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811.
by gist 8y ago
I think that by using obviously easy passwords anyone who really is looking for something is going to go to the next target. After all impossible to believe anything of value is behind 1234567 or changeme as a password. Even 'baseball
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France.com domain illegally seized by French government, claims US company(trademarksandbrandsonline.com)
1 points by gist 9y ago|0 comments
813.
by gist 9y ago
Not posting this because I believe it but rather how the page uses such manipulation to pitch their solution.
814.
What is Thirdhand Smoke?(oransi.com)
2 points by gist 9y ago|2 comments
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Are We Decentralized Yet?(avc.com)
3 points by gist 9y ago|0 comments
816.
by gist 9y ago
Why is the assumption when articles like this are published that this is representative of what it's like working in an Amazon warehouse?
817.
by gist 9y ago
Ask yourself this simple question (per my other comment). If the answer is 'yes' (and I am not saying it is btw) if 'every site' (your site) didn't what do you think will happen? (Vs. what could happen).
818.
by gist 9y ago
> some traction on HN as everyone is trying to figure out: "Do I need to do something for this? Is so, what?" If you are big enough to have to worry about this you are probably a company with plenty of resources to think and co
819.
by gist 9y ago
Exactly. Insurance will generally cover anything that it doesn't specifically exclude in the insurance documents. If you are walking with a can of paint and drop it and destroy your carpet most homeowners policies will pay to replace t
820.
by gist 9y ago
> We work for government agencies to monitor and support individuals who would otherwise be in jail or who are under some form of community supervision. Examples of some of the crimes that people 'would otherwise be in jail' fo
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by gist 9y ago
> For example, email is federated. You can set up your own email server, and then send emails to people with their own email servers, or to people with Gmail or Yahoo! accounts. Gmail actually does control somewhat inbound email by restr
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30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgages Since 1971(freddiemac.com)
2 points by gist 9y ago|0 comments
823.
by gist 9y ago
Well for sure it's harder in this day and age because you are exposed to so many people who appear to be successful and/or flawless (repeat 'appear'). Generally prior to the internet at least when I was growing up not th
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by gist 9y ago
Tacky? It's either information of value or it's not. Who cares what it's juxtaposed to. I don't. And what does the occasion matter? To me not in bad taste a all. The man lived to a ripe old age. Not like the OP is trying
825.
by gist 9y ago
> Anybody who does business in Europe or even has users in Europe is subject to this law. Anybody? Sure technically in the same way that going 58 in a 55mph zone is speeding and could get you a ticket. So the question remains assessing
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by gist 9y ago
> rather than rent-seeking Examples of the 'rent seeking' that you despise so much?
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by gist 9y ago
> Ultimately Keith knew I could just walk away from it all and TechCrunch would lose all its value, so he relented and I agreed to pay Keith 10% of any value I received in the company eventually to avoid litigation. I know and have done
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by gist 9y ago
> I've used everything from rewards ("If I work for X hours, I'll play a video game") and punishment ("If I don't work for X hours, I'm a complete failure") to get myself to work. Programming is a
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2017 Football Attendance [pdf](fs.ncaa.org)
1 points by gist 9y ago|0 comments
830.
by gist 9y ago
> That's not Amazon's fault; that's the business' fault. This is no different than the Walmart's, Barnes and Nobles (remember when there were small bookstores?), etc. of the world. One way in which Amazon is diff
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by gist 9y ago
> Did you ever think when stuff like this come out there is some guy at the NSA going "Damn it, there goes another one" Maybe the opposite. Have other spend time on something that has little practical use given the actual utili
832.
by gist 9y ago
I am surprised that most comments here have zero empathy for a worker in that age group that had been (for lack of a better way to put it) 'put out to pasture'. Under the same type of thinking (and I wouldn't say that I am a
833.
by gist 9y ago
There is no need to even fake a rejection. You could simply attempt to actually buy but have the process fail or be rejected for any number of plausible reasons. Might make sense to try with some mainstreme publications ie "The NY Tim
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by gist 9y ago
> I don't care about who wins or loses So this more or less confirms what I am thinking which is people who do watch do for other reasons not because they care about the game in particular. So essentially it's a manufactured ev
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Ask HN: Do you care about the Super Bowl? (I don't)
1 points by gist 9y ago|3 comments
836.
by gist 9y ago
> if we all agreed that Internet Who is the 'we' in that exactly? This is like saying 'what if we all agreed that a fancy car or trappings of wealth don't mean anything' or 'what if we all agreed that an Ivy
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by gist 9y ago
Title should be "The startling potential link between elevated sugar and Alzheimer's"
838.
by gist 9y ago
> What future does an asset have if people don't actually buy stuff with it? Real estate is an asset and you can't 'buy stuff' with it (other than a 1031 exchange in the US of course). It's an asset if there is a
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by gist 9y ago
> has the moral indignity of telling its own investors that they better not be trading the assets they purchased. The way I read this they are not "telling them" as much as reminding them that legally they are not allowed to do
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by gist 9y ago
This assumes though that that database can be integrated into the existing software and workflow. That is not trivial to do and can break things easily with proprietary or custom systems. And not all goods or services (that are in theory ta

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