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by trendia 9y ago
The most Google thing to do would now be to deprecate Android pay, no longer support merchants who don't upgrade their point of sale systems, and provide no contact line for support.
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by trendia 9y ago
I use uMatrix. Sometimes I get an error like "Your adblocker has caused this site to crash. Disable your adblocker". When this happens, I just disable all javascript on the page, and the page loads fine -- no error, no alert, ju
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by trendia 9y ago
Come on, Mailgun. Let's Encrypt is free and takes less than 5 minutes to set up (using certbot).
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by trendia 9y ago
> Even Chrome won't have mitigations to this that prevent iframes from other origins doing this attack for a week or 2 You can enable (experimental) Chrome process separation here: chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-proc
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by trendia 9y ago
Does this vulnerability affect Linux only, or any operating system?
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by trendia 9y ago
There were investigating flashing the ME for their compute cloud processors [0] to avoid the possibility of an ME vulnerability being exploited, which would greatly harm their reputation. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by trendia 9y ago
Part of the reason eyeglasses are so expensive is "vision insurance", which is not insurance at all. By definition, insurance is the spread of risk of a high-cost, low-probability event over a large population so that no individua
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by trendia 9y ago
IIRC, Google has been flashing the code portion of the ME (rendering it useless)
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by trendia 9y ago
Does GitHub have to pay a fee to use Git in their name?
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by trendia 9y ago
How do you distinguish between deconstruction that is accurate vs one that is "useful" but inaccurate? It seems rather easy to use deconstruction to see things that aren't really there.
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by trendia 9y ago
Anyone know why this was flagged?
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by trendia 9y ago
Hopefully this will spur ports for more phones. Currently the only two major devices are the Fairphone 2, which is struggling to meet demand, and Nexus 5, which came out in 2013.
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by trendia 9y ago
They don't even need to follow a normal distribution; the central limit theorem will apply to most naturally-occurring distributions.
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by trendia 9y ago
Lest we forget: A third party company (funded by venture capital) created something called "Pocket", which allowed you to save any article you were reading to their service. Pocket had an extension that you could choose to downloa
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by trendia 9y ago
Your article about philosophy enrollment is from 2008. The trend has reversed, though both the increase and decrease in humanities majors were relatively minor (12.5% vs 15%) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017&#x2
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by trendia 9y ago
The Justice Dept has a very strict definition of monopoly [0] -- it requires both 1) the ability to raise prices profitably above that in a competitive market, and 2) anticompetitive conduct. That means that Google receiving 90% of all sear
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by trendia 9y ago
Even when I enable "Most Recent", it doesn't show every post from all of my friends. There are posts that show up on "Top Stories" that don't show up on "Most Recent." How does that make sense?
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by trendia 9y ago
From the paper, it looks like the area involved is the medial pre-frontal cortex (mPFC). Give mPFC's role in memory, my initial suspicion is that the brain rhythms are a symptom, and not a cause, of memory loss. That means that fixing
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by trendia 9y ago
In the publishing business, titles are usually chosen by the editor, not the author. Although the editor has a tough job, I don't think anyone would say that they're doing more work than the person who wrote the piece.
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by trendia 9y ago
Not to diminish this feat, but I wonder how the Phoronix benchmarks compare between an ARM cluster and a single x86 chip. Consider the OpenSSL benchmark. A Sopine A64 compute module costs $29 and performs 15.05 OpenSSL signs / second [
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by trendia 9y ago
It is related to Mr Robot
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by trendia 9y ago
Ubuntu once sent everything typed in the search bar to Amazon, so...
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by trendia 9y ago
And Tesla. Oh wait, too soon?
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by trendia 9y ago
Not OP, but: "But when we marry and start a family, we are pushed, by custom, policy, and expectation, to move into our own houses. And when we have kids, we find ourselves tied to those houses."
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by trendia 9y ago
I suspect that readers of fashion magazines are OK with that for the same reason that people used to read the Sears catalog: you know they're selling you something, but it's stuff you want to buy.
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by trendia 9y ago
Cuba has had terrible shortages and starvation, including one especially bad situation in the 90's. > I would leave my house at 8:30 in the morning with a pathetic excuse for a breakfast in my stomach: a bread roll and a glass of su
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by trendia 9y ago
There is a hard limit of ketogenesis: about 185g of ketone bodies per day [0]. (That's about 2 lbs every 3 days). [0] https://www.diapedia.org/metabolism-insulin-and-other-hormon...
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by trendia 9y ago
"Initially browsers use the temporary IPV6 address. After a while they start consistently using the permanent one." This is the most troubling aspect to me. The process of enabling the random ipv6 address would be: 1.Click the &qu
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by trendia 9y ago
Can you provide a source for this claim?
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by trendia 9y ago
OnePlus has spyware. https://betanews.com/2017/10/11/oneplus-telemetry/

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