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plttn
10y ago
So a meta-fiat currency?
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10y ago
I always thought it was a dog. Huh.
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10y ago
From looking at the context of the way YP is referenced (link to a slack archive), I believe YP is an employee.
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10y ago
AFAIK, there's no "codes in stasis" in U2F. http://google.com/ sends you a challenge, your U2F device receives the challenge and makes a response signed with the private keypair that exists. Each CR pair is n
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10y ago
>If you increase the strength of the authentication on an account, then you increase the expectation (in others) that anyone authenticated to the account was authenticated legitimately. But that assumes that your login methods are provid
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10y ago
You'd be surprised. Pilot G2 is a great writing pen, and I'm personally a fan of Uniballs.
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Just from reading the first few pages of the book, I'm already a fan. However my one tiny complaint is that the sign-up box is on every page, and even after I've signed up, it still has to be closed every page I go to.
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10y ago
>anyways, electronic actuation of a firearm is already illegal in the US. if you're firing a gun in any way besides actually pulling a trigger with a finger, chances are good it's illegal (with some small leeway such as turning
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10y ago
From what I've seen, technically anything with Autopilot HW2 is fully capable of complete autonomy, but legally isn't allowed to have it.
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10y ago
For what it's worth, Mon Mothma was played by an actress cast for Revenge to play Mothma (who was only seen in deleted scenes from that), and ended up aging to nearly the look of Caroline Blakiston in Return. No CGI trickery here.
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10y ago
Vehicles are considered "deadly weapons" as far as application of force goes. As soon as he backed into the cruiser on dashcam, I really don't see any way that ending well. I saw at least two moving violations in the span of
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10y ago
>Behind the scenes, it works similarly to a password reset or passwordless login workflow, but with progressive enhancement so that, e.g., Gmail users go through Google Sign-In instead of having to check their email. I mean there's
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10y ago
There's actually a Google extension[0] for Chrome that does that with your Google account. [0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noo...
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10y ago
How do you know that without a doubt it isn't just a bug in the software unrelated to whether or not DRM was implemented?
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10y ago
The only other Snapdragon 821 is the Mi5s Plus, and that has either 3 or 5 GB of RAM.
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10y ago
>- We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple). Direct from the DB engineer at top of thread.
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10y ago
I think what he's saying is that rather than selling a bunch of different devices (or one device with every sensor under the sun), you sell a "room base", and a bunch of different monitoring plugs that can slot into the "
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> It's -stupidly- rare for people to 'figure out' the question in an interview; even those who appear to are just dredging it up from having seen it somewhere. Isn't the point of those questions more to evaluate your
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10y ago
The alternative is the iOS update process, which has the result of non-techies complaining that their iPhone 4 is now slow after the update, and the techies they know pleading with them not to update even though the number gets bigger.
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10y ago
> Feed evidence in, computer finds you guilty or innocent, done. Would you be willing to trust a program with your sentence? I wouldn't in the slightest.
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10y ago
I don't currently have any credit history and have had no issues with Kickstarter/Amazon Payments, so that might not be the specific cause as to why.
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I'm not a dumb person by any stretch of the imagination, and I actually got lost in the weeds when trying to read The DAO 's website and what exactly it does and how it works. (which is a hilariously confusing thing to name a bra
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I feel like this might be a semi-unpopular opinion, but frankly I'm getting tired of the idea that a blockchain is the solution to every single problem the human race faces. There's this almost religious level of looking the other
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10y ago
So every single gallon of gasoline used in every country is all provided by conflict petroleum? By the same token, every plastic spork is funding terrorism.
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And that's why Android Auto (and possibly CarPlay) are just dumb streams from the device to the car infotainment system, and input streams back. The car doesn't need to know what's on screen, and the phone doesn't need t
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10y ago
But how do I know that you've actually gotten the grades to earn the B+ in Calc 2 or whatever? I feel like the blockchain only works when there is a binary yes/no of factuality, and grades can't be defined on a binary factual
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Monday's standup: Y: Fired Tony Fadell T: Realized that we made him an "advisor", dealing with backlash from that
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10y ago
It looks like the DPI is only half of standard print DPI, so it might not look as good as traditional print photos, but it's a good start.