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by kaa2102 11y ago
This is a little mysterious because none of the articles have addressed the exact vulnerability that enables thieves to do this. I've heard a news report suggest "changing your password". This is curiously interesting.
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Hackers are draining bank accounts via the Starbucks app(cnnmon.ie)
2 points by kaa2102 11y ago|2 comments
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by kaa2102 11y ago
Sleep is a physiological need. Lack of food, water or sleep and the body and mind cease to function properly before completely shutting down.
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How NASA is paving the way for high quality coffee(inc.com)
1 points by kaa2102 11y ago|0 comments
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by kaa2102 11y ago
Check out w3schools.com to see snippets of code to do specific things. Sites like STackoverflow and PHP.net are also helpful if you get stuck trying to solve a common problem. A major bonus and challenge is that the sky is the limits with d
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The Helping Drone: How drone technology is being used for humanitarian relief(longitudes.ups.com)
1 points by kaa2102 11y ago|0 comments
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This machine can make salty water drinkable – using only the sun’s rays(washingtonpost.com)
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NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Their Heartbeats(gizmodo.com)
473 points by kaa2102 11y ago|86 comments
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by kaa2102 11y ago
Survivorship bias. I went to a happy hour a week ago right after the Baltimore riots when a real estate exec starting going on and on about how blacks just needed to work harder - like many different immigrants. This is survivor ship bias -
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by kaa2102 11y ago
No, the studies showed that black males with NO criminal record were called back at the same rate as white males WITH a criminal record.
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by kaa2102 11y ago
Thanks. I meant to say fewer callbacks.
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by kaa2102 11y ago
I think you missed the point that the studies actually found that black-sounding names got more callbacks despite having the same credentials, e.g., degree, GPA, etc.
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by kaa2102 11y ago
"We are blind to our blindness." Where do the generalizations stop?
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by kaa2102 11y ago
It is absolutely unreasonable. When you say it "works out more often than not" I would ask "For whom?" Many snap judgments based on race lead to the death of unarmed black men and women. Studies have shown that resumes w
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Baltimore's economy in black and white(money.cnn.com)
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by kaa2102 11y ago
A regulator or prosecutor needs to first be willing to charge a bank or Wall Street executive before anything can get to a jury.
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Bitcoin and the Closed Loop Protocol(spendologyblog.com)
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Startup Funding Hits 15-Year High(blogs.wsj.com)
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by kaa2102 11y ago
Interesting point. A fraternity brother of mine was in a documentary called Gideon's Promise. The tragedy is that many of the people that get incarcerated never make it to court. The accused end up with underfunded, overburdened public
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by kaa2102 11y ago
I'm a Black Man. Growing up there was a realization that being alive and out of trouble over the age of 21 was an accomplishment. This would extend to middle class. Due to a history of American apartheid, there were often just a few de
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Memories Become Weaker Without Reinforcement(nytimes.com)
11 points by kaa2102 12y ago|1 comments
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Funds Run by Robots Now Account for $400B(bloomberg.com)
1 points by kaa2102 12y ago|0 comments
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Why Is Wage Growth So Slow?(frbsf.org)
5 points by kaa2102 12y ago|2 comments
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by kaa2102 12y ago
Yes, this is true, but the child in me wants to also believe it was "magic".
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by kaa2102 12y ago
Austerity for the sake of austerity must end.
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Money Stress Weighing on Americans’ Health Nationwide(apa.org)
2 points by kaa2102 12y ago|0 comments
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Cut off from Wi-Fi, Cuban youngsters build secret computer network(latino.foxnews.com)
1 points by kaa2102 12y ago|1 comments
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by kaa2102 12y ago
I see many comments about what's wrong with Coinbase. What would a secure bitcoin exchange look like? A few of the features have been thrown out, e.g., little or no hot storage, two-factor authentication, (some) insured deposits, multi
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by kaa2102 12y ago
The bank failures you cited are outside of the US and the FDIC is not applicable. Yet, FIDC only covers deposits up to $250,000.
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by kaa2102 12y ago
Nassim Taleb provides a good example in his book Fooled by Randomness. Imagine that a politician passed a $1 billion requiring all airline cockpits to be locked prior to 9/11. That politician would probably be criticized and then voted

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