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by toothbrush 8y ago
Slightly unrelated, but i'm fishing for suggestions. I have a beef with my local Australian bank, the ING (of Dutch fame). Their login system consists of your "customer number" (printed on the back of your debit card) and a
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Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, dies at age 89(cnbc.com)
3 points by toothbrush 8y ago|0 comments
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by toothbrush 8y ago
I'd love to endorse ING, but i must say, their security really worries me. I'm just putting this out there: you log in to internet banking with your "customer number" which is printed on your bank card, and then you hav
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by toothbrush 8y ago
I guess i don't have a hard time believing the parent. I can imagine some college-aged youngsters projecting machismo/signalling to their social group and not yet having the maturity to reflect on their actions, indeed especially
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by toothbrush 8y ago
I owned 2 of those and still miss them. I tried buying one off eBay a while ago (wow, that's about 7 years ago now) but the battery just didn't last and very soon the screen got dead pixel lines and the antenna malfunctioned - I
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by toothbrush 8y ago
I don't know if it's worth mentioning here, but i find one level of indirection enough. I have for the last n years paid for various email hosting providers (outsourcing the hassle of set-up, without going into the side discuss
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by toothbrush 8y ago
At one point i was considering going for a research engineer position. That seems a bit rarer than a straight PhD program, but involves pretty much exactly what you describe. Pay of course won't be what you're used to in industr
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by toothbrush 8y ago
So much this. Not to mention the reduced environmental impact. Flying is absolutely catastrophic in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris accord doesn't cover even a fraction of it! (because flying occurs in "internat
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by toothbrush 8y ago
I just stumbled across a reference to a study about recidivism in Massachusetts last century while reading "Against Empathy" by Paul Bloom, perhaps it'll interest you. I'm much too lazy to type out the entire quote, but
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by toothbrush 8y ago
> In [business and engineering], a successful person's career could be described as a series of judgments that were better (more astute) than the rest's. I disagree with the premise you're basing the rest of your argumen
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by toothbrush 8y ago
> Maybe that's why hackers tend to not be very xenophobic Actually, i respectfully question that assertion. In my limited experience, groups of hackers have actually been much more on the homogenous side than random other groups
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by toothbrush 8y ago
Yeah, it hasn't gone well those times i've used antifreeze to get the fire going when smoking my food.
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by toothbrush 9y ago
Wow, what an interesting internet-rabbithole. Thank you. The archivist slash computer nerd in me finds this a very interesting crossover between forgotten internet lore and a charismatic personality.
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by toothbrush 9y ago
I literally cannot understand the mentality of people who'd make fun of you for wearing hearing protection at gigs. I go to a lot of gigs (like multiple times a week) and "simply trusting" that the sound engineer won't
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by toothbrush 9y ago
The word you're looking for is "vigilant". "Vigilante" means "a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the lega
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by toothbrush 9y ago
This looks pretty similar to Crypto20, https://crypto20.com/en/ . However, Crypto20 is explicit about your token giving you proxy ownership of the underlying assets. I am not an expert so i'm not sure if it'
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Let a thousand flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots(gigamonkeys.com)
1 points by toothbrush 9y ago|0 comments
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by toothbrush 9y ago
Wow. I have been using OS X for quite a long time and this is the first i'm hearing of it! Thanks!
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by toothbrush 9y ago
I believe the parent might be referring to the myth about attack of signal falling "between the cracks" of digital sampling. This is debunked in the video linked elsewhere, in the chapter titled "bandlimitation and timing&qu
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The Degree Confluence Project(confluence.org)
2 points by toothbrush 9y ago|1 comments
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by toothbrush 9y ago
> Norway and Singapore each have ~5M people. Singapore has 130 rapes a year, Norway has 1,000. How do you justify leaving the Norway justice system in place to the additional 800 rape victims in Norway, when a better system for reducing
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by toothbrush 9y ago
Very strange! I recently read a similarly-titled book by a certain Sarah Knight! I think my friend meant to recommend Manson's book, and i ended up ordering and reading Knight's months ago, and only figured out now that there mi
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by toothbrush 9y ago
My initial reaction was to run (and the gpg call made me curious): curl hashbang.sh I was encouraged by what i saw.
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by toothbrush 10y ago
You should watch Black Mirror S1E3, entitled "The Entire History of You". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
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by toothbrush 10y ago
Awesome, thanks for the pointers! I feel silly for not RTFM.
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by toothbrush 10y ago
I don't care how long my Emacs takes to boot up (currently probably a whole bunch of wall-clock seconds what with all my config files being tangled from Org mode or whatever), since i only start it once every few days or even weeks (wh
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by toothbrush 10y ago
Just jumping on the Emacs bandwagon here to Ask HN: does anyone have tips and tricks for profiling my real-world Emacs setup? Between perhaps a too-large .git repository, and all my loaded extensions, and perhaps spellchecking or font-lock
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by toothbrush 10y ago
Sure. FWIW i avoid using webmail as much as i can, but that's just because i love my mu4e. Still though, i wonder about what would happen in the (admittedly very unlikely) event that someone compromised my secrets file. (example off
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by toothbrush 10y ago
Yeah so about that 2FA. I have a local email client, which uses IMAP and hence cannot do 2FA. What now? I've always thought this is rather a gaping hole. Of course i use app-specific passwords which presumably won't allow acce
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UK&US ban electronic devices in cabin from several Muslim-majority countries(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by toothbrush 10y ago|0 comments

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