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by objclxt 13y ago
...although many high-volume operations that are based inside of residential properties tend to use illegal/'off the grid' (so to speak) electrical connections...
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Their privacy policy is very easy on the courts In fairness to Yelp, their privacy policy can hardly say "we won't give your data up in response to a subpoena", because if the subpoena was legitimate they'd be in
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Some businesses who had open Wifi will now require FB check-in to provide access. Check-in isn't required to get access. My local coffee shop switched over to a Facebook WiFi point over the weekend (Phillz, who have a branch in
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by objclxt 13y ago
I actually came across this in the wild last weekend (Phillz Coffee in Noe, SF, if anyone is interested). On a laptop it's no different to any other landing page on a public WiFi network, except you see a Facebook branded page asking y
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by objclxt 13y ago
Your figures are quite a bit off. A Big Mac is $7.51[1], and the average wage in Norway is around $6440 a month[2], or around $40 an hour (based on a 170 hour work month). They are high - they're nowhere near as high as you're mak
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by objclxt 13y ago
So audience data when you're talking about original productions can be a blessing and a curse. We don't need big data to tell us that the top four favorite subjects of Netflix users are marriage, royalty, parenthood, and reunited
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by objclxt 13y ago
> My last trip to London from SFO, according to the ticket fare breakdown, fees were more than 1/2 the ticket. Probably closer to 60%. I would love to see every line item. If you were flying a UK airline they were probably countin
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by objclxt 13y ago
You could argue that it's Uber's attempts to "fix" pesky regulations that have got them into this mess in the first place. I doubt trying to circumvent this in the way you describe would really make the regulators any mo
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Sorry to disagree with you, but I think that Iceland is a good place to host if you want data protection You've missed the point: they are not incorporated in Iceland. They are incorporated in Italy. Move their servers does them
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by objclxt 13y ago
> No, every mobile can process a 80ties picture format in tiny resolutions. 90ies computers could do that without a problem without any allocation an needed only a fraction of their cpu GIF's are really a nineties format (90ties??
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by objclxt 13y ago
Oh, I'm sure technically it's good enough, it just seemed surprising from a cost perspective. It seems at the scale they're at it would be cheaper to run their own. But then again, perhaps given the money going in cost isn&#x
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by objclxt 13y ago
What's interesting to me is how the passage of time seems to have affected how Snapchat responded to this. About twelve months ago I found a very similar vulnerability in SnapChat that could be used to provide a cellphone number for an
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by objclxt 13y ago
Seems unlikely, given it's been brewing for months (years?). China Mobile had already started selling iPhones a few weeks ago, with in store displays. Far more likely that someone was about to leak the jailbreak without the stuff they
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by objclxt 13y ago
Although it's not two-factor, some banks will send you push messages or texts for every transaction taking place on the card. I use Simple, they do the former. One nice feature about Simple is you can disable the debit card directly fr
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by objclxt 13y ago
You are making an assumption that the primary target of SIGINT is terrorists, but in reality it's actually nation states. I think another story just came out today about GCHQ targeting EU officials and embassies.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> This will work in a vast majority of cases, because a lot of people make this ridiculous assumption that publishing the source automatically implies that the guy is good, open and trustworthy all over. And won't bother verifying
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by objclxt 13y ago
> * they were less interested in "changing the paradigm of mobile UX" than in killing the Real Fragmentation that existed before, with each OEM having its own OS, and unifying them under the open source Android.* The article al
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by objclxt 13y ago
You didn't say religious people were prone to superstition, you said they were prone to 'other irrational thinking'. I think there is a slight difference. You're also generalizing all religions, when in fact there are so
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by objclxt 13y ago
...this doesn't bother me nearly as much as some people. Certainly not while college football coaches earn far more. The top ten highest paid football coaches are all taking home $3.7 million+, and that's at state universities
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by objclxt 13y ago
This is true, and many of the problems I see in SF had like-for-like counterparts when I was living in London (replace 'tech' with 'finance', etc). That said, I think SF has some unique circumstances that make gentrifica
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think - and this is only based on my own experiences, so please do correct me - is that a lot of the problems discussed here are exacerbated by the effective geographical segregation of tech workers with families and those without. One of
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yeah, all that custom silicon Apple produces just gets magically pulled out of thin air. No research there at all. Nope. Or all those patents we see coming out of Cupertino that frequently have nothing to do with products currently being pr
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by objclxt 13y ago
In certain ways Google Play Services make Android even more fragmented than it already is, by lifting key components out of the operating system itself and into the Play Services bolt-on. This is certainly true if you count devices like the
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Non-citizens shouldn't be able to get a SS number ...nope, anyone employed in the US can get a social number. If you are not employed, but still have some form of taxable income (i.e, a scholarship) you can get a taxpayer identi
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Is it common for people to still swipe cards in some counties? I think this is Square's biggest problem when it comes to global expansion. It's relatively easy for a company like Stripe to launch in Europe: fundamentally th
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by objclxt 13y ago
No, he doesn't. Although I suspect here on HN there will be a segment - hopefully a small one - of people who agree with him. Gentrification is not always bad, but this guy's arguments are. Breaking down some of them: > You ca
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Much greatness in him and I wonder what he would have achieved if he had started off in California rather than Essex and Cambridge. Wow, that's more than a little bit self-important / arrogant. You do realize that Cambridge
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Android devices will always be able to beat Windows 8.1 devices pricewise because the biz model for Microsoft is that device manufactures pay something in the high $XX for a Windows license. My understanding is that right now it cost
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The complaint itself is here: http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
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by objclxt 13y ago
If there is a lesson to learn, perhaps it's that there's more than one perspective on looking at something. It sounds as if you've been thinking a lot about all the positives of an acquisition - this is no bad thing, but perh

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