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by nxzero 10y ago
Quick review of weaknesses listed on the Wikipedia page for Tor make it pretty obvious that Tor is a threat to majority of users that if discovered be face serious, if not life threatening, responses. Why do people continue to use it? http
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by nxzero 10y ago
Apple's accessibility features even useful as workarounds for hardware failure. If one of the buttons fails, turning on the accessibility features to: on/off, screen-lock, volume, etc.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Forget file sharing, offline backups & recoveries are a massive pain on mobile, cloud, etc.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Ask HN: Who is behind the Linode DDOS attacks? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797795
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by nxzero 10y ago
Back then, as now, the big issue is that driverless vehicles have to deal with human drivers. Remove humans from the road, and the challenge gets exponentially easier.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Unlikely, my guess is that most money laundering is somehow related corruption, tax evasion, etc. Drug trade is estimated to be 1% of the global GDP, but money laundering is estimated to be 2-5% of the global GDP.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Author did some basic research on ML & AML and has no real idea what they're talking about. Flip side of all cash business is tax evasion; meaning the owner does not report all the gross revenue and the spends the cash in a way tha
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by nxzero 10y ago
Point is it doesn't matter, as a creator, maker, investor, etc. -- you always have a choice, and for some the temptation to follow the money even if the path is one they would not take if given another choice of equal financial value.
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "it is easier to explain to people" Which is why "Office for Free" (OfficeFree, oFree, O4F) would be a better non-Linux name. Average user doesn't care if something is "open" they care if it'
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by nxzero 10y ago
Per @SpaceX, the issue was not with the rocket itself, but a pad anomaly and the Amos-6 payload was to be Facebook's first-ever satellite.
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by nxzero 10y ago
As a little context, the oldest known minerals on Earth are a 4.4 billion-year-old and Earth itself is 4.543 billion years-old.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Honestly, I've found security bugs in Dropbox using it (oddly) as designed in the past and would never use it again; basically, as a non admin I could become an admin in a business account; reported the issue, had a call with them and
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by nxzero 10y ago
Thank you, this is exactly the same experience I've heard from others. Anyone that I'm aware has had issues, knew they were permanently of the SSSS list, knew what would happen, ignored it, and had minor issues; in case it's
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by nxzero 10y ago
Have you ever flown with an SSSS, if so, how did it cause any issues? If not, at best your response is speculative. My experience is that those with SSSS get through TSA screening faster and given they expect the search, don't have any
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by nxzero 10y ago
SSSS is meaningless, never heard of anyone that had meaningful issues as a result of having this flag. What is SSSS? See the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening...
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Users need to know their passwords are exposed, and must be reset not as a preventative measure, but because they are almost certain to be compromised." This should be assumed regardless of what is known if it's kno
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by nxzero 10y ago
Unlikely, that they'd not recognize it; multinationals have to much leverage internationally and many have sway over the masses too. What reasons would make you believe that?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Given the stakes, unclear to me why multinationals don't find a way to create there own country, that would be free of any non-member decent.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Interesting that the US is backing Apple's tax shelter scheme, which isn't to say that EC isn't grasping way beyond any reasonable measure of where it should go.
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "I thought the idea was genius. Not for me, I said, but genius." Always find it interesting when people say this to me. I mean you can see the awe in their eyes, the longing to "just do it" - and then, reality s
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by nxzero 10y ago
Raising capital is not foolish, doing so without reason is. Nothing wrong with bootstrapping, but unless you and your partners publicly commit to not doing it and promise to leave without any compensation of any kind if you do raise capital
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by nxzero 10y ago
Seeing this, I imagine something like Pokémon Go, but for parkour; aka get the Lat/Lon for a location, record a parkour set, upload the video, create the animation, generate score, allow other users to see location and animated clips.
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by nxzero 10y ago
It's not so much that "democracies are not as democratic as people think" — but that they're more democratic than non-democracies. Classic example might be Ancient Greece, were the percentage of the population that actua
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by nxzero 10y ago
Honestly suprised that Craigslist doesn't embrace people interfacing with them via an official API; yes, I know lots about CL, but the after bring on (forgot his name) they changed their back an a lot and a bit on the front too.
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The Future of Conversational UI Belongs to Hybrid Interfaces(medium.com)
28 points by nxzero 10y ago|8 comments
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by nxzero 10y ago
"A shortcut is not shortcut, unless you know the way." - nxzero Finding shortcuts does not require hard work, but a willingness to be different and take risks others will not.
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by nxzero 10y ago
I didn't exploit the cofounder, I presented them with an opportunity, they were fully aware of the situation. In fact, they were excited about the project, enjoyed the work, and often bragged about it to our friends. Beyond that, after
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by nxzero 10y ago
Disagree. I've literally run a startup where I took an opportunity I saw, pitched it to a cofounder, got a single client, cofounder did all the work. After year, cofounder was tried of doing work, so I told them how to turn the service
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by nxzero 10y ago
Working your butt off has zero to do with having a executable vision that creates value. Clearly shit needs to get done, but there's only so many hours in the a life of a startup and being able to see what needs to be done ultimately i
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by nxzero 10y ago
It's always been pretty obvious to me that the desire to have multiple cofounders in a venture backed startup is to derisk investment, divide & conquer, etc. Simply put, most investors prefer that there are cofounders for the reaso

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