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by encyclic 25d ago
If you want to know about the ins and outs of more personal cons and scams, the Howdunit series of books are great. Ostensibly meant to help writers get details correct, they are fascinating reads. Dating from the 1990's they predate s
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by encyclic 1y ago
Are there any industries where private equity has come in and resulted in better, less expensive, or faster advances in their industry sector?
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by encyclic 1y ago
Bert Monroy (the 2nd image, of an alleyway) is still quite active as a digital artist: https://www.bertmonroy.com
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by encyclic 1y ago
Same here, it was one that captured the vibe of the Virgin America perfectly and the only one I actually recall watching. It was directed by Jon M Chu, who subsequently directed Crazy Rich Asians, In The Heights, Wicked, and more.
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by encyclic 3y ago
Having toiled in the Google mines for almost as long a tenure as Ben before my time came in 2021, the words 'The conflict between “uncomfortable culture” and “golden handcuffs” was becoming intolerable.' could not ring any truer.
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by encyclic 3y ago
Planned or unplanned obsolescence is good for business. You are proposing regulations counter to that, so should expect counter-pressure, even for IoT makers that want to do the right thing. By volume and impact, what devices have IoT vulne
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by encyclic 3y ago
I backed the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual project on Kickstarter. It's a wonderful book. My copies were slightly damaged in transit and they were replaced. I still have the 3 slightly damaged ones (dings on the cover, mostly)
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by encyclic 5y ago
Wasn't this the intent behind Windows Vista - a tag-based DB-as-filesystem with hierarchical paths just one "lens" through which to view the DB? I use Google Drive this way, largely through search rather than directory-based
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by encyclic 8y ago
Can you indicate more than only yes/no for a measure of how secure the 2FA can be? The choice of some site's 2FA implementations are known to be problematic, such as SMS only (easily hijacked), or supporting TOTP and/or HOTP,
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by encyclic 11y ago
It's also a job far far overcompensated if you are saying job risk is what should determine pay. By your reckoning, soliders and construction workers should be the ones with the highest compensation. See http://www.bloomberg