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by btreesOfSpring 9y ago
the hedging might have something to do with the W1 chip[0] improvements in the AirPods that provided for fast and consistent bluetooth pairing that Apple cared about more so than relying upon 3rd party bluetooth experience in a headphone co
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by btreesOfSpring 9y ago
I remember dealing with the emergency IT issues that popped up with our NYC offices after hurricane Sandy wrought havoc upon much of lower Manhattan's power grid. We were lights out for at least three days. Had to take lots of taxis to
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by btreesOfSpring 9y ago
Serena Williams might have an opinion on that.
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by btreesOfSpring 9y ago
> people would be interested in solutions instead of blaming, finger pointing and political games. Would anyone be interested in bureaucratic machinations over solutions? Varoufakis' ex post facto statement sounds bitter and judgeme
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by btreesOfSpring 9y ago
Also of interest is Varoufakis on EconTalk[0] interview in 2013, almost two years before the Greek electoral victory of Syriza and Varoufakis taking the political position of finance minister. You might hear from this interview how Varoufak
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by btreesOfSpring 9y ago
They aren't directly linked. I just like the idea of cataloging all of the time bounded limits in CS. Reading the wiki entry and having forgotten the exact date for when Unix time comes to end, although knowing it is close, i figured
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by btreesOfSpring 9y ago
it looks like Koomey's law will outlive the year 2038 problem[0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
"People who are brutally honest generally enjoy the brutality more than the honesty." --Richard Needham
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
one of the major issues of malware/spam/botnets is a direct result of the hardware ISPs provide to their customers. They should at minimum be taking on that responsibility of security upgrading their rootable hardware. If abuse@ c
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
i think the article attempts to address this question by this hypothetical: > Can you imagine what would have happened if Uber decided, because men gobble more food than women, that only women should get free catering in the company’s ca
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
Google in their "Disclosure timeline for vulnerabilities under active attack,"[0] states 60 days for disclosure for discovered security vulnerabilities and seven days for critical, currently known in-the-wild security bugs under a
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
You're comment reminds me of that Anomaly comic about the manger and the pie chart[0]. [0] http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/277232_700b.jpg
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
> someone mentioned that if you think of our digestive system as a tube connecting two holes in the body then everything inside of our stomach is external. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure this was said somewhere in the Chr
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
The contrary perspective is appreciated. My outside take was the MS acquired Skype for the reasons you mention and in addition they also thought they had a VoiP solution that would be the killer app for Windows Phone. Then that ran into the
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
When the product began to display connection status at launch, it was a welcome update but it made me wonder why the recent decision to add this to the UI. If things are moving along smoothly, there doesn't tend to be a need to add gau
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
> I truly wonder what everybody at this company is doing all day. when a business lacks proper product focus there are an infinite amount of issues to work on each day. it is in this kind of environment that everything seems important an
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
this is, in all likelihood, diplomatic speak saying to China, "stop the blatant government sponsored cyber spying and corporate espionage and we can talk about more about space cooperation."
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
It's Got What Plants Crave!
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
> Fourth, beware bad deals. > I am thinking of one high-profile Internet startup in San Francisco right now which specific startup is being referred to in this section of the article?
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
The Wonka Redundancy Department of Redundancy approves this approval.
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
this is a very nice and better than expected answer to hear.
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
Here is the video[0] of their St. Louis country road test. You can evaluate the relative dangers to others accordingly. [0] https://youtu.be/ONDSAMfNGP0
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
the hipster proclamation paradox.
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
not the same but congruent but there was the baggage theft ring[0] at JFK that focused on easily resalable electronics (and other goods). [0] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/baggage-theft-...
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
some might say, "huge tracks of land."
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
soggy peas have their place as well.
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
that seems like a very general rule for something that might have greater subtlety than, "lower pay for an non-citizen employee." curious about your rational here.
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
This ruling makes end-to-end encryption illegal where, a service provider at no time holds the keys to decrypt messages between communicating parties. This is a protocol decision and since the Snowden revelations, a point of concern for civ
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
let's just add to the servicewüste[0] of dealing with communication companies in Germany. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servicew%C3%BCste
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by btreesOfSpring 10y ago
The laundering could be for a whole sets of reason. Two offhand examples; having money available for barred transactions due to sanctions[0] or having untraceable money available for intelligence or other related illicit activities. Some pe

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