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by wepple 8y ago
https://zerodium.com/program.html This is fairly vague, and “up to $X” butnpossibly provides a touch more concrete-ness than you’ve seen so far. You’re right though; you won’t find anyone who is currently selling 0day explo
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by wepple 8y ago
The full-disclosure mailing list has been around 20 years and has no problem garnering attention. Sending an anonymous email in that direct with no way to track back isn’t particularly difficult.
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by wepple 8y ago
If you dig deep, you may be able to uncover the intention of that sentence. NZ has some of the least affordable property in the world. A tiny nation of 4m with minimal job prospects should never be able to achieve that title.
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by wepple 8y ago
Yeah, I think that would really be a great solution. With NZs 3 year terms, no govt is prepared to invest heavily in infrastructure, which leaves privatization. Which kiwis really really hate. The insane choke point that is the Auckland har
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by wepple 8y ago
I’m not sure the point you’re trying to make here. It’s a town of 1700 people, described by Wikipedia as a “gang town”. If your point is that it’s possible to buy a house in NZ, sure. But quality of life is totally a thing, no? And even the
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by wepple 8y ago
To add some context: NZ regularly rates in the top 10 least affordable cities to buy a house. The last stat I saw was that median house prices were 9.7x median salary. That’s absurd for a relatively small city of 1.4m people. It has further
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by wepple 8y ago
So the local sells to a foreign buyer and downsizes. That’s great for them. But their kids are now priced out of the market, and will never own a home but rent from someone who lives 15h flight away.
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by wepple 8y ago
Sounds like a great idea, but NZ is struggling to build fast enough. NZ has a terrible attitude where everyone must have a backyard, and public transport is horrendous, so moving further out often isn’t much of a solution. The current govt
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by wepple 8y ago
+1 was recommended to me a couple of weeks ago on HN. Most useful book I’ve read this year, easy.
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by wepple 8y ago
Most animals have a cycle that’s a bit off of 24 hours, and I believe it’s quite pronounced in Humans, though I can’t remember exactly how much - 27 hours? Researchers tested it by living in a cave for a month. The day/night cycle is w
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by wepple 8y ago
That’s really good to know, thanks! The lack of direct volume control really annoyed me. I probably should have poked around the config instead of just being annoyed about it.
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by wepple 8y ago
I recall when touchbar first launched, someone on HN pointed out that Esc is a poor way to use Vim anyway and there are far better mappings. I swapped to Ctrl-[ before I even had a new MBP and much prefer it. The “Esc problem” is a drastic
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by wepple 8y ago
yeah I think I agree, we should look at potential negative use cases of new technology to society. I just think that positioning it as Amazon or Google or whoever doing a bad thing is misdirection. OPs article even seems to end up coming to
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by wepple 8y ago
A couple of weeks ago. With the backlash against FB recently, you’d think theyd try reducing the friction of shifting from FB login to email, but apparently not.
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by wepple 8y ago
You’d think so, right? Nope: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Change-from-Facebo...
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by wepple 8y ago
This is a terribly clickbait-y title for HN. Amazon is not tracking people, AWS has a service offered to anyone who wants it which would be useful for large scale surveillance. Facial recognition services are incredibly close to neutral tec
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by wepple 8y ago
Anyone who has this business philosophy deserves my money
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by wepple 8y ago
Spotify lost me as a customer when they forced me to use some ridiculous chat to explain why I was cancelling my account. I was actually cancelling to re-sign-up using a non-Facebook account as a paid subscriber.. Add silly friction and you
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by wepple 8y ago
Add a bunch of regulator hoses, fins, air supply etc to someone not used to having them attached and the gap needs to be huge to not snare a hose and rip a full face mask off. Even a semi experienced diver is far less aware of all their app
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by wepple 8y ago
My dad was an accountant and eventually ended up having hiring responsibilities. Same deal: if you bought on someone who spent 3 years at university getting an A+ on everything, they probably didn’t spend a ton of time out meeting people an
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by wepple 8y ago
There seems to be a fairly long chain of leaps in logic in this argument. Take marijuana or alcohol for example, two of the most popular recreational drugs. You’re absolutely convinced that a Saturday night booze bender or big smoke up will
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by wepple 8y ago
I know that’s just back of the envelope math, but I’d suspect monetizing whatsapp has been far trickier (do they make money at all?) so it wouldn’t be multiplied at anything like Insta. The e2e crypto must really kill opportunities to sell
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by wepple 8y ago
whilst I somewhat agree, the original SO question was specifically about free VPN providers. I pay my ISP a significant amount each month, and I expect in return that they’re at least not going to inject extra JavaScript into all my brows
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by wepple 8y ago
When you say “find a way”, what makes it so hard to just delete Instagram? Whatsapp is difficult, it’s the defector way to communicate for most people I know
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by wepple 8y ago
The other answer if course is that piping all your internet traffic through a single 3rd party has some obvious consequences: surveillance and traffic injection being the obvious ones. If anyone thinks they use TLS extensively; run a Bro pa
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by wepple 8y ago
Any vehicle that is not the highest level of autonomy (ie has no steering wheel, or no need for one) should have systems in place to verify that a human driver is alert, in charge of the vehicle, and able to respond immediately - eye focus
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by wepple 8y ago
You’re going up Everest? Cool, change X to 40 days.
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by wepple 8y ago
I do like the idea of a digest of the article being put into the blockchain: it makes it impossible for sneaky edits or removal/denial of content at a later date. When you hit publish, you better be prepared for that article to exist u
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by wepple 8y ago
I agree it would be really nice to hear this users opinion on Win10, but I’m not surprised it wasn’t included. They mention that they also use an iPad and other setups, which suggests they’re doing rather platform-agnostic dev work. Once yo
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by wepple 8y ago
I’m curious, are there any good Alexa/ghome apps that do recipes well As in, not just reciting but allowing me to ask how much of X is needed or what the next step is? That would be great

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