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I zoomed into a handful of random spots, and quite a few (maybe 30%) do not appear to show basketball courts at all. Many seem to be just rooftops or construction sites.

Silly clickbait headline. > If you live in Miami or Phoenix, you need air-conditioning to survive the summer. But if you live in the middle of the country, try leaving the air-cond…

I just feel like the bank has infinitely more resources than I could ever have in terms of hiring more attorney-power.

Reading anecdotes like this is just so terrifying, and there appears to be absolutely no recourse. These stories can, and do, happen to anyone at any bank. And what can we do about…

> It might sound a little bit creepy from a privacy perspective, but Gamgee insists that all motion data is processed and stored on the routers themselves, and never in the cloud. …

> It's hard enough to report issues to OpenAI. Not at all. OpenAI follows basic accepted standards for security reporting. This is like complaining that you can't find if a website…

A user can just as easily identify a scam such as the one in this post by also taking 30 seconds to do a web search for some phrasing from the email. And "if they don't do that, th…

> What more do you want? For it to be clear how unrealistic the odds are. They're not exactly broadcasting "you're 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the ja…

The dishonesty lies in obfuscating the actual odds of winning, making the honesty about the payout a moot point as it's not particularly applicable for most entrants.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about, taken to an extreme. A lot of theorizing about ROC curves and optimal operating point formulae, and absolutely no empirical, …

> Keep your links safe and accessible only to authorized users Is the operator of this service also able to access the links? If yes, then right away this claim is not true and mer…

> I think it is an interesting idea that scammers intentionally make typos and absurdities, just to weed out discerning people in favor of easier victims This is an apocryphal anec…

This scam is successful because it is predicated on the same appeal that ventures like lotteries, sweepstakes, slot machines, or giveaways have (albeit accentuated with a seemingly…

ah yes, passed around countless txtfilez in the '90s... http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PHREAK/GENERAL/CALLATT.... http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PHREAK/GENERAL/CCF.TXT

Here's the America's Most Wanted segment about the guy, James Clark, from 1988: https://youtu.be/e56gA8NBXuQ?t=1204

> Imagine supporting the 2nd most popular language in the world. CRAZY right? Why are you fixating on supporting the 2nd most popular language, shouldn't it support the 1st most po…

> The UX was not great... not to mention that it was mostly in Korean. I had a lot of trouble. They didn't strike me as the most professional operation.. What does the seemingly ve…

> it's completely free open access Why are the PDFs individually watermarked? It seems antithetical to the spirit of releasing a book about Tor and "future of privacy", and to then…

> This discussion is about subscriptions but the general idea applies to so much more – basic budgeting, retirement savings, not paying random fees, not paying interest, moving spa…

If you believe this, you presumably also believe that companies should be able to enforce this, yes? Which means what, hiring private investigators (or having an in-house investiga…

> FWIW most airports I’ve visited have a staff canteen that’s actually open to everyone, albeit hidden. Could you please list which airports you've been to have this, and where it …