joncrane

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by joncrane 8y ago
OK. For the record, I worked at a government agency, at a GSE (both as a contractor, my company and the client both provided laptops only), and at a Fortune 100 company in the timeframe I quoted. The sensitive information leakage thing is
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by joncrane 8y ago
Just how big is the corporate desktop market? I haven't seen desktop computers at work in at least 7 years.
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by joncrane 8y ago
8% is still billions of dollars, I reckon. The other 92% doesn't lobby for laws that result in more prisoners, but a billion dollar industry does. So the 8% statistic is a red herring.
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by joncrane 8y ago
It's not so much to help you remember . We all know that if I wake up at 7 and I function best on 8 hours of sleep, that I have to be asleep by 11. But if I'm so engaged as to lose track of time, or simply undisciplined (just on
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by joncrane 8y ago
Well, let's try the counterargument approach. Given what we know about fasteners (you need look no further than this thread), why else would Apple choose Pentalobe, of all the options?
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by joncrane 8y ago
Two things: 1) I generally don't want to do what everyone else in a given area is doing. I prefer the off-the-beaten-path stuff. Will Google know this? 2) Will Google monetize the inclusion in the "local hot spot tonight" r
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by joncrane 8y ago
>I don't see any easy answers to Amazon's problems. Machine learning is the obvious hot answer. If you could train a model on how accounts that tend to post bad accounts behave (like another reply said, do they browse a lot?
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by joncrane 8y ago
Interesting historical point: Apple started using the pentalobe fasteners in their iPhones in order to make it more difficult for end users to service their phones. https://www.ifixit.com/blog/2011/01/20&#x2F
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by joncrane 8y ago
I read a few of the tweets and it's all gibberish. What is the purpose of such a bot? Is the purpose being accomplished?
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by joncrane 8y ago
> And welcome to why self-driving cars will always be 3 years away. It's also possible that human/pedestrian behavior will adapt to the consistent behavior of driverless cars.
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by joncrane 8y ago
While I can see where this viewpoint works, I disagree with the ROI assessment. Friends can and do provide very strong returns on investment. They can help with asset accumulation (networking for better jobs; in my case I helped a couple o
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by joncrane 8y ago
Funny you mention this. I skated in HS and college and while I have always owned a skateboard, I tend to go longer and longer between sessions as a 40-something. For me it's the decline in my explosiveness, some weight gain, and now
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by joncrane 8y ago
> Social work, infrastructure repairs, mental health services. But not everyone is suited for that work, much less qualified to perform those services, and perhaps most importantly, not everyone WANTS to. Raise the salaries for those pro
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by joncrane 8y ago
Did the Pixel 2 get rid of the headphone jack?
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by joncrane 8y ago
> Facebook's users - becoming sentient and aware > a bland repository of pablum I believe you are overestimating the intelligence and "woke-ness" of the Facebook user community, and of humanity in general.
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by joncrane 8y ago
You can't make a blanket statement about all Olympic medals like that. Ironically, some of the most prestigious gold medals are indeed the product of human judgement: figure skating and gymnastics.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Yeah this is the cool part. If you have a secret agent, he only has to make one change to guarantee success. (Success may already be guaranteed, but by the time the secret agent leaves the room, all prisoners are guaranteed to be safe).
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by joncrane 9y ago
Nothing wrong with exposing as many children as possible to coding. Forcing them isn't good, but making sure that in grades 1-4 they get to play good logic/coding games in computer lab time is a plus.
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by joncrane 9y ago
I hope this method is still effective given who's in charge of the CFPB. I'm pretty sure they're responsible for enforcing Reg E for the largest banks (correct me if I'm wrong).
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by joncrane 9y ago
I feel like fivethirtyeight is like the Freakonomics of sports.
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by joncrane 9y ago
Boy he did a good job of containing the WTF. Reminds me of helping my mom with computer stuff, but he's way more composed.
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by joncrane 9y ago
How's your stand-up career going?
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by joncrane 9y ago
Ha, good point. We had relatives back in the States that were expecting something to bury so I was stuck.
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by joncrane 9y ago
Good! They should be worried! This is one of the greatest things about the internet: the reduction of information asymmetry. Occupations like investment advice and sometimes auto repair exploit the heck out of information asymmetry. The de
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by joncrane 9y ago
This is the first economically feasible, rational, and internally consistent response in this thread. While it still takes a leap of faith to buy, the argument is sound. And using some other posters' terminology, we can put it like th
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by joncrane 9y ago
City bikes are huge in Washington, DC. I think there are now four brands of bike shares in the city. It's also a great fit because traffic SUUUUCKS and there are a lot of healthy people who buy into the concept.
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by joncrane 9y ago
To me, the culture of Australia has always been that being clever and helpful trumps being richer or beating the other guy. So there is value in companies being known as offering clever, helpful solutions. In the US it's almost exclus
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by joncrane 9y ago
Protip: the player has different speeds. 1.75 was my sweet spot, but I could do 2x in a pinch with high focus. The guy talks so slow!
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by joncrane 9y ago
I wonder if it's more common in Canada because of colder temps making the metal more brittle. I wonder if there's a higher likelihood of incidence when the ambient temp is low.
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by joncrane 9y ago
Why are you getting a hack license?

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