BinaryIdiot

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by BinaryIdiot 3y ago
She had multiple charges but was only found guilty of defrauding investors. She was actually acquitted for defrauding patients. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/03/elizabeth-holmes-tria...
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by BinaryIdiot 3y ago
I feel like I'm missing something here. It's really just a single sentence? Why would so many sign their name to this? It's like signing your name to "Keep children safe" but providing zero remarks, feedback, sugges
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by BinaryIdiot 4y ago
> He started out after college with negative net worth He did not. Maybe "on paper" in a very specific way you could say that, but that ignores everything else like how he had very, very rich parents and connections. His very f
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by BinaryIdiot 4y ago
The last thing Elon engineered was a website about 30 some years ago and when he hired developers, they rewrote everything he did. He's always been pretty bad a managing a business, too. This is why he doesn't actually run any of
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by BinaryIdiot 6y ago
Scalpers are always a short term thing. None of them ever order supply that will last years, usually 3-6 months at most. If you end up being caught holding the bag with a normal amount of demand, you then break even at best or likely lose a
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by BinaryIdiot 6y ago
Considering encrypted messages have to both be encrypted and decrypted, I don't think his statement is necessarily against encrypted. I assumed he meant preventing the sending of known materials like that and / or the opening of i
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by BinaryIdiot 6y ago
Cool, thanks for the info! I'm going to check out that list.
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by BinaryIdiot 6y ago
This really reminds me, it's been two decades now since I've taken _any_ Algebra. I'd really love to go re-learn it from the basics on up. I mean, I still remember a lot of it here and there but some sort of refresher course
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
I've only heard a few interviews where various doctors or scientists have said this is the case but I'm no expert.
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
> Why develop a vaccine for a disease that is now non-existent? I think the idea here is since both SARS and Covid-19 are part of the coronavirus type, a vaccine for SARS would make modification and rapid deployment of a Covid-19 vaccine
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
It's pretty amazing that a company in the financial sector that holds a lot of people's money doesn't have the ability to, say, cut to a backup system. Considering all of their past fumbles (like thinking FDIC covered brokera
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
Do we know how much emissions can be attributed to Amazon / AWS? I'm curious if this $10 billion fund could offset that or if it's too small to cover their own use. Though, to be fair to Amazon, this is at least a good goal:
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
As far as I can tell this page first appeared in 2008. Many of these points are outdated (some woefully so). This shouldn't be on the frontpage of HN. If anything, Clang should take this down or revise it.
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
Good points. My only hesitation on the charger definition is most laws include whatever definition the legislature is operating under and sometimes it's different than what you'd expect. I'd like to see some clarification :)
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
Hmm. You make a good point. In my attempt at reading both of these there seems to be a clear distinction being made when it refers to cables and when it refers to chargers. It also never really mentions ports. Therefore, to me, it cares les
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
The joint motion points to adopting Directive 2014/53/EU which requires common _chargers_ but says nothing about the port that the phone uses. As far as I can tell this is only for the back half of the charger / brick that co
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
I worked on a large DoD contract where there was a core of about 12-20 people doing the majority of the work and about 140 additional people just... having a job. The legal requirements to collecting money on defense contracts pretty much a
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
> It makes me realize that Google's no humans policy -- is it a policy? -- is actually a strength here. My domains purchased through Google are safe from social engineering because, well, there are no humans to contact to ask them t
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
Oh for sure! When I worked as a contractor I worked with many departments but even the groups I worked with didn't represent the entire department they were in. But it was a very common theme with every single one that I worked with. I
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
I didn't say it was someone random but it's from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It's a non-profit, which is good, but they do other things so getting press for the Doomsday clock is highly beneficial for them. I'm no
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
Their reasoning seems sound to me but I'm amused that someone built a clock that shows what their current guess is for when "doomsday" will happen and they get free press every single time they change it. I feel like I'm
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
> The motto seems to be: "Open Source is BAD! How are we going the get support?! Let's just buy a product or solution from a vendor" Not really accurate anymore. Maybe it was true a decade ago but when I worked in the DoD
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
> I don't think a Dow component has ever been halted before, so this is highly unusual. What do you mean? Stocks get halted all the time especially before big news.
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
In my experience the only time this matters is when you're doing contracting work and a government entity or company requires X certificate(s) to win a contract. It's amazing how many government contracts require certain, easy to
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
To be fair even if he is exaggerating this should be refund-able. So trying to figure out if he is right or wrong about easy it is doesn't really matter.
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
> I also think that a salaried engineer who thinks that a piece of code he or she (but almost always he) wrote is "his" or "hers" is totally wrong. It's the company's code. While this is _technically correct
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
Unfortunately most of Roblox games are just attempts to siphon your money by buying Robux. Their target market, kids around 8, beg their parents for Robux so they can buy some stuff in one person's game. It's incredible how much m
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
> they are NOW finally starting to pursue the signage / label markets Your statement implies this is a recent development but many large retailers, like Best Buy and Kohls, have had these for well over 5 years, maybe even 10 I just
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
Happening hours after Iran's strike against bases in Iraq raises the obvious question: is this in any way related to the strikes or a coincidence? I'm guessing it'll be at least a few months before we hear about the why but I
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by BinaryIdiot 7y ago
> you want to share as much code as possible between your web and mobile apps, and also backend I've worked on 3 start-ups and 3 major, large companies. So far every single one of them tried to do the whole share code everywhere thi

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