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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Apple did buy Shazam last December with its "always-on technology".
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Humanity has only been searching for exoplanets for a very short time. That's why there are relatively few candidates farther than 1 AU out. It's somewhat like arguing that all lattes are comprised of milk only because we've
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
He wasn't able to successfully pull this stunt ever again. It actually completely changed our work dynamic and almost completely eliminated job stress. It was also the catalyst to deciding that I wanted to move on and I gave a 4 month
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
This is a common situation that I've been in several times before, even up to the point of automating the automating. I had one particularly nasty supervisor who gave me a project, then asked me how long it would take to program, then
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
I agree that it is worth acknowledging that it the tech crowd as well. But then, who should you be listening to about whether to vaccinate your kid? Jenny McCarthy on social media or a bunch of people who each had to spend several years of
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
WindowMaker was a perfectly functional touch interface circa 2008 using VNC/SSH on a Nokia N810 tethered to a N95 with a slow 3G connection. It just worked. I miss that separation between the phone and the mobile platform.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
All fair criticisms, but I was recollecting on reading Boyce & DiPrima where the Laplace was relegated to IVP. I was left with feeling that I had only learned yet another trick until I read Churchill & Brown's Complex Variables
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
That you will never use in real life. The chapters are first, second, and higher order were all a bunch of useless tricks. Then they introduce you to series solutions, where it starts to feel useful, and then they hit you on the side of the
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
That is bonkers that someone signed off on a huge project with .NET 1.1. Early .NET is so off. It feels like two teams of programmers at Microsoft weren't talking to each other but working on features for the same language.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
https://globalnews.ca/news/1249484/safeway-discontinues-club... "You've been provided two opportunities to cite those articles." That is worded in the most irksome manner. What is wrong with you?
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
They did in Canada. (And I've seen articles that say Canadians use cash less often than in the States.)
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Tracking by credit card is so effective that some companies, such as Safeway (*in Canada), have ceased their loyalty card programs. Loyalty card programs are redundant and must offer incentives for consumers to choose to use them. Now, no s
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
As long as you don't travel on a highway where the money will be seized by law enforcement by use of civil asset forfeiture due to your suspiciously carrying cash.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
I completely agree with everything you said. But not everyone can do a triple flip with a half twist while navigating the financial system. i.e. I think I reworded my original comment in reverse.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Many employees find themselves forced to select between a narrow selection of mutual funds from their employee provided RSP. Unless they forego their employee contribution to the RSP, they have very little flexibility.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
It's shocking how much of that gets eaten up by investment fees when you're only investing a small amount of money. It's also amazing how small investment fees can become.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
... and which they are supposed to provide upon request.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
The CEO of IBM made a very good case.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Here's an example of censorship on Hacker News. My comment that was up-voted multiple times was reset to 1 point. It now remains at 1 point. I even created another account from a different IP address and tested it.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
My comment wasn't a technical support request that also completely misses the point.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Lovely argument you have there. It boils down to this: "Perhaps you are not subjecting yourself to monitoring by Google so that they may further monetize your Internet history." My initial argument stands: "If security keys a
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
If security keys are so great, why do I still have to process two to five reCAPTCHAs every single time I log into almost any website? reCAPTCHAs are ubiquitous and becoming increasingly time consuming. I probably have to spend 4 minutes eve
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
"On the evening of June 15, 2016 between 4:19PM and 4:56PM, defendants used their Moscow-based server to search for a series of English words and phrases that later appeared in Guccifer 2.0’s first blog post..." That has got to be
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
I stand corrected.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
The Black Mirror third* season social media hellscape episode starring Bryce Howard Dallas seems a more apt reference than the Jon Hamm as sexual deviant episode. The smallest breaches of protocol snowballed into her becoming a persona non
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
What's your best online resource for figuring out how to do and, more importantly, maintain that?
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Wouldn't it be a good estimator to include ANY connections coming outside of Utah? I hope that whoever is attempting to hack the Utah voting system has no nefarious purpose greater than changing "Mitt" to "Mittens.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Ugh. Me talk bad. You know what meant.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
I'm flabbergasted by how miniscule his investment was. 3500% return on $2k. Did he think it was too small to fly under the radar? Or is he small enough to prosecute?

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