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by nwatson 9y ago
It explores how entrenched interests might suppress knowledge or betrayal of secrets. Fully relevant here on HN, since some might employ the same means to: > avoid exposure of dark-market secrets (ownership, participants, funds flow, so
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by nwatson 9y ago
I see the entire catalog, item "001 – THE ENTIRE JOE FRANK COLLECTION – SHOWS AIRED 1978 – 2002" ... $1,510. I wonder how many they've sold. The first time I ran across Joe Frank was traveling Phoenix <--> San Jose. I
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Joe Frank, boundary-pushing storyteller whose medium was radio, dies at 79(washingtonpost.com)
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by nwatson 9y ago
Detroit. And they haven't yet recovered. Real estate has negative worth in some places because the legal obligations to raze the site imply costs greater than what the lot and "improvements" are worth.
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by nwatson 9y ago
A similar development underway in avocado-producing area of Mexico ... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/cities/2017... ... likely not to the extent of the Mafia but shows the same environ
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by nwatson 9y ago
US forest area has changed negligibly since 1900: https://www.thoughtco.com/us-forest-facts-on-forestland-1343... .
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How Letting Felons Vote Is Changing Virginia(theatlantic.com)
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by nwatson 9y ago
Whether the satirical Twitter account should be shut down or not ... satire's not very effective per Malcolm Gladwell's "Revisionist History" podcast at [0] (automated lossy transcript at [1]) ... targets of the satire o
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by nwatson 9y ago
Interesting ... I've usually quit when I've been reasonably OK with the pay but the work no longer is interesting, the company culture changes, or I'm disturbed by the company's direction and don't think it will las
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by nwatson 9y ago
I think "scanning" would imply compositing info gathered at different instances of time to reconstruct 3-D models ... e.g., LIDAR captures a point cloud with points measured at different times and tries to reconstruct objects from
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by nwatson 9y ago
Perhaps Pravin Goyal, currently at Cavirin, has had a large part in organizing and authoring the "CIS 1.xx.xx Security Benchmarks", at least per https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/docker-1110-security-benchmar...
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by nwatson 9y ago
One retreat into mysticism provoked by a pre-information age "de-humanizing" restructuring of society. There are surely many parallels in computer-informed society. Cult headquarters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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The Cult and Cults of Brasília (1992)(juliandibbell.com)
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by nwatson 9y ago
Yep, sorry about that ... "Stonyfield" not "Stonybrook". Also, I forgot to link to the podcast: https://www.acast.com/howibuiltthis/stonyfield-yogurt-gary-h...
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by nwatson 9y ago
Here's an incredible "How I Built This" podcast with Stonybrook Farms (yoghurt) founder Gary Hirshberg. He over-promised for years to suppliers, customers, investors on things he couldn't deliver, but made it work anywa
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Venezuelan Bitcoin Miners Must Register with the Government(reason.com)
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by nwatson 9y ago
SourceTree by Atlassian ... free.
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by nwatson 9y ago
In first grade I'd sneak out of school in Rio de Janeiro to buy a hot dog and "suco de cajú" (watered-down and sweetened cashew-fruit juice), my favorite drink. This lasted a few weeks till the nuns busted me, and I'd h
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by nwatson 9y ago
Maybe they figure early institutional investors with Series A, B, C, ... realize their shares will lose out in a liquidity event to preferential treatment for those with later shares, and so will be willing to sell their early shares for le
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by nwatson 9y ago
Sales people get paid largely on commission for "transactions" ... it should be possible for open or closed source software developers to be paid this way as well. There should be an option that pays open- (or closed-) source soft
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by nwatson 9y ago
I belonged to the Redwood City TechShop for a year and was surprised five years ago seeing a TechShop planned for Raleigh, NC when we were thinking of moving to RTP. I'm not sure that it ever opened, it didn't last long. We ended
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by nwatson 9y ago
In the three-segment documentary "Meet the Romans: Citizens of the Empire" (by Mary Beard, historian, available in Amazon Prime Video ... see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Romans_with_Mary_Bear..
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by nwatson 9y ago
Much of how I think involves a pretend version of my body and a manipulation of virtual objects or better yet sets of those objects in some kind of physical space, to understand, manipulate, test hypotheses, and reach conclusions (I can fee
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by nwatson 9y ago
These are companies with big purses and lots of human-factors personnel, and lots of lawyers that can write huge terms-of-service agreements, and cover legal costs and damages in lawsuits until they get it right. There are few better test b
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by nwatson 9y ago
>>> "Waymo will be operating a fully autonomous ride hailing service without any humans at the wheel ... Waymo wants to broaden the geographic scope of its trial, starting with expansion in the near-term to cover the entire Ph
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by nwatson 9y ago
Confluence is still the best Wiki out there for general documentation itself, in my opinion. It takes work though to create the initial structure with a realistic view of how projects will evolve, and to make sure that everything is reacha
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by nwatson 9y ago
Even for just plain data values, getters and setters can be decorated with annotations that modify the member-"property's" behavior depending on context, e.g., what should happen to this member when I serialize to JSON ... or
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by nwatson 9y ago
Google did a similar acquisition in 2010, "like.com". https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/20/its-official-google-acquir... .
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by nwatson 9y ago
So you gonna do all those JOINs in code???
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by nwatson 9y ago
You gain the chance to sell the product to the adversary that also is your customer. You gain the tacit approval of the product from an adversarial government customer, which signals other enterprises in the country they should feel comfort

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