15thandwhatever

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by 15thandwhatever 9y ago
Large companies do this. Small companies/small groups of developers have no idea how to implement and manage this, but think that it should be easy. I've recently been approached by a group of developers to enable SSL on their int
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by 15thandwhatever 9y ago
For what it's worth, just because one party has a president in office, doesn't mean the other parties, businesses, and special interests stop trying to push their agendas. I think you've forgotten that.
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by 15thandwhatever 9y ago
Ugh, I didn't stop to consider the special education component (and its cost). That's my bad. This reminds me of a similar theory in regards to affluent towns with low taxes that have minimal social programs, that "export&quo
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by 15thandwhatever 9y ago
It tends to be a negative correlation. In the Northeast US, you'll generally see the best performing districts have a lower amount spent per child than the underperforming districts. The underperforming districts will have higher prope
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by 15thandwhatever 9y ago
Arecibo! I remember them from my time around Park Slope. My personal go-to was Evelyn Car Service from Prospect Heights. That said, even Manhattan has had phones for black cars. I've routinely called Dial 7, Carmel, and Skyline on diff
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
The other thing that's discounted here is how people treat their products they've purchased. I'm not saying that's the sole cause, but it surely doesn't help when filters aren't cleaned, things aren't repl
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
Depends on the part of the US. The Northeast Corridor[1], where the DC-NYC route that was previously mentioned is part of, is owned primarily by Amtrak -- so they get priority on the rails and can run as often (and as fast) as they please.
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
I don't get why we hold TSA to a higher standard than what they are: security guards. Security guards don't go trumpeting how many bank robberies they've thwarted, because they simply don't know. However, they will tell
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
Correct. Regulatory arbitrage is about finding and taking advantage of loopholes, and shifting business activities to other business units (or even locations) where while those actions are technically legal, they're very, very borderli
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
To nitpick on something... You say: > I agree it should be optional to just live in an uninsured and unsellable shed if you want. The buyer or insurance company can make the inspection, should they want to. But then go on to say: > Sh
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
I've seen where through general abuse and repeated, early dismissal of bug reports, people are extremely reluctant to call anything an emergency ... even actual emergencies.
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
Isn't this (form-over-function) a similar but not exactly identical phase that Microsoft went through, that resulted in the now publicized "Raymond Chen camp vs. MSDN camp" mantra? https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com&
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
The FedEx we know, isn't actually FedEx. Nor is FedEx Home. FedEx is really the airline (all the time) or long-haul, inter-city transport (most of the time). The guys who come to your doors to do a delivery are generally not FedEx empl
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
We treat it as special because it's not a tangible asset. If you run into extreme hardship, I can't repossess and sell your 4 years of education/partying for a market rate of its value.
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
I agree, but with a little twist: the problem is not that the latter party doesn't know how and the former party has the answers, maybe it's that the former party doesn't know how either. In this particular instance, the actu
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Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents(dkriesel.com)
2 points by 15thandwhatever 10y ago|2 comments
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
Edit: I deleted my original comment because I totally confused the brands (Xerox, not Brother). Brother doesn't do rebranded Samsung printers. Link to Xerox issue: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/080
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
I'm less concerned about denial of service via cutting cables, and more concerned about the tapping of cables for wholesale data snarfing.
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
It's using your laptop fan to simulate the sounds of the hurricane.
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
I disagree on a wholesale "ban". There are some excellent Bloomberg pieces that dive into details correctly (particularly items by Matt Levine and Megan McArdle over at Bloomberg view). But these shiny, infographic-like Bloomberg
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
US insurance carriers generally ask you to certify that you did not have insurance through another carrier/policy simultaneously (upon submission of a claim), as policies tend to have 100% coverage kick in on things like annual and l
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
And Accenture's case study of the same project: https://www.accenture.com/t20150719T214424__w__/gb-en/_acnme...
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
They tried to push the PR angle in 2013, and no one took notice. https://gcn.com/articles/2013/10/04/gcn-award-nyc-databridge...
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
I also remember a string of commercials from IBM about how they help out police with predictive algorithms, historical analysis, etc. Here's one I was able to dig up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n2UjBO22EI Why is
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
One of the mentioned uses was tax fraud, however, IBM has been doing this statewide, for years now. https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34304.wss
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
It's easy to aim at the low hanging fruit of specifying explicit version numbers when installing packages via Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Salt. This should be common sense because if you build servers/containers at different points i
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
Some programmers don't understand latency, so there's no hope for anyone who's not familiar with software development to wrap their head around the concept of "yes, things happen in milliseconds". Which makes it all
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by 15thandwhatever 10y ago
This is the complete opposite of what is happening. What you're describing is straight up hacking, and if there was as clear of a breach of the law like that, we wouldn't be having civil discussions about whether HFT is good or no
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How I Sold My Company to Twitter, Went to Facebook, and Screwed My Co-Founders(backchannel.com)
1 points by 15thandwhatever 10y ago|0 comments
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Hackers Hijack a Big Rig Truck’s Accelerator and Brakes(wired.com)
3 points by 15thandwhatever 10y ago|1 comments

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