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by skygazer 8y ago
There was a book called Nudge that takes up this topic to some extent, basically hacking people's decisions in "beneficial" ways, like making healthy foods more prominent in grocery stores, or changing organ donation from opt
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I don't think it's necessarily reasonable to expect everyone to only communicate some consensus view. I understand my opinion here is only a sample-of-one, but I generally need a collection of individual reports before I can aggre
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by skygazer 8y ago
Fair enough, it was a term I just made up to concisely convey the notion you described: “were it not for these factors, the results of the test may have had substantive differences.” Perhaps I failed, but I think my failure was an unfortuna
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by skygazer 8y ago
Short parents can have tall kids and vice-versa. Smart parents can have dumb kids and vice-versa. Genetic inheritance is complicated. Effective IQ can be downwardly influenced by factors such as nutrition. Reality is far too complex to be
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by skygazer 8y ago
This, in it self, seems like a generalization of an anecdote.
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by skygazer 9y ago
And what are the advantages of a bidet over a cocktail? Not as sticky, I imagine.
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by skygazer 9y ago
Suicides are not restricted to purchasers, but anyone suicidal that may find they have access to gun, like the purchasers children.
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by skygazer 9y ago
The keep your own data, but escrow your keys approach, that banks apparently use for secure chat.
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The FBI Director thinks this company found an answer to 'Going Dark'(cyberscoop.com)
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by skygazer 9y ago
I want a stand alone cellular Apple Watch, without need to tether to a main device. It’s own app store. An iPhone alternative, rather than extension.
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Probably to maintain the sense of boundedness of the withheld. How big is the secret they're hiding? Is it of unlimited or limited length? Your technique would obscure the sense of scale.
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by skygazer 9y ago
I run iOS public betas. The staggering improvement in quality between beta 1 and beta 7 seems to be evidence that they doing largely effective QA of major “happy paths.” What I do find interesting is that in early betas, things are broken
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by skygazer 9y ago
No need to apologize. This source, which Apple intended to stay private, may (or may not) still reveal exploitable vulnerabilities, which would need to be patched, if they exist, but it's not immediately obvious either way.
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also, resiliance to temporary network interference, as it sends large buffers faster than the audio plays, rather than a real time stream with a 2 second buffer (airplay 1.)
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by skygazer 9y ago
I've had co-workers share printed articles with me, perhaps because they think I'm more likely to read them than an emailed link. It would have been nicer to read them multi-column, sans ads, headers and nav.
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by skygazer 9y ago
If Apple devs/execs were forced to use old hardware, personally, this problem likely wouldn't exist. Whatever you don't focus on, suffers. It's not intentional. It's a product of incentive structures around novelty
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by skygazer 9y ago
Perhaps they incompetently underspecified the battery for the long term needs of their processor, more than a year before the embarrassing insufficient current shutdown effects became painfully obvious, and instead of admitting to the costl
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by skygazer 9y ago
Hanlon's razor? [1] "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." 1: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by skygazer 9y ago
edit: sorry, this is not directly responsive. I intended to post at the top level. I own this scale, and am bummed. I finally figured out how to reliably (as in, repeatably) get it to work, by first letting it measure my weight, and then
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by skygazer 9y ago
Because you're clever enough to restore from a clean backup, and double check you're patched up and not running untrusted code. You're on HN, after all.
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In the same article, they describe their intent to, yes, restore timing resolution, once alternative mitigations mature.
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Well, I suppose if someone had exploited your system with this, they could probably install some remote access tool, and then disable the root account and unset the password, and remove all evidence they were there. But, if you don't h
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by skygazer 9y ago
While your theory is interesting, if deeply cynical, the thing I find most interesting is that it's the top comment on an 800+ comment discussion when it was less than a minute old. Do new comments start at the top? I've never n
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by skygazer 9y ago
As far as I can tell, "dsenableroot -d" seems to have no useful effect. After having " * Successfully disabled root user." with it, I can still log in to the root account with the password I set, both at the command li
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by skygazer 9y ago
Blank password is not necessary. Any password provided on initial attempt WILL BECOME the root password. Blank is being circulated simply because that's what was discovered first. Edit: Which also means it's possible to "se
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by skygazer 9y ago
When you've run an obstacle course to fluency, often a Stockholm syndrome sets in, and you think this is the best obstacle course. It changes you; how you reason, predict and judge. It become natural and intuitive. Your neural net over
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by skygazer 9y ago
You can tweak its sensitivity +/- dramatically, even for the past night, in the Tweak tab in the app. That did it for me.
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I don’t believe parent was remotely suggesting a legal standard, rather, an appeal to conversational relevance.
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I use a iOS VPN app called Speedify, that simultaneously bonds wifi/cellular channels into a single channel, ostensibly for speed sake. It seems to handle situations where either wifi or cellular is flakey, and even has a redundant mo
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by skygazer 9y ago
My iPhone 6s suffered similarly on iOS 11.0, but is back to normal iOS 10 level performance with 11.1 Beta 5. I would try the beta if you're impatient, or just wait for iOS 11.1 to come out, which will probably be released within the n

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