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by tomalpha 8y ago
Insulin demand is apparently increasing at quite a rate[0] It's plausible that that could contribute significantly to price increases. Not, to be clear, that I'm defending that or the actions described in the NYT article. [0] htt
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by tomalpha 8y ago
For anyone still looking do consider Andrews and Arnold: https://www.aaisp.net.uk IMHO they’re the closest equivalent to this today (and have been for some time). Also not the cheapest, and I must confess I don’t actually use th
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by tomalpha 8y ago
That seems about right. There doesn’t appear to be an armed threat against the airport. Lots more guns would seem like security theatre. (Not that that doesn’t happen ever).
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by tomalpha 8y ago
The tricky bit here is that this is a civilian airport. Jamming GPS could reasonably be expected to cause significant difficulties for civilian planes and pilots. And thus passengers.
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Nice to see this continues to get exposure. It remains awesome and every time I return to it Matt's added some new nifty feature. More please Matt!
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Given that caffeine is a natural insecticide[0] it will be interesting to see whether large-scale farming of this variety is possible without using artificial ones. [0] https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MwpQWcIKMzAC&pg=
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Just for another piece of anecdata: mine used not to work if my finger was too dry ... I resorted to everything up to and including licking the finger and retrying. Which, oddly, usually worked.
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Perhaps, but only slightly imho. To your average HN denizen, 'hacked' implies the account was completely compromised. To the wider world it might well include partial compromise and/or the communications to/from the acco
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by tomalpha 8y ago
I'm not familiar with Canadian law, but under UK law which I suspect is similar, this is called a Civil Search Order[0] or Anton Pillar Order. "A search order is probably the most draconian order the court can make" [1] Howev
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Thanks, that makes more sense.
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by tomalpha 8y ago
The write-up is a little unclear, at least to me. I read it as being that it was a third-party JS attack. At least of a sort - e.g. a compromised third-party package downloaded and then used by BA? [0] [0] https://cdn.riskiq.co
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Completely agree, but it doesn't stop me thinking that others are likely judging me for what media I consume.
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by tomalpha 8y ago
This pretty much matches my intent in the OP (whether that came across clearly is, of course, another matter...) In a possibly vain attempt to try and avoid being trapped inside an echo-chamber of my own views I try and make myself read b
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by tomalpha 8y ago
The Guardian has moved to a voluntary-subscription model for revenue - a gentle nagware if you like. No adblocker-blocking and (relatively) few actual adverts on the pages. I don't always agree with their opinions or editorials, but I
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Lest anyone think this is a joke at least the BBC themselves think it's true: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36824917/trident-what-...
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by tomalpha 8y ago
I’m a Brit and (possibly causally, possibly not) tend to find US radio/podcasts and TV programming too emotional and melodramatic and much prefer Brit ones. I’m offering this only in the spirit of debate - each to their own of course.
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by tomalpha 8y ago
Ensure that your BIOS says performance when connected to AC This was the most interesting tidbit for me. It wouldn’t occur to me to run benchmarks on a laptop (I guess due to my advancing years...)
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by tomalpha 8y ago
I don't believe that chip and pin data is stored locally. Assuming that the payment records were from point-of-sale equipment then the entire transaction, including customer information is end-to-end encrypted and wouldn't (couldn
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by tomalpha 8y ago
That might well be true, but if you've only got a few kbits/second of bandwidth even that might be too much.
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by tomalpha 8y ago
It's been a few years since I was involved with any of this, but even for higher-bandwidth microwave networks you want to squeeze every last bit out of the protocol. I'd guess in this instance that they'll skip both the TCP a
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Apologies for the nitpick, but I think you mean 300x and 1000x (90000g / 300g). I don’t know whether there’s 1000 times as much coal available as rare-earth ores, but it might skew the argument a little compared to 100x.
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by tomalpha 9y ago
So how does the US improve its healthcare system? More interestingly, can the US political system ever enable an evidence-based debate around it? From the other side of the pond, it feels like debates end up being emotional rather than scie
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by tomalpha 9y ago
In the UK (where Troy is not based), I guess a prosecutor might try and build a case around either: - Section 58 of the Terrorism Act[0] which makes it illegal to possess information "likely to be useful to a person committing or pre
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Troy is clearly very pro Cloudflare and Azure. I’m only familiar with them at a high level and it would be great to hear counterpoints to his praise and get (at least the impression of) a debate that encompasses their pros and cons. +1 for
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by tomalpha 9y ago
One hazard I am still learning to adapt to after many years is saying this to US based colleagues. They tend to interpret it literally. I have to switch grammars in that context and speak much more directly.
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by tomalpha 9y ago
I wonder if the publisher even knew, or could ever know. It's presumably hard* to work out the counterfactual - how many more sales would have been made in the absence of the crack/keygen being available. They do mention that they
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by tomalpha 9y ago
I can’t see how microbeads in fish can in any way be a good thing can it? And I think it’s pretty conclusive plastic waste in general is a very bad thing in the ocean for more reasons than just ingestion by fish [0] [0] http://
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by tomalpha 9y ago
> I can't dig a shovel of dirt from my field without finding a plastic fragment This, in the wider environment, whether microbeads in fish or plastic bags in the ocean, is one of the greatest modern tragedies IMHO.
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by tomalpha 9y ago
Further to this, my £10 credit for missed deliveries could only be applied to items sold by and shipped from Amazon. No third party sellers. It also only showed up right at the end of the checkout process just before the final click. Ment
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by tomalpha 9y ago
The bias bit comes across (to me) similarly to the rest of the piece and seems to boil down to: ask questions and make observations to make sure that it’s the right fit for you. That is to say there isn’t necessarily a single right answer b

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