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loopdoend··on Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (2014)
At which point? Perhaps if you are a tetrachromat, then it would be worthwhile.
loopdoend··on Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243k transfer?
That latter part happens all the time, it’s called SIM swapping.
loopdoend··on The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)
The word you’re looking for is “de-stresses”.
loopdoend··on Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes
In this case, the French were “no match for” the Turks, as they were not able to put up a fight against the Turks.
loopdoend··on WeWork Parent Weighs Slashing Its Valuation in Half
They are economy class. I don't find them flashy at all. Their offices are tiny, glass enclosed, like fish bowls. I can't imagine working in one of them, and I've heard nothing but terrible feedback from others.
loopdoend··on Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails
Nothing other than the agents at your door, I guess.
loopdoend··on I tried to keep my unborn child secret from Facebook and Google
It’s amazing how we have to cognizantly “open in private window” when we’re doing deep dives on things that we may disagree with.

The algo seems to assume you agree with everything you watch, so you have to be mindful of not sending it mixed signals.

loopdoend··on Users complain that Apple is 'nickel and diming' them
The USB-C cable the comes with the new iPad Pro (11”) is so short, flimsy, and awful you would think it was a knockoff.
loopdoend··on Why does a spray bottle work?
This improvement would cause the manufacturer to sell less product by volume.
loopdoend··on In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time
A couple years ago, Bieber tweeted out a Twilio phone number for people to text. Luckily it happened on a Friday night, or it would have caused widespread outages.

Celebrity is an edge case that you have to be prepared for.

loopdoend··on Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)
And to think that many lonely people have probably read this, thinking it's normal, adopting her practices...
loopdoend··on The fanciest shopping center in America is expanding
Honestly, you're right.
loopdoend··on The fanciest shopping center in America is expanding
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
loopdoend··on The fanciest shopping center in America is expanding
The Bal Harbour shops are honestly done.

Miami Design District has literally transformed Miami into the Mecca of fashion shopping.

Anyone who has their things in a twist about Bal Harbour after all these years has some kind of old beef or something going on. S@BH are already over. Miami Design District has put a total end to Bal Harbour. It has no hope.

Take a trip to Miami, go to NE 40th and NE 1st and then let me know about how great Bal Harbour is. It's over.

loopdoend··on The Christmas crypto correction. What really happened
He never said Coinbase was doing it. It doesn’t matter if Coinbase was involved - it will looks terrible that it was exposed right when they launched.
loopdoend··on Economics of Minecraft
I picked this up on your suggestion and played for 6 hours or so.

Really neat game that I wouldn’t have considered because of its weak original branding (Oort Online ring a bell?)...

Just beware everything gets wiped on the 1.0 release.

loopdoend··on Economics of Minecraft
I can’t decide what’s worse: you telling people how to play or you telling people they are bad for playing something you don’t like.

Either way your moralizing is ironic.

loopdoend··on Who owns the space between reclining airline seats?
I only fly first/business due to my height, and this is true of most passengers in those sections. Very rarely does anyone recline, and I think it has something to do with type of traveller.
loopdoend··on There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions
"The bitcoin network's theoretical maximum capacity sits between 3.3 to 7 transactions per second."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

loopdoend··on Cortana is really bad
Why would you paste in a URL when trying to track a package and not just the tracking number?

I mean if you have the URL just go to the URL and track your package.

I’m pretty sure Cortana was designed as a human interface and not a web browser...

loopdoend··on Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released
They have what you are looking for with their X-Pack Security addition, which requires a license, though under very favourable terms compared to others...
loopdoend··on The fake Facebook profile industry
Surely they must replace the mattress between presidencies, right?
loopdoend··on Using SVG as image placeholders
The only savings you get from data URLs are from less HTTP/whatever overhead. It’s like embedding the image in the source so everything gets loaded in one request. Base64 is not compression.
loopdoend··on Tell HN: Yahoo Finance has apparently killed its API
https://www.quandl.com/search
loopdoend··on Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
Your poem writer, Larry Eisenberg, is a national treasure: http://forward.com/culture/books/332712/how-a-96-year-old-li...

I agree about Socrates. Overwrought.

loopdoend··on Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO
Yes, this is actually a thing: https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/omisego/
loopdoend··on Latency matters
I realize that smartphones are computers, but you might find the SSH client "Prompt 2" by Panic on iOS useful for the devops part. Avoids the need to whip out the laptop to SSH in somewhere.
loopdoend··on A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system
That's not the point - the point is being identified as an entity by a unique marker that the RFID tag gives off. It's still an anonymous entity, but it can be deanonymized by correlation... with your face via video or whatever.
loopdoend··on I am an Uber survivor
Survivor i.e. being alive and not having killed herself - this type of abuse can drive people to kill themselves. Is that surprising? She may have also meant it in a less dramatic sense: been through it but got out. Many people who've been abused at Uber are probably still at Uber.
loopdoend··on I am an Uber survivor
Let's not make excuses by blaming this on something like a widely-spread yet widely-derided culture. This behaviour is inexcusable, there is no excuse here. If you see something like this, as a man, you say something, and you stand up for your coworker. Otherwise, you lose your man license.
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