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by scoot 9y ago
Which was exactly the point.
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by scoot 9y ago
There's a free battery replacement "quality program" for that issue. [1] Also (unrelated, but will apply to many here), if you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro that the anti-glare coating has started to come off screen (typicall
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by scoot 9y ago
There's a trade-off. Either your device becomes obsolete because it doesn't have the hardware capacity to support the requirements of a newer OS so you are stuck at an older version, or it becomes obsolete because the vendor allow
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by scoot 9y ago
I recently somehow ended up in the Tai Lopez* ad funnel. I decided to click on every ad, and the more ads I clicked on (and closed the landing page), the more the ad system thought I was a prospect. It ended up serving three different ad fo
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by scoot 9y ago
I probably should have added an explanation for those unfamiliar with the term, but then it wouldn't have been two words! :) Essentially conterparty risk is the risk that the other party to a contract, in this case the broker, defaults
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by scoot 9y ago
Two words: "counterparty risk".
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by scoot 9y ago
For those that missed it yesterday, Nautilus is on the brink of bankruptcy [1], yet here it is once again with an article featured on the HN frontpage. If you appreciate the content, and are in a position to do so, please consider subscribi
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by scoot 9y ago
Although it appears the court found for HiQ (against LinkedIn): https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/08/14/hiqlinkedintro.pdf
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by scoot 9y ago
This seems like pretty much standard procedure going back at least 30 years. No family ties (wife, kids)? No property? No verifiable job to return to? No Entry. No discrimination there. Bit of an arse for suggesting he was lieing about bein
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by scoot 9y ago
One again though, people are forgetting that "Autopilot" is just a marketing name for adavanced lane assist and adaptive cruise control (albeit of a relatively sophisticated variety). Expecting it to be able to cope with anything
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by scoot 9y ago
Because Brexit wasn't a consideration in 2014. Even if it were, EU regulations that come into force during the notice period, or in the case of the U.K., a further 2 year extension period are still applicable. Take GDPR for example. It
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by scoot 9y ago
Yes, and if you don't understand two orders of magnitude, "10,000%" is going to be equally confusing, if not potentially misleading. "100 times" is clear and unambiguous (even if the claim itself is unsubstatiated).
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by scoot 9y ago
> "by more than 10,000 percent" If you're quoting numbers in percentage terms, and that term is more than 100%, there's proabably a better way to express it, in this case, "100 times" (or 100X if you prefer)
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by scoot 9y ago
Are you serious, or was that just a quip?
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by scoot 9y ago
That is typically part of the cloud brokerage value add.
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by scoot 9y ago
I watched this fascinating 5 minute video recently on hot meta printing. It might have been posted to HN, as it's certainly not the kind of thing I would normally watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3XbItz55YE
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by scoot 9y ago
Yes, you need to know what is is . I didn't but found the second last explanation here helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27434431/what-is-html-is...
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by scoot 9y ago
Cloud brokerage? The key is that they don't just wrap Amazon, but rather multiple cloud providers, and offer some degree of abstraction to enable multi-cloud architectures.
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by scoot 9y ago
> As soon as I saw the title I suspected the exploit was probably markdown related The title literally says "from Markdown to remote code execution" what else were you expecting?!
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by scoot 9y ago
That's effectively what the European General Data Protection Regulation covers. The good news for European citizens is that global organizations are accountable for safeguarding their data. The good news for global citizens is that Eur
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by scoot 9y ago
I was amazed to see speech synthesis (speak / vs) as a standard feature. A little googling lead me to this: "Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 1974"[1] I seem to have a personal difficulty imagini
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by scoot 9y ago
"The number of UNIX installations is now above 20, and many more are expected." Understatement of the year, 1973.
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by scoot 9y ago
No, it's the difference between the company being relevant to the market, and the employees being relevant to the company. That isn't the same thing.
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by scoot 9y ago
> the company needs to keep pushing updates to stay relevant and generally makes things worse It isn't the company that feels the need to stay relevant, it's the UI designers & developers. They have to keep changing thins t
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by scoot 9y ago
Odd, the article I read had this image: https://c1cleantechnicacom-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/files/201... (or one like it), and looking at the video, it seems they had both on stage? Are there two models? It didn't
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by scoot 9y ago
If you check out the reveal, you'll see that it doesn't have those ridiculous covers, nor does it have near zero clearance between the cab and trailer which would prevent articulation, and nor does it have near zero ground clearan
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by scoot 9y ago
I can't speak to the rest of the content, but I found the introduction in the course accompanying the recently announced gluon library to be both comprehensive and comprehensible at the same time. http://gluon.mxnet.io/
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by scoot 9y ago
It doesn't help that "upgrading" an iOS device is a one-way ticket. Religiously updating the original iPad effectively bricked it (not literally, but to all intents and purposes) years ahead of its natural lifetime, due to on
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by scoot 9y ago
That sentence caught my eye too, and I would have commented on it if JshWright hadn't. "If the two of us ended up thinking that this person was dead, then I knew that it was a legitimate black tag." Sending them all back
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by scoot 9y ago
> Hams, for example, often use CW (Continuous Wave, aka Morse Code) Morse code can be used to modulate a continuous wave, but they are not synonymous.

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