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by kurthr 3y ago
How could you lose money? RE prices only go up... as long as there's a greater fool... oh, wait?!
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, you know that's not a bad idea... just label the Category by what is being blown around in the wind. Category 1: Trash Cans and Patio Furniture Category 2: Shingles and Gardening tools Category 3: Branches and Bricks
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by kurthr 3y ago
Don't worry, soon Google Voice will be abandoned by tehGoog. (Perhaps this is just dread since I use it for the same purpose)
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by kurthr 3y ago
If thousands of those are internal developers, then they'll either find a use case or kill it.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Why, they'd just sell out since they can't manufacture more than a few million? Seriously, you drop the price once you're past first adopters, which you do after you know what your features are, who your target customers are,
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by kurthr 3y ago
If they want to improve and gain wider adoption, they should try eating their dogfood. Give Apple developers the VP treatment and see what they do with it, fix the problems, enable the features, and make the real use models work. Just havin
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by kurthr 3y ago
Or you can provide a fake US driver's license and they'll rent you the car anyway. I guess the CC address on file might be a tell, but I'm not sure you couldn't have a UK card while a US driver.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Some routers do have 3/4/5 antenna directional antenna systems. I'm not sure if there's enough room or cost margin for an IoT device. If they were only directional then, I'm not sure they would help all that much, i
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by kurthr 3y ago
Exactly, even a Tesla doesn't drive worse than a driver on social media.
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by kurthr 3y ago
It seems that farming, like war, is mostly boredom punctuated by hard physical work and terror. I'm actually glad to see cork is still in demand for the wine industry, there was a period of time when many wineries were switching to cap
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by kurthr 3y ago
Exactly, high absorption creates the localized cells each of which is typically limited in the number of (transmitting) devices. For something like this long range IoT cell to work you would want to create temporal cells or limit them to ve
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, I read the article on Ars before it showed up here (it's a day old). It seemed more like it was to obscure CC server and payload location. I was talking about outlinks anyway.
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by kurthr 3y ago
I think the concern on HN would be targeting to particular IPs or domains, more like spear phishing. Agree it wouldn't last long, but it only takes once.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Thanks for your question. It should be fairly clear that I'm not talking directly about the Ars issue. That isn't about an outlinked article (Ars doesn't aggregate quite that way) the way Google and HN do. However, using a VM
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by kurthr 3y ago
Browse news in a throwaway VM instance that doesn't directly have password management. GoogleNews has served me several trojans, because I'm inherently clicking on unknown links. This attack was interesting, because it didn't
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by kurthr 3y ago
I'm always terrified to see surgical caps and such on doctors in a hospital cafeteria. Also a nurse or surgeon wearing scrubs on public transit. Whether they're coming into work and carrying unknown filth into the facility, or lea
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by kurthr 3y ago
True, but he did use quaternions (by 1873), which allow the field properties to be written as a single equation. It's kind of sad that more physicists don't use or teach quaternions, while math and CS have fully adopted them. I re
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by kurthr 3y ago
LOL, I'm the one who cited and bothered to skim the base study. The original post is just clickfotainment. Young Seldon, no amount of rigorous Psychohistory from Streeling University is going to inform the empire, if you won't rea
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by kurthr 3y ago
You'll easily find radioactive Potassium (K40) in bananas and potatoes. A good Geiger counter can easily pick them up. They're just bananas and potatoes. Concentration matters and chemical detection methods are so sensitive (ppb)
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by kurthr 3y ago
What's interesting here is that life on earth has commonly defined has been around gathering negative entropy for several billion years (photosynthesis and the rise of oxygen for over 3 billion) and growing exponentially on earth. That
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by kurthr 3y ago
Weird, I haven't worked there in 5 years and still get together with different folks once every few months to once a week. Great way to find a new job too! One should not forget that most psychologists and psychiatrists are borderline
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by kurthr 3y ago
Here's an interesting article about white and brown rice characteristics: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116841/
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Verizon to keep charging controversial fee despite $100M settlement(arstechnica.com)
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by kurthr 3y ago
The onigiri would not stick together. The short grain rice has lots of amylopectin, while whole grain, brown, and basmati have much less. It would fall apart and be very difficult to eat.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Exactly, just like cable TV, the next step is paid with ads! Once an advertiser, always an advertiser. There was a great 20 retrospective on CNN (24 years ago in June and no doubt put together by a thoughtful intern) that showed the CNN anc
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by kurthr 3y ago
Exactly, it has negative value. You will hate it forever and tell your friends. I'm not sure how making something bad cheap makes it better. I'll slam a door on your foot once for a $, or 100 times for only 10 cents!
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, but once you get to El Paso, you're almost half way there!
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by kurthr 3y ago
Note that I said beat inflation, but hey maybe 2024 Diet Coke cans will be the last remaining currency in 3024.
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by kurthr 3y ago
Well, I agree $ is unlikely to be a thing by then, but the broad stock market has beaten inflation by 6% (almost 7%) over the last 150 years. That's already over 1000x. So, no more impossible than having a random stick take a photograp
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by kurthr 3y ago
Yeah, it seems purpose built as an untestable thought project. Might as well have had some kids put hand prints in concrete at the base. Imagine what the time value of the money spent on this will be for this in 1000 years. A market investm

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