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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> The press wants their own piece after they lost the previous major leaks completely. The information is being released by 100 different news organizations in 100 different countries. It has nothing to do with protecting their jobs from
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> We've had north of a thousand virtual machines scattered across ~6 2nd and 3rd tier providers and switching to gcloud has been a game changer for us. All the of the success stories I've heard about Google Cloud are from compa
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> Patients have told me it's become increasingly difficult to get prescriptions for quite modest doses of opioid agents they've used for years without dose escalation. The tendency to throw babies out with the bathwater is not
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
I'll take Macromedia's luck any day of the week.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Is there documentation I'm missing? Based just on the readme I don't think I understand how this works. For instance, the section on the Request object omits HTTP headers, then the Async section shows sending response headers manu
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Do you have any evidence for either of these answers? They don't match with the reasoning for market circuit breakers I've read in the past. I also don't understand why a collapse in bond markets would cause an equity markets
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Honestly, start with Scott's books and go from there. And quite a bargain at $60 v. what you were considering paying.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Agreed. In fact, it was only your comment that got me to go back and read deeper than the first three paragraphs, where I found an interesting article.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
This is a myth. There were many, many other excellent libraries around the world when the Library of Alexandria was burned down. It contained few if any unique works, and even those that may have been unique wouldn't have held details
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Similarly, I was struck by how much the older photos reminded me of Skellige in Witcher 3.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
I'm not sure when you used it, but Houdini Indie[1] looks pretty reasonable- $200/year and you don't have to upgrade until you're doing $100k/year in revenue. [1] https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?opt
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> Twitter provides 140 status messages. There is nothing wrong it, that is very cool. But I think there is a realization that it just isn't as cool as it was in 4 years ago. And it just became 3% less cool. I can't tell if you&
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
That's it, thanks! For anyone wanting to read the paper itself, the link the imore.com article is broken. Use this one instead: http://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity...
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
I can't for the life of me find it, but there was a paper a few years ago about evading App Store policies by purposely introducing vulnerabilities in your app. The idea being that e.g. you have a buffer overflow and the app makes a sp
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Exactly. Species is more of a descriptive term than it is prescriptive.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Cocaine isn't just a stimulant like caffeine.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
You realize that article by Kim Dale is satire, right?
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
A 1000 point drop at the open is a newsworthy event.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
On Facebook you're generally connected to people you know in real life. So if a new person joins Facebook and connects with you, the FB recommendations are likely people the new person also knows. You frequently follow people on Twitte
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Not if you access to the supply chain for the construction of the computer.
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
The VF article also states that Fletcher dated exclusively women while at Harvard, and that "Fowlkes wasn’t surprised that his former boyfriend had become involved with a woman."
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> But this is modern medical science how it should be. These are incredible, life changing drugs. My mother, after an involved but seemingly victorious war with breast cancer, was then found to have stage-4 cancer on her spine. But as yo
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
I had MM and LJ swapped, but otherwise identical to your rankings. Not that I thought there was anything wrong with MM's actions, but she still did commit adultery and engage in bribery to circumvent the legal system (albeit for honora
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> He allows himself to be bribed with sex which could be seen as a mercy in a certain light. My read was that he extorted sex, not agreed to a bribe. Had Maid Marion offered sex in exchange for Robin's freedom things might be differ
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
Do you have a specific weakness in the implementation you've found and would like to share? Vaguely pointing out that something is imperfect isn't very useful, indeed, it would be amazing if you told us something was perfect!
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> I think about those nameless guys who stock those tchotchke dispensers in convenience stores. It's such a dreadful and unfulfilling job but it earns someone rent money. If it eases your mind any, in most cases the person you see r
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by jacobwcarlson 11y ago
> It’s totally underground, but that’s OK, too ... I want as many people to have access to the music as possible, but being underground is kind of a requirement for hardcore music. You don't want it to be an affectation or exclusion
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
> I actually think that whatever kills GitHub will not be the same thing that kills git. While GitHub has obviously spent enormous resources around hosting git repos there is nothing tying them to git as an SCM. If for some reason Mecur
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by jacobwcarlson 12y ago
> you can see it practically from everywhere That's why a lot of people, myself included, like it. It's always there if you live here (unless Karl's swallowed it again), but doesn't feature on postcards or travel broc

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