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You have to turn U2F support on with a hidden config at the moment if you want to use it in Firefox: https://www.yubico.com/2017/11/how-to-navigate-fido-u2f-in-f...

And inbound is only because they have installed kiosks that they guide everyone to. Otherwise if you go to a CBP agent they don't take your photo if you're a US passport holder. The kiosks are an end-run around tradition/rules about how CBP can treat Americans.

It's called "dry testing", and the FTC might come after you if you're not clear about what you're doing https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/adv...

The big one, as far as I can tell (I've been reading through the prospectus and the latest dell 10q), is that the tracking stock is actually an unsecured interest in Dell (Dell Class V shares). So, you're exposed to Dell going bankrupt: secured creditors would get the vmware stake if Dell can't pay the ~ $1.6 Billion in interest they owe per year.

On iOS you can actually deny access when the OS prompt comes up and WhatsApp will still work. You just have to start conversations using a phone number instead of a name/contact. I use it this way, and it is a little inconvenient but I feel better not uploading my phone book.

It's probably not for you, given the speedmaster & the biking, but I like my Withings Activite. Looks like a normal analog watch with a activity level dial, and integrates with Apple Health via Withings' app, which is nicely designed. Regular watch battery.

Edit: I would also be interested if anyone knows of an automatic (mechanical) watch with a pedometer complication. Seems like it wouldn't be too far off from the power-reserve dials that some fancy automatics have.

Found out about it this morning when I got this via email from Withings assuring me that everything will keep working: http://www.withings.com/us/en/withings-nokia

What? Sure, you can program them with javascript, but that's not required (just popular). There are libraries for clojure (clj-drone), ruby (argus or artoo), and I'm sure other languages.

I think you can now configure it to run in "holy mode". In both modes you can still type meta-x (also via `<space>:`).

I think if you had a very customized emacs setup, you'd have to put some effort organizing it into custom "layers", which is how spacemacs organizes its config and making sure you don't have big conflicts in mapped keys.

Berkshire, which Buffett manages and effectively controls, owns insurance companies and a mortgage lender outright. Berkshire also has stakes in publicly traded banks including US Bank, Wells Fargo, and American Express (they converted into a deposit-taking bank company in the wake of the financial crisis). Then there's Bank of America, in which Berkshire has warrants to buy a stake < 10%, but they likely won't be exercised until they're about to expire.

Beyond this, managers and policy makers listen when Buffett talks/writes; an outcome of his 50-year track record in investing and managing at Berkshire. I personally don't think there's anything sinister going on.

You can get a really good overview of Berkshire as a company, including its operating companies, investment philosophy, and current investment holdings from the annual letters that Buffett writes: http://berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

If you want to see exactly what securities Berkshire owns, you can look up the 13F filings on http://edgar.sec.gov

Buffett owns about a quarter of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns warrants to purchase about a 10% stake in Bank of America at a deep discount to the current price. Berkshire does not currently have voting rights because the warrants haven't been exercised. That's not to say Buffett can't or doesn't influence Bank of America, but it is much more of distant relationship than, for example, the dozens of operating companies whose CEOs report to Buffett. It seems a stretch to imagine him involved at this level at all.

When the CEO puts "restructuring meeting" on the shared calendar accidentally.

Heard something similar on the stream just a few minutes ago. Something like: we are trying to correlate the timelines of data from Falcon to the timing of the Range Safety Officer ...(turning on?)... the flight termination system.

Edit: Falcon Launch Control on "We are trying to correlate timelines and compare data with what they were able to see with down range cameras and put together what happened. We stopped receiving data at 2 min 19 sec from the vehicle. It is still not clear exactly what happened and why... At this point we don't have additional information we can provide on NASA Television until the contingency Press Conference, no earlier than 12:30? ET."

Will do.

I wrote my state insurance department because I was so annoyed by the paucity of information in Anthem's disclosure. https://gist.github.com/paulhenrich/d1015fff356d037dc41d

I thought the Schengen area had a 90 days in/180 day limit for USians? Is that only for the visa waiver?

I know that whether I use facebook or not, other people do. So, it's the newsfeed and a contact list at least.

This is aimed at the average computer user, who doesn't know what third-party cookies are, who doesn't know what retargeting means, who doesn't realize what giving facebook their email password does. It's a way to give that person tools to pick the degree to which they expose themselves, when the default is 100% exposure.

Basically, a family member asked me this question, and I thought it would be useful to write up for them. I figure folks on HN have the tools to figure out how they want to deal with FB and other services, but they may also want a resource to help friends and family who aren't so tech savvy.

If you are interested in the rationale for my objecting to 100% buy-in on facebook and have 40 minutes, I can highly recommend Maciej Ceglowski's talk at Beyond Tellerand 2014, the internet with a human face: http://vimeo.com/102717446

Interesting idea. Chrome has this too.

I've been mostly doing email/twitter/IM, and am not sure I'll stick with this facebook account. But I thought I couldn't really write this guide based on my experience from > 2 years ago when I quit.

Interesting, thanks. I've been hoping that Google will overhaul the permissions system for Android (most people won't install a fork) to make it more granular/at time of access.

Thanks. It's high on my priority list. I want to make sure I do it right. I ended up launching the blog without it because the first commit in that repo was like 2 years ago and it just sat on my disk until last month.

Yeah, I should have mentioned I set up a new email account for this. But, I wanted to write up this guide so I acquiesced when they asked for my phone number.

A family member who was wary of facebook asked me how to join facebook while maintaining a semblance of privacy, so I wrote this. Tried to make it accessible to someone with average computer skills.

As an aside, I joined facebook to write this, and I was blown away by how good facebook's recommendations for friends were, presumably just based on other people's uploaded contacts (Facebook made me confirm a phone number).