road in 5 minutes, that is short enough that range isn't so much an issue. Having to wait for half an hour or more while the car charges is a very painfu
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by gbhn 14y ago
This point is an interesting crux of disagreement about methods, not just nitpicky. Technically, slope is the rate of change of the tangent to a function, and the disagreement is about how to communicate that to students. Approach 1, Mathal
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by gbhn 14y ago
And to Jeff Atwood's original point, you cannot copy-paste the file onto basically any http webhost on earth and have it run out of the box. I don't think that's appreciated in the threads thus far, is that web hosting companies have really
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by gbhn 14y ago
Interesting! Check out http://www.landreport.com/americas-100-largest-landowners/ for the U.S. Largest is John Malone: 2.2M acres in Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas.

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