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by grouseway 6y ago
Is this the first instance of Amazon offering an end-user (i.e. non developer) SaaS style product?
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by grouseway 6y ago
Yes they are abysmal failed states but the parent said "government". The regimes in those countries are still in place and have survived. The rulers and recipients of their patronage are still in charge.
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by grouseway 6y ago
Venezuela and Syria have survived much worse with fewer resources. There will definately be enough money for the police and military.
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by grouseway 7y ago
The Canadian government was carefully monitoring Atlantic cod too. Until they completely collapsed. These systems are apparently too complex for us to make good predictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the
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by grouseway 7y ago
Maybe the price? My city recently built an overpass over a single rail track that cost the same amount - $50 million. A tunnel like this would probably be a 10x cost run by most companies.
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by grouseway 7y ago
Missing: Would you like to fill out our survey - granted this mostly happens for big companies rather than all websites. Would you like to install Chrome/our mobile app? We don't remember the answer the last 100 times we asked you
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by grouseway 7y ago
>I don't get why Sparta seems to be so fetishized, particularly by people who are not pleasant to be around. War College had a good interview with a historian on this subject. https://player.fm/series/war-colleg
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by grouseway 7y ago
My guess is that he is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one
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by grouseway 7y ago
"Water is currently 30-40 percent of the costs required to sustain a US military force operating abroad, according to the new Army report. A huge infrastructure is needed to transport bottled water for Army units" Is this for real
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by grouseway 7y ago
Is the Joe Pesci picture a joke or has your website been hacked? https://www.qalocate.com/company/
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by grouseway 7y ago
I wonder if stuff like this is ever a form of parallel construction for insider trading. It sounds cool - so maybe it passes the sniff test and avoids further scrutiny?
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by grouseway 7y ago
The "po" youtube URL modification is clever, but I don't know how long you will be able to keep this running. https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-download-sites-throw-in-the...
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by grouseway 7y ago
There are no more server CPUs with less than 6 cores though. We could happily manage with just 2 dedicated to SQL server, but you have to license all the cores you have. So 3K worth of low end hardware ends up costing you several multiples
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by grouseway 8y ago
Nice work. I feel like APIs often accept form encoding solely because it allows you to show curl examples. However since nested objects don't always flatten nicely you end up with a special syntax or do not allow nesting at all. In thi
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by grouseway 8y ago
One of the nice little features that I appreciate about Twilio, and have adopted myself, is their API keys are always prefixed with a 2 character type. e.g. "account_sid": "ACXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "phon
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by grouseway 8y ago
Question is, are the current approaches at AI the equivalent of the early flappy wing planes we were building to emulate birds?
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by grouseway 8y ago
TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuIlsN32WaE
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by grouseway 8y ago
Totally naive question, but how does this work? I have trouble seeing the extra security value. Does "select passport from customers" no longer work as a query? Or do you store an encrypted value in the table that you then decrypt
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by grouseway 8y ago
But how much of the debt is paid at the current interest rate? Isn't there a bunch of 10 or 30 year treasuries that were issued years ago will be paid out at their historical rates?
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by grouseway 8y ago
For comparison, the modern day version: Mauritania Railway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEo-ykjmHgg
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by grouseway 8y ago
The effect is the same: keep your mouth shut. It's not worth going to prison and it's not worth getting shot. I was just trying to point out how people don't really support freedom of speech when it comes to something that ma
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by grouseway 8y ago
Lets not be too smug. Plenty of Americans who speak out on any type of political issue receive death threats. Sure it's not from the state but does that make a difference if you have to live in fear? Here is one example, but you'v
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by grouseway 8y ago
I'm a fairly casual PG user but I have these issues: Lack of case and accent insensitive collations is inexcusable at this point. Is there anyone that enjoys sprinkling every bit of SQL with upper() comparisons? Non materialized CTEs.
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RFID Hacking with the Proxmark 3(blog.kchung.co)
2 points by grouseway 8y ago|0 comments
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by grouseway 8y ago
It also generates a feeling of urgency - buy now before the coupon expires. You could say sales do the same thing, but online sales are so overused that I personally disregard them because I figure the store will have another fake sale soon
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by grouseway 8y ago
Some of the bleakest and surprising photography I have ever seen has been Jacob Holdt's photo of the American underclass in the 80s. I never imagined that a city like new york was at this level of decay. It gives me hope that we can al
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by grouseway 8y ago
That's a bit of a straw man. The concern is the western countries taking actions to become more like China rather than less like China. It's natural to worry about convergence because eventually these things just become run away s
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by grouseway 8y ago
We almost always cut younger trees because there is basically almost no more old growth left. Here's a video showing logging on Vancouver Island over the last 100 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9hTF2oxLjo
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by grouseway 8y ago
And for some it is a very stressful job. They have a very high suicide rate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4266064/ "The rate of suicide in the veterinary profession has been pegged as clo
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by grouseway 8y ago
They even carry furniture. Not unexpected given the lengths that spies go to. It reminds me of the IBM Selectric bug (apparently planted during a customs inspection). http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectr

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