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by skue 13y ago
Sure, I was always intrigued by the micro payments idea. Heck, if that we're the norm I wonder if it wouldn't promote better web content. I'd be more likely to spend more time on sites I wanted to support than the sensational
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by skue 13y ago
You mention the privacy implications of "Like" buttons but neglect to mention the privacy implications of the ad networks. Remember when Double Click started building a database of every Internet user and their preferences (and we
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by skue 13y ago
Not all of us block ads because they are annoying to look at. They are also a very real threat to privacy because ad companies track us across multiple websites (yes, I block Google Analytics and other trackers as well). OTOH, I also feel t
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by skue 13y ago
Wait, Guy English is very ignorant and doesn't know what he is talking about? That's a hilariously ironic comment.
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And THIS is the ultimate answer to the question: If I have nothing to hide, why should this bother me? It's not whether each of us individually have something to hide: it's whether our politicians, our activists, our reporters, ou
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by skue 13y ago
OTOH, the estimated bytes per call truly is conservative. The 8KB/s estimate is based on G.711, and using G.726 or G.729 would yield a 2-8x reduction in storage. So this is definitely within an order of magnitude: even if the minutes o
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by skue 13y ago
There is another big reason why Snowden may have chosen HK. A few months ago the HK high court ruled that the process for applying for asylum needs overhaul, and until that happens all extradition proceedings for asylum seekers are on hold.
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by skue 13y ago
> Quantum computers do not allow you to break all public key cryptography, they only allow you to break the common forms in use today. True, but it's the public key cryptography in use today that I'm concerned with!
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by skue 13y ago
He was referring to the possibility that the NSA can already crack the underlying encryption algorithms via quantum computing, etc. If that's the case, being open source and correctly implementing the encryption algorithms is moot.
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by skue 13y ago
There's a great expression that is especially useful when dealing with big companies: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately described by incompetency." [1] While it's tempting to think that Jobs was pulling a
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by skue 13y ago
Don't forget about DDG's great bang shortcuts. If you ever find yourself wanting to fall back on Google's results, just throw !sp at the front of a DDG search for StartPage's proxied Google service (or !g if you absolute
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by skue 13y ago
I agree about the Mozilla connection. It's also interesting that SEOMoz filed for the Moz trademark back in August 2011, so this has been under consideration for a while and it's already been published for review and is live. So if it this
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by skue 13y ago
As the article mentions, Harry Eastlack's skeleton is on display -- along with many other medical anomalies -- at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. It's an interesting museum and definitely worth a visit if you are nearby: http://www.coll
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by skue 13y ago
> Where was I "laughing off" rape? I didn't say you were, and that certainly wasn't meant to be personal. What I said was that men (plural) need to stop laughing it off, and by men I was referring to the men who create these images and
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If you believe those linked examples constitute humor, I'm shocked. Tell me, would you also find these funny? * A photo of Matthew Shepard's body with a joke about gays? * A photo of Jyoti Singh Pandey with a joke about uppity Ind
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by skue 13y ago
> Women are not the exclusive victims of rape. This is a ridiculously weak argument. According to RAINN, 9 out of 10 rape victims are women, and the majority of male victims are either prisoners or children, which is another whole class
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by skue 13y ago
Not necessarily. AWS doesn't sign Business Associate Agreements, as required by HIPAA/HITECH for any healthcare payers/providers who want to use their services today, and for any Health IT companies who want to use them starting in Septembe
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by skue 13y ago
Very interesting idea, and great website! A question: I'm curious whether you put a lot of consideration into the review system? Asking hosts to invite strangers over and publicly rate their hospitality, cooking, and home is asking a lot. Y
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by skue 13y ago
Thanks, that makes sense (I cannot reply to you directly). The US did not directly put Ríos Montt into power. However, the CIA did orchestrate a coup in Guatemala in the 50s, which triggered a bloody civil war and years of conflict that cul
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by skue 13y ago
You left out Ríos Montt, who was (finally) convicted of genocide in Guatemala this past week, some 30 years after Reagan's visit of support. If it helps, there are many folks in the US who would agree with you, most especially those of us w
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by skue 13y ago
Someone reportedly did an informal experiment. One gun, 200 spins. Results: Position Times 1 (barrel) 20 (0.100) 2 25 (0.125) 3 35 (0.175) 4 (bottom) 38 (0.190) 5 41 (0.205) 6 (death)
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by skue 13y ago
Why is the parent down voted? He was responding to the hypothetical case that the odds are initially 1/600 due to bullet weight and no one else spins. Granted, he wrote 1/6000 instead of 1/600, but his basic point is correct: if no one else
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by skue 13y ago
But a layered image SHOULD be a single file and not a filesystem. No non-technical user would expect otherwise. And why all the spite? Gus isn't proposing that Acorn's database schema BE the standard. He says that clearly. He simply wrote a
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by skue 13y ago
And I love it how you lump every HN poster into the same pile as though we all live in Silicon Valley. It's probably too late for you to read this, but you're jumping to your own conclusions... I've been on HN long enough to recognize your
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by skue 13y ago
> Another possible solution is to find a way to eliminate the for-profit hospitals. Oh God, no. Did you read that incredibly-long and incredibly-powerful healthcare article by Time? Non-profit hospitals are among the worst offenders.
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The new term is Accountable Care Organization (ACO), and don't worry, an ACO is very different from an HMO. In fact, they changed two out of the three letters. Seriously speaking you are right, this is a risk. I have asked this same questio
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by skue 13y ago
> The free market offers no incentive to give health services to people who cannot pay for it. That's why we balanced the market with limited regulations, such as requiring Emergency Departments to treat all patients regardless of the
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by skue 13y ago
That may be true, but it misses the point. No single hospital will transform healthcare. The entire structure needs to change - and that's exactly what is happening today. The trend right now is moving away from hospital-based care and towa
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I wish this article spent more time discussing how autolayout is implemented in the real-life example, and less time talking about absurd situations such as using autolayout with a thousand subviews. We are given no info about what constrai
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by skue 14y ago
I've been charged legal fees by an institutional seed stage investor, though the fees were capped -- at an amount equivalent to 2% of total initial investment.

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