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by jpatokal 8y ago
Totally unscientific theory: sweeteners are to sugar what methadone is to heroin. If you're using them, you're still craving/addicted to sugar and your palate remains out of whack, so you're probably also drawn to sugar
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You misspelled "rilkef": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18577758
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I've used Concur as both a user and expense report approver, and I suspect these "AI" claims are overblown. What actually happens is that Concur can import transactions directly from a corp credit card and identify a lot of
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Most expense reports don't involve buying $1200 of groceries.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
FWIW, I used to work for a company that paid cash per-diems on top of accommodation. Worked out a treat on an extended gig to Thailand, where I was pulling in $70/day while my actual expenses were closer to $5!
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CVE-2018-1002105: Critical Vulnerability in Kubernetes API Server(github.com)
7 points by jpatokal 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Sounds like he discovered the Rowhammer exploit?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's mostly about Qatar, which recently had a very public falling out with Saudi Arabia and is currently being blockaded by most of its neighbours, who also compose the bulk of OPEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2
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by jpatokal 8y ago
FWIW, the /r/travel rules explicitly ban "clickbait, spam, memes, ads, brochures, surveys, vlogs, blogs or other self-promotion ". So I can't post a link to my travel blog, even if it happens to have in-depth co
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Also, the main driver for the insurgency is that the "peaceful and harmonious" Kingdom of Siam (now Thailand) conquered what was then the Sultanate of Pattani in 1785 and have been trying to forcibly assimilate it ever since.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The link above is for the hardware version. If you just want the software, you can use Hangouts Meet, which is free to install and also included in G Suite. Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on Hangouts.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Just checked my profile: I've spent 4 years as Plat and 2 more as Gold, but I'm only Lifetime Silver, which is completely useless. ("Priority" but non-guaranteed late checkouts, woo!)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
One data point: I'm a former Marriott loyalist and was Platinum for many years in my 100% travel days. I travel less now, so I was down to just Gold, which was still fine... but when the plans were merged and that became "Gold El
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There are no ads in Chrome/G Suite for Education. https://edu.google.com/intl/en_au/k-12-solutions/privacy-sec... Also, Chromebooks start from around $150, can you point me to where I can buy some of tho
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by jpatokal 8y ago
This article is from October. A recent unmanned launch of Soyuz went well and the next manned launch with ISS crew is scheduled for December 3rd.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I think the previous poster was referring to sportsball/handegg type physical team sports, where there are a lot more changing variables (team composition, physical condition, stadium, weather, ...) than in chess or StarCraft.
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Growing Our Presence in Asia Pacific: New GCP Regions in Hong Kong and Jakarta(cloud.google.com)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The market is still paying a 3.2% premium (at time of writing) for actual USD over Tether: http://www.untether.space/ If Tether's withdrawing platform is for real, that should collapse to ~0%.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There was plenty of evidence from Okinawa, Iwo Jima etc to indicate that Japan would fight to the last man, woman and child, and the plans for a land invasion of Japan assumed body counts that were horrific even by WW2 standards: https:&#x
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Projects are the fundamental organization unit of GCP. Every resource you create in GCP lives in a project, and users are granted access to projects. https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-mana...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Not sure why this is trending now: this went GA back in May 2017: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/cloud-source-repo... Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Your blog post appears to be conflating Google Maps with MyMaps. MyMaps lets people create & publish their own maps with random POIs: for example, here's a map of nice wineries around Melbourne. https://drive.google.c
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Like the mobile app itself, Google Maps offline maps are also vector based.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The Economist has been consistent i advocating in for (among other things) legalizing drugs, same-sex marriage, more public transport, carbon trading, nuclear energy, less regulation, freer immigration and many other things that were not an
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Both Russia and China have way better train systems than the US, both in the cities and outside them.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Though it sometimes seems like it, Toronto didn’t become a worldwide tech hub overnight. In fact, it was a years-long process that led to Canada’s biggest city being mentioned alongside tech markets like New York and Silicon Valley. Yeah,
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Yahoo's acquisition track record goes beyond unlucky picking, it shows that they can't maintain or grow the services they bought either. Compare with Google: Maps (Where2), Earth (Keyhole), Waze, YouTube, DoubleClick were all acqu
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Depends on your credit card: it's not uncommon for them to also slap you with foreign transaction fees of 3% or higher. In general, the hierarchy of fees is no-fee CC < regular CC < ATM withdrawal < exchange cash at destinatio
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I'm not sure I follow you here: for GCE, there are no "maintenance windows", the vast majority of maintenance is carried out via live migration and the user doesn't even notice. Yes, on rare occasion there's an unpl
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by jpatokal 8y ago
In theory, but getting that stream of "real random" and above all distributing that one time pad securely to the recipient (chicken, meet egg) so they can read the message make this highly impractical.

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