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by trendia 10y ago
When the telecoms wanted Congress to lift that pesky ISP consumer information protection, they argued that the regulations allowed Google to get ahead while they were left in the dust. Will educational companies lobby for the same kind of f
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by trendia 10y ago
I am no expert on the economics of airlines, but my gut tells me that it would have been cheaper for the 4 United workers to miss their next shifts (and pay overtime to 4 other workers) than to rip a doctor out of his seat against his will
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by trendia 10y ago
What you're describing is Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder [0] or Non-24 Hour Sleep cycles [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N
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by trendia 10y ago
> There’s typically fee’s associated with opening them. This is a typo. It should read: "There are typically fees associated with opening them."
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by trendia 10y ago
Is the iPhone actually more secure than a Samsung running Android? And I don't think LineageOS is going to fix the problem since it (probably) uses the same Broadcom driver in the Linux kernel.
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by trendia 10y ago
Researchers recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes (2005) [0] [0] http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/14_key.s...
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by trendia 10y ago
A careful reading of this article will show that the authore made absolutely zero objective, measurable predictions. e.g. the author doesn't say that the banking system will fail, or the stock market will crash, or that average incom
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by trendia 10y ago
If you have Firefox, click on the "open book" (Reader mode) icon up near the address bar. It will extract the text and present it without the NYT layout / Javascript. These days I read practically all of my articles using Rea
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by trendia 10y ago
There is a scam in India that works like this: A group will offer "guaranteed admission" to top universities if you pay them money and follow their program. If you fail to be admitted, they will give you your money back without he
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by trendia 10y ago
They have two versions: an Excel doc and a cloud service. I have no idea what the cloud service is liek because the Excel doc is free.
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by trendia 10y ago
This is why I don't trust cloud services. I track my budget using PearBudget [0], an Excel (or LibreOffice) spreadsheet. [0] https://pearbudget.com/
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by trendia 10y ago
non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17...
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by trendia 10y ago
Maybe they knew we'd think it odd for Russians to speak with a Russian accent so they did it anyway to trick us. "Are you the sort of man who would put the poison in his own goblet? Now a clever man would put the poison into my g
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by trendia 10y ago
The problem with cabs is that the drivers aren't sure if they will get another ride, so they are less likely to service more remote areas.
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by trendia 10y ago
That is, until we get the new cars to run Coreboot.
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by trendia 10y ago
Ah, so you're the one responsible for all the intrusive rules on what I can do with my house.
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by trendia 10y ago
I suspect the author hasn't read The Absolute Minimum ... about Unicode [0] (or why there's no such thing as "plain text") [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim..
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by trendia 10y ago
Sad you got downvoted. That's pretty much what the author did -- list a bunch of serialization protocols, say that the ones developed in the 80's were good enough, and then recommend we all use MessagePack.
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by trendia 10y ago
The editor. (Unfortunately, that makes the editor's job that much harder.)
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by trendia 10y ago
What amazes me is the focus on Russian hackers when the much bigger threat is Chinese ones. They have a larger budget, a bigger incentive to steal American IP, and sense a huge threat from Trump that would justify spying to get a leg up i
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by trendia 10y ago
TimeCube 2.0
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by trendia 10y ago
You'd have to guarantee that every person who votes puts their receipt in a box. An even easier way is that you fill out a paper ballot and place it into a machine. The machine counts scans the ballot and counts it, but the ballot is s
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by trendia 10y ago
However, that would imply Google had some sort of coordination between teams...
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by trendia 10y ago
Take a look at soap operas or telenovelas. To some, it looks cheesy and the acting is over the top. But that's not why people watch them -- they watch them because the shows are a microcosm of real life.
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by trendia 10y ago
Does anyone know how Bloomberg magazine is funded? It seems to produce very high-quality articles that are provided for free (unlike WSJ which has a very aggressive paywall).
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by trendia 10y ago
Reminder that you can use a VPN with many cell phones. (I know it can be done with Android, not sure about iPhone)
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by trendia 10y ago
> That price tag could potentially allow Murdoch to write off his investment in Theranos as a loss, a move that could let the media mogul save millions on taxes owed on other investments, the report speculated. That was my guess reading
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by trendia 10y ago
And a lot of tweaking of configuration parameters until it's "automatic".
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by trendia 10y ago
You can achieve fractional scaling by first setting Gnome hidpi to an integer value and then adjusting the screen with xrandr [0]. It's not great, but it works. Source: I have a 4K display and no problems [0] https://wiki.ar
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by trendia 10y ago
Yep. I'm betting that they didn't speak out on it, either.

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