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7y ago
You could probably throw out 90% or more of dictionary words for your permutations, I'd say that is significant enough to paint a target on your back.
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ses1984
7y ago
Also easier to crack if an attacker knows that detail.
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7y ago
My cynical view is that countries can do whatever they want and "freedom" only exists because it happens to be convenient and mutually beneficial (between government and people) for a particular period of time.
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7y ago
I just wish more ebooks were available through libraries. It seems like 50% of books I want to read aren't. The more I have used ebooks, the more I prefer them (for reading for pleasure).
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7y ago
And what gives private banks freedom to operate?
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7y ago
>used their specific influencer promo code. This is like the difference between old web advertising pay per click and new web advertising pay per impression. Getting someone to use a code is an order of magnitude harder to get than a cli
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7y ago
I think obvious flirting is basically the idea.
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7y ago
You say hi to a person. Maybe they say hi back, maybe they don't. If they don't, then leave them alone. If they do, say something else. That's "escalate a bit". Of course you can't read minds, that's why y
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7y ago
I'm not sure I see the point. Or rather, I see The tautology. We discover something math can't explain. By definition, you can't expand math to explain it. You can try, and if you succeed you were wrong all along, in that you
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7y ago
How does that square with something like godel's incompleteness therom?
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7y ago
It also had a bunch of text that was easy to search. Imagine replacing a shelf full of encyclopedias (that cost a lot) with a single cd, AND it had some videos.
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7y ago
I don't know where you found such service, but I had two quotes for over 6k and 10k to get automated lighting in my house in 2009.
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7y ago
Solved for me, the expert, but not solved for thee, the lay person. Even if this was technically within financial reach, my personal experience was that the knowledge of how to do it was intentionally obfuscated because installers wanted to
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7y ago
And/or maybe it was never worth over a billion in the first place.
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7y ago
I would like to know what the measurement of the loudness when you are 1/2 mile away from the road.
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ses1984
7y ago
You're right.
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7y ago
We do pay American tax dollars directly overseas it's called foreign aid.
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7y ago
The most avid fisherman I know thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax. Sure, most people do not give a shit about trout, fisherman and hunters included. I wouldn't consider myself a hunter or fisherman (but I have fished occasionally
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7y ago
Does it matter if they have a policy against scraping? I thought that was explicitly legal, which enables their existence.
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7y ago
Except for air conditioning in very hot days. We still break records on hot days.
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7y ago
I believe that some of that is covered by other appliances becoming more efficient. How many 60-100w light bulbs did people used to run in their home? Tube tvs? Those devices have largely been replaced by more modern versions that use an or
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ses1984
7y ago
Ok then go the speed limit, drive you like you live there and your kids are on the roads.
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7y ago
What could be more express than prime same day or next day? I guess you could say they are focused on retail express, where you can charge a poor schmuck an arm and a leg to deliver something overnight, instead of getting paid peanuts for A
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7y ago
Pedantry.
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7y ago
Very old folks can start to lose decision making capabilites. It has nothing to do with IT knowledge. It's why mostly old people fall victim to email and phone scams and refuse to believe the truth even after you show them mountains of
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ses1984
7y ago
Shit compared to what? If you think Amazon benefits for software engineers are shit you should check where the surface of your bubble is. There's a big world outside it.
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7y ago
Thank you for pulling out the data. That's a cool site.
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7y ago
A single 4k Netflix stream is up to 25mbps.
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7y ago
How many friends do you have who worked for a company more than 5 years? Work for Amazon for 2 years, learn a lot, get paid a lot, move on.
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7y ago
Google being better then competitors on this one query tells nothing, especially regarding Google's performance compared to its past self.
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