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by my_first_acct 5y ago
Also used at the so-called Mother of All Demos [1] in 1968. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
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by my_first_acct 6y ago
Yes to all that. I'll add: loved ones often have the idea that they will take care of the afflicted one until the very end. What they don't realize is that caring for an Alzheimer's sufferer, in the later stages, can take ye
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by my_first_acct 6y ago
The email service luxsci.com scrubs a lot of information from your headers, if you wish [1]. Another well-known email provider allows you to scrub the IP address, but it isn't clear whether they mean to publicize it. So Google the nam
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by my_first_acct 6y ago
Note that Twilio numbers (in the US, anyway) cannot receive SMS messages from short codes [1]. This means that you may not be able to receive SMS 2FA messages from your bank. [1] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us&#x2
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She shut down the Bay Area to slow the deadly coronavirus(eastbaytimes.com)
2 points by my_first_acct 6y ago|1 comments
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute provides free, worldwide weather forecast information via an API [1]. Perhaps some public-minded German-speaking developer could create a free no-ad app using this data, to provide WetterOnline with so
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
A facetious/serious question: If "Sold by Amazon" had too high a rate of reported counterfeits, could it be kicked off the Amazon platform? But seriously, my point is that "Sold by Amazon" should have a counterfeit
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
Good to know. Thanks.
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
> ...so they know to punish the right seller when a complaint comes in. Since (according to others in this thread) the Amazon "Reason for return" menu does not provide the option "Item is counterfeit", it does not sou
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
There is an elsewhere. The OP suggests bn.com (Barnes and Noble) for books. I haven't tried them myself. Yet. For household goods I like walmart.com (the sold-by-Walmart items, not the ones from 3rd-party sellers). Free 2-day shippi
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
A handy website [1] notes at least a couple of B-52 nuclear incidents. In 1961, a B-52 carrying nuclear weapons broke up in mid-air over North Carolina; the bombs did not detonate [2]. In 1966, a B-52 crashed due to a mid-air collision wi
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
Which gives me an excuse to post a link of Tom Lehrer singing about Wernher von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro with the famous lines, "'Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? T
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
In this discussion, I've explicitly (and quite off topic) expressed support for the Union side in the US Civil War, and I've implicitly supported Ukraine's side in the Crimean dispute. I don't think that gives you enoug
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
Are you asking me? I would find it hard to be consistent: Kosovo, Abkhazia, Palestine, Chechnya, Crimea, so many choices to make, so many fine differences, so much tangled history. I do (retrospectively) support the US decision in 1861 to
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
The US has in fact sanctioned Russian officials associated with the annexation of Crimea. [1] You might also spare some sympathy for those residents of Crimea who did not wish to join the Russian Federation, for example, many Crimean Tatars
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
I think your numbers are probably correct. I don't happen to know another number: how many people in Chechnya would rather be independent than part of Russia. But it doesn't matter; the Russian government is very selective about
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
Welcome to HN. A quick Google search on "Chinese grad student restrictions" yielded an article [1] from December 2018 with the headline "US Considers New Restrictions on Chinese Students". The source is the US governmen
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New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing(fast.ai)
320 points by my_first_acct 7y ago|21 comments
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Conficker: The worm that nearly ate the internet(nytimes.com)
45 points by my_first_acct 7y ago|6 comments
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New Course: Deep Learning from the Foundations(fast.ai)
5 points by my_first_acct 7y ago|0 comments
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
In the "past" that the minister is referring to, Taiwan was a military dictatorship; other than a few brave souls sitting in jail, there was no political opposition, and there was no free press. There was no (legal) alternative t
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Future of .io domains has become party-political issue in the UK(domainincite.com)
1 points by my_first_acct 7y ago|0 comments
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by my_first_acct 7y ago
According to the official website [1] (which is linked to from TFA), the images were processed using PixInsight, a program popular among amateur astronomers. This page: [2] explains how PixInsight performs image alignment; it turns out to
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Indeed from "The Nine Billion Names of God", but this classic of SF was by Arthur C. Clarke, not Isaac Asimov. However, Isaac Asimov did write "Nightfall", another classic, which describes what happens when, as the resul
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
A pitfall not mentioned in the article: a private-industry member of the standard-setting body may fail to disclose that they are applying for a patent on an essential component of the standard. For instance, in the 1990s, the oil company U
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
From the article: > The new bill, SB 208, was introduced by Senator Ben Hueso (D.-San Diego) earlier this week. It effectively sets a deadline of July 1, 2020 as the date by which phone companies must "take the steps necessary to st
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New California bill could help curb 'neighbor spoofing' spam and scam robocalls(sfgate.com)
2 points by my_first_acct 8y ago|3 comments
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Depends on the reader base. If the goal of the readers is to obtain proof that their favorite politicians are great, and that their opponents are evil and stupid, then that's what the paper will provide: entertainment plus reinforceme
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
> For all these reasons, I have got rid of my NYT & WaPo subscription to FT now and I can't be happier. I think you have a typo. Are you saying that you switched to FT (Financial Times), or that you got rid of the FT as well? A
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by my_first_acct 8y ago
Whether or not you agree with Apple's rules, the fact that Facebook is willing to violate their Enterprise Certificate agreement with Apple is a red flag. If Facebook is willing to break an agreement with one of the largest corporation

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