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by gervase 9y ago
From their website, it looks like they are trying to use the location as a carrot to encourage membership in their foundation (" Long Now Members will have priority to visit the Clock when it is completed").
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by gervase 9y ago
As I understand it, it decompressed the offending code onto legitimate users' systems, where it was detected by antivirus software. The presence of this software at all , rather than whether or not it was executed, is the core of the
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by gervase 9y ago
It is not possible to buy one "out of the box" as far as I know. I would budget at least 2 hours of overhead to learn the basics (it's a lot easier nowadays then it used to be). If every part you pick is 100% compatible, yo
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by gervase 9y ago
I don't think most people are reaching for LaTeX to write to-do lists or other ephemeral notes (which can be pretty effectively written just in .txt), but because they'll need some feature that is simple in LaTeX but difficult or
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by gervase 9y ago
Needs a [2015] tag.
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by gervase 9y ago
I am really looking forward to "The Future of Organizations". I think decentralized governance and consensus is one of the most exciting aspects of these technologies, but are being totally drowned out by the fintech applications
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by gervase 9y ago
Does this imply that user-provided content is fundamentally incompatible with an ad-funded model? There seems to be massive inertia on both sides: advertisers don't want to be placed next to user-provided content, and users want to pay
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by gervase 9y ago
I don't think those are invalid points, but one consideration is that if a standardized format for encapsulating and controlling PII did emerge and was adopted, the value of the previously-released personal data would decay over time.
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by gervase 9y ago
Let's assume your worst-case scenario comes to pass, and politicians decide (or are influenced) to outlaw manually-driven vehicles from public roads. First, you would still be able to drive on private tracks; plenty of car enthusiasts
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by gervase 9y ago
Are there any well-known theories that explain these disparities? I was quite surprised by the nearly-flat cost of housing in Germany (relative to inflation), for example. Is this a product of legislative, economic, or cultural differences?
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by gervase 9y ago
I generally find that 'eggs' and 'milk' might be on my shopping list 4 or 5 times by the time I actually go shopping, and 'onions' will somehow remain on the list until I have accumulated at least five pounds.
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by gervase 9y ago
As someone who grew up on the coast of California, I've used "out" and "back" to refer to east and west respectively, but I don't think would be a generalizable rule. For people who grew up on an east-facing co
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by gervase 9y ago
I'm interested to see how this plays out. On one hand, this is obviously unambiguously good for consumers. On the other hand, Google is leveraging their market position to effectively serve as a corporate regulatory body, through the f
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by gervase 9y ago
I have never encountered a situation where high comprehensibility was viewed as a negative. Can you give an example of when this might be the case?
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by gervase 9y ago
You're mistaken; it's one of the original-style Tesla roadsters, not the newly announced model. You can see an image of the payload here [0], and of the new model here [1]. [0]: http://www.arabnews.com/sites/d
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by gervase 9y ago
I believe they are required as part of FAA regulations to ensure that no manned craft are within 15 miles of the landing zone? Something like that, at least, which would complicate a tether-based approach.
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by gervase 9y ago
I'm not very familiar with restrictions on credit card purchases - are there other high-risk purchases that are routinely blocked on credit cards? I understand the stated reasoning, but if this is the first such restriction (again, I d
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by gervase 9y ago
It is not clear to me from the article whether this is something which will be rolled out only to viewer from the UK, or to all viewers globally. If it's the latter, I think it will be received very dimly in countries with more-robust
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by gervase 9y ago
This was first rolled out in 2015: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/navigate-and-search-...
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by gervase 9y ago
Based on the other context from the comment, probably something like "[...] works against them [when they are looking to fundraise from SV VCs]."
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by gervase 9y ago
I think this is spot on, but it misses the core reasoning: this approach permits them to look like they're doing something, without actually changing the status quo. In other words, this lets them have their cake and eat it too, beca
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by gervase 9y ago
I know the approach described in the article is not particularly new [0], but I think it deserves to get more traction than it does (AFAIK). I do have some other questions, though: 1) Does this infrastructure support BYOD, and if so, what d
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by gervase 9y ago
I think the intention is something like: A service which is free from the creator's perspective (YouTube / CarPlay) will now carry a new fee imposed by the company which delivers the service (ISP / BMW) despite the intention
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by gervase 9y ago
It really, really depends on the company and a whole host of other factors. If you pushed a bug to prod, knocked out all of Australia, then went home and aren't answering your phone because it's after hours and you're not on
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by gervase 9y ago
I think this point (the military age thing) is often overlooked in discussions about [age|race|gender|socioeconomic] diversity in tech. Rather than a single problem, I think it's actually two separate, intersecting problems. The first
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by gervase 9y ago
This is the same for me, but keep in mind that chat programs in general seem to be extremely geographically-specialized; each global region or sub-region seems to have their own. Telegram's user base is primarily located in Iran, which
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by gervase 9y ago
For many businesses, pricing is much less important than business continuity, in the sense that they are willing to pay more in the interests of getting "the name brand", so to speak. Why would they risk another RethinkDB by choos
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by gervase 9y ago
From a mass-market perspective: - Amazon's Alexa: I am willing to put a microphone and/or camera into one or more areas of my home so that I can do things without pulling my phone out of my pocket. - Google Gmail: I am willing to
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by gervase 9y ago
Apple seems to be investing heavily in security and privacy, but I'm curious to see if they can actually convince the average consumer to care (and/or buy into their security narrative, depending on your level of cynicism). So far
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by gervase 9y ago
I can't speak for the parent, but from my perspective: + Very secure, with ongoing, regular software and firmware updates (this is big for me, after ASUS, DLink, et al) + Extremely feature-rich (both hardware and software) + Relatively

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