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by teuobk 9y ago
I think it's more like 2 billion monthly active users, based on this projection from earlier this year: https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14474534/facebook-earnings... Still impressive, regardless.
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by teuobk 10y ago
Based on some poking around, it appears that the focus is mainly on John Deere because it's mainly John Deere imposing these software restrictions. Relevant thread on The Combine Forum (because that's a thing, apparently): http:&
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by teuobk 10y ago
Interesting. What are the tax implications, if any, for doing something like this? If it's an American giving a grant to another American, would it be treated as a gift (and thus be tax-free), or would it be treated as income?
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by teuobk 10y ago
Isn't it strange how the appraisal always seems to come in just a little above where it needs to be in order for the financing to be approved?
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by teuobk 10y ago
Incredible -- I just did the same, and my house's "zestimate" went up about $20,000. Of course, if I compare my house to actual sales in the neighborhood over the past few months, that's probably 10% high, so correcting
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by teuobk 10y ago
The patent ended up being issued: https://www.google.com/patents/US9386790
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by teuobk 10y ago
It depends on what you're trying to prevent and what your risk factors are. For patients with existing heart disease or prior strokes, the NNT is between 50 and 333 depending on the outcome you're considering. Source: http:/
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by teuobk 10y ago
Amendment 71 also made it harder to pass amendments: the threshold is now 55%. The only exception is for amendments that repeal things from the constitution, for which the threshold is still 50% Details: https://ballotpedia.org&#
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by teuobk 10y ago
The article you linked to cites a price of about $250k per round, not $80k/rd, and the government is apparently buying over 7000 rounds. Given the lower purchase quantity and similar technology, a 3x increase for the new round seems be
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by teuobk 10y ago
Societal problems are not necessarily business opportunities. That said, I do agree with the general point of the article. I cringe whenever I talk with the latest would-be entrepreneur who is "solving" the current trendy non-prob
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by teuobk 10y ago
If you put everything on a good cash-back card, and you pay off your balance every month, it can really add up. Let's say you run $30k a year through your card and have something like the 2% cash back Citi DoubleCash Mastercard. That&
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by teuobk 10y ago
How did they "specifically advertise for young developers" without running afoul of age discrimination laws?
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by teuobk 10y ago
This is more about stock price manipulation than it is about implantable medical device security. Having worked in the medical device industry for over a decade, I know first-hand how bad the security situation is on the vast majority of de
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by teuobk 10y ago
There are early signs that the real estate boom of the past few years might be beginning to ebb. For example, home prices in Aspen have begun to fall, apparently unexpectedly: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/12&#
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by teuobk 10y ago
It turns out that part of the attack does exactly that. It was glossed over in the Wired article, but the slides describe how the lockout-penalty feature in the lock was defeated by manipulating the EEPROM. Basically, if you kill power to t
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by teuobk 10y ago
The 1/4" hole is in the steel of the safe door, and then behind that is the hardened steel body of the lock-proper, so no, I don't think that would be feasible.
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by teuobk 10y ago
There's an elderly lady at the end of my block (in Denver-proper) who uses the dial-a-ride service nearly daily. The only other times I can recall seeing the service used also involved elderly or disabled people. In fact, it took me ye
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Hacker Unlocks ‘High Security’ Electronic Safes Without a Trace(wired.com)
3 points by teuobk 10y ago|0 comments
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by teuobk 10y ago
This is just a guess, but perhaps it's a very strong magnet? Many gas flap locks seem to be simple solenoids, and it's often relatively simple to change the state of a solenoid using a powerful magnet. Certain low-end electronic-l
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by teuobk 10y ago
Not making any judgments or assumptions about what happened in this case, but there are better and worse ways of informing a police officer that you're carrying. To start, not all states obligate concealed carry permit holders to infor
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by teuobk 10y ago
Ironically, this article is on a site that has a mixed-content warning (i.e., there are both HTTPS and normal HTTP assets on the page).
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by teuobk 10y ago
This article ignores the fact that it takes less energy to cool a home in a hot climate than it does to heat a home in a cold climate. Since people have been able to more easily move to hot climates thanks to air conditioning, the net effec
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by teuobk 10y ago
Not quite forced registration: it can be dismissed by clicking the "x" in the corner (cropped out of this screenshot -- EDIT: There might not be a way to dismiss it in all of the variants; see comment below). Also, it's part
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Mining platinum from the road [video](youtube.com)
2 points by teuobk 10y ago|0 comments
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by teuobk 10y ago
I wouldn't write them off yet. Apple has been late to several markets (e.g., iPod and iPhone) and yet ended up doing quite well in them.
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Non-obvious indicators that a transaction might be fraudulent(simility.com)
117 points by teuobk 11y ago|88 comments
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by teuobk 11y ago
It's more like 6:1, though I don't have a good citation handy. However, some people seem to have a strong reluctance to defecate in public bathrooms, so the ratio in an office bathroom might be much higher.
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by teuobk 11y ago
In the embedded world, sometimes you can't even be a puts/printf debuggerer. There have been some situations, typically early in development, where I've had to be a "turn the LED on or turn it off" debuggerer. Amazi
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by teuobk 11y ago
Bloomberg's views on guns are such that many Republican voters would refuse to vote for him.
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by teuobk 11y ago
Based on my search this year, that isn't necessarily true. Here in Denver, all of the insurers that were offering PPO plans in years past have left the individual market (not just the ACA exchange), save one: Anthem BCBS. Availability

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