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by scarhill 9y ago
The problem is adverse selection. If insurance buyers have information that insurance sellers aren't allowed to have or act on, high risk people will buy, while low-risk people won't. As losses go up, so will the price and when th
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by scarhill 9y ago
Canada's consumer price index hasn't exceeded 4% since 1990 and has averaged 1.74% since then. So investors who are buying those bonds could reasonably see things differently than you do.
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by scarhill 9y ago
Not the author, but I think the proposal would be for browsers to not display scary warning pages HTTPS requests using self-signed certificates where the hostname is an RFC1918 IP address. The argument is that self-signed certificates on in
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Let’s stop punishing IoT devices that embrace HTTPS(neosmart.net)
30 points by scarhill 9y ago|19 comments
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by scarhill 9y ago
I also still have my Freerunner in a drawer somewhere. I bought the phone early on and then ended up starting the android-on-freerunner project[1], when Koolu, the company that had begun an Android port, abandoned the project. I used the Cu
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An In-Depth Look at the Parity Multisig Bug(hackingdistributed.com)
2 points by scarhill 9y ago|0 comments
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Should Go 2.0 Support Generics?(dave.cheney.net)
4 points by scarhill 9y ago|0 comments
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Parity's Wallet Bug Is Not Alone(hackingdistributed.com)
91 points by scarhill 9y ago|18 comments
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A Way to Own Your Social-Media Data(mobile.nytimes.com)
2 points by scarhill 9y ago|0 comments
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by scarhill 9y ago
The story of why the US has such a bizarre system of paying for healthcare is more complicated and interesting than just union demands and WW II price controls. Here's a great podcast discussing it: http://www.econtalk.org&#
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Real Talk on Reality (Winner)(medium.com)
6 points by scarhill 9y ago|0 comments
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by scarhill 9y ago
If it did happen, would it be in his interest to admit it?
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How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool(blog.bradfieldcs.com)
398 points by scarhill 9y ago|158 comments
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by scarhill 9y ago
Not an academic article, but Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline has a more technical write-up: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/30/ant...
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by scarhill 9y ago
If only they'd bring back sort by number of ratings...
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by scarhill 9y ago
If they used code that they downloaded without a license, they have violated copyright law. (All code created in the US and most other countries has a copyright at creation.) So they either accepted the GPL or violated copyright.
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A Global Look at Where Our Night Lights Have Turned on or Dropped Out(storymaps.esri.com)
1 points by scarhill 9y ago|0 comments
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by scarhill 10y ago
Wouldn't it be better to make the donation piece more like a secret ballot, i.e. make it hard for anyone to find out whom a given scientist funded? That would make quid pro quo arrangements less likely because one party wouldn't b
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Intel Launches Optane SSD(infoq.com)
2 points by scarhill 10y ago|0 comments
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by scarhill 10y ago
It's easy for even a big search to miss someone, even when that person is alive. Geraldine Largay got lost on the Appalachian Trail in Maine, survived for 26 days, and died less than 2 miles from the trail, yet a large search didn&#x27
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by scarhill 10y ago
This traffic light in Harrison, NY has been green for decades: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0142226,-73.7217408,3a,75y,1... I have been driving through there since the late 70's and I'm pretty sure that th
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by scarhill 10y ago
Ad-blockers seem to be able to identify them pretty reliably.
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by scarhill 10y ago
That might be bad for taxi companies, but what happens to Lyft in that scenario? Won't other ride sharing companies start up? Uber only becomes a monopoly if they can keep all competition out, not just taxi companies. Taxi companies su
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by scarhill 10y ago
Can you describe the steps that would lead to Uber becoming a monopoly? I can't imagine that happening without government help, can you? And if it requires that kind of help, is the problem with Uber or government?
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by scarhill 10y ago
If 49% of people stop using Uber, Uber loses almost half its revenue and will probably be forced to change its practices or go out of business. What happens if 49% of people don't vote for a US presidential candidate?
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by scarhill 10y ago
Right, but only one request can be in progress against a container at a time, correct? So there's no reason for your pool to allow more than one connection. Of course, that might still be useful for retry, etc. if the connection went a
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by scarhill 10y ago
Isn't this exactly how it works? If you're a big contributor, the rep hears your concerns. If not, they're filtered through multiple layers of staffers or dropped on the floor.
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by scarhill 10y ago
Evidently their intention is that if you write a program with Ellie and save it it is in the public domain. According to my correspondent, they may switch to releasing edited code with the MIT license. I let him know that those terms would
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by scarhill 10y ago
Clicking the About button I see: "All content created with Ellie is released in the public domain (CC0)." Are they claiming that any program written with Ellie is in the public domain? (edit) I've emailed to ask their intent.
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Detecting Undisclosed Vulnerabilities with Security Tools and Features(isc.sans.edu)
2 points by scarhill 10y ago|0 comments

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