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by jarfil 8y ago
Hospital bills in the US are a scam, they give huge discounts to insurance companies, expecting to make a profit on any remaining amount, then insurance companies charge patients only a part of that while covering the rest.
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by jarfil 8y ago
That kind of explanation is how a company could "promise the traffic will not be intercepted" while using ROT13 to secure it. Also the insurances/warranties are a joke, the way they're written, there is pretty much no wa
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by jarfil 8y ago
That's only true when writing new code. When you have to maintain code, you need to use all the features used by any one of the people who've ever worked on it, which at some point becomes all of the features.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Docker is about uptime, consistency, integrity, CI/CD, etc. If you're just testing stuff, and won't notice a day or two of downtime, you can skip it for now (but it does make things easier once you learn it). Always keep work
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by jarfil 8y ago
You can 3D print similar structures at a much larger scale. Some of the benefits are retained, like a better overall resistance to weight ratio, some others are not, like increased resistance to localized damage. It's pretty much what
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by jarfil 8y ago
You can on a Huawei: - Block unknown/hidden numbers - Block all strangers (non-contact numbers) - Block all incoming calls
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by jarfil 8y ago
I have experience with both PS and GIMP, and for simple tasks they are pretty much the same. Actually PS does some things in a slightly less intuitive way. The strong points of PS are a better optimization of some common professional workfl
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by jarfil 8y ago
CC contracts are kind of funny, because they are 1 year contracts with auto renewal, and they don't give you an easy option to cancel them, but if you happen to pay with a virtual credit card which happens to run out of funds after 1 m
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by jarfil 8y ago
I can believe they don't target "particular groups", just "every group".
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by jarfil 8y ago
London? That won't be Europe after Brexit. Seems to me like a lot of people will be in for a surprise.
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by jarfil 8y ago
I think it's mostly being used by European institutions, but there are notable exceptions like http://leave.eu a pro-Brexit campaign which would lose its domain (the irony).
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by jarfil 8y ago
The sky is an enormous space... and then people decide to all go to the same place, like some airport's runway. It's quite easy for some idiot drone operator to fly into an approach path, maybe just to take cool photos of landing
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by jarfil 8y ago
I wouldn't call "five miles away from the nearest airport" to be near an airport.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Both pro- and anti- flat earth content attracts views, which translate into ad hits and money. Some outlets will push anything for money.
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by jarfil 8y ago
This is why I like news aggregators like HN, Reddit, Slashdot, etc. Even if I happen to be the 9 in 10 regarding some article, the 1 in 10 will usually be quite vocal in the comments.
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by jarfil 8y ago
If you get ten more, at some point you realize that death happens, and all you can do is care the best you can for them... then get a new one. Of course this doesn't change the fact that Wag requiring an NDA in order to take responsibi
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by jarfil 8y ago
There may be someone coming, seeing the door is closed, and just leaving a note for maintenance to fix it when you aren't around. They may also be using those sensors to know if someone opens your door while you're out of the hote
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by jarfil 8y ago
You can get an RF scanner with a laser lens scanner for $10, and your phone camera is good enough for detecting IR LEDs. The only expensive part is the FLIR camera, but still 3 out of 4 for $10 is not bad.
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by jarfil 8y ago
I keep a small (and cheap) separate router for my IoT devices. If I wanted to spy on someone, I'd definitely use one of those, with a USB powerbank acting as a UPS.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Microphones can be hidden completely out of sight. A long enough lens barrel can put the heat generating electronics far enough from any visible surfaces that the heat signature may become unnoticeable. Also the heat camera is the most expe
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by jarfil 8y ago
What we may need is the next step: a standardized way of changing passwords that would allow us to rotate them in bulk directly from the password manager.
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by jarfil 8y ago
The worst kind of targeting is when I go to a website, browse some similar items comparing their features and price, buy one... and now you decide to show me ads about those same products for the next week even if it should be clear that I&
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by jarfil 8y ago
Most higher degrees are supposed to teach some higher level stuff from a broader perspective than what will be required on a daily basis on the job, so someone who only does that particular job might be better at doing it, but will lack the
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by jarfil 8y ago
ETH is theoretically better than BTC, while BTC is practically better than ETH. Depending on whether you want something cool to experiment with, or something to actually use, one is far better than the other.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Moral of the story being that if people hate you, and you go on to prove that you're actually better that them... there will come some psychopath who will use their jealousy to make them kill you.
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by jarfil 8y ago
You can't focus light from a single source with just magnifying glasses at different positions onto the same point. You can try it with the sun, get two magnifying glasses and try to focus them on the same point at once, it's not
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by jarfil 8y ago
A penny at a temperature high enough to radiate the same amount of energy as the entire surface of the sun, would be at a far higher temperature than the sun.
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by jarfil 8y ago
> you can't do is to take Q units of heat energy from one body and transfer it all to a higher temperature body Except it's not "heat energy", it's electromagnetic energy that's getting transferred. If the t
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by jarfil 8y ago
Signal bars are meaningless anyway. Even a raw dB measurement wouldn't tell much about the service quality, so they might as well switch to a "coverage / no coverage" indicator.
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by jarfil 8y ago
It doesn't even have to be truly random, just "random enough". If you were to use a passphrase like "Use 5 or 6 words and the problems listed here vanish", that wouldn't be random per se, but for an attacker it

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