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by trendia 10y ago
The only two Republicans who didn't vote for the bill were Rand Paul and Johnny Isakson. Pretty sad. edit: Rand Paul is listed as a cosponsor on the bill.
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by trendia 10y ago
You have HTTPS between advertiser and you. Advertiser then requests the name associated with your IP. That's all they need.
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by trendia 10y ago
So, if the drug has a time-release coating (which many do) it's probably not going to work.
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by trendia 10y ago
Uber designed this tool to make drivers loyal. But knowledge of its existence will have the opposite effect: Now drivers will have incentive to drive for Lyft as well.
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by trendia 10y ago
OS has nothing to do with it -- they have a UEFI rootkit and (likely) access to the Intel Management Engine. So, you can run Windows w/antivirus or even switch to FreeBSD... and it will protect you from nothing.
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by trendia 10y ago
I appreciate your honesty, thanks for replying.
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by trendia 10y ago
I think that's the problem: the company doesn't seem to have a sustainable business model, or at least a model that justifies their current valuation. I'm not sure most people would be able to do any better than Dorsey is doi
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by trendia 10y ago
> On a recent visit, Ciarlo estimated she had saved at least $100 on prescriptions for standard generic steroids and antibiotics that in total cost her $6. I'd say that's practically free.
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by trendia 10y ago
While you were working on it, how did you feel about the ethics of trying to unmask people who are clearly trying to browse privately?
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by trendia 10y ago
> a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. Very good sign, in my opinion.
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by trendia 10y ago
Then you choose between a company tracking you or a city tracking you...
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by trendia 10y ago
My prediction: within a year, Mallory Safety & Supply will file a Firefox bug report requesting that no "login security threat" be shown on their super secure data portal login.
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by trendia 10y ago
What has Kashkari done that makes you think he is a "chump"?
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by trendia 10y ago
Except for Stiglitz, Borjas, Piketty, etc.
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by trendia 10y ago
> relationship between economics and finance in a classical "follow the money" trail of thought. What specifically are you claiming?
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by trendia 10y ago
Rather than ask the question, "What if sociologists had influence?", the author should ask, "What does sociology need to change as a discipline in order to earn influence?" The answer would be rigor. A huge problem with
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by trendia 10y ago
Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, said that a phone call he had was secretly recorded and played back to him by a reporter 2 years later [0] Who in the intelligence community gets to decide what phone calls are leaked? [0] http://theh
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by trendia 10y ago
The video is very well done imo. However, it's only a small part of the overall marketing strategy. What kind of marketing did you do? e.g. what kind of coverage did you seek / get? What kind of market research did you do? e.g. di
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by trendia 10y ago
Assuming you can stomach the risk, if you can get a car loan for 1% and a market return of >1%, then you would be better off taking the loan, investing your money, and paying off the loan later.
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by trendia 10y ago
I can see how auto dealers sell debt (by offering loans), but how do auto manufacturers do so?
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by trendia 10y ago
I'm pointing out that they knowlingly used a word improperly... and for that I am called misleading.
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by trendia 10y ago
Previously [0], HN and experts criticized SpiderOak for using the term improperly in their marketing. (E2E is not the same as zero-knowledge storage). And now they admit that they knew at the time that it was used improperly. So, why did
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by trendia 10y ago
Not sure about the Mars bar, but the Hershey secret is adding butyric acid to the chocolate [0]: > The process is a company and trade secret, but experts speculate that the milk is partially lipolyzed, producing butyric acid, which stabi
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by trendia 10y ago
No amount of EFI rootkit detection will ever remove the possibility that malicious code is running inside the Intel Management Engine (ME), because code inside the ME would run side-by-side with the bootloader and with unlimited permissions
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by trendia 10y ago
There is a difference between politics and policy.
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by trendia 10y ago
There are several elements: 1) what the material exposes 2) how it was obtained 3) why it was released We should condemn (2) and (3) even if we condemn (1). That is, a properly functioning society shouldn't need to rely on leaks for co
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by trendia 10y ago
This is like forcing bank tellers to pay back their salary to the government because the bank management didn't follow the rules.
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by trendia 10y ago
edit: apparently NYT had a different headline and changed it... ignore this post The current title [0] is wrong, but NYTimes is relatively clear: > Among other disclosures that, if confirmed, would rock the technology world, the WikiLeak
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by trendia 10y ago
I randomly picked a video [0] from their course list, jumped to the middle of the video, and compared the YouTube automatic closed captioning (CC) with the spoken word. I'd say CC was about 95% accurate. In addition, the videos have sl
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by trendia 10y ago
Sometimes I think agencies like the TSA have an incentive to be a little inefficient--they can use the ineffectiveness of their process to justify requesting additional funding. "Oh! It looks like a few weapons got through our procedur

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