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by jlmorton 10y ago
This is precisely what the fine is doing. Fifteen billion dollars of the market capitalization was wiped out, directly impacting shareholders. The stock has lost about 40% of its value since news of scandal broke. You can argue it should
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by jlmorton 10y ago
While making the port number based on a TOTP token is clearly just for fun, it's not unusual to not entirely trust public key authentication. This is an additional security step. Once public key authentication is allowed, the mechanis
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by jlmorton 11y ago
How terribly ironic.
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by jlmorton 11y ago
Amazon Prime also comes with nearly Netflix-equivalent video on demand, nearly Spotify-equivalent streaming music, Prime Now 2-hour delivery, and currently free restaurant delivery a la GrubHub/Eat24 in a few cities, along with a bunch
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by jlmorton 11y ago
Janet Napolitano is a liberal Democrat, former governor of Arizona, and the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama. How does this make her a neocon?
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by jlmorton 11y ago
It's not NASA, the organization, that has released a vetted, reviewed technical paper about this. This article is based on the casual communications of a NASA scientist, who works for EagleWorks, and has been communicating with a comm
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by jlmorton 11y ago
Sorry, that's not possible. Drivers are not shown the destination until they begin the ride - the point where it begins billing you, and begins showing your pickup location in the map they email you immediately concluding your ride. T
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by jlmorton 12y ago
> Capital gains would not be recognized if you exercised the options and held onto the shares. That's not exactly accurate in the US. You need to pay income tax - not capital gains - on the spread between the strike price and the f
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by jlmorton 12y ago
It's worth noting that a while back, American Airlines calculated that replacing the 35lbs flight manual in aircraft would an iPad would save $1.2 million annually in fuel expenses. If SkyMall weighs about 1 pound per magazine, and it&
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by jlmorton 12y ago
Same here. We received well over 150mbit/s, also on Monday the 19th, also from China. We also saw occassional spikes starting on January 9th. We saw the same BitTorrent /announce traffic, and lots of other random traffic. We en
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by jlmorton 12y ago
I have a 2011 27" iMac and I can hear it, but it's on the edge of my perception.
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by jlmorton 12y ago
It would be really nice if all browsers had an expiration date. If they haven't been updated in 12 months, they simply cease to operate in any way except to update themselves.
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by jlmorton 12y ago
Nope - It requires that you be paid at least twice per month. http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_paydays.htm
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by jlmorton 12y ago
This donation was made to the CDC Foundation, not the CDC. The CDC Foundation does most of its work outside of the United States. Zuckerberg's donation is meant to help reduce the novel growth rate seen with 2014 West Africa Ebola. W
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by jlmorton 12y ago
Health care inflation has been substantially outstripping core inflation for the past several decades (though this trend has slowed, or possibly even reversed, in the past four years). Americans now spend nearly $18 of every $100 produced i
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by jlmorton 12y ago
Any commentary on stagnant wages in the United States that does not mention health care is essentially not worth reading.
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by jlmorton 12y ago
I don't think that's accurate. FIRPTA requires a buyer to withhold 10% of the purchase price, not 30%. But that's just to ensure the tax is paid. The tax is only on the gain in the property, not the gross sale price. Sal
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by jlmorton 12y ago
To be fair, Uber was originally UberCab, but dropped "Cab" from the name after the MTA in San Francisco charged Uber with running an unlicensed taxi service.
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by jlmorton 12y ago
You believe that Malaysia Airlines should know within about 90 minutes whether one of their planes was shot down by a surface-to-air missile? Do you believe United Airlines would know such a thing? Air France did not know what happened to A
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by jlmorton 12y ago
Malaysia Airlines is a respected, professional airline. We have no idea what happened to either flight, and it's rather unfair to suggest Malaysia Airlines should be "shut down."
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by jlmorton 12y ago
Because just as the Federal Reserve can arbitrarily expand its balance sheet to purchase assets, it can also arbitrarily shrink its balance sheet when it sells those assets. In other words, the Fed can print money to buy assets, increasing
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by jlmorton 12y ago
The pay differential for software engineers in the SF Bay Area is much more than 15%. The average adjustment for all jobs in San Francisco is about 40% higher than the national average. Looking at BLS data, jobs for Software Developers in
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by jlmorton 13y ago
Sure, but it does likely mean that hosts should expect some surprise visits from the local health department and likely fines, because it certainly does require at least a temporary food permit. Here are the relevant San Francisco requirem
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by jlmorton 13y ago
In the United States, the FAA is implementing a program called NextGen Air Transportation System that would feature two-way, GPS-based satellite communication. There are numerous benefits outside of an accident: http://en.wikipe
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by jlmorton 13y ago
And this is part of working on poverty, in India and everywhere else. Forget all the other reasons. People need inspiration, and this is one way to provide it. The payoff may not be immediate, but it will come.
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by jlmorton 13y ago
It's interesting that Google reportedly demanded Apple allow Latitude in Maps on the iPhone as a prerequisite for providing turn-by-turn navigation. Apple refused, built their own maps product...and then Google cancels Latitude? http
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by jlmorton 13y ago
You should not be upset with Adobe. You should be upset with your payment card provider. This industry has systematically externalized the cost of these data breaches, and the security systems necessary to try to prevent them, to every oth
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by jlmorton 13y ago
True enough, there is other "noise" on the phone, in the form of point-like finger prints, and even other trails. But you're imagining a blank phone, where you have to try and discern one trail from another. Now turn the ph
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by jlmorton 13y ago
While I don't have data to back it up, I believe most Android users use the draw pattern to unlock method. This feature is absolutely trivial to defeat - you can simply hold the phone up to the light, see the trails of oil left on the
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by jlmorton 13y ago
What's frustrating for me is that the Commerce Department never releases any data when they levy anti-dumping tariffs. U.S. tariffs against Chinese solar cells is a great recent example. Where is the evidence that Chinese companies a

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