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by nhebb 8y ago
I don't think it's an issue that deserves nuance because it's not unreasonable that they should behave as a monolith with regard to privacy. It should be a top-down corporate policy.
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by nhebb 8y ago
There is a YouTube update that's been pending on my Android for 1-1/2 years. I haven't agreed to it because YouTube decided that it needs access to my contacts. IMO, if Google needs to know who I communicate with in order to
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by nhebb 8y ago
I have been contacted twice in the past year by Microsoft rep's who both told me that one of my products is among the top installed add-ins for Excel (they didn't say top "X", just "top" - but I'll take it
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by nhebb 8y ago
One-man shop that sells desktop software. I made a few changes to my privacy policy and called it good.
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by nhebb 8y ago
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were caught off guard on GPDR. There are some who seem to feel that the pending deadline was universal knowledge, but I don't think it was for many of us in the US. I hadn't heard of it
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by nhebb 8y ago
> If the state would focus on higher density living Contrary to popular belief, the Los Angeles metro area has a very high population density. It's 2nd in the US, and the SF Bay Area is 7th. Both are on par with European metros.
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by nhebb 8y ago
4WD Ranchero? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranchero
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by nhebb 8y ago
The recent piece I saw on HN estimated that fishing lines and nets made up ~45% of the waste in the Pacific. Edit: link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16654524
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by nhebb 8y ago
Razor pages != razor syntax. I think Microsoft screwed up with the naming of them because, even within the .NET community, I see a lot of developers that conflate them. Microsoft should have named razor pages something different to avoid th
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by nhebb 8y ago
Well, I wish I knew what the 5% are. Maybe I've grown too cynical, but I'd struggle name more than a half dozen movies I've liked in the last 5 years. I did like the first Hitman movie, though, so it's not like I have
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by nhebb 8y ago
He's not under oath, [from what I've read] the majority of the committee members have received campaign donations from FB, and some committee members own FB stock. In other words, the market knows that this is a charade.
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by nhebb 9y ago
That site looks like spam - long form copywriting in video format - driving visitors toward buying his books.
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by nhebb 9y ago
That was Joel in his "You Suck at Excel" video.
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by nhebb 9y ago
If true and if cost effective to produce.
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by nhebb 9y ago
2 years? Try 6. According to Obama campaign adviser Carol Davidsen, they farmed the data in 2012 with FB's knowledge: From https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975565844632821760 : > "Facebook was surpris
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by nhebb 9y ago
If you cannot fire workers at will, you will be much more cautious when hiring and trying to ramp up quickly. When I read about other areas trying to incentivize startup culture (e.g., France) they try to replicate one or two factors of Sil
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by nhebb 9y ago
Buffet seems like a good-hearted person, but nothing about Amazon or JPMorgan leads me to believe this will be an altruistic enterprise. Also, Buffett is 87 and not likely to be involved for too many more years.
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by nhebb 9y ago
To my ears, Elton John has made an entire career out of doing this.
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by nhebb 9y ago
Someone in the LA Times / union thread referred to journalists as "knowledge workers". With Gell-Mann Amnesia in mind, I thought, "Well, that's being generous".
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by nhebb 9y ago
Yeah, that wasn't that brightest thought I've had. I guess I should have said catapult.
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by nhebb 9y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I figured they wouldn't have anything blasting out of the ISS, so I was wondering if it was some sling shot or mini-trebuchet apparatus.
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by nhebb 9y ago
> NASA will give OreSat a free ride to the International Space Station. From there, it will be shot out of the side of the space station to begin its orbit. OreSat will begin falling back toward Earth, but moving at such a high speed tha
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by nhebb 9y ago
It's not an extraordinary claim. It's in the news again today: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cfpb-acting-director-2...
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by nhebb 9y ago
Most of the DIY's I've seen on this use aluminum cans. You could try that.
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by nhebb 9y ago
> A lot of people in their 50's don't need to work. I must travel in lowly circles.
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by nhebb 9y ago
As someone in their 50's, that argument makes no sense to me. If I were unable to find a job, you somehow think I'd hold out for premium wages?
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by nhebb 9y ago
At the start of his tenure, Rumsfeld said that the DoD couldn't account for about $2T dollars, so regardless of whether $21T seems plausible, this (first ever!) audit is long overdue.
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by nhebb 9y ago
> Isn't sum(1...n) - sum(1...n-1) just n? Yes. I meant n^2 = sum(1..n-1) + sum(1..n).
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by nhebb 9y ago
That's it! Makes me realize how rusty at math I've gotten. :/
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by nhebb 9y ago
I came up with it too when I was in school. I was bored and staring at some tiles and noticed that for a square block of tiles with side = n, n^2 = sum(1...n) - sum(1...n-1). The funny thing is that, since then, I've looked at that for

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