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by sowbug 3y ago
24 million pixels across the two panels, orders of magnitude more than any headsets most consumers have come in contact with The Quest 2 has about 4 million, which is undoubtedly more than 0.24 million. Has "order of magnitude"
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by sowbug 3y ago
Witness testimony is evidence. You don't have to believe him, but it is specious to reject a witness's testimony primarily on the grounds that it is not evidence.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Setting aside whether the original letter was actually capitalized, the rule is common in English writing: https://style.mla.org/capitalizing-start-of-quotation/ ("If the first letter of the first word you quote i
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by sowbug 3y ago
Fair enough. In context, it seemed the commenter was referring to individuals engaging in copyright infringement.
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by sowbug 3y ago
This is the point critics are missing when they argue about Bitcoin's intrinsic value. Bitcoin has no value other than its network effects. Facebook, Reddit, Bitcoin, etc. are valuable because of their usage. Which makes them hard to r
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by sowbug 3y ago
Hang on there. A legal hazard is not necessarily a moral hazard.
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by sowbug 3y ago
You need to five-whys this before suggesting a solution. Start by asking whether whoever was in charge of requiring the $250 textbook benefited personally from its purchase.
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by sowbug 3y ago
The Bank Secrecy Act requires banks to file a currency transaction report when a customer makes more than $10,000 of cash transactions with the bank in a single day. "Structuring" aggregate transactions to stay under the limit can
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by sowbug 3y ago
Pretty sure my second-grade teacher invented it. Writing "I will not talk while the teacher is talking" 100 times on the chalkboard is proof of work, and it definitely cut down on unwanted chatter.
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by sowbug 3y ago
That's fine. A system like that doesn't depend on intent.
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by sowbug 3y ago
+1. High-school curriculums should include something like applied Bayesian reasoning. Understanding dependent probabilities is an underappreciated superpower.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Perhaps, but it can be confusing if the listener interprets it as a witness making a factual statement, leading to the rhetorical question "were you lying when you said A, or else when you said not-A?" For legal arguments, it&#x27
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by sowbug 3y ago
It's been a couple days since this thread quieted down, but I've continued to think about the logic behind the discussion. I believe the fallacy here is akin to arguing about numbers without units attached to them. For most of the
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by sowbug 3y ago
Sometimes everyone acknowledges and wishes that solving X were the path forward, but for political, inertial, technical-debt, financial, or stubborn customer-related reasons, we must think only about Y. These conversations often end with th
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by sowbug 3y ago
I always thought the word "pomelo" was a portmanteau like tangelo or pluot. Turns out it's the OG. TIL.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Most Tesla recalls are applied in owner driveways, while the owners are asleep, because they're software.
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by sowbug 3y ago
It sounds like "hardware > service" was not just core to the product's value proposition, but also a core value of the founders. And if so, I get it. But it seems like 99% of people will choose convenience over privacy, ev
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by sowbug 3y ago
In defense of those customers, the back button has become a game of Russian roulette. Most of the time it takes you back to the page or UI state you were on. The rest of the time it breaks the JS, takes you to an awful "before you go&q
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by sowbug 3y ago
unfair-wagon quiz-rocket lake-flag These seem to adhere to the guidelines. I have been using https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ for a while to name VMs. Generate 15 words, pick a pair that I can visualize, and I'm done.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Same here. We've had whatever plan allowed 4 people watching at once. Now two kids are in college. I'll hear from them immediately if they get booted from the app. And I'll do exactly what I assume Netflix wants me to do... w
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by sowbug 3y ago
Sigh. It's an expression as old as time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and ...
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by sowbug 3y ago
The system guaranteed that a key signed a package. That was its entire utility. At best, it defeated plausible deniability for package maintainers who had avowed public keys, but then somehow signed a bad package. This wouldn't have st
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by sowbug 3y ago
The research article cited in the announcement is titled "PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless." That's the issue. Pretending there is a security solution in place is worse than being upfront that there is none. If you
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by sowbug 3y ago
Don't use the term "retirement." Instead, you're doing a solo startup. Add that it's in stealth mode if you don't feel like talking about your current focus of attention. If I'm reading your comment correc
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by sowbug 3y ago
It's toward the end of season one of Narcos , but the subjects are cops and criminals.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I didn't read the article. All I saw was a modal site ad asking "Do you have a moment?" Turns out I didn't.
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by sowbug 3y ago
It makes sense in an enterprise context, where the company might want to make sure no employee clones a client device key. In that case, they would require remote attestation to authorize only private keys living in secure elements (and thu
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by sowbug 3y ago
If memory serves, Attempto was recently on HN. It's another natural (invented) language that parses unambiguously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempto_Controlled_English
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by sowbug 3y ago
It was originally 9 months. Here is an email my dad received on June 23, 2005. I replaced personal info with XXX. === Hi there, We've noticed that you haven't used your Gmail account, XXX@gmail.com, for quite some time. In order t
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by sowbug 3y ago
Thank you CBS News for including a state-by-state incident graphic in your article. While putting out fires on airplanes, most of us are indeed concerned which state we're flying over at the time.

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