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by objclxt 12y ago
> (4k is not that compelling. At 32" it's only 140ppi, which is nothing approaching "retina" levels.) ...one would hope that you're not viewing the 32" 4K monitor at the same distance you would view your p
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by objclxt 12y ago
> I believe they can also just dumbly-send the normal card data over the air. Only while the US still is supporting that. Once the liability shift occurs next year it'll be EMV or nothing.
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by objclxt 12y ago
In a roundabout way: you can insure against data breaches and costs associated with it, etc. And if you're contracting you'd better make sure you have indemnity insurance yourself: it's something software engineers who start
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by objclxt 12y ago
Like a Chromebook, right?
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by objclxt 12y ago
This seems - and I'm not a lawyer and could be totally misreading it - to be a really raw deal, in the sense that in exchange for using the software you're agreeing to not just sue, but even assert in any way that Facebook infring
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by objclxt 12y ago
> "There are no limitations of what you can do via a web browser" [...] "Of course super low level stuff are out of the picture" ...so what you're saying is there are limitations around what you can do with a
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by objclxt 12y ago
> Square's also got an EMV compliant reader coming out soon. Chip and signature though, not chip and PIN. I can't see anything from square about the liability for chip and signature, but it's normally on the merchant, no
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by objclxt 12y ago
Back when I worked for a digital agency we used to get a lot of clients trying to get us to sign non-mutual NDAs, which was a big red flag. Here's how it would go: you'd go in to pitch for a new app or campaign. To pitch, you&#x
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by objclxt 12y ago
> Oh and they don't need to be refrigerated Can't reply in-line to the child post, but this is a cultural difference. In Europe, eggs aren't refrigerated at all, and they're not washed. In the US, eggs are washed an
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by objclxt 12y ago
Worth noting that in iOS 8 you can capture video direct from device, and don't need to resort to something like Reflector (and the lower quality AirPlay stream that that entails). If you plug an iOS 8 device into a Mac running Yosemite
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by objclxt 12y ago
I haven't heard of many bear attacks since Uber started offering their service either. Must be connected.
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by objclxt 12y ago
...depends how much of the $1 billion is in stock, or is subject to meeting certain targets, etc.
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by objclxt 12y ago
> We are not giving humanity enough credit here. The standard nuclear hazard symbol would suffice. Symbols are far, far less translatable than words. We were unable to translate hieroglyphs with any real success until the Rosetta Stone
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by objclxt 12y ago
Well, it's entirely possible - probable, even - that Oculus are selling the DK2 at a loss right now (which isn't unheard of at all for development hardware.
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by objclxt 12y ago
Trademarks don't expire as long as you keep using them - and you don't have to use them in necessarily very conspicuous ways (that's the reason all iMac boxes have "Think Different" in small lettering on the side[1]
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by objclxt 12y ago
Well, over the river in Brookline they're issuing around 32,000 tickets every quarter[1], but have around half the population. Once you account for that it's still a little less than Cambridge, but then you would also expect Cambr
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by objclxt 12y ago
EMV is all very well and good (to be clear, without a cryptogram the payment can't be charged), but it falls down because of the requirement for backwards compatibility. For physical, retail transactions the easy way out of this is a l
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by objclxt 12y ago
Hard to tell if you're being facetious, but just in case... 1. If your cash gets stolen, it's goodbye cash. If your credit card gets stolen / cloned in the vast majority of cases you're not going to be liable for any of
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by objclxt 12y ago
Although the problem right now is that for remittance to work you need to be very certain that the amount you're sending is going to be equivalent to the amount being received. It wouldn't be unusual for BTC to have periods of ex
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by objclxt 12y ago
This is actually a very good point...I wonder if there will be a religious exemption. Some Orthodox Jews can be exceptionally strict (I once was on a delayed flight where we had to offload some of the passengers, since due to the delays the
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by objclxt 12y ago
The BBC also received notifications from Google today that some of their articles had been hidden from EU search results - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28130581
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by objclxt 12y ago
> third parties, who are not involved in the illegal activity have a right to discuss that activity What you're missing here is that they don't have a right to make money off of it. RedBook weren't just facilitating th
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by objclxt 12y ago
You're dodging the question. You're equating pimping with violence, but that's not always the case. How do you know sex workers who use RedBook were not, for example, having to pay back bogus "debts" to their pimps
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by objclxt 12y ago
Can you prove that? Was RedBook, for example, asking for proof of identity and age from those offering their services? How do you know that, say, some of those from overseas were not having to pay back large "fees" to their pimp
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by objclxt 12y ago
I certainly never really considered just how intertwined the gut and the brain are until I was diagnosed with IBS (or perhaps a better name, the "we have no clue what's wrong with your digestive system, but it's not physical&
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by objclxt 12y ago
Why not consider freelancing? When I'm hiring full time positions I don't normally see anything wrong with someone who's going to a new job every couple of years - but I'd definitely have some big, red flags for someone
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by objclxt 12y ago
In the majority of states these laws apply to both public and private schools, so home-schooling would be the only option.
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by objclxt 12y ago
Vaccines are very different to antibiotics. Antibiotics are agents which kill bacteria, whereas vaccines train the body to respond to infection using its own antibodies. Vaccines do nothing once you've been infected: they're about
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by objclxt 12y ago
How right you are. Why, I should be allowed to drive however I want on "public" roads, because they're for the public. What a fantastic world that would be.
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by objclxt 12y ago
It's pretty high. I normally completely ignore generic recruiting e-mails that have made no effort to find out more about me. If someone's gone to the effort of looking into my work in detail I'll normally repay the kindness

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