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by kordless 11y ago
Your assertion implies a one way trust channel. Company ---trust---> customer. While money is stored trust, it can be used in a trusted or untrusted way. This implies there is little to no customer ---trust---> company. Most thermosta
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by kordless 11y ago
I haven't heard that, but I assumed one of three things went when it happened: 1. the Nest was fully charged when I bought it and then was unable to charge itself enough from the fan running and went dead, 2. something happened to the
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Search through radio telescope data and discover a new pulsar(zooniverse.org)
1 points by kordless 11y ago|1 comments
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by kordless 11y ago
The bug probably affect the Nest's ability to do low power charging using the fan wire. Evidently, as long as the fan runs, the Nest will charge at a lower rate than you get with the common wire hooked up. That is, unless you release s
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by kordless 11y ago
> will run for 30 minutes And thus a challenge is created.
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by kordless 11y ago
Would be cool to do a Slack command for this that would post stuff to Twitter/other social media sites.
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by kordless 11y ago
It's reflexive because it's dealing with trust and the trust happens to be polarized due to the subject. We know the rules, but sometimes choose to break them when it matters. I think it's fine to call this out in the thread,
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by kordless 11y ago
Welcome to Silicon Valley.
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by kordless 11y ago
The first step to solving a problem is to admit you, like all of us, have one. Start by appreciating yourself for seeking answers to those problems. Here are some I've learned along the path: 1. Understand and listen to what causes you
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by kordless 11y ago
Don't tell people how to feel about something. You don't have the right.
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by kordless 11y ago
Documentation is hard because you have to have empathy for the user while holding most of the product's capabilities in your head while you write it. Transfer of knowledge has always been difficult, and when you start changing the rule
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by kordless 11y ago
> It is true that customer data is trusted with a lot of services-of-services nowadays, but do you want to go back to the stone age where the only people who can store anything must run their own hardware with their own databases and so
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by kordless 11y ago
I stand corrected. I went off by several orders of magnitude! :)
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by kordless 11y ago
I'm working on product that federates software deployments to any target cloud using immutable data structures provided by the blockchain. It's called Wisdom.
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by kordless 11y ago
Every time one of millions of developers commits code to a centralized service, they have a hand in exposing individual's data to the surveillance society we live in today. Data exposure can come from being publicly available on the
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by kordless 11y ago
I'll just mention the last bomb N. Korea set off was 9MT, according to Wikipedia.
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by kordless 11y ago
The NK bombs carry the -dong suffix on them, so yeah, he was bang on.
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by kordless 11y ago
Yeah, that sounds like a bomb going off.
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by kordless 11y ago
> I still would not want another active listening device tied to a mega corp within my vicinity. I wish more people were like you and voiced their concerns about this ongoing problem around centralization of services. However...see http
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AP-NORC Poll: Online surveillance is OK for most(sandiegouniontribune.com)
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by kordless 11y ago
It shouldn't be surprising that a congressperson's actions switch polarity at times. They have to try to toe the line of general concensus until there are clear "winners" to an argument.
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by kordless 11y ago
There's a bit of irony in my statement as I don't assume you know or don't know. We, as a population, depend heavily on trust for day-to-day life. As an author of an article like this you might consider that speaking as tru
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by kordless 11y ago
> This would be a terrible, terrible tragedy What makes you think it wasn't already an issue that was solved a long time ago? ;)
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by kordless 11y ago
> Presumptions: at this point I'm presuming that the reader has a basic knowledge of Bitcoin and the concepts in the Blockchain technology. At this point I presumed that the author had a basic knowledge of Bitcoin, but we all know w
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by kordless 11y ago
> Imagine an alien race with the cognitive faculties to reason about individual electron trajectories. Would those aliens fall back to the same abstraction? How am I to answer that if the assumption there are individual electrons is wron
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by kordless 11y ago
> hedging different bets More specifically, they each have their own unique business model which they believe will perform best in the market. You can "oversell" future storage successfully if you know the usage growth rates.
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Physicists continue to investigate why the universe did not collapse(phys.org)
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by kordless 11y ago
I'm a little outraged that the skier was outraged while being interviewed. He's in a sport that is very risky, and part of that risk is performing for an audience which wants to see things better and in more detail. Those drones a
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by kordless 11y ago
AMA for one. It's more like a membership than anything, and they provide guidance and some basic insurance coverage for when things happen, which they hardly ever do. Most fields require you are an AMA member and that you have insuranc
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by kordless 11y ago
Check out Giant Swarm as well. Full orchestration stack, team based in Germany/Europe, and are preparing a release of a downloadable version in the first part of 2016.

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