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It's not possible to encrypt 51GB of real-world data in 1GB space for the same reason that compression algorithms can't achieve 51x compression ratios. Given that, such a scheme presents some challenges if you want to maintain pla
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This is a real technique from the espionage world. I heard the CIA's former "Chief of Disguise", Jonna Mendez, mention it in an interview a few years ago.
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You might be interested in the Gravity Research Foundation[1]. It was founded in 1948 by Roger Babson, who also founded Babson College. Babson described gravity as "Our Enemy Number One" and blamed it for the drowning death of his
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> it's a massive negative impact on the people effected by this. The people who switched are the people at the margin. Previously, taking their cars was slightly more convenient, now it's slightly less. Anyone who would be mass
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> There is probably an explanation for this that doesn't boil down to "FB watched our GPS and noticed our phones sat next to each other at the same location for several hours," but it still felt sufficiently creepy to make
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I had a very similar experience. I got into a flow state while converting the project, which has never happened for me while working with an unfamiliar framework. It clicked in a way that Angular never did. Does React feel the same way? I k
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If Intuit's strategy is to spend billions to kill free tax products, then that would suggest that there's a huge reward for the next organization that can replicate Credit Karma's success. Is it really that difficult to build
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Would it be better or worse for China if the disease spread to countries that compete with it economically? If it helps China at all, would China be able to resist the temptation to allow infected individuals to travel to those countries?
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One interesting fact that I learned from Nate Silver's book, The Signal and the Noise, is that weather forecasting is a four-dimensional problem (space + time), so to produce a forecast that is twice as detailed requires approximately
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Two reasons: it's a standard form-factor, which makes it easier to work with and the additional pins hold it securely to the board.
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It's not a requirement, just an option. They can also run off of a wall wart or solar panel, with data over WiFi or LTE.
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This is why the CEO of TCF Bank named his yacht Overdraft.
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My newest appliance, a microwave, has a dial to set the time, a row of buttons to select the power level and a door handle. It's the best microwave I've ever owned. It was also the most expensive, but since it is intended for comm
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That's not an accurate image of dairy farms, at least based on the large farm I visited. Cow productivity is strongly influenced by the quality of life of the cow. Stressed, stick or otherwise unhappy cows produce less milk and as a co
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If an injustice is one symptom of a deeper problem, is it a good idea to focus on treating the symptom? That approach helps minimize the visibility of the problem while diverting energy (public attention, political capital, financial resour
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So 'rent affordability' here means percentage of income spent on rent? Higher affordability means higher rent/income, which means rent is less affordable. This is very confusing terminology.
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I think that comes from misogynistic stereotypes concerning personality traits. "Women, ugh, they're all so x. Not you though, you're different."
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The content of the article is very interesting and worth reading, but the framing feels circular. Some laws of nature are fundamental and other laws are inevitable consequences of those laws. If the inevitable laws were not inevitable, then
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I don't remember enough Latin to find the passage, but I recall reading the Aeneid in college and being amazed by the scene where Laocoön is killed by the serpents. Virgil weaves the description of the serpents and the struggling man t
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I've always thought of these as "Wayside School" problems, because I first encountered them in the children's book, Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School by Louis Sachar. I highly recommend it for any child who is into
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The behavior is the same, but the situations are different. ABC is a second-tier television network struggling for survival while Facebook is the dominant social network company and is abusing its position to stifle competition.
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This behavior causes another problem as well. I am unable to interact with my password manager plugin when a basic auth dialog is active. I need to remember to manually look up the password and have it in the clipboard before navigating to
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If I could help Cloudflare by remembering prior art, I would do it for free as the satisfaction would be enough. However, they say that they paid over $50,000 to 18 individuals, which works out to almost $3000 per person, so the crowd gaine
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Fitbit is pretty good about this. I've noticed that some derived values such as resting heart rate are not available for export, but the important stuff all seems to be there. https://www.fitbit.com/settings/data&#
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As a casual observer, I wonder why ranked-choice captured the mind share when people who are passionate about voting systems seem to universally prefer approval. Maybe there's something about voting for multiple candidates that just do
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Having switched to Firefox three months ago, the three things that I miss most are, 1. The integration with Google Translate, which I understand would be difficult for Firefox to replicate 2. The ability to right-click on an image to search
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Isn't this the problem that municipal bonds are supposed to solve?
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Why are developers expected to solve these problems? With more people living there, there will be a larger tax base to support services and infrastructure in the area. The city is the entity that should be building bridges and the residents
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Page load time should include the time it takes to clear away the nag screen before you can see the content. That is easily 2000ms for most people.
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You're not wrong, by most definitions of netbook, but I think the parent commenter makes a very good point if you look at them in terms of their form factor. Netbooks of that era were these weird little machines with 8.9" screens

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