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by ivl 7y ago
Just so we're clear here: the results are on paper. This app was meant to simply coalesces the results to have them in faster. And some security testing and analysis also wouldn't have prevented this problem, unless it was done a
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by ivl 7y ago
Not a great strategy against people reading books or the newspaper. Two things that are pretty easy to get used to.
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Killer plague game (Plague Inc.) tops charts amid coronavirus(bbc.com)
1 points by ivl 7y ago|0 comments
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by ivl 7y ago
It's artificially cheap because the consequences of air pollution isn't priced into coal. It really, really ought to be. [1] 1. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/air-polluti...
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by ivl 7y ago
There are other drivers on the road though. Not all traffic deaths are single driver incidents. If someone blows through a red light as you're turning, your reaction time can be shockingly irrelevant.
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by ivl 7y ago
> What does the s=20 do? Seems to be tacked on by Twitter to track the source of shares. Pretty sure the number changes by device.
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by ivl 7y ago
This is an absurd comparison. Turkey shot down a regional adversary's plane that violated their airspace. Obama didn't rebuke them for it because what Russia was doing there was supporting a regime he wanted gone. Trump basically
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by ivl 7y ago
I like this. A large description of what's changed does a load of good. What kills me is when using pull requests, putting a complete description into the pull request... and then finding my commits not squashed after my PR is appro
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by ivl 7y ago
Got to agree here. The idea of a company not providing decent hardware and chairs says a lot. It's a couple thousand per employee at most, for an easy gain in employee satisfaction. Trips are pretty silly though.
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by ivl 7y ago
> Apparently the HN crowd is all-in on "the drugs I already enjoy/want to enjoy have scientific backing" even if they're being presented as a cure-all that should warrant skepticism. I wonder if it's a side effec
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by ivl 7y ago
> "The reason for this decision is that the evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question." I'm not sure I understand what's meant by this. Did the vi
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The FBI's quiet 'ransomware summit'(cyberscoop.com)
1 points by ivl 7y ago|0 comments
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by ivl 7y ago
> Motosport.com Well that's unfortunate to see. Motosport has always been pretty good to me. Looks like I'm finding a new store for dirtbike parts.
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by ivl 7y ago
> I'm really not sure what deal ensured it wouldn't be on Steam. The simple fact that Epic offers a much better deal in terms of cost to be on the store. Half of what Valve demands per sale.
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by ivl 7y ago
And it's being hugged down after getting to the top. Unfortunate, I'm sure SourceHut is seeing a nice bump, and it seems like quite a well built product.
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by ivl 7y ago
The difference is that with American cultural values the freedom to criticize them remains. The option exists to say "I don't care for the US's culture or values". I fear the concept of an internet where posts are censo
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by ivl 7y ago
Sometimes they'll also sell the posters online. I've got my 6.0 poster (probably the best one they've done) at my desk at work.
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by ivl 7y ago
> Is he really a Doctor??? He doesn't know there's a Mastoid bone there that the "bending" (aka: Adjusting) the optician is doing is to AVOID putting pressure on that bone!? Doctors are pretty specialized today, and h
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by ivl 7y ago
Thankfully, ISPs being upset about it is a really good way to determine if it's a good thing.
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by ivl 7y ago
> Can the blackness of it be conveyed by my phone’s digital screen? I wouldn't think so. If I understand these paints right they're basically designed to trap light that hits them, made of carbon nano-tubes. In person they se
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by ivl 7y ago
I think I'd have a less negative reaction to open offices if it weren't for the attempt to sell it as a productivity booster . The article even mentions how they're "sold to workers as a boon to collaboration — liberate
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by ivl 7y ago
This is tangentially related, but a couple years ago a Canadian woman won the Global Teachers Prize. [1] The northernmost area of Quebec has quite a lot in common with Nunavut, being remote and only accessible by air, and struck by high ra
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by ivl 7y ago
I'm not going to say this isn't exploitative to some degree, but I will say that this is similar to sweatshop conditions: potentially an improvement over what they were previously doing. It's hard to jump from sustenance far
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by ivl 7y ago
Because ads and trackers are as great a threat to privacy. All ads are malicious, while only some extensions that misuse powerful extensions are. I'm aware ads are not Apple's business model, yet I'm incredibly skeptical when
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by ivl 7y ago
uBlock Origin can be configured to do much more than a simple list based filter (like EasyList, etc). [1] It's not quite the same as detecting, but it's incredibly configurable, and that functionality can't be used when list
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by ivl 7y ago
It's absolute spin. If the extension can't inspect the traffic it can't meaningfully filter content. Now there is a security hole, yes, but closing it comes at a huge cost: the removal of useful ad blocking. I suspect more a
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by ivl 7y ago
> Apple is making this move indeed to protect the privacy of its users more. I'd give Apple's claim here as much credence as I give Google's claim that webRequest caused performance problems when extensions used it.
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by ivl 7y ago
> I will say that the strategy of declaring a dividend in nontransferable magic beans to hose short sellers is, on its face, too easy. If this works, and if you can do it with the pure goal of messing with short sellers, then lots of com
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by ivl 7y ago
I believe China is commiting a huge amount of effort to building more pumped stored power, which should be coming online in the next few years [0]. If they keep up with building out a large amount of solar, this could work very well. 0. h
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by ivl 7y ago
This was an instant click but it seems the site is being hugged down.

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