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yborg
8y ago
This is an issue of governance, not policing. The police are doing what the town has asked of them by valuing these tickets high, which is to punish parking infractions. If this is a problem, the townspeople need to get their government to
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yborg
8y ago
As I read this paper, the attack used a training set on the target hardware with the exact antenna setup; then ran a test set on the exact same configuration to demonstrate key recovery. This seems like it would be much more difficult to ex
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yborg
8y ago
https://github.com/meh/smart-referer
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yborg
8y ago
Just had this discussion with a co-worker that is taking brand-name Humira - and AbbVie does exactly this, they coupon his out of pocket to his deductible limit and then he pays nothing. The rest of us in the risk pool of course then carry
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yborg
8y ago
I get that you have an axe to grind here, and are going to have at it with a will, but let's not be intentionally obtuse. The act of being the President itself is an existence most people can't really experience. It is inherent in
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yborg
8y ago
Most of them were not elected President of the United States.
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yborg
8y ago
So I'm born and raised in the US Midwest, and in my entire life 'toot' was never used as euphemism for 'fart' except in the context of the elementary school rhyme. I can perfectly understand people not liking the so
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yborg
8y ago
People thought precisely the same thing about "tweet" when Twitter first came out.
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yborg
8y ago
Sabermetrics works for things like baseball with enormous amounts of data to work with over long timescales and a very well-defined and limited domain with explicit rules and constraints. This hardly applies to war, especially over millenia
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8y ago
Gwynne Shotwell.
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yborg
8y ago
It took 8 years for the CIA to figure out what happened?? This certainly explains why China and Russia continue to conduct cyber operations basically at the same level of intensity they have been for years - US intelligence, despite its eno
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yborg
8y ago
Which has a maximum speed about one quarter the Bombardier Q400 and one sixth the fuel capacity. It's not a "small prop plane" is the point here.
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yborg
8y ago
The Bombardier Q400 can seat 80 people and weighs 40,000 lbs empty.
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yborg
8y ago
Dr. Raymond Stantz: You know, it just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment. Dr. Egon Spengler: I blame myself. Dr. Peter Venkman: So do I. Dr. Raymond Stantz: Well, no sense in worrying about it
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yborg
8y ago
> Steps to stop car thieves 5. Leave your car in the garage with the door closed
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yborg
8y ago
50° FOV. It's still like looking at the world through a shoebox strapped to your face.
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yborg
8y ago
As far as I know, he isn't trading any of his stock, so any market movement he wouldn't personally benefit from. Unless someone can prove that he made statements at the behest of someone that did trade the stock, I can't see
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yborg
8y ago
This make no sense. The regulatory threshold under Dodd-Frank is $75M in annual revenue. So it should be no harder now than it was 20 years ago for smaller companies to go public. And the SEC is changing this to $100M I think, so we should
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yborg
8y ago
So the loss of public companies also includes the loss of companies who were milking the market via shady accounting. There is a persistent narrative that Dodd-Frank was just some kind of punitive punishment of big capital for being too big
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yborg
8y ago
> The only thing that matters is if that firehose is still available to them. Which it obviously is, so I'm not sure what point you were making viz. Google. The "turning off" of the items you mention is also entirely a use
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Logitech buying Blue Microphones
(blog.logitech.com)
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8y ago
>If IRC was so compelling then why didn't it take off Define 'take off'. It was quite popular in the 90s and early 00s, but not in comparison to say AIM or ICQ for example. But where are those two networks now ... and IRC
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8y ago
>there will probably be an extension that does that And then another draconian compatibility-breaking change to the extensions APIs will permanently disable said extension a year later...
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8y ago
>New York entrepreneur I'm thinking that this should have had ironic quotes around it. As in 'El Chapo Guzman, a "New York entrepreneur" on a grand scale...' or 'Elizabeth Holmes, a "New York entreprene
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8y ago
I don't think this solution works in the current economy - you would also have to refuse to ever exchange email with anyone using a monetized-data email service, i.e. Facebook, Google, etc. Given the wide market control these players h
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8y ago
I can't speak to how informed you were when you gave the consent, but if you are using the service, you provided it. "Law & Order and the Public Interest. We may disclose your information to third parties if we determine that
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8y ago
You seem to have some gripe with iFixit itself - the article just points out that iFixit has reverse-engineered some of these techniques and makes them available to the public unlike the many undoubtedly skilled professional repair compan
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8y ago
Apple is exposed to ME bugs. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208465 See the "EFI" section.
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yborg
8y ago
I would imagine this wood-working technique wasn't unique to the Scandinavians. For one thing, a wedge is much simpler to make than a saw.
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8y ago
Don't know if this is the case or not in Jackson Hole, but in general if a bunch of extremely rich people control most of the property in a municipality, they will elect a government that gives them low property taxes. It's not li
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