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by ldayley 8y ago
The rebelious streak in me has been seeking out and reading so-called “banned books”— books that were at one point banned by a community for some reason or another— since I was a teen. Many of these are classics that ran afoul of norms or t
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by ldayley 8y ago
Not at all! But that’s what all the other security whitewash on financial and ecommerce sites say, so to most folks it, like, totally means it’s really really secure— pinky swear!
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by ldayley 8y ago
I, too, want to know the implementaion details. That said I’ve watched hundred of eyes gloss over as I emphatically implored lay-persons about password policies and tools like password managers and Frankly their definition of ‘secure’ can b
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by ldayley 8y ago
It’s possible to post from the mobile site. I do it often from mobile Safari, Firefox, etc on iOS.
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by ldayley 8y ago
Isn’t this what the (mobile) web app is already? I deleted the app a couple of years ago and used the web app exclusively, it sheds much of the bloat (so far...).
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by ldayley 8y ago
I'm hearing multiple anecdotes that it's increasingly common for some new enterprise machines to be built with huge amounts of DRAM, like in the 512GB - 2 TB range. That would help account for the steady demand and favorable prici
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by ldayley 8y ago
Crypro-miners are taking advantage of the same asymmetries that the FAANG data centers enjoy. They were built in those same areas of WA/OR for the same reasons. They just don’t use as much power as mining rigs...
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by ldayley 8y ago
An older friend of mine died suddenly several years ago while joining his young (6-7 y/o) son on an overnight school trip at the Presidio. He suffered from severe sleep apnea but thought he'd be ok for the night without his CPAP.
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by ldayley 8y ago
Some interesting previous discussion regarding the limitations of Apple's differential privacy can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15224312
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by ldayley 8y ago
The only problem with that theory is that Apple is a much older company stemming from the days that the only way to make money was to sell things to consumers. Nearly all of that company's infrastructure and inertia has always been tha
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Social Relationships and Mortality Risk [PDF](journals.plos.org)
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Automatically Stealing Password Hashes with Microsoft Outlook and OLE(insights.sei.cmu.edu)
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by ldayley 9y ago
I’ve lived in Wyoming in the past (one of the pretty parts), it’s different than most places. The key to understanding this bill is that Wyoming is subsidized entirely by energy exploration. There is no corporate or individual income tax, l
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by ldayley 9y ago
A new twist on an old game. I hear people ask why short-selling exists, but’s a good check against corruption but prone to it’s own abuses. Citron Research (a short-sell shop) is a good example of this— they savaged companies like NQ Mobile
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by ldayley 9y ago
You joke, but I'm looking for a way to pay Signal / OpenWhisperSystems something. Having an excellent, secure, n00b usable, cross-platform, privacy-first messaging service this good is worth paying for. I understand they are funde
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SEC reveals it was hacked, information may have been used for illegal trades(washingtonpost.com)
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2009 CIA Data Breach Revealed for the First Time(buzzfeed.com)
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by ldayley 9y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing that financial planners are currently making a killing doing as they shift from helping boomers accumulate wealth to helping them spend that nest-egg.
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by ldayley 9y ago
Not exactly, the IRS always gets their cut. In traditional IRAs and 401(k) plans taxes are deferred until the retiree begins taking income from their plan (by age 70.5 at the latest or they pay penalties). Those withdrawals are taxed at wha
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by ldayley 9y ago
This is nice. It'll be interesting to see how these official reports match up and/or differ in design or results with Steve Ballmer's new government spending tracking project[0] as they continue. For example, Ballmer's o
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Bypassing OTR Signature Verification to Steal iCloud Keychain Secrets(medium.com)
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by ldayley 10y ago
One aspect of this that isn't widely discussed is that license plate data collected is often shared or rented to auto financers and lenders by the company or municipality collecting the data. It allows them to keep tabs on subprime aut
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E2EMail research project has left the nest(security.googleblog.com)
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Traffic Lights with Auction-Based Controllers (Google Research)[pdf](arxiv.org)
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by ldayley 10y ago
Market capitalization is the value of all the public shares, and is determined by investor sentiment about the medium/long-term prospects of the company as much as any other factor. The underlying assets are wholly owned by the company
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Defending against Rowhammer in the Linux kernel(lwn.net)
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by ldayley 10y ago
Dumb question: I'd love to learn more about Swift and try out writing Swift code, but is development still limited to XCode/macOS?
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by ldayley 10y ago
The claims probably have little to do with DMCA violations themselves, but it has become an easy way to get content removed quickly from sites without very much review from the host service. The claims are probably from the malware perpetra
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by ldayley 10y ago
Keep in mind that Jack Dorsey is on the Board of Directors of Disney (whih is mentioned in the article for those of you who tl;dr)
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How to steal $2,999.99 in 2 minutes with Venmo and Siri(martinvigo.com)
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