martey

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by martey 9y ago
The unusual name ("The Small Wonder Joint Venture") is because the television show was the first product of a "joint venture" between 5 television stations [1], not because it was made by some secret home robotics manufa
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by martey 9y ago
I remember reading an article in The Atlantic from less than 5 years ago describing an ongoing naming effort in West Virginia: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/where-t... > West V
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by martey 9y ago
Probably because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14572970 ? > " While you and the sources you link to are generally correct, you should probably disclose your relationship with Linode when you make these com
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by martey 9y ago
> Block Storage Volumes are highly available, fast, and inexpensive – $0.10 per GB (free during the beta). This is significantly more expensive than AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage. The last time S3 charged similar prices was in January
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by martey 9y ago
As a counterpoint, there's a This American Life story about how Harrah's/Caesar's casino hosts specifically marketed to people who clearly had gambling addictions: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-a
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by martey 9y ago
G Suite has different privacy practices than GMail. https://support.google.com/googlecloud/answer/6056650 > Does Google use my organization’s data in G Suite services or Cloud Platform for advertising purposes
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by martey 9y ago
While the historical record is clear that Grant freed a slave named William Jones in 1859, Grant's father-in-law, Frederick Dent, died in 1873 at the White House (Grant was president at the time). It is clear that Jones was previously
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by martey 9y ago
> True but to be fair they're still fresh findings. Your "fresh finding" was found nine years ago - this is even explicitly stated in the 2015 Siberian Times article. All of the citations for the paper describing the &
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by martey 9y ago
Except the Siberian Times article also doesn't link to anything peer-reviewed, and the Nature paper is about bone identification, not bracelets or other artifacts. The only academic paper about the bracelet I could find is from 2008 an
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Stopping Work on the Glowing Plant (YC S14)(kickstarter.com)
3 points by martey 10y ago|0 comments
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Three activist tools we need(medium.com)
8 points by martey 10y ago|5 comments
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by martey 10y ago
Is there is any proof that the "Concerned LastPass User" who wrote this isn't just the creator of BitWarden? I normally don't assume astroturfing without concrete evidence, but there is no information in the post that ex
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by martey 10y ago
From the article: " Shu noticed that since the Great Recession, after Wall Street careers had lost of some of their luster, newer classes of MIT students became more likely to major in science and engineering subjects — and their grade
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[OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users(lists.openstreetmap.org)
3 points by martey 10y ago|0 comments
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by martey 10y ago
https://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/a-fork-in-the-road " Yesterday, Cyanogen Inc (Cyngn) announced that they were shutting down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod (CM). " A close reading of the original blog
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by martey 10y ago
I'm not Norwegian, but I think the confusion is because the numbering of the Articles has changed. Your "Article 10" is now Article 8. [1] The repealed Article (originally Article 12, now listed as Article 10) concerned coron
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by martey 10y ago
The title is misleading - Cypress only acquired BroadCom's Internet of Things business, and it happened last April. http://www.cypress.com/news/cypress-acquire-broadcom-s-wirel... " Under the terms of the dea
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by martey 10y ago
> Are you seriously raising this as a feature in some way as good as 'block 3rd party cookies'? As the bugs you linked show, Chrome's behaviour broke sites where Safari worked, yet leaked cookie data to sites. My point w
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by martey 10y ago
I am not sure when you consider New Zealand to have "come into existence", but wouldn't the Musket Wars and the New Zealand Wars contradict this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars https:/&#
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by martey 10y ago
I think it's extremely unlikely that Vatican City would be independent except for the previous existence of the Papal States and the way that they were incorporated into Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisone
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by martey 10y ago
This isn't true. Chrome launched with a setting called "Restrict how third party cookies can be used" which was almost the same thing: > First-party and third-party cookies can be set by the website you're visiting a
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by martey 10y ago
> " Intel doesn't have confidence in the drive at that point, so the 335 Series is designed to shift into read-only mode and then to brick itself when the power is cycled. " I don't understand why Intel wouldn't
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by martey 10y ago
My point is that you explicitly claimed that human interstellar travel is possible with current nuclear propulsion methods. Project Orion doesn't support this claim (since Dyson's models require a number of nuclear weapons several
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by martey 10y ago
Most of that article deals with interplanetary travel. The only reference to interstellar travel is in the "Theoretical Applications" section. If you look at the chart in that section, you will note that the two theoretical spac
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by martey 10y ago
Algolia's default search is by popularity. Getting a search sorted by date is literally one click: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=best%20linux%20laptop&sort=byD... This question (or variations on it) has been asked
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by martey 10y ago
> Someone could create ransomware that will never decrypt, even after the ransom is paid. This already exists: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/07/posing-as-ransomware... > "Once it executes
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by martey 10y ago
" For me the differentiator is privacy with regard to the browser vendor and websites I visit, and for that I trust only Mozilla because of their mission and track record (and I use some add-ons). " Are you concerned about Firefox
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by martey 10y ago
It's good you updated the Github comment, but you should also consider explicitly stating your affiliation when relevant when commenting on Hacker News in the future. If you had done in this case, it would have immediately cleared up
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by martey 10y ago
If you're the engineer in question (since your comment history suggests you work at Bitwarden), you should explicitly state that and explain that ignoring any vulnerability was not the intent of your comment.
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by martey 10y ago
I think encoderer was referring to https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/1000#issueco... , where the engineer asks, "Is there any possible way for us to get around this ban?"

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