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by guan 11y ago
I usually look at my phone. Yes, I know that’s the last thing I should be doing.
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by guan 11y ago
If you are being overpaid (in some sense), you might work harder than before because you have more to lose if you get fired. Any alternative job would most likely come with lower pay.
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by guan 11y ago
These days many SSL connections use authenticated modes of operation such as CCM or GCM that explicitly guarantee that data is transferred correctly.
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by guan 11y ago
I noticed that it doesn’t issue push notifications for emails that enter the inbox as read. I do that for a bunch of notifications and mailing list traffic, and with the FastMail iOS app, it was annoying that those would generate a push not
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by guan 11y ago
It’s not quite the same. In the US, the shares are legally owned by Cede & Co. on the books of the corporation. DTC then has a database that says the shares really belong to various brokers, for the most part. Finally, the brokers have
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by guan 11y ago
As I understand it, it’s not about legal costs in the sense of the fees that Kleiner’s lawyers were paid, but rather costs for expert witnesses and other non-lawyer costs. Specifically, $864,680 in expert witness fees, $59,000 in deposition
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by guan 11y ago
It often is. Newer LED flashlights that run off a single alkaline cell always have a boost converter. Electronics that run off 3 cells often have a buck converter down to 3.3V or a lower voltage, which accomplishes the same thing, often a l
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by guan 11y ago
If you paid out the profit of the corporation as a dividend, and you have owned the corporation for a long time* so those are “qualified dividends” in the US, and your ordinary income tax rate is 30%, then you only pay 15% tax on those divi
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by guan 11y ago
You don’t need to know someone’s CPR number to look up someone’s address (if it is not protected). A name and former address is sufficient to get a current address, and you can request a single lookup as an individual for a fee.
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by guan 11y ago
It is worth noting that Costco currently accepts Visa and MasterCard debit cards, but not credit cards. Most likely they will continue to accept MasterCard debit cards (and perhaps also American Express prepaid debit cards) after this chang
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by guan 12y ago
In my country (Denmark) it has now become much easier to file taxes, and most taxpayers don’t need to do anything at all if the government prepared return does not need changes. Even before it became that easy, it was always possible to get
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by guan 12y ago
Samsung also has a big fab in Austin, Texas, which makes many of Apple’s chips.
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by guan 12y ago
I’d like an AmazonBasics button.
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by guan 12y ago
Or the watches will have significant trade-in value because they can ditch the electronics and melt down the gold.
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by guan 12y ago
It should really include hardware and electronics down to the transistor level, and higher level skills like UI, architecture, marketing.
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by guan 12y ago
UberX from Manhattan to Newark is $65 flat fare, no tip required.
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by guan 12y ago
Does your Canadian USD account have access to the US domestic payments system, so you could make deposits into it over ACH with a routing number and account number? Back in Denmark I had a USD account, but it could only send and receive USD
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by guan 12y ago
Is there a place where I can try the new ReCaptcha? The linked Google post only has screenshots.
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by guan 12y ago
> One downside of these devices is that they are not reprogrammable, so one needs an FPGA designed to try SHA-1 hashes, and one cannot repurpose an FPGA built for BitCoin mining (since that performs SHA-2 hashes). This is not accurate an
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by guan 12y ago
For journals in the fields that I’m familiar, what often ends up happening is the authors do all the typesetting perfectly with LaTeX. Then they submit a PDF, along with a Word file with all the text. Some contractor of the publisher does t
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by guan 12y ago
The “editors” of an academic journal are usually academics, professors who are employed by universities, and they don’t sit at the offices of Elsevier or another publisher. They assign referees and make final decisions on whether to publish
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by guan 12y ago
JSTOR is the default entity that would take care of archives. They provide access to articles older than 5 years (in most cases) for many journals from both commercial and academic publishers.
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by guan 12y ago
I am not sure what you guys mean by “session id”—an identifier for the session, or an authentication mechanism? I have used systems where the session id was auto incremented, but there was a separate signature (in the cookie) verifying that
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by guan 12y ago
Did you grant the credit? Why or why not?
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by guan 12y ago
How they will support chip and PIN? Will they need cooperation from the issuer? If not, then they need to clone the cryptographic keys inside the chip, and I thought those were supposed to be tamper resistant.
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by guan 12y ago
I’m not sure about his address, but social security numbers of all deceased people are made public by the government in the Social Security Death Index, presumably to prevent identity fraud.
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by guan 12y ago
Banks are conservative, too. Which is generally good, but that in itself is part of the reason why the process is slow, in addition to genuine concerns about security and reliability. In some ways security isn’t such a big deal for financia
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by guan 12y ago
They probably want to index some pages on google.com, but not search results. To exclude search results, someone wrote something to exclude URLs that start with /search, and forgot that //search works the same way.
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by guan 12y ago
A lot of services verify by making those two random <$1 deposits and having customers enter the amounts in, then withdrawing them immediately. This appears to be faster than the verification system. The first business I encountered that
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by guan 12y ago
I recall from Florian Mueller’s coverage of German patent cases that when a preliminary injunction is not immediately enforced once it is issued. The other party has to post a bond first, so that the enjoined party can recover damages if it

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