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by lambda 9y ago
The question is, how badly do they want to catch it? If it's something only a small fraction of the customers actually bother to do, it doesn't dig into their profits too much. It effectively acts as another form of market segemen
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by lambda 9y ago
The actual opinion (just posted, had checked a few minutes ago and it wasn't available yet): http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...
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by lambda 9y ago
Event driven programming has been the norm for GUI systems as long as they have existed. I think that the heritage came from Simula in the 1960s, which influenced SmallTalk in the 1970s, which was a major influence for most object-oriented
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by lambda 9y ago
It's called a failsafe. The failure mode should be the safest option; which is for the car to stop or slow until the human driver takes over.
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by lambda 9y ago
There were multiple failures here. Let's not put all of the blame on the victim. This particular location has the sidewalk end on one side, and there is a paved section in the median which looks like it is intended for crossing. There
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by lambda 9y ago
Fair enough. You obviously have a lot more skin in this game than I do, I have just done a bit of quick Google Scholar research to see why the FDA might have made the decision that it did, and I'm less familiar with how much the trend
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by lambda 9y ago
You are on HN, and likely reasonably technically inclined. You would probably pay attention to instructions that indicate that it might not be accurate during the first 12 hours of use. You would know to be a bit skeptical of readings that
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by lambda 9y ago
> Why is that first-day margin of error acceptable for European diabetics but not American ones? Because the FDA is very conservative, in part because that conservatism prevented the thalidomide incident back in the day. When it comes to
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by lambda 9y ago
A 1.3% margin of error is the difference over the entire time of wearing it. It looks like on the first day, comparing blood glucose with FreeStyle Libre CGM, there was a significant difference in accuracy, with a lot more (~20% more) readi
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by lambda 9y ago
> It's the exact same hardware with artificial restrictions added to the software for unclear reasons. Well, a quick search of Google Scholar turns up at least one citation in which the Freestyle Libre CGM was significantly less acc
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by lambda 9y ago
The definition of manslaughter varies between states, and I am not a lawyer, but in general, criminal manslaughter charges only apply if there is an element of extreme negligence or doing something unlawful (like driving in an illegal manne
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by lambda 9y ago
> On the other hand, he was a traitor, and he betrayed the trust of a true hero I don't know. I have a hard time with calling Chelsea Manning a true hero. While some of the information that she leaked was useful in exposing war crim
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by lambda 9y ago
> Now a similar population at large has decided the new usage rules. It's normal, it's just evolution of the English language. By this point, "crypto" is indeed widely used as a short term for Cryptocurrencies also. Y
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by lambda 9y ago
"Crypto" is short for "cryptography" (or related words like "cryptographic"). Using "crypto" to abbreviate "cryptocurrency" causes a lot of confusion, as the "crypto" in "cryp
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by lambda 9y ago
That too. The deflationary nature of Bitcoin makes it really unsuitable for use as an actual currency, and of course the amount of speculation going on.
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by lambda 9y ago
I've tend to chat with drivers when I take Lyft, and frequently mention that I'm a programmer. Several of the drivers have then asked me about cryptocurrency, mostly Bitcoin and Ethereum. I try to discuss how technically interesti
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by lambda 9y ago
It's a true open standard developed collaboratively by multiple competing top-tier companies, has multiple interoperable implementations, has been designed from the ground up for running untrusted code in a sandboxed environment, has b
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by lambda 9y ago
It has the bubbles around what each person says, which is the style that many of the chat apps in your link have as well. OK, they are flat bubbles now rather than shiny blobby ones, but it's the "bubble for everything someone say
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by lambda 9y ago
There are two reasons you might want to share the link to an HN discussion: if there is interesting discussion going on, or if you want to encourage people to upvote it. In this case, there is no discussion about the article, just about the
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by lambda 9y ago
As a "little guy" who lost a lot of USD and Bitcoin in the MtGox fiasco (luckily, nothing I couldn't afford to lose, though with the price BTC is trading at now it would be really nice to still have those BTC), and any possib
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by lambda 9y ago
> And IMO, designers should stick to their favorite tool, and leave implementation details to programmers. I'm curious about how this would work if the designers have to use developer tools to do the final spit-and-polish. I don&#x2
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by lambda 9y ago
Is having the UI layout and styling mixed in with the code considered a feature of Flutter, or is providing a way to specify them separately in a machine-readable or declaritive format just not done yet? I'm a fuddy-duddy still doing U
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by lambda 9y ago
Ah, the nostalgia. Mine is no longer online, but was pretty well archived by the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20010607062747/http://world.std.... Really makes me cringe to read some of t
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by lambda 9y ago
> these days imagining running linux in 4MB makes me sniggers. Did you read the article? > Here it is! Not exactly our target of 512KB of RAM but 768KB is getting pretty close. Some microcontrollers already have more than that amount
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by lambda 9y ago
> A named generation is static, based on the birth dates. The "20-35 age range" is dynamic, anchored to the present time. Yes, that's why my phrasing used "at this moment." At this moment, millenials are around a
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by lambda 9y ago
I think it's fairly clear that they mean "the birth rate for people in the 20-35 age range, which happens to coincide with the millenials at the moment."
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by lambda 9y ago
> I'd say that the amount of knowledge and effort required to get to such a level of optimization is similar to optimizing Javascript. Really? After reading all of the articles in this series (the original about porting to Rust, the
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by lambda 9y ago
> Also, if you are going to all the trouble of making an extension to inject your evil CSS into a page, why not go the whole hog and inject evil ecmascript instead? That may just be for the proof of concept. There are websites which allo
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by lambda 9y ago
This is a huge annoyance. A lot of times I am looking for images which are in the public domain, and for which if I go to the page in question, I have to then sort through dozens of images to find the one I had been looking at already in th
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by lambda 9y ago
No, because Getty is in the business of licensing their images to other sites. If an image appears on a news article, it could be from Getty. If it's on a blog post, it could be from Getty. You could have some protocol by which sites i

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