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by jknz 8y ago
A middle ground solution between the former situation and leaving completely is to have someone [with good editor skills] edit your emails before they go. 1. Write your usual technical emails with possibly some knee-jerk personal attacks st
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by jknz 8y ago
It seems that the pdftotext command does not go through. Create an issue on github if this still occurs.
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by jknz 8y ago
Firefox or any other browser that downloads the PDFs that you browse. When searching/browsing PDFs, my firefox is set up to download the file into ~/Downloads/.
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by jknz 8y ago
It is not limited to academic PDFs, although I mostly use the script to find those. When typing academic keywords (author names, scientific jargon, etc), the personal PDF that also lie in ~/Downloads/ are filtered out. I recently
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by jknz 8y ago
I use a little script [1] and a passive approach to quickly find a PDF I am looking for among a few thousands of academic PDF. The workflow (illustrated in the GIF [2]): - as I read new PDFs in the browser, the PDFs are passively downloaded
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by jknz 8y ago
Let's trust people to choose for themselves. Currently, people would like to live in cities, but they are denied that because of zoning laws. Your second sentence is anecdotal. My observations is that a lot of people in their 40s move
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by jknz 8y ago
> The problem with "just build more" is that eventually you run out of space the same as now This argument misses the point. In the process of building more, you have made a lot of people richer/happier/commuting less
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by jknz 8y ago
If the airline was identified by the tweets, they should have stepped in, call the pilots/flight attendants to stop this madness. It seems it would be easy for the victims to sue either the airline or the two perpetrators. Suing the ai
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by jknz 8y ago
> Voting for good policies is a public good. When a voter is one among three hundred millions of citizens, only 1/300,000,000 (on average) of the benefits of the vote befall the individual voter. Typically, voting results are highly
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by jknz 8y ago
> I can tell you that the Siri suggestions in Search really annoyed me (usually use search to find... apps, not to be fed all the crap from random apps). In iOS 11 the delay for searhing for apps is unacceptable. instead of displaying th
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by jknz 8y ago
> Dissidents and revolutionaries would hardly be able to do much. Hence the scary question: Once the technology is available (now) and complete surveillance is implemented (soon), is there a going back?
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by jknz 8y ago
Select all and copy-paste from the webpage http://toddwschneider.com/stocks/ in chrome into Libreoffice Calc is parsed as expected.
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by jknz 8y ago
Work in politics for a better world during a few years and then use your network relations to sell contracts to governments and make money Work as a security researcher for a few years and then sell your skills to bad governments for money
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by jknz 9y ago
Elected Politician: what so you want? Union: pay raises! Elected Municipal CFO: we can't. No more money. Elected Politician: what about retiring 5 years earlier? Unions: we will take that! Elected Politician: retiring earlier costs not
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by jknz 9y ago
I don't think so; (though I would set emails to be sent at 8am just to make sure :) The whole issue comes from an implicit expectation that employees read their email after hours because (1) they are likely awake until 11pm-12pm and (2
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by jknz 9y ago
There as rather simple technological solutions to achieve this company-wide: Configure your SMTP server so that any email sent after 8pm is only sent to the other party at 7am; with a similar rule during weekend. [I am not sure how to perfo
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by jknz 9y ago
The current Android approach of granting all permissions the app need at installation time leads to a lot of abuse like this. Just ask for everything because the user just wants to install it and does not read the permission dialog anyway.
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by jknz 9y ago
Some thought on why an explicit social credit score might be better than the current system. The current system already has surveillance. And it's very likely that some hidden score system is already in place (because surveillance is b
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by jknz 9y ago
Their Open Positions page advertises the following. Sounds like sales 2.0 positions. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Communications Strategist Deployment Strategist Forward Deployed Security Engineer Proposal and Capture Legal Strategist Proposal and
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by jknz 9y ago
I am wondering if insurance companies would be interested to pay for this as well. For surgeries that need pre-authorization from the insurance, the insurance has enough information about the upcoming surgery to use your services and preven
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by jknz 9y ago
Any country where Intel sales CPUs could require by national law Intel, AMD etc to notify its government of vulnerabilities, no later than other governments. If Intel explicitly does some kind of US exceptionalism explicitly, the EU, China
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by jknz 9y ago
Any government has national defense responsabilities. With your logic, Intel is a multinational company and should have informed them all, which leads to its own kind of problems. Edit: The only reasonable path seems to inform every governm
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by jknz 9y ago
Some big companies in Europe have such walls for their headquarters, probably for productivity. I guess that their solution is fairly legal, although it may not involve jamming.
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by jknz 9y ago
A simple zero-hassle solutions is to have walls that block any cellular and wifi signals. It solves the problems you mention. I don't know why such walls are not more common in schools too. A lot of parents would be happy to pay for su
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by jknz 9y ago
Congratulations. Especially if there are serious competitors in this space, governments could enact laws that speed up safety requirements (and maybe speed up innovation too). One thought: Governments could force driverless companies to sha
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by jknz 9y ago
This means that miners in these areas operate with a 1500% profit after buying hardware equipment (1500% is computed with current price of 1btc=$16000 and the break-even point at 1btc=$1k). So are they scaling up and buying more hardware as
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by jknz 9y ago
If inhabitants of non-transit areas refuse transit improvements (and transit money), then the transit improvements and associated state money will go to the already labeled transit areas. Everybody's happy. Why try to convince people t
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by jknz 9y ago
Unbiasing a coin is easy (the Von Neuman technique): toss it twice, if the results are different then output the first toss. If the results are the same, forget both and start again. You can use this technique to unbias a 4-die or 8-die by
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by jknz 9y ago
I would teach linear algebra with a book that barely mentions linear transformations. In finite dimensions, linear transformations and matrices are exactly the same object mathematical objects, with very different notations (matrix notation
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by jknz 9y ago
Dear AG, I am wondering if net neutrality should not be enforced by international trade agreements, such as TAFTA and others. Net neutrality means that European ISPs cannot slow down the internet from American Companies and vice versa. What

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