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by manarth 10y ago
isn't an option if you don't already have a phone Despite the article's headline, I believe their use-case if for people who have a phone, but don't wish to give their real phone number to any arbitrary website,
542.
by manarth 10y ago
"I don't think they can force me to give up my PIN. Not even a court can do that." Meanwhile, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629728
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by manarth 10y ago
Passports have been around for over 1500 years [1]. There was a brief blip in the 19th century, as railways started to cross Europe and passport checks seemed pointless [2], but that aside, passports seem to have been more common than not.
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by manarth 10y ago
Even if they have a warrant, you can plead 5th and just not give them the pin. And then languish in jail for a year plus? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629728
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by manarth 10y ago
Like, on weekends? I can't imagine the demand for bicycle couriers after 5PM is really that large. I guess maybe "courier" wasn't quite the right word - I think he does more along the lines of food delivery - Del
546.
by manarth 10y ago
I know a dev who moonlights as a cycle courier. Aside from the extra cash, it's a good way to mentally decompress away from tech, and to get the sort of exercise you tend not to get in an IT job.
547.
by manarth 10y ago
the housing crisis happened and cities were broke. There's a finance paper from the Federal Reserve which describes exactly this issue [1]. We identify five main channels through which the housing market affects state and
548.
by manarth 10y ago
There's a Fortune article which refers to Japan's 99-year and 100-year mortgages [1], in 1990. However, here's a Telegraph article which is only a year old, reporting Sweden's average mortgage term is 140 years [2].
549.
by manarth 10y ago
It took me a couple times to find it. Go to https://buy.wsj.com/wsjuspresday17 and click the "Act now" link. $32.99 (plus tax) a month, for digital access.
550.
by manarth 10y ago
Its much easier for me to pay $10 a month WSJ is $32.99 (+tax) a month, for digital access. That's a little harder to justify if you only occasionally read their content.
551.
by manarth 10y ago
CT scans use between 150 and 1100 times the radiation of a normal X-ray. Each scan is the equivalent of a year's typical radiation dose. Essentially, CT scans increase the risk of cancer. https://www.scientificamerican.com&#
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by manarth 10y ago
H1B applicants have to be paid prevailing wage In theory, yes. In practice, research has shown otherwise: http://www.workpermit.com/news/research-finds-us-h1b-visa-ho...
553.
by manarth 10y ago
I think pay is also a factor. IT is listed as the third-best paying job in India [1]. In the USA, it's not even in the top 10 [2]. In the UK, it barely scrapes into the top 10, and that's for IT Directors [3]. In India, the pay
554.
by manarth 10y ago
The renting is a bit of a red herring; the headline could easily read "Their parents help with the bills " (and in the article, it actually says "receive some financial assistance from their parents for living expenses&quot
555.
by manarth 10y ago
Another interesting data point was that only 2 of the 10 candidates had ever heard of FizzBuzz. This is a good indication that the exercise is testing culture , rather than programming ability.
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by manarth 10y ago
Not for men (for the most part, as in 99%). They either love vagina, and are disgusted by penis, or vice versa. In ancient Rome, "It was considered natural and unremarkable for men to be sexually attracted to teen-aged youth
557.
by manarth 10y ago
why the fuck can't I just have one god damn app that can load ALL of my shows/movies/livetv and takes care of payment to whichever company is providing the content Which is what Apple have tried to do with the TV ap
558.
by manarth 10y ago
The text refers to a current test-case giving three charges, two of selling boxes "adapted for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the circumvention of effective technological measures" and one of "advertising a produc
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by manarth 10y ago
Coffee was banned - even labelled Satanic - a number of times [1][2]. And whilst I don't know of any earthly bans on chocolate, the Aztec god Quetzacoatl was condemned by his fellow deities for sharing chocolate - reserved for the gods
560.
by manarth 10y ago
The cost of this is virtually nothing compare to other expenses in hospitals. In the UK, the health service wage bill makes up a decent chunk of the total cost - around 39% (£45.3 billion against a total spend of £115 billion) [1].
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by manarth 10y ago
No more bizarre than describing someone as a "football fan", "music fan", "star trek fan", etc.
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by manarth 10y ago
No replacements unless its under warranty It seems that this isn't entirely the case. From TFA: "if your product was under warranty as of November 16, 2016, you are still eligible to replace your products" , and &q
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by manarth 10y ago
Why wouldn't that data be encrypted? Because manufacturers are rubbish? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/17/samsung_smart_tv_pri...
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by manarth 10y ago
why FSF isn't stepping up and resolving this issue once and for good? Because they don't have standing. They're not a judiciary, so they can't establish precedent - it take a court to do that. Sure, they could ch
565.
by manarth 10y ago
In general, it's takes a court decision to make it clear - set a precedent - on what's expected. As the AGPL hasn't been tested in court, we're all mostly guessing.
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by manarth 10y ago
[they] violate their own license Careful with the word "violate": as a copyright holder, you cannot violate your own license. The copyright holder has intrinsic rights; licenses are permission to extend a subset of rights
567.
by manarth 10y ago
what if a lawmaker has it out for a particular publisher or writer, and purposefully quotes their copyrighted texts in legislation Technically, this ability already exists in some ways. Parliamentary Privilege [1] allows members o
568.
by manarth 10y ago
The article mentions newer slot machines, "whose PRNGs use encryption to protect mathematical secrets" - so new machines are already considered secure. Aristocrat, Novomatic, and any other manufacturers whose PRNGs have bee
569.
by manarth 10y ago
In the UK, there have been a few cases (Uber, Hermes, City Sprint) where "gig economy workers" were declared to be employees rather than independent contractors, and therefore entitled to all the usual benefits. Hopefully that spr
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by manarth 10y ago
"especially on a circuit with already a lot of load on it" That's basically my point: sure, plugging something in can blow a fuse, but either the device is faulty, the circuit itself is faulty, or the circuit is alrea

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