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by jackhack 8y ago
the ability to blacklist a range of known offenders would help quite a lot. Further, being able to whitelist numbers would help. But it would be great if foreign nations' governments would stop turning a blind eye to these scams. India
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by jackhack 8y ago
related to #1 -- I predict if some division of Alphabet threatens the income of another larger division (esp. Google), the smaller one will be shut down. This is the reason for much of Sony's failure/inability to build a usable mp
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by jackhack 8y ago
And just for completeness, Porsche "only" sold 55,000 cars in 2017. Tesla shipped 30%+ more automobiles in one quarter, yet there is debate about whether Tesla is a viable company and no-one is predicting the imminent demise of th
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by jackhack 8y ago
Thank you very much for the explanation,
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by jackhack 8y ago
It's troubling to watch one of the most amazing places on earth transform itself into a totalitarian purgatory. Access to physical phone/laptop is only the first step -- mark my words. Big Brother's bureaucrats are never sati
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by jackhack 8y ago
Or the dissenting voices will be filtered/silenced. "Citizen! Your opinion does not agree with groupthink. You will be driven to a reeducation center."
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by jackhack 8y ago
Last updated 2006. Obviously I can't speak for the original researcher but I can contribute this: in the past 12 years, in England, variations of Mohamed have become the most common boys' name, putting a rather distinct and punctu
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by jackhack 8y ago
From the article, about 4% of the energy from the bow is ejected as sound but even that seemingly low figure may be near the top of what is possible, mechanically speaking. Even with amplification, there is always a desire for more potentia
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by jackhack 8y ago
A more recent article (2006) by the same author discuss his progress in developing an "ultralight" violin: https://josephcurtinstudios.com/subject-to-change-innovation... Curiously this new design remains under de
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by jackhack 8y ago
How to minimize impact? Not possible. Once the device is compromised, there is no going back, it is time to stop using the phone for any "questionable" behavior you do not wish Big Brother to record. The only real solution is to l
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by jackhack 8y ago
I think they have plenty of choice. They can say "no", tell these regressive regimes to go to hell, and simply not manufacture/sell their product there, where-ever "there" may be.
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by jackhack 8y ago
You are correct. in 2014 he woke up in a hotel in equador with an idea for saving a few chips (and add two grey-levels) in the Apple ][ design. https://www.cultofmac.com/302087/38-years-later-woz-still-th... So yes, he
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by jackhack 8y ago
"approximating" is the right term. I hate to wordsmith things like this to death, but in speaking about maths, I think it's important to use precise language. To me, "computing" implies an exact calculation. As does
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by jackhack 8y ago
That's a curious analogy. I remember reading the intro to a Berlitz language course written by Charles Berlitz himself (a polyglot master of a dozen or more languages, if I remember correctly). He made the statement that speaking two o
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by jackhack 8y ago
She should change her first name to 'or 1=1;drop table customers;commit;--', sit back, and watch the fireworks. by the way, best use case of this I've ever seen? It was pasted on a sticker on a car's bumper, right below
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by jackhack 8y ago
Probably not as bad as if your last name is Null. https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ In the early 80s I worked with a guy who wanted an unlisted phone number (back in the days of paper telephone directories)
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by jackhack 8y ago
I don't understand why this is bubbling up to the top of hacker news. I presume it is because of high demand and hopes for a native graphing tool, but is there some other reason I am missing? I ask because the project looks to be very
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by jackhack 8y ago
Do you realize you dodged a bullet at that moment? That was a classic case of "smartest-guy-in-the-room" syndrome: from your description, he wasn't there to interview you, he was there to show off and stroke his own ego. Be g
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by jackhack 8y ago
resume-driven development?
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by jackhack 8y ago
For me, it is the measure of a talented and mature musician is: one who knows how to leave space in a song, giving the melody room to breathe and the listener time to reflect and anticipate. Blues and Jazz artists inherently understand this
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by jackhack 8y ago
You're not wrong. Adults have an ability to discern crap from talent. Children don't know the difference, and will buy what's pushed at them. This is very different from the 1940s, 1950s, where a record (and phonograph, speak
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>...but no lock I know of works that way). And if the law is followed, you never will know of one. That is the problem.
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by jackhack 8y ago
>>It’s not illegal to disclose anything, it’s illegal to hack So it's not illegal to disclose, just illegal to discover? No offense intended, but this sort of wordsmithing doesn't reassure me at all.
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by jackhack 8y ago
That's a great contribution. Thank you! And all this time I thought they were mere stylistic choices. As an undergraduate, I was relegated to the teletypes or a modem on one of the 10 dialup lines -- upperclassmen and grad students got
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by jackhack 8y ago
In fact, Jack gave a rather lengthy interview on the Sean Hannity radio show just a day or two ago. He came across as fairly even-handed and it was clear the difficulty of the situation and striking a balance between an open platform and re
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by jackhack 8y ago
>they believe their product does good in the world Perhaps, but good, for whom? It is useful to ask "What class of people benefits? Who is harmed?" and is the net change worse that if we did not meddle? Does it give power to so
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by jackhack 8y ago
An approach from one of my early employment experiences (1980s): 1. Write a CAD system. User-facing code in BASIC. Rendering engine written in assembly. 2. Run the interpreted BASIC code through an optimizer, which condensed all variable an
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by jackhack 8y ago
There were a lot of reasons for concise, pithy code in the 1970s. Poor keyboards was not one of them. (in fact, some of the best keyboards I've ever used were of the old mechanical-switch variety found on IBMs, teletypes, and various C
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by jackhack 8y ago
Tacit acceptance of censorship -- is this the logical destination of "don't be evil?" As if the Chinese people don't deserve truth and dignity; basic human rights. Along this spectrum of logic we would also argue that th
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by jackhack 8y ago
Everyone's overthinking this: I think the answer is as simple as "9/11 and its global aftermath." What do we have? Wars, astounding national Debt, and the political divisiveness and uncertainty being fueled by the severa

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