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by function_seven 3y ago
Many years ago I upped my liability coverage from $15k/$30k to $100k/$300k, and I was surprised how little it increased my premium. It was a few bucks a month. A no-brainer. I’m starting to wonder if it’s time to go higher.
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by function_seven 3y ago
Well, this is a GUI, so it stands to reason that they're experts in Visual Basic.
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by function_seven 3y ago
In my analogy, the motorist is the ISP customer, the thief is the hacker, and the DMV is the ISP. If I were to draw the corresponding links in your analogy, the motorist is still the customer, the auto maker is the router manufacturer. What
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by function_seven 3y ago
No, but those devices are their responsibility. Car analogies are always fun, so here's one: The catalytic converter on my car is sawzalled off in the middle of the night. I drive around with the missing cat for a couple months. Then I
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by function_seven 3y ago
Even worse, it’s AI-generated crypto scam bullshit. I can’t imagine what Matthias is going through right now. Hopefully this is reversed cleanly without losing history on the channel.
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by function_seven 3y ago
Lines of succession are a separate thing from winners of elections. If Biden were to die before election day, that doesn't mean Harris would be on the ticket as the presidential nominee. I'd wager against that for sure. So who wou
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by function_seven 3y ago
I’m might quibble a bit and choose Windows 2000, or even XP despite the Fischer Price skin, but generally I agree. Clickable things should have some minimal skeuomorphic detail and scrollbars need to be a minimum of some thickness.
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by function_seven 3y ago
Taking a thin slice of other people’s money is more profitable than playing with only your own money if you (a) have lots of clients or a few really rich ones and (b) if you participate in the upside but not the downside.
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by function_seven 3y ago
I think with proteins the ways it can be "not knotted" are basically infinite. Topologically-speaking, yeah, it's just a deformed ring. But the deformations (folds) are the huge thing that makes a protein do its job. So there
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by function_seven 3y ago
I believe the real reason she was against it was a widespread belief that HPV vaccination—considered a sexual health thing—was tantamount to encouraging promiscuity among recipients. Her stated reasons were bullshit smokescreens.
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by function_seven 3y ago
My feature request for iOS: Allow me to disable notifications from an app unless I have opened it within the last X hours. I’d set it to a couple hours. My food apps could then tell me the order is ready, but can’t spam me with “Special Off
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by function_seven 3y ago
Macromedia Fireworks? I think that’s what you’re remembering. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Fireworks
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by function_seven 3y ago
No it's not. It's a statement, yes. Not a political one necessarily. I stopped buying El Monterrey frozen burritos last year. They removed some of the beef and replaced it with filler rice. I did not appreciate that cost-cutting,
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by function_seven 3y ago
For videos, yeah. When I'm in a room with friends, and one of them is already connected to their TV, it's much quicker to airdrop a large video file (say, 500MB) than it is to send it up to the Internet and have them download it.
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by function_seven 3y ago
How would this prevent what happened to Timothy Barker?
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by function_seven 3y ago
Wow. I found it on like the 3rd page, RTFA'd, and liked it so I upvoted it. Now I'm finding out my single upvote is mighty powerful :) I've also noticed Paul's frequency, but the articles usually seem interesting, so I t
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by function_seven 3y ago
Yup. At a certain threshold the pixels stop being squares and become pure sampling points.
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by function_seven 3y ago
And the door either has a goat or a car. But before the event takes place (opening the door), it is perfectly reasonable to do risk analysis with odds and fractional goats. Chances of dying because you flew on a MAX are still insanely low.
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by function_seven 3y ago
My (I think related) pet peeve: "There is no safe level of..." I hate that phrase. It implies to many people that any level whatsoever of X is a danger to you. Some examples: "There is no safe level of alcohol consumption&q
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by function_seven 3y ago
I always thought neural networks were an example of the analogy working the other direction. Instead of modeling our brain on the technology of the time, we chose to model the next technology on how we think our brains work?
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by function_seven 3y ago
Man gets shot in the leg. Femoral artery hit. Cause of death: "hypotensive event"
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by function_seven 3y ago
Your analogy doesn't fit here. There is no scenario where accessing the accounts of 14,000 banking clients would then blow up to several million clients' accounts. Any bank that even offered this "feature" would, yes, be
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by function_seven 3y ago
I started riding my bike to school in the 4th grade. Would have done so earlier, but the bike racks at school were off-limits until that grade.
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by function_seven 3y ago
I just looked up photos of people pipetting by mouth. They use tubes.
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by function_seven 3y ago
It is when those users' passwords unlock not just their own data, but that of millions of other users as well. Alice could have set up 2FA and adhered to all the best practices, but she still got her data stolen because Bob used "
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by function_seven 3y ago
A perfectly cylindrical coin would have three sides: 2 flat planes and a curved ribbon. No reason a “side” has to be flat. Just ain’t got no internal edges!
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by function_seven 3y ago
Yeah, I immediately thought of this story as a kind of reverse version of that. Instead of buggy code causing innocent people to become criminals, here a “computer glitch” was blamed to explain away a signs of criminal behavior.
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by function_seven 3y ago
That's what that is! I noticed this on Nevada plates several years ago and assumed it had something to do with watermarking or other anti-counterfeit tactic, but it didn't seem all that hard to reproduce. I never checked it out fr
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by function_seven 3y ago
I looked at the image before reading the rest of your comment. My first thought was that the tire tracks crossing each other was supposed to indicate a full rotation of the car. (It’s really slippery, you might spin out!) After reading your
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by function_seven 3y ago
Update: I just now changed back to orange.

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