kingbirdy

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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Trade secret protections can be quite strong as well. In 2006, 3 people were arrested by the FBI for trying to sell Coke formulas to Pepsi. Contemporary article: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/business&#x2
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I wouldn't count on Keemstar as a reliable source of cyber-attack coverage
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
You may be able to use network booting for the newer models at least https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Of course people get fired at other companies, but that's whataboutism - it's bad no matter where it happens.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
That still sounds pretty bad. The person who fired you getting fired doesn't get you your job back.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Bitbucket provided free private repos before Gitlab existed
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
> Civil forfeiture was originally created to try to take money from drug dealers. I agree with your premise, but this statement is incorrect. Civil forfeiture originated from the British Navigation Acts of the mid 1600s. It continued to
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Malware is, by definition, malicious software. Your bank attempting to prevent people from stealing your money is not malicious. Yes, your bank is insured and if your money is stolen you have a decent chance of getting the money back eventu
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Why wouldn't you have your brightness at 100% if it was sunny? You need the backlight to be bright to avoid it being washed out by sunlight. It would be weird if you said you used 100% brightness in the dark, but that's perfectly
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I think grok has escaped it's sci-fi niche now - I learned it as a vocab word in English class when I was in school over a decade ago.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Creating a new trail sounds interesting - I had to do similar as part of a service project when I was a kid, but I imagine it's much more fulfilling when it's for your personal use. How are you able to create the trail, is it free
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I don't use UberEats because I've found it to be dramatically more expensive. The same order from DoorDash, GrubHub, etc are often $5-10 more expensive on UE due to both higher prices from merchants and Uber charging higher fees.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Nintendo is still getting value from the NES and SNES with their online program as well. The membership is $20/yr and one of the very few things it includes is an emulator with a few dozen games from each system.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Open office seems to me to be even more space-efficient than cubicles. In an open office, I have 2-4 coworkers within arms reach. In a cubicle, everyone at least has a few feet of "bubble" in their cube.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
My University is still charging a "campus activities fee" of $800 that is meant to cover our gym access, intramural sports, tickets to basketball games, etc. All of those activities are obviously cancelled, but they kept the fee.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
The the broken package just released a fix: https://github.com/then/is-promise/releases/tag/2.2.1
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I'm not blind but I do like to listen to podcasts, YouTube, etc at 1.5-3x and I've certainly caught myself getting annoyed at how long it takes to listen to a new album I want to check out, but I've never tried to speed it up
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
You have to manually edit the display for every single instance of an item, rather than just being able to set it for all items of that type? That seems tedious and error-prone.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
It sounds neat in theory, but there are no screenshots and I can't view any kind of demo without creating an account which is a non-starter so I have no idea what the actual quality is.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
According to the paper, they would just keep asking questions until you failed, there was no passing if they didn't want you to enroll.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
The US instituted similar measures in the form of "literacy tests"[0] to disenfranchise non-white voters during the Jim Crow era. The questions are intentionally confusing and ambiguous, such that anyone taking them is likely to f
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I don't mean to attack your recent revelation, but my understanding was that Judaism is matrilineal, so if your mother isn't Jewish and you don't practice then you're not Jewish (unless this has made you want to convert)
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I quoted the single pricing which includes the Single Supplement. Traveling solo is only slightly less than the price for 2 people.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
For nearly $7,000 USD for 1 person for a 3 day trip in the cheapest room, I'd want a lot more than "better than pub food" and wifi in the desert.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I don't have strong feelings either way on having consumers pay CC processing fees, but encouraging them to use debit cards online seems irresponsible given the non-existent fraud protections on debit cards. Of course it's technic
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by kingbirdy 7y ago
At least in the Android world, I've seen folks make the distinction between a "soft" or "hard" brick, with the former being fixable via a recovery mode or other software method, while the latter would require a hard
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by kingbirdy 7y ago
Congressmembers have access to the information earlier than the public. For example, Senator A may be reading a private draft of Bill B, which he expects will benefit the stock price of Company C, so he buys shares of C now at $50, unveils
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by kingbirdy 7y ago
That's a great ideal, but the reality is that if you slash the salaries for being in elected office down to something token like $50k, you won't get more "civic minded" people in elected office, you'll get more rich
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by kingbirdy 7y ago
I believe you meant to reply to this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22764497
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by kingbirdy 7y ago
> the full 1,200-megahertz available in the 6 GHz band Can someone explain this to me? Doesn't 1 GHz = 1,000 MHz?

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