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by httpz 5y ago
What you listed are just ways we've learned to live with the forgeable nature of signatures. Now voice recordings (and even videos) will have a similar fate in the future.
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by httpz 5y ago
There are ethical concerns but I think we'll just learn to live with it. Forging signatures are easy and have been around forever but signatures are still used for very important purposes (even electronically now!). It may take a while
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by httpz 5y ago
Series F by itself isn't necessarily a bad thing anymore. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Snowflake all had Series F rounds at one point.
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by httpz 5y ago
Amish have that luxury because they're in their safe bubble in rural America. Any other communities that tried to live that lifestyle probably got wiped out by their neighbors through out the history.
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by httpz 5y ago
If electrocution is more gruesome because the inmate doesn't die immediately, then why not put them under general anesthesia then electrocute? That sounds more humane than a firing squad.
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by httpz 6y ago
Can they try tugging from the ground? A tug boat's tug force is limited by their engine thrust. Maybe they can setup some tugging system near the banks.
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by httpz 6y ago
When Microsoft Exchange servers were hacked a few days ago, people on hacker news were talking about how most companies are not capable of securing their own on-premise systems and they should have used Office 365. There really isn't a
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by httpz 6y ago
While true that's more of a federal government interest while the tax breaks are coming from the local government. Maybe the local government will ask for some funding from the federal government.
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by httpz 6y ago
If you replace cannabis in the title with alcohol or tobacco everyone would have said "duh.." and move on. The difference is that the legalization of marijuana is a hotly debated subject so people's opinion on the health effe
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by httpz 6y ago
Back of the envelope calculation to charge 100KWh battery in 10 minutes is about 750A [1] assuming 100% efficiency at 800V (back of the envelope optimism). Tesla Superchargers are already capable of 800A and Porsche is already using 800V. S
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by httpz 6y ago
I looked up Global Foundries and they're 100% owned by the Abu Dhabi state wealth fund. So it might not be too difficult.
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by httpz 6y ago
My brain is basically a cache for pointers at this point. I always know where to find something I'm trying to remember and I always have my phone on me.
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by httpz 6y ago
I temporarily moved back to my parents' house durning the pandemic and digitizing childhood photos and videos is one of the things I was planning on doing while I'm here. Now I'm scared...
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by httpz 6y ago
You just have to pay more to get private spaces on Heroku.
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by httpz 6y ago
In some states, the DMV uses the photo you took during your permit test. Clueless 15 year olds show up with messy hair to take the written test, get their photo taken and now that photo could be on your driver's license till your 30s.
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by httpz 6y ago
Berkeley is graduating 900+ undergrads every year in EECS/CS. https://eecs.berkeley.edu/about/by-the-numbers
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by httpz 7y ago
To clarify, SAT subject tests are the ones like physics, chemistry, Spanish, etc. Not the main verbal and math portion. For students smart enough to get into MIT, the subject tests are way too easy. Most students applying to MIT probably ha
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by httpz 7y ago
This may buy some time but we can't be in lockdown forever. Testing infra really needs to ramp up during this time. S.Korea never actually ordered any stay at home order. People are voluntarily avoiding going outside and aggressive tes
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by httpz 7y ago
There is a lot of assuming going on so this doesn't actually prove anything but I think it's something worth thinking about. Is Spain and S. Korea really that much different to have a 4x difference in death rate?
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by httpz 7y ago
Assuming that someone who died from coronavirus is far more likely to have been tested for the virus than someone who's been infected by it, the true death rate of someone infected by the virus is probably far lower than the calculated
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by httpz 7y ago
One unrealistic part about the poor family in the movie is that, there is no way a family of four healthy adults can be that poor in S.Korea (unless they have a large debt payment). If all four of them worked 40hrs/wk doing a minimum w
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by httpz 7y ago
I've been using Samsung phones for years. It can measure heartrate and blood oxygen saturation but I'm pretty sure it doesn't measure blood pressure.
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by httpz 7y ago
But after all the blocks are mined, how does the blockchain even work?
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by httpz 7y ago
It seems like that now but when Twitch or IG got acquired, I remember thinking the price was way too high.
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by httpz 7y ago
They're basically bragging they have something Apple really wants. Now they have a bunch of people at least interested in what they got. I'll say that's not a bad PR.
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by httpz 7y ago
I once walked into a T-mobile store, showed them my phone and claimed that the simcard is stuck and asked them to transfer it to a new simcard I brought with me. They asked for my phone number, scanned the barcode on the new simcard, done.
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by httpz 7y ago
One of the great things about a mechanical keyboard is the repairability. When I spilled a drink on my keyboard and a few keys got sticky, I just ordered a few switches online and replaced them with some basic soldering. You probably won&#x
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by httpz 7y ago
Webtoons have a very interesting business model. Unlike manga, webtoons are usually free and ad supported. I don't even have to sign up to start reading one in most cases. The interesting part is, webtoons are usually released once a w
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by httpz 7y ago
I once got a blood test in California. Nothing special, just a regular checkup recommended by my doctor. The blood testing company later sent me the bill. It was originally $950 and some pre-arranged deal between my health insurance and the
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by httpz 8y ago
I took an overnight train from Paris to Munich. Got on the train from Paris in the evening. My private stall had three seats with a folding table and a sink. The seats folds down and you can unfold three beds from the wall. I had a good sle

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