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by sigmar 11y ago
He's not wrong, but the FBI is mostly seeking to set a precedent. Anyone that thinks otherwise should read into the topic more and look at the last 6 months of FBI public relations efforts
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by sigmar 11y ago
People that communicate with gifs, which is (mostly) Millennials
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by sigmar 11y ago
The average user thinks "GIF" means short, embedded video. They don't know or care how it was encoded.
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by sigmar 11y ago
>The other is about increased infectiousness. Perhaps the additional damage is caused by increased infectiousness since the virus would be spread through more diverse intermediaries on its way to various centrifuge systems? >This arti
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by sigmar 11y ago
Nope edit: though I guess that fact that you are connected to a specific tower leaks location information
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by sigmar 11y ago
>snapchat's stories I was referring to the stories that are local or worldwide events that are curated. much like moments.
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by sigmar 11y ago
Moments is pretty amazing. Have you used it? Seems to me like it is miles ahead of snapchat's stories
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by sigmar 11y ago
>Imagine what kind of perspectives are possible when thousands or millions of input sources are your senses. Doesn't this exactly describe human sensory input? Though our brain is efficient by throwing out most of the data early on
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by sigmar 11y ago
To reiterate your point. I've used free/complimentary wifi that overlays ads (specifically: megabus wifi). It is awful and even made some sites difficult to use. My solution at the time was to use a VPN, but it would have been nic
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by sigmar 11y ago
This piece doesn't have a title. Maybe mods here can change this post to something more appropriate, such as "Tim O'Reilly's comments on Paul Graham's Income Inequality Essay"
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by sigmar 11y ago
Does anyone know of something similar for automatic analysis of audio using the FFT? There are visual ways to do it, but it would be nice to have an automated script
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by sigmar 11y ago
>I was screaming at the screen for the better part of The Martian, if only for the behavior and attitudes of the acting "astronauts" when compared to actual astronauts in critical situations Can you elaborate on this? I'm
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by sigmar 11y ago
>no one at T-Mobile filters me either (no, they don’t even try). They may not filter you, but I'm sure they pressured you to make this apology.
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by sigmar 11y ago
8.3 trillion per GFlop is equivalent to $8300 per Flop No underground city required
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by sigmar 11y ago
This is a very interesting hypothetical from a public policy standpoint. Perhaps the city would find a need to subsidize parking for the sake of pollution, traffic, and energy consumption concerns. edit: maybe subsidize is the wrong word, b
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by sigmar 11y ago
Seems like a pretty strong suggestion that they will be increasing the character limit (if only through a "show more" button). Very telling that he used "if we decide to ship what we explore, WE'RE [emphasis added] telli
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by sigmar 11y ago
The samsung note was released in 2011. I'm not sure what the average upgrade cycle is at the moment, but IMHO that seems like sufficient overlap that owners of the original note would have returned to smaller phones if they preferred t
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by sigmar 11y ago
>To be raising such ridiculous amounts, they must have some incredible technology to demo. I used to think along this line too. But examples like Theranos make me more skeptical
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by sigmar 11y ago
I don't understand why it prompts me to invite other people after putting me in line. Why would I email/tweet my friends to join this service if it isn't even ready for me? Seems rude to bother a friend with joining an intern
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by sigmar 11y ago
>The problem is, no website or browser supports this kind of authentication Aren't you describing Yubikeys? Which aren't widely supported, but IIRC are still supported by some websites and apps.
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by sigmar 11y ago
>>Google’s effort to keep its search engine relevant in a world of mobile apps just got a boost from a big rival. I see this as facebook leveraging mobile search more than google leveraging facebook to keep search relevant. But I gues
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by sigmar 11y ago
Yes. If you turn on "advanced user" in the settings, you can open uBlock origin from the toolbar and look at "+domains connected"
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by sigmar 11y ago
> Actually some plants need UV Are you refuting someone or just want to point that out? The article states that only infrared is removed, UV is kept
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by sigmar 11y ago
>“Whoever does not switch off the adblocker or does not pay cannot see any content on Bild.de, as of now,” uBlock origin with default settings seems to load their "content" fine and without ads. If that changes, I'm sure o
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by sigmar 11y ago
Thanks for the link. This is the best comment on this thread because it gives an actual reference instead of just stating an armchair-lawyer's opinion of the case.
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by sigmar 11y ago
There is middle ground that you aren't considering: give people an option to update. They didn't give that option to people with xp, and they aren't giving that option to people with windows 7.
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by sigmar 11y ago
This seems like a neat way to do message encryption. For the average user, this is probably too inconvenient as a long term solution though. Having to select the text every time, to explicitly tell it to decrypt, makes for a poor user exper
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by sigmar 11y ago
wow. Gartner seems spot on with this. Seems like a ready-made guide for investors.
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by sigmar 11y ago
I started using uBlock's default-deny setting 2 weeks ago (it rejects all requests to secondary domains unless the domain is explicitly allowed). It's amazing to see how many websites use AWS or amazon ads these days. It is really
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by sigmar 11y ago
I would love to see how closely/consistently the output from "contact size" increases with "force"

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