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The_Sponge

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    Comment #15151213

    They are though, Juicero being a scam or not (it's not, they shipped at straight forward pricepoints). Even "traditional" pressed juice companies are starting to see a crunch, as t…

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    Comment #15150847

    Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 7…

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    Comment #15011217

    This isn't an issue of freedom of speech. You're allowed to say something, and I'm allowed to respond.

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    Comment #14905354

    These are words that they think could cause offense to their customers. Fat can be insulting and unflattering.

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    Comment #14903112

    Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 7…

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    Comment #14859973

    I'm currently prototyping an alternate approach - using an nrf52 to send readings beacons, and then gathering those beacons with a raspberry pi This has the added benefits of being…

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    Comment #14859197

    >Google entered the self driving cars research, and we have yet to see them driven around. You see their working prototypes flying around mountain view all the time. And, they've b…

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    Comment #14841246

    It's not for the faint of heart or faint of technical skill - different drivers have different behaviors and ways to enter the various capture and raw packet modes needed to do thi…

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    Comment #14829735

    Well then, ban drones.

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    Comment #14829650

    This implies that the bios can be corrupted - the bios shouldn't accept unsigned updates (without an in bios flag being switched first), even from a root-level user on the OS.

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    Comment #14798734

    Between PHP7, PSR4, and generally good development strategies, the only thing hack/hhvm offers in the near future is being tied to the hip with a single large company that both con…

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    Comment #14720875

    Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com/careers If you're a scala engineer in sf who knows finagle, we're hiring. Plus, pretty muc…

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    Comment #14690269

    Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 7…

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    Comment #13516006

    I checked on twitter, but there were no tweets.

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    Comment #13294569

    USB HDD: a cost saving measure: they already have a usb bus, why add sata on as well? we're talking a platform that's going to last for a decade possibly... arm soc southbridge als…

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    Comment #8276629

    This is well in line with the IndieWeb movement[1]. You'd do well to check out one of their members' brid.gy as well. [1] http://indiewebcamp.com/

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    Comment #8275597

    GSM arena claims hsdpa. Considering it's the same chipset as the 1st gen means it's probably whatever the 1st gen was, ie no lte

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    Comment #8234261

    So you're ShowHNing something that you bought...

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    Comment #8233610

    "Completely prevents the NSA or hackers from monitoring" That is an insane claim.

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    Comment #8233553

    Yeah, when you have a rootkit that's active, there are signals you can look at to claim from a range of "there is most certainly a rootkit" to "there is a small possibility that th…

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    Comment #8233526

    I don't believe that. If you're administrator, then by design you have access to pretty much "everything", unless your code is running as SYSTEM, or something crazy like that. iana…

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    Comment #8220770

    Hey fellow belmont buddy! Just curious, about how old is the building that you were in when the earthquake hit?

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    Comment #8129606

    ARM doesn't mean "no fan". I can't wait for laptop fans to go away but currently the only fanless laptops you can buy are atom based and all of them outperform their ARM equivalent…

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    Comment #7820745

    I'm bothered by the usage of "whore of babylon". I feel like that sort of language doesn't belong in a review like this.

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    Comment #7303425

    Well you said "I" so that's what I assumed you meant. For the effect on you.