thefalcon

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by thefalcon 9y ago
At some of the big box stores near me it doesn't even need to be intentional, they're just in a near blackout zone with my carrier. Their Wi Fi doesn't tend to perform a whole lot better though.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Yes, I only ever bother to go into Best Buy because I know they will price match Amazon (and their own price.) I recently realized that even Wal Mart had lower prices for some things online, and now I have to go through the hassle of having
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Walking with a purpose will get you all kinds of places without well enforced security procedures in place.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
There's protecting your brand, and then there's whatever the heck it is Trader Joe's did here, which seems senseless and malevolent.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I simply accept and take advantage of the fact that HN is filled with many people much smarter, much more accomplished, much more driven, much more successful than me. I've never felt overwhelmed by it - that seems like it would take a
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by thefalcon 9y ago
If you ever find that community, please let me know :-)
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Except it sure seems like in this case, yeah, they bungled it. At the very least a total lack of awareness or care towards infosec to help protect sources (regardless of the fact that the lack of awareness extends to the source - I'd w
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I mean that they would disallow saving photos/videos for privacy reasons, and could stand behind their hardware being secure enough that people don't have to worry if they're still being secretly filmed by hacked iRis's
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Apple seems like the kind of company that would bother including cameras and then be able to stand behind a decision to lock users out of using them.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
For fun[1], you can occasionally trawl through addresses with any private key ! http://directory.io/ [1] For various definitions of "fun."
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by thefalcon 9y ago
About $2.32 according to http://www.bitcoinrollercoaster.com/
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I find the various communities to be sharply divided, yes, but only some of them are heavily moderated. On the other side, you just get downvoted into oblivion if you disagree - but at least your comment isn't hidden from those who see
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I've been looking forward to this one basically since the Lee Sedol matches. Excited it's finally here! I started the Lee Sedol matches knowing nothing about Go but the commentators really helped me understand what was so special
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How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other(ceros.com)
83 points by thefalcon 9y ago|68 comments
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Looks like Darkstore is offering full 3PL
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by thefalcon 9y ago
This is exactly what smaller e-tailers need in order to begin to be able to compete with Amazon -- most of them eventually learn that they have no chance if they try to actually rely on Amazon as their primary platform, but it's so har
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by thefalcon 9y ago
That's what I do with all my BTC: MTGO cards, Steam games. My initial "investment" was ~$10 worth of Stellar when that was given away for free, and I currently have ~$30 spread between BTC and a couple alt-coins from that ini
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Mandatory comment: Be sure to Traceroute bad.horse
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by thefalcon 9y ago
"Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."[1] Sounds a lot like Feynman decrying the Br
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Yeah, the document preview pane in Sublime Text is like a live satellite map of my code that gives me the ability to warp wherever I want.
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by thefalcon 9y ago
Absolutely! I have paths in my old neighborhood where if I walk them I can recall specific passages from Ready Player One or Steven King's On Writing. If you need to clear a specific associative memory from a place you enjoy visiting,
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I have visual recall but I often have a tangible sense of spacial memory. Like I'll feel an almost tingling or aura/presence of an important object in a given vector and magnitude. Maybe related? But I also get the same kind of ex
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by thefalcon 9y ago
I bet that a number of Brood War AI developers could still learn tricks from the Pros. Here's another Day[9] video about some of the intricacies in Brood War's mechanics, and how they came to be exploited in pro play: https:&#x2F
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by thefalcon 9y ago
It's good enough for Nintendo: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-do...
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by thefalcon 9y ago
They're not a uniquely Chicago thing, for sure.
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by thefalcon 10y ago
To be fair, those time limited online games are acknowledged to be biased in favor of AI over human players, so an actual tournament style match like Lee Sedol played would be needed for a more fair comparison. That said, I expect AlphaGo t
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Exciting times. It won't be long until my son is asking me why we used to just drop these things in the ocean after first use.
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by thefalcon 10y ago
I'm in the Central Valley (CA), and I notice that this is a pattern that seems to be repeated up and down the 99 (Downtown parallels the freeway while the rest of the city exists on a normal grid).
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by thefalcon 10y ago
Having sold to CostCo before, I can attest that it forces inefficiencies out of the process very quickly. And they will not accept an inferior product, either. Also they have efficiency built into every aspect of their business, down to the
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by thefalcon 10y ago
My city is grid based, but downtown is rotated 45 degrees from the cardinal directions. This leaves me constantly confused and confounded while downtown, not least because the transition streets from downtown to the rest of the city are all

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