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by inetsee 7y ago
As good as this idea is, I suspect that relatively few payroll departments are set up to provide this option, and most of them would resist going to the extra effort to provide it.
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by inetsee 7y ago
A quick search on CRM returns "Customer Relationship Management" as the first several results. Not everybody wants to share all this information with Google.
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by inetsee 7y ago
I'd like to have something like this for the HAL 9000 voice. Does anybody have any suggestions?
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by inetsee 7y ago
I installed the Bypass Paywalls plugin for Firefox https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox and my experience reading articles on Medium is much nicer. There's still a popup, but it's small and d
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by inetsee 7y ago
Now I'm confused. I used reviewmeta.com and www.fakespot.com for the first time on a product I'm thinking of buying (a fitness tracker). Reviewmeta gave a revised rating of 4.6, down from the Amazon rating of 4.8. Fakespot gave th
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by inetsee 7y ago
For more recent information on a similar topic: https://www.americaspace.com/2012/06/06/top-secret-kh-11-spy...
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by inetsee 7y ago
I believe loftsmen prepare full size drawings or patterns at 1 to 1 scale, whereas a blueprint may be at a reduced scale. I.e. a blueprint fits on a drafting table; the pattern created by a loftsman would go on a factory floor.
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by inetsee 7y ago
Maybe I'm an old fogey, but this car looks much more like "a traditional compact crossover SUV", and much less like a "traditional Mustang".
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Greta Thunberg's Speech to US Congress about the Climate Crisis(lithub.com)
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by inetsee 7y ago
I remember reading (a very long time ago) that one of the primary use cases for using airships for carrying cargo was in regions that don't have an existing highway system to support fleets of big trucks. Africa in particular doesn&#x2
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by inetsee 7y ago
> The way you construct sentences, the types of words you hyphenate, the way you spell words, the words you select, etc. There are ways of countering these kinds of analyses. A search for "defeating stylometry" turned up this l
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by inetsee 7y ago
Sadly, the text in the video is completely unreadable.
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by inetsee 7y ago
This is somewhat off-topic, but I have a question for HNers who know more science than I do. I have sometimes wondered whether a plasma torch could be used to safely dispose of exceptionally toxic waste? It seems to me that a plasma torch w
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by inetsee 7y ago
I'm confused. The page I landed on says that Bank of America supports Firefox "51 and higher". I have Firefox 70.0 on Linux and I have no problems with Bank of America's website.
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by inetsee 7y ago
As dmurray pointed out, there are serious risks associated with ejecting, plus the risk of not knowing where the aircraft debris will land.
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by inetsee 7y ago
New version (2018): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6946v1.pdf The linked version is from 2013.
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by inetsee 7y ago
My first question is whether the "Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau" is a reliable source of information under the current circumstances. I haven't been reading all the news about the Hong Kong protests, but
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by inetsee 7y ago
Wouldn't that be easier to crack, since it doesn't have any special characters?
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by inetsee 7y ago
One of the numbers that jumped out at me as being very unusual about the Cerebrus chip was this one: "Speculated clock speed of ~1 GHz and 15 kW power consumption." 15 kW power consumption for 1 chip?!?
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by inetsee 7y ago
I tried that link but got re-directed to the original Google Docs page. It sounds like a really interesting tool, but I haven't been able to find the actual code anywhere.
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If You Existed in Multiple Universes, How Would You Act in This One?(lithub.com)
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Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter Approved; Call for Participation(lists.w3.org)
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by inetsee 7y ago
"Neuromancer" is at the top of my list of favorite science fiction books, closely followed by Charles Stross "Accelerando". I don't necessarily like everything William Gibson has written, but I will read it all. I a
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by inetsee 7y ago
5 Year survival rate is one of the standard measures for the effectiveness of a medical treatment.
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Google's Cookie Matching(developers.google.com)
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by inetsee 7y ago
I have thought for a long time that the best (and most cost effective) way to improve the quality of your pictures is to reduce camera shake. You could spend $1000 or much more on a new camera with a bunch more megapixels, or you could spen
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by inetsee 7y ago
The article only mentioned in passing NPP Zvezda, which is a Russian ejection seat manufacturer. I remember reading years ago how much trouble the company was having getting the US Defense Department to even consider using their ejection se
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by inetsee 7y ago
Two things I got from the video: 1) The videos of the launches are scary, especially the launches with the "A" rockets, and the fireball surrounding the rocket at the beginning of the launch. 2) It's a shame the patch with th
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by inetsee 7y ago
One part of the article that I noticed particularly was the line about "some hospitals and doctors offices sell their debt to debt buyers, who pay pennies for each dollar owed...". There's an organization called RIP Medical D
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by inetsee 7y ago
I worked on the Comanche Helicopter program for a while, many years ago. The program was based on the same fundamental idea: create a helicopter that that could perform the roles of advanced armed reconnaissance and attack. The idea has a g

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