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by yborg 7y ago
It's Amazon house brands, but for generic takeout food. In my mind, it's the culinary equivalent of frozen dinners for people willing to pay extra to have someone else stick it in a microwave for them and then drive it to their h
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by yborg 7y ago
They are not outmoded for this function, which is the function of a repository of information free to all citizens. They are critical for it, and they are giving up on it, by and large, thanks to the current generation of professional libra
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by yborg 7y ago
Anything works when you are the strongest, the argument is greater good vs. individual gain. The mercantilist model works well when you are the only one executing it into a free market. If everyone is behaving in a protectionist manner, tha
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by yborg 7y ago
Reminds me of how the Zune amused French-Canadians.
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by yborg 7y ago
You speak as if the company's executives were compelled by some force to make their workers lives miserable. They also were not forced to remain in their positions and could have chosen to resign (thus saving the company their compensa
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by yborg 7y ago
To this point, the ACM is headquartered in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, ironically in the same building as the AMA Executive Conference Center. Their 2017 revenue was $70M, of which $57M was from "Program Services". Their total
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by yborg 7y ago
I don't expect to be contacted again after a screening conversation or a simple application, but if I am interviewed in-person by multiple people I consider it common courtesy to provide at least a from letter "No". This is b
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by yborg 7y ago
Learn something new every day! Should have thought of 'open' though. So if I do this "Terminal drop" thing on a plain file (like sudoers) I gain no special powers, Unix perms still apply. So maybe this only does somethin
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by yborg 7y ago
Alas, this approach does not yield fruit for the traditional core Unix files such as in /etc, these are not exposed through the Finder interface. However there are a lot of potentially sensitive files that could be trivially replaced b
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by yborg 7y ago
sudoers here I come!
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by yborg 7y ago
HN: HackerNews Please don't mention anything related to software development, this upsets the hackers.
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by yborg 7y ago
Professors are accustomed to requesting grants from individual entities all the time and while they may often have internal institutional review or coordination, the granting entities don't typically require all requests from say Harva
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by yborg 7y ago
Apologies for offtopic, but do all search engines do the affiliate thing? I.e. if I click on a Google link and buy a thing on Amazon, Google gets paid?
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You'd be forking 2 year old code, he hasn't updated the repo in the last 2 years, knowing that the next OS release would leave commercial users at his mercy. Apple also doesn't just hand out kernel extension signing certifica
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Except in this case the "some guy" is selling the classic car without actually owning it since it actually belonged to a public museum, and the dealership was just set up last week by the former director of the museum who just hap
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by yborg 7y ago
What makes you think that this won't be repeated for other domains? The high level leadership at ISOC/ICANN now have the model for exiting into a lucrative future career as an equity partner. The top officials at ICANN are merely
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Lithium-Ion Batteries Are a Literal Trash Fire, and Getting Worse(ifixit.com)
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Now there is no excuse to not Install Gentoo.
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Unfortunately, you will pay and still get the behavioral ad tracking. There was a time when cable television's premise was "TV with no commercials!"
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Slack is an enterprise product. You aren't the guy who buys it, so what you think is irrelevant. They don't care anymore, user experience won't affect their bottom line unless it somehow becomes a Powerpoint bullet vs. some o
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The question is whether or not other full-disk encryption implementations defer to on=device encryption hardware if present. As the paper notes, with the advent of embedded AES instructions in Intel processors, there is little or no perform
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by yborg 7y ago
Who should be getting a MacArthur grant or equivalent. I mean, it's literally gorhill or nothing, it's terrifying. Someone could walk up to him with $10M dollars and say 'Here. Stop making your thing and you can have this mon
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by yborg 7y ago
This isn't really that hard to fix, and it's basically horse-battery-staple a la Hogwarts dorms. Families need to establish a verification phrase or word and ask "what's the password?" if there is any doubt about id
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They don't need the money, I assume this is a CEO/founder cash-out. They have an established revenue stream, and have established an enterprise presence, they will be an attractive acquisition target. There's so much VC money
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When this story first came out several months ago, an HN commenter in the vape liquid business fingered this as a possible source of the problem. Can't find the comment now, but always impressed by the nuggets of real information that
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We are all most likely explicitly authorizing this activity in the reams of fine print you sign without reading or otherwise accept by agreeing to service by your local hospital group or pharmacy combine.
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I get the red page with Firefox Developer Edition with no extensions, Chrome and Safari are green on same machine. I have all of the anti-fingerprinting stuff turned on in FF though.
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Then there was the strange period where a stuck anode somewhere in the Youtube recommendation engine seemed to be offering up Mariya Takeuchi's "Plastic Love" to everyone...
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"Amazon.com Inc. might need to spend billions of dollars in the future to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods, expired food or dangerous products on its platforms to preserve the customer trust that is critical to the company’s futur
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IITC was explicitly a violation of the ToS and Niantic made efforts to foil it and ban those identified as using it until player outrage made them give up. The nature of the game also was antithetical to the notion of privacy since you coul

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