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by jerrya 13y ago
What might you do with your infinite series to roughly estimate the NPV in your head without having to write anything down? Especially when faced with certain tradeoffs, like comparing a $6B hyperloop with an agency with an annual budget of
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by jerrya 13y ago
Technically you're correct, the best kind of correct. But well, is there a pretty easily understood, common sense way to compare an yearly budget of $10B with a total cost of $6B, especially in terms of a trade off?
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by jerrya 13y ago
Hyperloop: $6 Billion Budget of the NSA: $10 Billion ( http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillanc... ) Hopes and dreams of 1960s youth looking at Apollo and entering STEM fields: pri
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by jerrya 13y ago
No, that's how modern privacy invasion works. After Facebook scanned Jane's phonebook, and made the invites Jane asked, Facebook should have deleted your phone number.
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by jerrya 13y ago
Interesting they are placing these at UPS stores, which would be close to the consumer. I would expect that if it gets big enough, UPS would set up a central location, say at their HQ airport in Louisville and do much of their printing, nex
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by jerrya 13y ago
I don't store any passwords in Chrome. Regardless, what you suggest is an enormous invasion of privacy. How about a, "Did you know that within 30 seconds, I can see all your passwords?"
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by jerrya 13y ago
"Today, go up to somebody non-technical. Ask to borrow their computer. Visit chrome://settings/passwords and click “show” on a few of the rows. See what they have to say." Someone that does that to me would not get
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by jerrya 13y ago
First, very nice app. Second, stuff you probably know that confuses me. On Chrome, I can drop (multiple) imgur urls from another Chrome tab, and they are all placed on the canvas. On Firefox, I get the Upload prompt when I drag the image (a
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by jerrya 13y ago
I assume SO analyzes their logs to determine how many google searches take people to close, versus open questions. I wonder what the results are. It might be fun to create a Chrome extension that created such a tally.
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by jerrya 13y ago
I just updated the wiki to add she's an awesome developer.
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by jerrya 13y ago
How much do you tether? And to what sort of devices? The problem I have with T-Mobile is their customer service reps are so poorly trained. So depending on who I speak with, I am told I either need to pay the $15 for tethering or not. I pay
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by jerrya 13y ago
Thanks for the response. I just now read the WSJ article and while I am probably wrong to feel this way, I am a bit happier they need to get me to load malware on my phone, rather than the spooky action at a distance, reach out and touch so
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by jerrya 13y ago
Declan, I have a question for you, and maybe a suggestion for an article. Around 2005/2006 I believe you published this article suggesting that cell phones could be remotely monitored. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-614
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by jerrya 13y ago
Well, I was trying not to be negative, because often HN is accused of just being 99% negativity, but yeah, I was thinking just that. Philip Greenspun wrote a post about that sometime back. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg&
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by jerrya 13y ago
That's actually a very nice website, and quadruply so for being a government created website.
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by jerrya 13y ago
Remarkable that 70 years of managers were able to resist their obligation to rip that crap out and put in cubicles. Manager - SC Johnson Oversaw renovation of 70 year old building. Placed 1000 employees in building that previously h
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Why you should think twice before shaming anyone on Social Media(wired.com)
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by jerrya 13y ago
I like playing with various dropbox experiments. What is the deal with dropbox these days? Is it okay to host websites out of my dropbox via a dropbox associated app?
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by jerrya 13y ago
It's not a tone argument. An argument from a legal department is a threat. And if it's not actually a threat, it's certainly a very significant perceived threat. And lawyers and society definitely understand that. The letter
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by jerrya 13y ago
It looks pretty nice. How is it not compatible with a Nexus 10 (and is compatible with Galaxy Note II and an HP Touchpad running CM 10)?
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by jerrya 13y ago
It's a very frustrating site. I take the time to carefully write up a question, and many things can happen to that. * it doesn't get answered * it gets closed pretty quickly (and usually in an offputting insulting manner)
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by jerrya 13y ago
What can I say? Like many people, I believe, I find the questions that have been closed, usually as "Not Constructive" to be the most helpful. I don't understand Stack Overflow, but the weird negativity over there certainly k
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by jerrya 13y ago
Most of your fees go to the online virtual student union and recreation center.
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by jerrya 13y ago
Hiring strippers. Must have no more than 30 years experience.
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by jerrya 13y ago
At least 5 years experience is a requirement that is job related. You need 5 years of experience at X do lead others doing X. No more than 10 years experience seems very much not job related. How does having too much experience hurt a perso
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by jerrya 13y ago
Is there anything like this guide specific to securing "modern cloud machines" eg. the variety of Amazon AMIs?
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by jerrya 13y ago
It goes both ways. In the US many "consultants" / "independent consultants" refer to themselves as "whores" especially when applying their talents (for money of course) to companies or projects they disres
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by jerrya 13y ago
Sigh. Latitude was easy to use and quite handy to track (flight following mode) friends and relatives on long distance trips. G+ is nice, but a huge amount of overkill just to get that back.
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Conservative and liberal agree: Obamacare employer mandate should be repealed(cato.org)
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by jerrya 13y ago
Could that be https://www.google.com/search?q=gsm+speaker+interference http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/05/27/why-do-speakers-ma...

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