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by gene91 4y ago
Lately, a 3000 sq ft house in Stanford (which can be sold on the market, but only to eligible faculty and employees) sells for over $2.5M, whereas a similar home in Palo Alto (which can be sold on the market, to any one) sells for around $5
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by gene91 4y ago
The author appears to be in Vancouver BC Canada. In US/Canada, power supply is done via 240V split phase. Therefore, a broken neutral between service and home would have lead to a 120V outlet getting anywhere between 0 and 240V AC. Tha
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by gene91 4y ago
The author appears to be in Vancouver BC Canada. In US/Canada, it is safe and code compliant to have floating ground in a GFCI protected outlet. The GFCI provides the safety benefit that ground is supposed to provide. Obviously having
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by gene91 4y ago
I think you’re confusing iCloud and iCloud+. The former doesn’t require payment.
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by gene91 4y ago
It shouldn’t be necessary for an employer to “tell” its employees to defer iOS updates. For iOS updates, employers can defer OS updates via MDM by up to 90 days. https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/manage-so
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by gene91 4y ago
I assume that’s what crypto.com’s bank did (shrug), and that’s why crypto.com have to sue to get their money back. I don’t see any irony about the bank’s behavior here. In this specific case, the bank appears to be acting consistently.
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by gene91 4y ago
I don’t like the collateral damages of many policies. But it’s not fair to say that the policies “have not prevented anything” because we simply don’t know. The policies could have stopped in-progress evil acts (but they were never revealed
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by gene91 4y ago
In the video, they did mention at the end that the device, in its wired form, can be useful for continuous (e.g. 48 hours) ultrasound monitoring in a hospital setting.
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by gene91 4y ago
“Free lunch” isn’t free if one pays enough tax to cover its cost and other free things that they receive. Given there’s already progressive taxes, what’s the benefit of having income threshold for free lunch programs (or similar assistance
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by gene91 4y ago
This order is from a California court.
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by gene91 4y ago
There’s a trade off between preventing social engineering and giving people access to their lost account. And then add the issue that people don’t want to link online account to their real identity, so verification is hard. I don’t really k
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by gene91 4y ago
There’s no separate international departure area and domestic departure area in US airports. Therefore, it takes a lot more than a corridor.
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by gene91 4y ago
But TWTR’s market cap is and will be influenced by Musk’s series of actions and announcements. Both parties would have to come up with a hypothetical number for how much TWTR is worth if Musk walks away without paying anything, and there’s
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by gene91 4y ago
GP is talking about the size of economy, not the area of land.
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by gene91 4y ago
Discharging a firearm into the air is a felony in California.
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by gene91 4y ago
What you said sounds plausible and I believe it. Assuming you’re right, it’s really sad that multiple sibling posts assume that the app was doing something shady and selling the user’s data. It shows, in general, how little trust people hav
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by gene91 4y ago
Where I live (California), counter offer in real estate implies acceptance. Technically, the seller signs an acceptance with extra condition that the buyer accepts a higher price of $Y in X hours. The seller could do “multiple counter” offe
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by gene91 5y ago
What’s the alternative? I assume that you’re not suggesting that one signs up for adoption and gets assigned a random child. So the alternative is agents with access to the inventory (children) and clients (potential parents). I don’t under
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by gene91 5y ago
There are two major approaches to rendering: rasterization and ray tracing. The former is faster, the latter is more real. They are completely different approaches. Historically, ray tracing is only used for movies whereas games generally u
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by gene91 5y ago
You can cap the accrual. I'm not a lawyer, but I assume it's legal because many big companies have such a policy, in California and elsewhere in US.
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by gene91 5y ago
You made a good point. But one might argue that -nan should become nan after an abs operation. I don't know enough about this topic to determine whether such an argument has merit though.
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by gene91 5y ago
The key difference is whether a motorcycle driver's license is required. The electric bicycle manufacturer can choose to forgo the speed governors and be subject to motorcycle safety/licensing/etc regulations.
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Windows 11’s Default Browser Situation Is So Messed Up, Firefox Hacked It(reviewgeek.com)
10 points by gene91 5y ago|0 comments
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by gene91 5y ago
This is a typo of missing an ampersand. If the author were writing Ada, it would have been a typo of missing a “then”. How is it different?
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by gene91 5y ago
Can Microsoft revoke their signatures on kernel drivers? If so, why haven't they revoked Genshin Impact's anti-cheat driver now that it has been proven to be a vulnerability? Is there a technical reason, or purely business?
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by gene91 5y ago
https://www.fairvote.org/rcv_faq#monotonicity Read "22. Does RCV satisfy the monotonicity criterion?" Say, there's 3 candidates. You want A to win. You think A will lose to B in a 1-on-1 match, but would win
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by gene91 5y ago
The parent post said "I wouldn't be opposed to motorcycles being outlawed". They didn't advocate for outlawing motorcycles. I think "Just because it doesn't affect you" is a fine reason to have a "no
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by gene91 5y ago
SEC and FINRA invest a lot in Data Analytics. Go to https://technology.finra.org/tech.html and you'll see that they use the same tools as the internet industry.
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by gene91 5y ago
The cost to seller is mostly the same. eBay is now taking the cuts (the cut they have always taken plus the cut that used to be taken by PayPal) themselves instead.
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by gene91 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1 Many phones manufactured after 2005 have GPS receivers built in. When the cellular phone detects that the user is placing an emergency call, it begins to transmit its locati

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