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by jbuzbee 11y ago
The form actually asks uses terms like close, personal relationship so it not just listing random people. And to put the shoe on the other foot, what if it were your job to vet a person working on plans for a new nuclear reactor. Don't
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Note that this is far larger than the "intelligence community". This would include everyone from janitors who empty the trash in secure facilities to accountants, to mechanical engineers who design pumps for nuclear facilities, to
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I've been through this multiple times. Basically they just come out to your neighborhood and ask your neighbors if they've noticed anything suspicious going on. Strange behavior, odd visitors, unexplained affluence, etc. Takes all
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Well if this includes the entire SF-86 database, then I guess it includes me. And I realize there's nothing I can do about it, so I guess I'm not sweating. Life goes on. If it really was the Chinese behind it, then the data likely
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
> 55% do not know it is legal for an online store to charge different people different prices... > 62% do not know that price-comparison sites like Expedia or Orbitz are not legally required... Statements like tell me that the survey
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Most of my business trips are airport/hotel/work/airport, but occasionally, I'll use accumulated frequent-flier miles to have my wife join me and extend the trip. We've done Australia twice this way. When you'r
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You know you've always wanted your portrait in Lego, right?(sailorhg.github.io)
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I remember a conversation with a co-worker who was arguing for two classes of driver's licenses. One, for people like him of course, would allow the holder to ignore certain road restrictions, go over the speed limit, etc. The other wo
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I am seeing that it uses tags and faces that I previously put on photos within iPhoto and are evidently stored with Exif. So if you used iPhoto to tag your set "honeymoon" it will pick that up.
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In my photos, it recognizes both Weddings and Graduations. And you do combinations like searching for "Judi Graduation" or "Beer in Soho", "Jim at Yellowstone", etc. - amazing stuff!
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I just realized that this post makes me sound like an Aussie! I guess I should have thrown in that it also automatically recognizes bars, beaches, sunsets and sharks!
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Been playing with Google Photos this morning and marveling how it is able to categorize beer, bridges, kangaroos, koalas, etc. But of course it gets some wrong. Anyone know how to change a categorization?
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Nice! I'd like to see the technique combined with this one: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i...
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
MicroPython has been ported to the esp8266: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13252 which is a wifi-ready microcontroller that can be found on eBay for a few bucks: https://github.com/micropython/m
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Congress has access, but it is quite limited. Unlike industry representatives, they are only allowed to read the document in a special sealed room, but may not make copies, may not take notes and may not bring along any staffer, even those
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
No arguments here. Lots of countries, the US included, have historically utilized protectionist polices that benefit local industries at the expense of higher prices for local citizens and undeserved profits for local industry. My point, be
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Know about it? He's all over it: http://infojustice.org/archives/32657 And he complains that critics have a “lack of knowledge of what is going on in the negotiations” How rich. Of course they have a lack of knowl
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
I'm all for free trade. Who could be for protectionism and artificial constraints on basic economic forces? But free trade, the TPP ain't: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150422/23441830765/if-yo
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
$9 for a bluetooth dongle? how about 99 cents with free shipping and you can find the same for wifi: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-USB-Bluetooth-Wireless-Adapter-...
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
These farmers would not own the well. They would typically be leasing the mineral rights to a company who takes the risk to drill, maintain the well and sell the result, if any. Standard rates for the mineral rights owners would be around 3
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Doing Democracy right? I recall that worker bees will kill a co-worker if the co-worker doesn't do a good enough dance that tells where pollen can be found. I'd hate to think what would have happened to some of my co-workers based
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by jbuzbee 11y ago
Regarding the insurance, I tried to use it once when my daughter dropped a new cell-phone in the water. A quick read of the credit-card insurance promo looked promising, but once we called and talked to a very nice customer-service rep for
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
If people are confused about "stuff taken out of my paycheck", then the answer is education, not more muddying of the waters by mixing two completely different deductions.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
You should exclude SS and Medicare when talking about income tax rates. Both of these are basically forced-savings, not taxes. You pay in (save) when working, you get the money back when you retire in the form of SS payments and medicare co
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I used to write reviews on these consumer-level network devices and in my experience they nearly all ran a root-privileged server under Linux. Inevitably they would end up having some sort of cgi interface that would take in parameters and
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I recall a story a while back about a satellite that ended up in the wrong orbit after launch. The engineers knew how to correct it using various orbital maneuvers, but alas those maneuvers were patented and it was too expensive to license
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Pushing those old systems to their limit (and beyond) was a lot of fun and very instructional for those of us just getting into programming. On my Atari 800, I recall using 6502 assembly to hook the horizontal and vertical blank interrupts
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Around the turn of the century, I was working for a company that was continuously recording live video streams to a hard drive. Since you can't do that indefinitely, we'd only keep around the last two hours or so. If I recall corr
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
There was an interesting story recently from a small mountain town here in Colorado. Seems the town had exhausted their current jury pool so court officers literally went out on the street and pressed people into service. "You, over th
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Discussion of the ESP286 here on Hacker news seems limited. Looks like a great alternative for low-cost use. It's a $5 microcontroller board with WIFI which now can be programmed with the Arduino development environment: http:/&#

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