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by rwhitman 10y ago
OMG, that's what I thought too! But no, no, no. Chrome became her BIGGEST vector for malware! She was installing Chrome plugins, and they in turn installed a modded copy of Chromium with all kinds of toolbars and spyware, which set its
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by rwhitman 10y ago
My mom has had various Windows PCs since the late 90's. About every 3 to 6 months or so I get a call that it's "stopped working" and has either locked up completely or is moving at a crawl. Nearly every time it takes me
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People tend to forget that many of the most effective public transit systems were originally built out by private companies and then acquired by governments after the private company went bankrupt. A good chunk of the public transit systems
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Geographically once you get outside of major tech hubs, the Mac's market share as a developer workstation is quite tiny. I remember one time I was sent out on site to a big corp in an office park in New Jersey and everyone in the cubic
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by rwhitman 10y ago
I get the sense that there is a movement inside Apple right now to abandon the professional market. Everything they've released lately for pros has been half-hearted at best. I'm getting increasingly concerned that one day soon th
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by rwhitman 10y ago
Using Pittsburgh as a proving ground is a smart move - not just because that happens to be where CMU is located but if you can train a self-driving car to navigate Pittsburgh, you've pretty much trained it to navigate anywhere. In Pitt
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Kind of curious to hear from HN folks who work in security and what they think about all this
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The Real Paranoia-Inducing Purpose of Russian Hacks(newyorker.com)
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The coolest thing about this show I discovered was that every hack depicted is actually tested to see if it would work, and the screenshots cut into the show are always shown in the correct order of execution. Amazing. Wish there was a clip
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by rwhitman 10y ago
I've had a strange preoccupation lately with the concept of "empire collapse" - the point at which a once stable empire's governance over it's people begins to fail, and eventually ceases to be able to manage it&#x2
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I haven't played it, but pretty much every time I look out the window of my apartment here in NYC there are random people wandering aimlessly around my block with their phone pointed in weird directions. I have friends and family in my
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Makes sense. I couldn't help thinking about this post from a few months back, in the context of tracking geographic shifts in startup hiring: http://www.recode.net/2016/5/13/11592570/china-startup-te
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I'm increasingly curious about what kinds of trends there are in tech hiring outside of the English speaking world. Wouldn't the HN "Who's Hiring" thread being in English make it inherently biased in terms of global
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To your first block of questions - the crowdsourced moderation methods employed in public forums (like for example HN, Reddit, Wikipedia) have evolved to a point where they work very well. It's possible that a government-grade moderati
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by rwhitman 10y ago
>> If you think just allowing people to vote directly will somehow circumvent the natural tendency of people for herd mentality, confirmation bias, and valuing anecdotes and personal experience over statistics, then I think you'
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Most of the management of government services could be automated, direct democracy is possible with software. There's certainly a lot of potential for AI augmentation in day-to-day governance. It certainly wouldn't be perfect at f
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Even this is outdated and backwards. By the time it would ever become a reality the "Government" portion of this system will have already been replaced with "Tech". We are already at a place where software could successf
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Except that no one will ever trust investing in trade with Britain again after this. "British interests come first", in Britain . Brexit erased what is now $2.8 trillion from the global markets, devalued what was thought to be a
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Totally agree, it would be a political and engineering mess to try and implement on an existing busy street. The conditions were very ripe to experiment with the high line. Not an easy thing to develop certainly, but relative to the cost an
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Montreal's Underground City is a pretty great example of how to give public pedestrian connectivity underground in winter. Well worth checking out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal
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Yea it's also a pretty common sci-fi / cyberpunk fantasy city design dating back to Fritz Lang's Metropolis , influenced by the Art Deco "city of the future" ideas like this floating around at the time. In NYC at l
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I've thought about this. My thought has been, bump the street level up one story to create a pedestrian / bicycle promenade and move building entrances to the second floor. Keep the existing street below intact, with parallel park
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"Sky News Journalist, Says Pro-Brexit MP Told Him ‘Leave Campaign Don’t Have A Plan’": http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/faisal-islam-brexit-no...
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One thing that really needs to be addressed is how to retrofit the glut of car-centric developments designed in the late 20th century, to better conform with the growing sense of value we have in walkable communities today. Navigating the m
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I think this is a portion of what's going on. I'll prefix by saying I'm no expert in history or political science but I believe through the larger lens of history, the big picture is that the West is undergoing an acceleratio
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That's amazing, I had no idea. I hope other states get on board with this
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I love how highly pizza quality is ranked as a factor in the city ratings. Pretty amused to find out that my biggest grievance about the West Coast is a shared concern.
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Personally I would love to see a suburb go completely rogue and draft up zoning laws that flipped the script and required their town be built to 1890's code.. or better yet, 15th century Europe code. Victorian era density is nice but w
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So my question is, what density of greenhouse gasses does it take to go from "Pliocene" to "Venus"?
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As much as I want to dive into armchair management here, I greatly respect the fact that the buffer folks remained committed to the total open transparency thing, even when it didn't paint the business in a positive light. That takes a

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