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426karma·160submissions·January 14, 2025
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Retailers have historical data on gift card redemptions and, using this data, can recognize portions of the unspent value of the gift cards as revenue when that portion is unlikely to be redeemed.
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He's absolutely right. Long-shot research with little to no immediate applicability has been the basis for innumerable breakthroughs over the years. If DOGE existed back in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, …
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> If you use this kind of software to hire, you are the loser. The good talent doesn’t need you—it’s the other way around. Kinda like stack ranking for layoffs, especially when done regularly. The …
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Part of the reason I pay for Shortwave is because its basic search is so much better than Gmail's. I don't even use the LLM except for more descriptive searches, which it is also quite good …
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>90% of food/beverage is domestically produced = no tariffs That's not true, even for items which undergo relatively little processing like milk: 1. Cows need feed, and in the US this is …
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> “To say I was nervous — that’s an understatement,” says Okey, who received one of Quale’s kidneys followed by an infusion of her stem cells in 2018. Within months of the procedure, as hoped, test…
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> so I asked him "what value is added to the world by having text that looks like it might have been written by Shakespeare but really wasn't" and he didn't have an answer. Sati…
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> One example I still need to pick will be one that shows how "data" gradually becomes "code" with no obvious switch-over point. I'm sure everyone here can think of some. C…
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I wish more agencies would release tools like this. Even if you still need a fair amount of technical know-how to use them, it's a lot more accessible than tax laws. I especially like the article…
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Scrappers? UPS and Fedex would need bigger vehicles than this. Maybe some other country's postal service would take advantage of it and buy them up, but that's about it as far as I can see. …
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> While the change detection currently only runs on a subset of about 2 million domains, the crawler is aware of approximately 36,000,000 domains in total, and about 1,500,000 of those are subdomai…
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Original source: https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-... …
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I'm guessing browser credentials harvested by multiple malware infections since there are several independent datasets. Since browser cookies and URLs are present, it seems unlikely this is from …
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"We're going all in on AI" is the modern equivalent to adding .com to your company name to juice the stock price. It's utterly meaningless, yet it works shockingly well.
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The amount of time I spend going back and forth between the implementation and the test cases to verify that the tests actually fully cover the possible failure cases alone can easily exceed the time …
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> And are URLs (w/ DNSSEC and TLS) really that easy to hijack? During the Google Domains-Squarespace transition, there was a vulnerability that enabled relatively simple domain takeovers. And …
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> YouTube automatically edits the volume of videos that have an average loudness beyond a certain threshold. For anyone else who was confused by this, it seems to be a client-side audio compressor …
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According to https://2fa.directory/us/#banking there are 3 banks in the US that support hardware 2FA (without limitations like requiring a Symantec token or only being available …
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And the worst part is a federal ID would not enable tracking any more than your employers withholding wages for tax purposes and paying into Social Security does, but every time a federal ID has been …
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Too late to edit but apparently his brother has stated he's a Sox fan, and the Block Club article has been updated accordingly.
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Thin-crust (or "tavern style" as some call it) has been widespread across the city for quite awhile. > As of 2013, according to Grubhub data and the company Chicago Pizza Tours, thin-crus…
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Indeed, and he's from Dolton (a southern suburb) and lived in Hyde Park (south side of Chicago) for awhile. (Not that it's uncommon for south siders to favor the Cubs, but it certainly is am…
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True, but it references visuals only present in the video. It would be nice if there were stills from the video included for those who prefer to read.