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by objclxt 12y ago
This isn't strictly true. It costs considerably less for the state to support a child than an elderly person. Furthermore, your plan results in a massive baby surge regardless - if you start allowing mass immigration of young workers,
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by objclxt 12y ago
> I think Japan can beat fertility problems with tech You are making an assumption that Japan's problem with falling birth rates is biological, but it's not: it's cultural and economical. Like many other developed countr
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by objclxt 12y ago
You can actually already get body units for hearing aids. Even better, you can get radio-aids, where the microphone is elsewhere. This is particularly useful for students in a classroom, for example, where the teacher may wear the microphon
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by objclxt 12y ago
Something really struck me with this post (emphasis mine): > I felt like public high school just wasn’t serving her best interests anymore, and it was time to do something radical on her behalf , and at 16, she just didn’t belong ther
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by objclxt 12y ago
Maybe I'm cynical, but talk is cheap. I remember when Facebook bought face.com. From the face.com blogpost announcing it: > "we love you guys, and the plan is to continue to support our developer community.” ...the API was shut
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by objclxt 12y ago
> you won't be able to carry your laptop around the city because there is no concept of "hot spots" As a white European, I wouldn't carry my laptop around many parts of Medellin full stop! I ended up going to Medell
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by objclxt 12y ago
That question really needs to be flipped (this is true of any "what's your favorite feature of [x]?" style question). It's far better to ask "what would you change about Xcode / developing for iOS[1]", b
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by objclxt 12y ago
I really don't understand what you're saying? How does the IRA come into this (as far as I can tell, they don't)? And I don't see how PSN or Xbox Live being down will "change everything about OpSec"...as far as
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by objclxt 12y ago
Both. It's clear right now that self driving cars can perform very well in ideal conditions. It is considerably less clear that they perform well in poor conditions. I haven't seen any demos of Google's tech in low visibility
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by objclxt 12y ago
If only there was some way you could add to that list to address the imbalance. Maybe if it was hosted on Github and you could issue a pull request?
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by objclxt 12y ago
Well, it's a little different, because as far as I can tell he has reconstructed a 2D image of the fingerprint, but not used that fingerprint successfully for any authentication system.
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by objclxt 12y ago
> "Flying 1kg in the air is much safer than flying 600kilos machines. If the thing crashes [...] you lose 1000, 2000 dollars, not a life. If you're flying a drone in an urban area then no, that's not true. There's a r
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by objclxt 12y ago
There are already numerous forks of Android in China that replace Google services with local equivalents (handsets from Xiaomi, for example, come with their own fork).
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by objclxt 12y ago
You'd assume that if a GCHQ/NSA IT project went spectacularly off the rails (and I can virtually guarantee it has at some point or the other: you'd have to assume so given how often it happens with defense projects we know ab
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by objclxt 12y ago
Perhaps you're not aware that the CS faculty at Harvard is currently housed in a building funded by Bill Gates as part of a previous donation (with Ballmer). I think it's possible to donate to a wide variety of causes - a similar
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by objclxt 12y ago
They already are, across the river in Allston - much to the dismay of some the faculty, as the CS department is currently based just north of Harvard Yard. The entire school of engineering will be moving in the next few years. Oddly enough,
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by objclxt 12y ago
This is somewhat off topic, but since you mentioned it and I rarely see anyone into such things: I have a Korg Triton Extreme with a dodgy joystick (it gets stuck on the pitch bend), how easy a job do you think that would be to fix?
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by objclxt 12y ago
Happens all the time, especially when there are big events on. I had a driver a few weeks ago who had come down from Sacramento to work the weekend in SF for such an event (Dreamforce, I think) and was relying solely on GPS.
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by objclxt 12y ago
I think you're getting confused. MAC addresses aren't passed up-stream (in IPv4). There are many ways for websites to uniquely identify users. A MAC address isn't one of them.
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by objclxt 12y ago
They can't compete against Uber and Lyft, at least so they claim. http://mashable.com/2014/10/14/hailo-leaves-north-america/
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by objclxt 12y ago
No: the proposition exempts products that contain only "natural fruit and vegetable juice", not "natural flavors" - the two are different. Some "natural flavors" are only natural in the sense they are derived f
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by objclxt 12y ago
I see no evidence that H-1Bs are destroying the local talent pool in SF. I can't speak to LA myself, but from what I hear it's not doing that either. H-1Bs aren't the reason you've think you've "ruined [your] l
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by objclxt 12y ago
No: that's not good advice. The OP said "I disabled the site a couple of days after this vulnerability", but we know that there were attacks in the wild within hours of disclosure. If it's only 30 minutes work you might
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by objclxt 12y ago
I am pretty confident this is how Twitter manage data on their iOS app as well, and I'm also pretty sure they went through a similar "let's use a database/ORM, actually let's just write it to disk" process.
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by objclxt 12y ago
There's no scientific evidence that letting cats outdoors cause a decline in bird populations: and that's according to the UK charity that campaigns for the protection of birds[1]. The majority of birds that cats kill are frail, i
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by objclxt 12y ago
Well, I did say in my original post I wasn't talking about the countryside. One would hope there aren't mountain lions wandering the streets of, say, Brooklyn. Cats do kill wildlife, but their impact is often overstated. The RSPB
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by objclxt 12y ago
Having lived in both the U.S. and the U.K. it's interesting to see the two different attitudes to cats. In the UK, letting your cat outside is the norm. The shelter I adopted from wouldn't give you a cat unless you were able to
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by objclxt 12y ago
Although I'm with you on the litter tray, my poor sofa is a testament to the fact having a cat flap is no prevention strategy! I think my cat honestly just preferred scratching the couch to anything else available...
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by objclxt 12y ago
You know that cats bury their poop, right? When I lived in London, where it's the norm to let your cat out, I never encountered any cat poo in my garden, and we had around half a dozen local cats.
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by objclxt 12y ago
I guess you either didn't read the post fully, or you misunderstood it. For what it's worth, Jonathan Zdziarski literally wrote the book on iOS security and hacking (and a good book it is, too).

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