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by hrunt 3y ago
I pay them for the family plan. Being able to share items with my wife and kids (particularly joint accounts) is extremely useful, and they do it without creating two classes of passwords (like LastPass, my previous vault). BTW, the paid ac
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by hrunt 3y ago
Imagine for a minute that you have a hammer. This hammer is a very useful tool and you have never had a problem with it. You don't know what is in the hammer -- could be steel, could be titanium, could be uranium (you're not a sci
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by hrunt 3y ago
I always thought this was a genius move. Remember, at the time, Apple had no product in the space. The market was highly fragmented, and cell phones were becoming commodity devices. Here's Apple wading into a sea of competitors, with a
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by hrunt 3y ago
If you are like me and wonder, "What's the point of a centralized digital currency in economies where almost all financial transactions are effectively digital anyway?" I found this HBR article[0] provides a good overview of
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by hrunt 3y ago
The companies spent all the money this year on R&D expenditures. That was cash out of their pocket (they spent it this year, so it reduced this year's cash on hand). The effect of the rollback is that they can now only count 20% of
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by hrunt 3y ago
> Also on a total sidenote, if you told me 5 years ago that Bing would be a serious threat to Google I would have a laughed. If you had told me 3 months ago that Bing would be a serious threat to Google, I still would have laughed. That&
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by hrunt 3y ago
Thanks for noting that. I've updated the title since so many people (not unreasonably) seemed to jump to the inclusion that "investigators" meant "police".
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NYT/Bellingcat investigators find Pentagon leaker through Instagram photo(twitter.com)
30 points by hrunt 3y ago|91 comments
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by hrunt 4y ago
I am not a physicist, so I am hoping someone with more understanding can explain this to me. Why do we say that we "discovered" a new uranium isotope that scientists effectively created in a lab under very specific, man-made condi
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by hrunt 4y ago
There are plenty of sports with different rules between amateurs and the pros. Amateur and pro boxing use different scoring systems. American football uses a different ball, different clock rules, different catch-possession rules, etc. Diff
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by hrunt 4y ago
Trump and Nixon are also two very different situations. When Ford pardoned Nixon, Nixon was done with politics. He had no chance of coming back as a politician. If he had not resigned, he was going to be impeached and he was going to be rem
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by hrunt 4y ago
The article points out that while system colors are supported in Firefox (as of the time of the writing of the article), the "color-scheme: light dark" method he was using was not supported, and it looks like that was not supporte
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by hrunt 4y ago
Is it a summary when it turns 3 sentences into 3+ paragraphs?
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by hrunt 4y ago
Ex-employee of Golden Frog GmbH here (makers of VyprVPN). Golden Frog nor VyprVPN ever sold any of its customer information in my time there. Based on my conversations with current employees, they still do not. Not all VPN providers sell da
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by hrunt 4y ago
Why Porkbun? What makes a good domain registrar these days (almost everyone is or has been acquired by someone doing something questionable)?
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by hrunt 4y ago
My wife is an architect who is working with a school district to build affordable housing for its teachers. The district has received a grant, and the district has plans to build the housing with developers building neighborhoods that feed
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by hrunt 4y ago
The Daily Mail[0] has plenty of pictures showing the impact of the fungus on the community. I assume, because I'm always suspect of Daily Mail reporting. [0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11812901/N
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by hrunt 4y ago
Yeah, but there were definitely incompatibilities with every speed increase. When 28.8k modems were coming out, the spec was not set yet, so several vendors released early versions (anyone remember v.fast?) and then updated the modem firmwa
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by hrunt 4y ago
One of my first jobs was working for a mom-and-pop dial-up ISP. I persuaded my mom to get an account with them when I saw them in a computer magazine. I did not even have a web browser! A little after that, they hired me. One of the things
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by hrunt 4y ago
I see plenty of ideas of what it could be. The company has only stated that it is not due to a hack or vulnerability, which may or may not be true. I will throw one more into the mix. A few years ago, a core system at our company went down.
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by hrunt 4y ago
No, probably not. Your $5 VPS is going to be dedicated to you. The VPS provider is going to provide no privacy guarantees to you and will easily be able to associate requests for your information with your VPS. They will have no issue provi
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by hrunt 4y ago
My favorite part of this photo is that the pilot captured the shadow of his own U-2 on the surface of the balloon. Here is the full image[0], and it was verified by the Pentagon. [0] https://d3lcr32v2pp4l1.cloudfront.net/Pic
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by hrunt 4y ago
I miscalculated the time frame. The time frame is 36 months, February 2020, which is before the pandemic started. I have since edited.
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by hrunt 4y ago
To put this in context, the $2.3T drop is for the prior six months. In the prior 36 months (including the six months with this drop), the housing market posted a gain of $13T, a gain of approximately 40% (based on the peak valuation of $47.
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by hrunt 4y ago
> So if YouTube used the same deep learning models to push people to more extremist content but without using any user signals so that everyone has the same recommendations that's no longer promotion? I don't want to respond to
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by hrunt 4y ago
I think your comment shows the difficulty SCOTUS is having with this case. What's the difference between "promotion" (in my definition, that means putting an influence behind it to improve its standing with the viewer) and ot
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by hrunt 4y ago
IANAL, but I would start developing my argument with the idea that emails Google placed in my Priority Inbox were sent to me specifically, and the intention of the sender is that I specifically would see it. Google is still not putting anyt
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by hrunt 4y ago
No, I would not want HN legally responsible for comments posted by users. Hacker News does not directly promote content (aside from prioritizing content based on non-content factors [age, voting, etc.]). It does moderate, but that is not th
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by hrunt 4y ago
The Planet Money episode the article references makes a point about the waitlists and why it is not necessarily a scam or a market failure. The margins on these places are low. The financials really only make sense if the school is at full
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by hrunt 4y ago
I worked with a daycare on a building project, and I saw how amazingly expensive childcare is. The teachers are paid what many would consider to be barely a living wage, but property costs and especially insurance were substantial. The owne

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