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by larkeith 9y ago
> Public opinion on human driving is doing just fine with human drivers right now There were over 40,000 motor vehicle deaths in 2016 in the US [1] - more than a hundred daily. While loss of human life is always a tragedy, individual fat
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by larkeith 9y ago
Standard Oil is mentioned in the article.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Generally speaking, that's one of the best ways to get me to not use your site - It's both inconvenient and shows your security team to be incompetent.
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by larkeith 9y ago
> That does absolutely nothing [Citation Needed] While your location can absolutely still be tracked (via WiFi, Cell Towers, etc), disabling GPS significantly reduces the accuracy of this tracking, and disabling location history makes
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by larkeith 9y ago
I'm not an expert, but it seems like harnesses are designed to be quite difficult to remove, as accidentally doing so (or the strong downwash turbulence of an open flight doing so) in an open-door flight would be almost certainly fatal
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by larkeith 9y ago
Yet another reason to disable GPS and location history (and any other functionality you use infrequently) when not actively necessary.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Everyone is unique, and choose differently based on their history and context.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Slightly more detailed: > The only thing that prevented significant damage was a bug in the attackers’ computer code that inadvertently shut down the plant’s production systems.
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by larkeith 9y ago
I can't tell if that's a typo or commentary on Perl.
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by larkeith 9y ago
> Folks are pretty willing to give up their fingerprint for access to Disney parks. The critical difference here is that this is done with the consumer's knowledge and consent (as another user noted, you can opt out) - thankfully, w
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by larkeith 9y ago
Another key factor is the community reaction to low-effort posts; Many users of social media are not looking for or willing to put in the time and effort to digest more in-depth discussion, and will happily skip over more thoughtful posts i
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by larkeith 9y ago
I think it's disingenuous to try to classify Reddit as only a porn site, or to report on its communities in that context - by nature of its size and nature, individual (or groups of) subreddits are nearly as disparate as two separate w
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by larkeith 9y ago
Monetary penalties should be used only as a threat, for example in cases where entities are unwilling to come into compliance, rather than a goal; My understanding is that McHardy is doing something much more equitable to patent trolling, a
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by larkeith 9y ago
I'm not sure if McHardy's suspension as a core developer might weaken his legal ground (he still was a core developer for plenty of years, and presumably his contributions remain), but otherwise most of these actions seem preventa
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by larkeith 9y ago
Unless I'm missing something, it sounds like McHardy has only dropped one of his "over 38" cases, due to the potential for a much more expensive, risky legal battle. What's to prevent him from continuing his activities i
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by larkeith 9y ago
Most of the examples given are fairly unsurprising, but I'm unsure how to feel about "embiggen" being in the dictionary. On the other end of the scale, I'm amazed "demonym" was previously absent.
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by larkeith 9y ago
I would say that the FCC's track record indicates that they genuinely believe the satellites to be a potential collision threat, given the large number of licenses they've provided to other space-based startups, and especially con
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by larkeith 9y ago
The crux of the argument seems to be whether German copyright applies to US websites served to German users; Project Gutenberg's view and the Court's view are below. Project Gutenberg: Q: So the court thinks that the presence of
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by larkeith 9y ago
Perhaps this is me being overly cynical, but a state-run social media platform seems like a recipe for massive, invisible, unchecked government surveillance and/or censorship. The last several years have made it abundantly clear that m
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by larkeith 9y ago
That's an excellent question - I'd speculate that they were perhaps mentioned in the passage beginning, ...Further, Haffner claims that other than Alexander the Great, Hitler had a more significant impact than any other compar
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by larkeith 9y ago
It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427
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by larkeith 9y ago
I finally found my first 6-degree path: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ellipsis%20%28... Purell_hack has managed a whopping 9°, based off dkuder's Phinney - https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by larkeith 9y ago
It uses a pre-downloaded database of links [1], so presumably certain pages that were once linked have been updated. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16469427
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by larkeith 9y ago
Parent was incorrect - the graphs are directed.
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by larkeith 9y ago
This is incorrect; links are considered a directed graph, as can be seen by reversing the start and end points of most paths.
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by larkeith 9y ago
I've not yet had a chance to look over the code (in case it's already there or infeasible due to architecture), but you may wish to consider caching prior queries and their results - this seems like the type of service that would
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by larkeith 9y ago
There's a certain irony to the lack of tact in this post suggesting better manners. I suspect the point would be better received were it more politely made. I, of course, am merely propagating the cycle.
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by larkeith 9y ago
> At least Magic: the Gathering cards could be used to play a game The fact that MtG cards and tournaments are more popular than ever, while beanie babies are an utter flop, tells you all you need to know about designing collectibles for
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by larkeith 9y ago
This a fascinating article that provides lots of worthwhile information for anyone planning in fitting a power law to their data. I will probably never read another of the author's writings due to the pervasive negativity.
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by larkeith 9y ago
Email and IRC are completely vendor-agnostic protocols. I'm not as familiar with SMS, but it's much less centralized than Facebook - any user on any SMS provider may contact any other user, not only ones with the same provider.

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