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by sowbug 2y ago
Be sure to include the time spent building the relationship that led to the engagement!
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FDA advisors reject MDMA therapy for PTSD(npr.org)
2 points by sowbug 2y ago|1 comments
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by sowbug 2y ago
Waymo was smart to start with taxis. A self-driving car's competition is you, and of course you're an above-average driver. But a taxi's competition is the average Uber driver. People can be more objective about that low bar.
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by sowbug 2y ago
Yes, I can see a plausible argument that a character is so intertwined with a well-known real-life persona that a company can't replicate a character without borrowing some of the persona's value. One might also make the case that
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by sowbug 2y ago
The fired actor would have already signed away any claim to the character's likeness. The likeness the company cares about is that of the character, not of the actor portraying the character. The actor never owned the character, so the
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Spotify Car Thing will be discontinued(support.spotify.com)
77 points by sowbug 2y ago|230 comments
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by sowbug 2y ago
I read that link as supporting the distinction, not refuting it: "It is difficult to make the case, based on the evidence of usage that we have, [that they are] exact synonyms [or] totally different words." An envious person would
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by sowbug 2y ago
Part of the promise of UBI is lower administrative costs and reduced political pork. Adding in conditions like the ones you propose would be expensive and arbitrary.
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by sowbug 2y ago
This is as good a place as any to tell a story about a grammar disagreement that effectively broke up a local social group. To protect the innocent, let's say the group consisted of cousins. It was a new club, and its logo was being de
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by sowbug 2y ago
The page is now fixed. Even for a "test kitchen," that's a shocking error for a company like Google to make.
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by sowbug 2y ago
The pejorative term, in the economic sense, tends to be reserved for rents obtained by gaming the system, rather than the usual kind that charges for use of property or capital. Example: a utility company lobbies for a law requiring utiliti
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by sowbug 2y ago
If you don't have the space for a pond, you can grow interesting critters in a jar on the windowsill. And if you don't have time for that, you can veg out to the Life In Jars channel: https://youtube.com/@LifeinJar
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by sowbug 2y ago
It's not that kind of impossible. It means that even if you are tricked into giving your passkey to the attacker, it's cryptographically useless to the attacker because a passkey is bound to a specific origin.
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by sowbug 2y ago
"People" are the same drug companies that would rather use their manufacturing capabilities for high-margin on-patent drugs. For a particularly sad example, certain kinds of testicular cancer are considered curable with off-patent
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by sowbug 2y ago
It can work if the unit of currency is sufficiently divisible. Headcount often isn't. (Also, headcount is more a rate of spending than a unit of currency. I want to buy some work from your team, not subscribe to it!)
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by sowbug 2y ago
Excellent, thanks for the parsing help. :) I didn't find anyone lamenting that Brother had turned to the dark side, so I remained hopeful.
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by sowbug 2y ago
The popular "just buy this printer" Verge article recommends the Brother HL-L2305W. But Brother appears to have gone the subscription route and replaced that model with the HL-L2405W, which is "Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready
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by sowbug 2y ago
> Check out Hexabase on YT. https://www.youtube.com/@HexiBase in case you're having trouble finding it with that spelling.
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by sowbug 2y ago
A common miscommunication in an R&D organization is asking another team to do a task, and getting the reply that they're willing to do the task if you provide headcount. You're not asking them to grow their team in perpetuity.
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by sowbug 3y ago
The number of clicks required to get to that one click is quite high. The competition is Instagram, which actually has a negative number of clicks to get going (they won't let you continue browsing without an account).
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by sowbug 3y ago
Part of the fun of publishing is having readers. But even if you're OK nominating specific readers rather than letting anonymous ones find you, you wouldn't believe how skills like clicking a link have atrophied. You can send some
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by sowbug 3y ago
Desktop Linux. It stays out of my way and just works. Apple has almost never been an option for me because I like being able to run software on diverse hardware. Windows gets more inscrutable and annoying every time I'm asked to do fam
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by sowbug 3y ago
My daughter asked me to set her up with a blog on her own server. We did it, and there is now a Hello World post somewhere out there on the web. But it wasn't a good experience, compared to what I know posting on Instagram is like. And
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Uncovering the tiny doodles left by engineers on old microchips(npr.org)
3 points by sowbug 3y ago|1 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
My guess is that the term "MITM" is being overfit to include the basic problem of verifying that A's identity really belongs to A rather than M.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Right. I was thinking of keeping the same 90-day validity but renewing much more frequently, rather than the 60-day period that LE recommends. But I can see my questions have irked other community members, so I'll leave it at that. :)
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by sowbug 3y ago
Two ideas for discussion. Certificate Transparency is used to account for maliciously or mistakenly issued certificates. Perhaps it could also be used to assert the unavailability of correctly issued but obsolete certificates that are belie
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by sowbug 3y ago
Off-topic but adjacent: Craigslist geek missed-connections time. If you bought a stand-up Atari Gravitar machine from me about 22 years ago, I finally found the manual. Email me at mike @ my HN handle .com. Tell me where the transaction hap
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by sowbug 3y ago
Most museums in London are free. It's wonderful. Decide to go on a whim, and stay for 5 minutes or 5 hours. It works better than anything I've ever seen at a park or museum in the US.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Choosing 2FA segregates users into two buckets. Most people are satisfied with the risk of allowing password reset emails and social engineering attacks. They don't pick 2FA. The rest are generally more sophisticated users, and are wil

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