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Zircom··on Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
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Zircom··on University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs
So this seems like a good time to ask, does anyone have experience with University of London's online degree and how US employers feel about it? I've been eyeing it for a couple years now and was wondering if anyone either has experience directly with this program, or at least can speak more to how US employer's feel about degrees from overseas.

https://london.ac.uk/sites/default/files/prospectuses/comput...

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-compute...

Zircom··on The Clitoris, Uncovered: An Intimate History
I don't think referring to the whole package down there as the "vagina" is strictly an American thing, I don't know anyone from anywhere that says "lick my vulva baby".
Zircom··on Ask HN: What are good distance learning Bachelor's/Master's degrees one can do?
BS degrees in the UK are a little different than in the US, 3 years is standard because a lot of what would be first year coursework in the US is covered and credited by their GCSE/GCE exams(somewhat similar to to how you can test out of lots of first year credits in the US with AP tests).

In any case I've never seen anyone with a UK degree have any difficulty having it being equated to a US degree for hiring purposes, and that online CS degree from University of London specifically requires 30 hours of college credit from US students so it still comes to 4 years in the end.

Zircom··on Think Debtors Prisons Are a Thing of the Past? Not in Mississippi
I don't think they believe it "just happens", but they accept it/believe it's a natural and inevitable part of life and take it in stride if and when it happens.
Zircom··on The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
>Snapchat’s philosophy is interesting because it’s designed for people who already know how to use Snapchat. It actually increased the social aspect a bit because most everyone probably has a story or two of being shown how to do something by someone else.

Very true. Just last night a person I've been on a few dates with showed me that they apparently added multiplayer games to snapchat quite awhile ago and I had no idea they existed til then.

Zircom··on Questions to ask a company during a job interview
In the US at least, legally HR can tell them whatever they want. However if the supply anything besides employment dates, title, and whether or not they are eligible for rehire, they'll be open to a civil suit if the information given negatively affected their job prospects
Zircom··on The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions
FYI downvoting is possible, just have to reach a certain karma threshold(500 I think?)
Zircom··on Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves
>I’m not a lawyer or anything, but even the legal system isn’t really supposed to look at motivation as evidence in a case, though I’m sure it sways juries.

"Motive, means and opportunity" is typically what investigators need before charging someone with a crime so not quite sure if it follows that it's not supposed to be brought up in court?

Zircom··on 4M IP addresses (44.192.0.0/10) bought by Amazon
So this may be a stupid question but I'm genuine curious, I checked out the thread about this yesterday and why are HAM radio people complaining about this? What do radio spectrums have to do with IPv4 addresses?
Zircom··on Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars
Um, in the comment you're replying to, his claim was that car sales are not 'rapidly declining', which is still true if they are plateauing.
Zircom··on A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable
That didn't answer the question of why companies are allowed to pull drugs from being listed in the first place, after them being listed for years.
Zircom··on Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life
>How would it work. Do you get to 90 years old and they pull out your brain and put it into a newer body?

I don't recall the title but in middle school I remember reading a scifi/horrorish thriller about this exact scenario, the problem they ran into is that the brain still ages, and transplanting it into a younger body doesn't magically de-age the brain itself.

Zircom··on Craig Wright files copyright claim for Bitcoin white paper
There's a large number of early coins that are publicly known to belong to Satoshi, all he'd have to do is move a few of them around.
Zircom··on Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr
My ex-girlfriend was a pretty active pornblogger on Tumblr(her own content and reblogging other stuff before it got shut down), believe me there was a pretty big porn community on there, although it's broken down into pretty specific niche categories(like DDLG, CNC, BDSM, etc), but within those niches there's lots of active content creators that are pretty well-known within their little Tumblr social circles.

warning possible triggering content ahead Example, this one guy ran a blog called "Rapebait Academy"(CNC fetish, Google if you're interested I'm not gonna get into that here) where he could post pictures and videos of him with the girls he would meet of Tumblr and what they got up to together(with their consent of course). And anyone who was involved in that little community on Tumblr knew the guy and who you were talking about if you mentioned his name, or at least his blog.

So there's definitely people interested in making content on the platform, people interested in consuming the content, and there's always gonna be people willing to pay out the nose for personalized niche specific content, which will be easy given how Tumblr is a directly creator-to-user platform.

Zircom··on Ketamine: From Party Drug to Prescription Medicine
My girlfriend did ketamine treatments and her's were once a week for four weeks with a break period in between(don't remember the exact length of the break), where are you seeing the several injections per week number?
Zircom··on Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
We use their VPN client at where I work...it's a mess. Disconnects all the time, IF you can even get it to connect in the first place, it like's to sit there for up to 20 minutes sometimes before it finally connects. Almost never works with captive portals, and all sorts of syncing issues with our network drives.

