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by jzl 9y ago
Yep, same here. I got hounded by a collector for a fee that was incorrectly applied to a paid-off medical bill from three years prior. The only way I was able to fend them off was by sending a copy of a statement that I managed to find in t
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by jzl 9y ago
This is actually how the public workstations in MIT computer clusters have always worked. The root password is public to anyone with a legit account, but access to it gets you almost nothing because all services including the network filesy
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100% agree!
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I actually found it really irritating too. I'm not endorsing Arrival. That said, the inter-country politics were by far the most interesting thing about it. And it's a major Hollywood film that literally addresses the question &qu
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by jzl 9y ago
Everything you just said is exactly what I used to love about Etsy. And I'm sure that there is still some amount of love to be had for it, for those reasons. But finding the kinds of items you just described is exactly the problem. Sur
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by jzl 9y ago
I would definitely buy there if I found myself there directly from an artist/crafter, like if I first saw something in person at a fair. I have nothing against the site. But most mass produced items I would rather just get from Amazon
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by jzl 9y ago
Me: I'm writing off this article if it doesn't mention 'Arrival'. Liu told me that first contact would lead to a human conflict, if not a world war. This is a popular trope in science fiction. In last year’s Oscar-nomin
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by jzl 9y ago
I was gift shopping, and was just browsing topic by topic. In the past I had done so and stumbled across all sorts of amazing handmade items without much digging at all. Look at the landing page for "Home & Living" and you&#x2
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by jzl 9y ago
"With sales up, Etsy is highlighting successful sellers with a series of videos. But not all users are happy. For years, sellers and buyers have complained that as Etsy has grown more popular, mass-produced goods have flooded the site
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by jzl 9y ago
ME can see everything coming in on your ethernet port, with no accountability to the host OS. It's like a wiretap, ostensibly for remote control commands, but again with no accountability for what it is up to.
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by jzl 9y ago
"Snap Inc. is a camera company"
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by jzl 9y ago
Ben Fry, the creator of Processing, created a beautiful visualization of the disassembled machine code of Super Mario Bros with arrows representing jump instructions: http://benfry.com/dismap/mario-large2.jpg via: htt
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by jzl 9y ago
Minix? Are you kidding me? That is amazingly funny and depressing at the same time. So Andy Tanenbaum got the last laugh on Linus after all. Thanks to this ME garbage, Minix is running simultaneously on the same hardware as the vast majorit
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by jzl 9y ago
Reminiscent of the problem earlier this year where GOOGLE DOCS ITSELF was spoofed with a Google-approved (for a brief window, at least) web app called "Google Docs": https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3&#x2F
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by jzl 9y ago
Is there a way to figure out when you joined? Not seeing a "member since" date. My id # is 7xxxxx (6 digits). I was reading it regularly for quite a few years, maybe 4-5 years IIRC, before finally deciding to sign up. No idea why
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by jzl 9y ago
I still miss John Siracusa's annual Mac OS Ars Technica reviews, which were the go-to destination to understand the nitty gritty details of every new release. The last one he did was for 10.10 (Yosemite) in 2014. But to his credit An
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by jzl 9y ago
I’m surprised iMessage worked for me while I was there. I wonder what consessions Apple had to give for that? From the article: 'Other services provided by American technology companies are available in mainland China. The country to
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by jzl 9y ago
Hadn't seen that one. Brilliant, and absolutely true.
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There was no misjudgement. IPv4 addresses are still running out. Adoption of IPv6 has helped the issue. Some parts of the world are aggressively going IPv6 only. IPv6 adoption has seen a massive uptick in the last year. Check the google g
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by jzl 9y ago
Seems like one of the largest sources of IPv6 adoption is mobile phone networks. I'm on AT&T in the US and if I check "what is my ip" when on LTE it shows me an IPv6 address. Mobile now accounts for well over half of all
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by jzl 9y ago
This has been posted on HN over a dozen times.
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by jzl 9y ago
New York City just recently passed a law banning salary history inquiries. I hope that other cities and states start following suit. Good coverage of it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/business/d
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by jzl 9y ago
I completely agree that there is growth but the question is how much. To me it feels like the 2012 python statistic is unexpectedly small. It's not like python wasn't very popular in 2012. To put it another way: do you believe tha
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by jzl 9y ago
To the article's credit it actually differentiates between first world ("high income") countries and the rest of the world. The growth has been even more in high income countries so that explanation doesn't work for the
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by jzl 9y ago
Did you actually read the article? Of course generating more questions is likely indicative of more usage. But the graph shows it from being in last place (of the listed languages) in 2012 with ~4% of the question views to being first place
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by jzl 9y ago
I just edited my comment to say narrowly focused rather than narrow-minded. That is definitely what I meant to convey but chose the wrong words, thanks for pointing it out.
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by jzl 9y ago
I'd downvote this if I could. It was submitted by the author to boost views. This article had pretty much no useful content. He deleted his tweets because he didn't like them changing their terms of service a few times. No deep an
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by jzl 9y ago
Marin county is very, very hilly. Somewhere between hilly and mountainous, given that Mt Tamalpais sits smack in the middle of it. While most of the population is close to the freeway on the inland side, there are many many lightly populate
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by jzl 9y ago
I've read The Emperor of All Maladies. Overall I liked it a lot, but there are several long stretches with exceptionally boring material about the politics of competing philanthropic groups and things of that nature. While the fundrais
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by jzl 9y ago
TL;DR: Slightly interesting but narrowly focused article with clickbait-ish headline. It charts the growth of Stack Overflow python question views in the last five years. While this is an interesting statistic there is no additional analysi

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