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by iokevins 9y ago
From the article: "Anything we would do that would slow down signups, delete accounts, or remove accounts had to go through the growth team," Miley said. "They were more concerned with growth numbers than fake and compromised
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by iokevins 9y ago
This article claims future ultrasound equipment savings of ~80%: USD$250,000 (3D) vs. USD$50,000 (2D-modified). From the perspective of patients and medical administrators, the upside seems clear. For (at least one?) ultrasound equipment ma
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by iokevins 9y ago
From the article: "AB 1665 takes effect immediately. It lowers California minimum broadband service standard to 6 Mbps download/1 Mbps upload speeds and adds $300 million to the California Advanced Services Fund for broadband infr
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California Governor Approves $300M Gift to Telcos, Vetoes Streetlight Giveaway(tellusventure.com)
1 points by iokevins 9y ago|1 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
Selected the map of all 320 places and Google gives an error, "Maps can't find http://lar5.com/ikea/dictg4w6k5c6.kml" Not a big deal; giving feedback in case original author posted this.
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by iokevins 9y ago
Dr. Shostak quoted 2015-2025, in 2008, as the expected dates to discover alien life: http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2008/02/12/news/national/... Just under 10 years later, he quotes 2035. N
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by iokevins 9y ago
HP Alumni resources: http://www.hpalumni.org/index Excellent resource for HP/HPE staff leaving the company.
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by iokevins 9y ago
Worked at HP 2000-2005, and we received detailed branding explanations. It was quite eye-opening, to me. Global markets, cultural meanings, etc. A lot of thought and legal review goes into it.
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by iokevins 9y ago
From the article: "Senate bill 649 won narrow, bipartisan approval in the senate yesterday. The tally was 22 yes votes – 21 were needed – with 10 noes and 8 abstentions. Instead of trying for a rational makeover of the way local govern
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Big telecom money sets up clean sweep of broadband bills in Sacramento(tellusventure.com)
1 points by iokevins 9y ago|1 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
Looks like this comes from the Dave Aitel July 12, 2017 blog post, "What Kaspersky Means for Cyber Policy": https://cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com/2017/07/what-kaspersky... which references this July 11,
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by iokevins 9y ago
Direct link to the survey: https://www.research.net/r/GitWCF The intro reads: .NET Core is a set of runtime, library and compiler components that allow you to create apps that run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It can
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WCF Services features in .NET Core – Microsoft seeking developer feedback(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
1 points by iokevins 9y ago|1 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
1 1,523,300 The FCC's Open Internet Rules (net neutrality rules) are extremely important to me. I urge you to pr 2 1,359,677 In 2015, Chairman Tom Wheelers Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed restrictive Title II 3 1,283,6
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by iokevins 9y ago
From the article: "AB 1665 would lower California’s broadband standard from a minimum of 6 Mbps download/1.5 Mbps upload speeds, to 6 Mbps down/1 Mbps up. That’s despite a move by the federal agriculture department to set the
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California Senate Committee Votes to Give Telcos $300m for Slower Broadband(tellusventure.com)
1 points by iokevins 9y ago|1 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
At least it's secure and usually FTPS...hopefully using TLS 1.2+ cryptographic protocol. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636066
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by iokevins 9y ago
Each point: Lesson 1. We're terrible at making predictions. Especially about the future Lesson 2. An alarming number of technology trends are flashes in the pan Lesson 3. Lots of technologies just die. Period Lesson 4: The technical in
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by iokevins 9y ago
California Assembly Bill 1665 attempted to something similar: "Both Frontier and AT&T maintain antiquated DSL systems that serve millions of Californians who live in communities that don’t have sufficient revenue potential. Low inc
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by iokevins 9y ago
Fix link so it points to article top, instead of comments (?) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/maybe...
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by iokevins 9y ago
Wikipedia[1] reports deficit was ~1,250 bilions in the 2011-12 timeframe, dropping significantly in 2013. Wayback machine[2] seems to indicate the author wrote the page in the 2013 timeframe, so the figures probably need updating. [1] http
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by iokevins 9y ago
".NET Standard is a specification that represents a set of APIs that all .NET platforms have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation. Think of .NET Standard as POSIX for .NET." https:/
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by iokevins 9y ago
The article seems arising in reference to the NIST SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines, published June 22, 2017: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/ Three highlights of NIST SP800-63-3, from the SANS Security Awareness
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by iokevins 9y ago
Google Street View: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7887836,-122.4607777,3a,75y,... Note: it seems just Street View displays just a section of the street.
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by iokevins 9y ago
From another page: PRICE It is difficult to estimate the price at this point. Materials should be more expensive than those used for hot air balloons, since they have to be multilayered. Even if they are ten times as expensive the price sho
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by iokevins 9y ago
One minor housekeeping comment: The first two examples seem to return 404, for me: https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless#examples
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by iokevins 9y ago
Summary: "My plea to designers and software engineers: Ignore the fads and go back to the typographic principles of print — keep your type black, and vary weight and font instead of grayness. You’ll be making things better for people w
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by iokevins 9y ago
One device specification resource: http://www.devicespecifications.com/
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California consumer groups allow CenturyLink to end dark fiber leasing(tellusventure.com)
115 points by iokevins 9y ago|28 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
From the article: "Uber just sprung on us that they are no longer offering the service of "deliveries". Now they offer the service of "integrated orders and deliveries". And only that. That's right: if you want

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