To be fair, it might just have to do with our company's implementation, our IT department pretty hit or miss when it comes to implementing new stuff, it only rolled our 6 months ago and we do have 30,000+ employees/contractors so I'd imagine it's headache getting everything just right, but still.

Zircom··on Ask HN: How did you get introduced to HN?
>or the first time in ages, I felt like I was actually finding out about tech news as it happened instead of being days-to-weeks behind the leading edge.

That's exactly why I migrated here from slashdot. I read both for a few months and was finding I'd see something on HN and then see the same exact thing on slashdot days or weeks later.

What eventually made me switch completely was the way comments work here don't encourage the inane, offtopic, uninventive, dead-horse-beating karma-farming injokes and references that slashdot and reddit seem to be inundated with[1]. Not to mention I find it utterly charming how often someone else will post something and the author/creator pops into the comments section to chime in "Hey that's me, would love to answer any questions you guys have". Nowhere else like it on the internet I've ever seen.

[1]Not to say I don't occasionally enjoy the occasionally silly comment, but I find the ones on HN to be a lot more tasteful and actually witty as opposed to the rout cookie cutter memes and references that are found on every single tangentially related reddit or slashdot thread that people can think to post them to.

Zircom··on “Eat More Onions”: Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918
Randall Munroe actually did a small section on eradicating the common cold in his What-if book, the basic idea is if that all of humanity stayed away from each other for a week or two then the common cold would die out as it can't survive outside of the human body for more than a week and normally survives by continuously hopping from host to host.
Zircom··on Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’
The difference is in the steam store app doesn't actually enable you to play the games on the phone itself, while the steam link app will let you do exactly that.
Zircom··on The case for electric scooters
The scooters you're referring too are more similar to mopeds than what this article is about. The ones in the article are basically electric razor scooters and top out at like 15mph.
Zircom··on Japan's older hikikomori live in isolation, shunning society for years
You are literally telling someone to go kill themself because they personally don't find it necessary to socialize and maintain personal relationships with others and prefer to be left alone to their own devices. I think you're the one that needs an attitude adjustment.
Zircom··on Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo
I don't blame him for trying, the number of times I've seen someone pop into the comments of a submission saying "Hi I'm ________ and I wrote/made/did/worked on this" is pretty high on this website.
Zircom··on Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals
We were taught "Some Old Hippy Caught Another Hippy Tripping on Acid"
Zircom··on The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ into English
It's a movie and he's the protagonist, I don't think it's very odd at all for you to root for him...
Zircom··on Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]
In my experience, most leases that include utility costs will often contain language allowing them to charge you for what they consider excessive or unreasonable usage.
Zircom··on Is Rotten Tomatoes Killing the Movie Industry? No, Bad Movies Are
>Or bring snacks from home (or a convienence store which is a bargain compared to a theatre)

Movie theaters almost universally do not allow outside food or drinks, so that isn't really an option. But these days if I ever go to a movie I pretty much exclusively go to a dine-in theater(alamo drafthouse, studio move grill, etc) because at least there I'm getting decent food instead of a paying $20 for tub of popcorn and soda that cost them probably less than a dollar, not to mention they have comfy recliners instead of those awful padded seats most theaters have.

Zircom··on Other ways to read Hacker News
Seconded! Been using it forever, if he'd implement replying and voting I'd have no reason to ever use the vanilla site.
Zircom··on Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and drinking?
What about that quote implies binge drinking? As far as I'm aware you can get drunk without "binging", and teenagers don't drink alcohol because they like good whiskey or appreciate fine wines, they drink to get drunk.
Zircom··on Gas Pump Skimmers
Do gas stations have any incentive to provide skimmer scanning? I'd imagine most of their customers aren't even aware skimmers exist, so adding them probably wouldn't attract many new customers. And the margins they make selling gasoline are already pretty thin, so it's possible that the cost of adding scanners to all their machines is less than the extra money they'd make from the minority of people that would go out of their way to give their business to gas stations with scanners.

If gas stations are liable for losses that customers experience due to skimmers it's possible that gas stations would be interested, but they could just as easily decide that it's worth the risk of having to pay out lawsuits given that I'd imagine it's pretty hard to prove in court that your card was stolen by a skimmer at any one particular gas station considering how many different gas stations any one person uses on a regular basis, not to mention the variety of other vectors that your card could've been compromised through.

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