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by jt2190 5y ago
An interesting bit of history. A small nit: The assertion that secrecy, i.e. absence of information was the key espionage tactic at play here is not quite right. Instead, the allies put a massive amount of effort into misinformation . Go
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Yes. I think I’ve even seen this implemented. Certainly some drive-in theaters in North America worked like this. There would be signs telling you to tune your car radio to such-and-such frequency to hear the film audio. Here’s a picture of
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by jt2190 5y ago
The article has a numerator but not a denominator: > Accurate data on the overall volume of cryptocurrency trading in Lebanon is all but impossible to obtain, due to the informality of the market. Demand fluctuates with the rise and fall
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In the U.S. it’s not enough to have health insurance: You also need to make sure that the healthcare providers you care about accept it. Furthermore, there’s a wrinkle to watch out for where “renewing” a policy is actually “buying a new pol
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by jt2190 5y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but that’s not quite correct: > … The deal would create a new business, separate from AT&T… AT&T shareholders would receive stock representing 71% of the new company, while Discovery shareholders would own 2
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What country are you in?
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For those outside of Canada: The Canadian banking industry is highly centralized. This looks like a way to keep more nimble upstarts from actually getting started. (Not directly related, but Revolut recently retreated from the Canadian ma
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> This happened in 2001
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> ... [W]hy [are] a lot of new web languages/frameworks are mixing logic and content in the same file again...? In olden days, the DOM was treated like something shared. This could lead to a single DOM elements receiving changes fro
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> With its on-device CSAM scanner, Apple has built a tool carefully calibrated to protect user privacy. If building this tool enabled Apple to finally offer broader encryption of iCloud data, it might even be a net increase in user priva
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There is a “day zero”… Start here: https://medium.com/@peytoncasper/7-days-of-bootstraps-f85f69...
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> How can [the idea that in the past that the average person did not expect to be happy] even be proposed? Maybe I just read way too into this. Is it a joke? First off, the author continued: > Life could be a struggle for survival wit
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This is actually true. A bad hire, once in the door, can be very expensive and time consuming for an employer to rectify. This is what leads to all sorts of weirdness like “contract to hire”.
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by jt2190 5y ago
OT: I wish I could relocate a blog post (on Microsoft’s site, I think) about a very a naive and “obviously wrong” sorting algorithm that a dev identified in their (Excel?) codebase. Turns out the code was naive because the vast majority of
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by jt2190 5y ago
It’s unfortunate when we glom onto the headline and start arguing from there, because (assuming that NBC follows the traditional newsroom workflow) the scientists didn’t write the headline, and the journalist didn’t write the headline, the
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Note that my treadmill can go down to about 0.4mph (0.25 km/h) which is really slow. Anything you can run on is usually too fast.
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I’ve had a walking treadmill desk for over ten years. Whether it’s for you is quite personal: See if you can find somewhere to try it out for a few minutes, in particular try typing and using the mouse/trackpad while walking. My treadm
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Thanks to soaring demand in [the United States], cargo ships can charge more than seven times as much to bring a container from Asia to the U.S. as they can for the return trip. According to S&P Global Platts, that price difference
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U.S. Farmers can't find a way to ship their stuff(npr.org)
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> … he would have us dismiss all of these citations out of hand… Does he? I thought the point of his talk [1] was that we developers ascribe way too much weight to few, small studies. So rather than saying that we should dismiss the clai
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I suspect it’s much more mundane: If you want to know how much money your adversary is spending on $PROGRAM, you can get part of this with some salary info and head count. Simple data points like these can tell you a lot. See, for example,
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> Doing nothing is akin to saying my time is more valuable than yours… And what if it actually is? Technical people, in particular, are often working on improving system throughput over the long term. It can take a lot of discipline fo
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Note that 3.2% is by weight (weird, I know), which is about 4% by volume Edit: update link https://www.americanexperiment.org/minnesota-last-state-stan...
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They've posted a post-mortem https://safedollar.medium.com/safedollar-post-mortem-analysi...
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Thanks for the link to “Immutability is not enough” I’ve resubmitted the article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27642263
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Reposting this, as it was mentioned by belter [1] in another discussion on Immutability changes everything (2019) [2] and I thought it was interesting enough for another visit. Previous discussion five years ago: https://news.yco
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Immutability is not enough (2016)(codewords.recurse.com)
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Interesting point. That would be a cool setup!
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Operation “Sea Breeze” 2021 https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/26646...
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> I also disagree with that author's views on this point. For example: "Simply put, it means “the less, the better”" - No, it isn't. This is one piece of developer lore that’s actually backed by some research. [1] Lik

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