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cykod

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    Comment #39476513

    Appears to be a Kindle unlimited related scam.

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    Comment #34547640

    Not the poster on the Xfinity forum, but thought the analysis would be interesting for HN (Assume many here fall into the bucket of using their own modems.) Came across this after …

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    Comment #33425843

    So that’s what I used to think (Price hiding to avoid sticker shock) But now I am convinced it’s a little bit the price point but more when there is variability in the pricing, and…

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    Comment #29085846

    This looks great - some more in-depth documentation vs. just a feature list would be helpful. What's the configuration / deployment story? How do you move a configured Motor Admin …

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    Comment #21803258

    I switched to the Android Headspace app recently and the juxtaposition of what they're trying to achieve (meditation / mindfulness and being in the moment) with the onslaught of un…

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    Comment #13966919

    There's a WikiPedia page on this that provides a nice overview - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_leverage_points

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    Comment #7487060

    Come on dude, you make it sound like these things we're catching on fire all over the place - "... the number of incidents remains small, and Tesla’s review to date points to the b…

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    Comment #7331330

    There's an interesting study on gender differences in competitiveness in a patriarchal vs. matrilineal society ( http://management.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs... ) T…

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    Comment #7287627

    You do know that there are no communities that have zoning ordinances allowing 160ft water towers, right? So there's always a variance of some sort involved if fracking is done nea…

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    Comment #6822247

    Isn't this solved by just requiring the CSRF token on any JS get requests? (In fact, isn't this just a cross-site request forgery with a different verb than we're used to?) I know …

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    Comment #6754383

    I love the submitter's article, but I have to agree - while the thesis is similar, it's told from such a different viewpoint that I wouldn't have even made a connection between the…

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    Comment #6752170

    I got one of these, it was brutal. Switching cards was something like a 30 second process, which meant that instead of taking a card out, you had to open up the app, wait for it to…

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    Comment #6407218

    "... they are far more standards complaint than any other version ..." "standards complaint" - Nice, I think that nails it. Lately Microsoft complains all the time that they are fu…

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    Comment #5625622

    The fallacy with this argument is that if everyone behaved if you did there would be no games. If this stuff is "free" it's the tragedy of the commons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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    Comment #5573265

    Clowns implies that they screwed something up or did something wrong - from his story, he signed up and moved 5 figures of cash immediately (which is either exactly the limit of a …

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    Comment #5558012

    If instead of showing up at my door I got a note that said you need to come down to the post office during business hours and pick up your package and bring an extra $1.44, I'd act…

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    Comment #5552115

    I'd say this captures it: "Our Mission" http://mvilletouchstone.com/?page_id=171

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    Comment #5333445

    I think he means it's going to be the next Google Nexus Q http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_Q

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    Comment #5148737

    I'm a little bit in line with the other folks - if you grant access to a photo, the entirety of that Photo (exif data et al) should be available to the app. I have another question…

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    Comment #5079684

    Thanks, I really appreciate the comment - I wrote it as a parable and only added the context link after my father emailed me in a tiff asking if it was autobiographical and I had s…

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