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ads? Really you don't use Firefox and an add blocker? And complains about ads?

phil_folridaon A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

It is highly speculative to say Japan, even today we reference Native American as Indians.

He was thinking they reached India.

Same mistake today people do with Miles and Kilometer, when you are raised in one or another it is difficult to switch.

Erastothene was speaking in stadium, Columbus in Nautic miles.

The Spanish crown was motivated by greed.

phil_folridaon Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)

Understood though it was the reality of the 90's. did it changed? yes absolutely, but you were tagged as a Lunatic, to introduce Linux in corporate environment.

phil_folridaon Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero

You are right, it is odd (at least I think of it is), people don't really care about the name, though to be fair some people really think it is important, .com is so important, ok it is true for you, but reality is nobody cares, just focus on the product capabilties.

phil_folridaon Bruce McEwen, who found stress can alter the brain, has died

The website is http://anti-aginggames.com/

phil_folridaon 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones

eh,

the book Team of Teams is pretty good for that https://www.amazon.ca/Team-Teams-Rules-Engagement-Complex/dp... when the best of the best is beaten by people that barely know to use guns.

phil_folridaon I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City

You have to admit it is a bit ironic to speak about cameras surveillance on a page where ublock origin count 19 trackers.

Government or not.

phil_folridaon Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans

Because it might signal the beginning of a crisis, it signals that car are treated a lot like house were in the last financial crisis, under water means negative equity.

Lenders are willing to make the underwater loans, often charge with high interest rates. Many of the loans are bundled into bonds and snapped up by Wall Street investors therefore having supposedly a broader effect.

phil_folridaon Amazon’s roadmap for Alexa is scarier than anything Facebook or Twitter is doing

we live in a sensation world, articles like that are meant to have bold claims in the title, really nothing to see here.

As an early user of Alexa, unfortunately the technology is underwhelming. she does not understand names, she do not seem to improve while Google and Siri do actually, So yes Alexa Auto, or Alexa Show are good interesting devices, the reality is less rosy.

phil_folridaon The Nobel Peace Prize 2019

Are you talking about Greta Thunberg, I would think so, I don't know enough about her, what do you recommend from her?

I fail to see what or why she is important, we are past good speech in terms of ecology, what actions does she recommends?

phil_folridaon Chemistry Nobel Goes to Lithium Battery Innovators

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

Last name became a necessity when governments introduced personal taxation(the Poll Tax).

phil_folridaon The effect of meditation on brain structure (2012)

I use: https://choosemuse.com/ somehow it worked for me.

phil_folridaon The Impact of Meditating Every Day

since 2014 I am using Muse https://choosemuse.com/

It helped me.

phil_folridaon Amazon’s Alexa Has 80k Apps and No Runaway Hit

You are right, I would say (Music + Voice Control) as you can configure other services (Spotify for instance), there are a lot of negative comments here, I wonder if it is not due to the population of Commenters on Hackernews that would tend to be younger.

If you have a child it is nearly a nanny that helps your child doing his/her homework, plus you can connect several Alexa (from friends) and interact with them, if you have also several Alexa you can communicate in different rooms (speaks/broadcast)

phil_folridaon Comcast modem activation bug potentially exposed customers’ private data (2018)

Most users, consumers, on Comcast do not have a choice, next election go out and vote rather than stating the obvious.

phil_folridaon The China Conundrum – are we headed for a supply chain meltdown?

no: https://news.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidentia... https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ra... Interesting, you could think of something like that after more than a month long federal shutdown. Now most of people that were quite vocal supporting President Donald Trump tend to denied that now they did.

phil_folridaon LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members

Indeed using redreader help though, plus it feels faster.

phil_folridaon The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]

It is difficult to assess what you will gain, for me it help in very uncomfortable situation, like a rough meeting sort of avoiding panic mode, I used Muse the brain sensing https://choosemuse.com/ somehow this gadget helped me, and no I don't do 1 hour a day as I don't have time for that, 10 minutes a day and I think it helped me. A lot of it is subjective, but then pretty much all of interactions are too.

phil_folridaon Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death

I'm not sure it is an example that go in the sense you think it goes.

phil_folridaon Some people will pay for a subscription to a news site. How about two? Three?

It is. Isn't it the idea behind Brave. Or maybe I didn't understood it, looking at browser's market share, looks like I was not the only one to not get it.

We pay premium for a lot of things, food, cars... but not for news.

phil_folridaon Crazy Work Hours and Lots of Cameras: a group from Silicon Valley visits China

yes, this only shows how not very experimented those people were, not a lot of gray hair in this article.

phil_folridaon New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom

Ok now try to patch the BMC, you can actually talk to it with openipmi on local host.

phil_folridaon Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon

I'm 44 too and hate people that maximize their window, as they are so many things running at the same time, don't you tile your applications, ah interesting there is more than one way to do it I guess.