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Public-Interest Technology Resources(public-interest-tech.com)
1 points by nhf 8y ago|0 comments
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by nhf 8y ago
Both. Undergrads have certain humanities requirements to fulfill - obviously some are natural fans, others treat it like an "eat your broccoli" requirement. Independent of requirements, MIT also has a fairly good reputation for ph
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by nhf 8y ago
It's still an interesting problem of division. Let's say the end result (bees in space!) is not science. However, in the process of getting those bees to space, her lab invents a novel 3D printing method [1]. Science in service of
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by nhf 8y ago
I'm at MIT and there are definitely people in other groups on campus that like to shit on the Media Lab for this reason. I think this actually raises an interesting question. If you want to position yourself at the intersection of scie
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by nhf 8y ago
The society which represents U.S. amateur radio operators voted to have their board be much less transparent and members were not told about this. There is now a campaign to elect board members who are running on a transparency platform.
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by nhf 8y ago
Honestly, I'm going to have to disagree with the first statement. Like any large project, it was planned, but all for separate reasons. - Auto sign in and the "Google account indicator": this is almost certainly the result of
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by nhf 8y ago
Based on what I know of the Chrome team, it was probably the conclusion of some UX manager or the result of a user study they did around Google authentication. If I had to guess: their end goal is not explicitly to collect more advertising
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by nhf 8y ago
Thanks for the response. I'm in the technology and policy program within IDSS and we have discussions about these "politics of technology" issues a lot. I'm sure you could become a case study in one of our classes if you
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by nhf 8y ago
Hello from across campus! Do you think more user and stakeholder engagement would have helped the public accept your research? I have no idea if BPS has the bandwidth for supporting this type of engagement, but I imagine a lot more fears wo
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by nhf 8y ago
I'd guess that the vast majority of people who have Global Entry either paid for it using credit card benefits (most travel rewards cards have a Global Entry credit) or have it paid for by their workplace. There are still marginal bene
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by nhf 8y ago
Yeah. Stubbs sauce was produced in Texas for a long time but they were bought by McCormick* (the spice company) a few years ago. They have the same global distribution powers of any other large commercial food business, so I'm sure the
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by nhf 8y ago
This is a specific instance of a more general service called dynamic knowledge-based authentication (dynamic KBA).
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Moderation Is the Commodity(techdirt.com)
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I wonder what would come out of Daniel filing a FOIA request about himself to CBP. FOIA is a nice law in that "any person" (as written in the statute) has standing to file a request, regardless of relationship to the U.S.
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by nhf 8y ago
$99 per year.
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by nhf 8y ago
If your area has a Chinatown or large Chinese grocer, you can get your fondue meat by asking for "hotpot meat" there.
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by nhf 8y ago
One might argue that your company doing the "custodial" data work over the past few weeks and building in the mechanisms in order to handle that data in a more nuanced way is something that should have been done beforehand, and th
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by nhf 9y ago
Many flights in Dubai happen late at night / very early morning due to a combination of time zone alignment and daytime heat making it harder to service large planes.
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by nhf 9y ago
The contracted top secret cloud is connected to JWICS. JWICS and SIPRnet (the secret counterpart) are both government internets (but are not the Internet with a capital I).
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by nhf 9y ago
A lot of Exxon/Mobil stations do now.
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by nhf 9y ago
Apple's 12 watt USB power adapter* still has the same design. Swappable plugs compatible with all of the laptop power brick international plugs. It comes with the iPad Pro these days (and probably others, too). * https://qma
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by nhf 9y ago
A PhD student of his told me that he's seriously considering going on sabbatical and writing a watchmaking text book. No kidding.
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by nhf 9y ago
Delta's IT is pretty decent for a large airline. Their scanners have little built in receipt printers. If you scan the wrong boarding pass (e.g. first leg of your flight boarding the second leg), it'll make the connection and pop
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All 128946 identical net neutrality comments on the FCC docket(github.com)
3 points by nhf 9y ago|0 comments
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by nhf 9y ago
This sounds a lot like the on-demand(ish) bus service called Bridj which just shut down here in Boston. [1] They promised popup bus routes just like Citymapper has, but it ended up that a lot of the "routes" they constructed were
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by nhf 10y ago
Economists like to use natural experiments—when comparable populations are exposed to different conditions through policy or chance. It would be interesting to compare Austin (no Lyft/Uber) to a similar city in the vacuum between the l
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IETF – Research into Human Rights Protocol Considerations(datatracker.ietf.org)
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by nhf 10y ago
Patagonia is famous for this in the clothing industry. They are a premium brand so they can get away with higher prices and a lot of it gets reinvested in supply chain sustainability /ethics.
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by nhf 10y ago
You could use it like economists use the consumer price index - all relative to year. So you could have the Apollo, or human space year, or something and reference HSY_{1969}, or HSY_{ion thruster}, etc.
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by nhf 10y ago
If you're feeling crafty, you can create your own: https://github.com/conorpp/u2f-zero/wiki/Building-a-U2F-Toke...

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