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by 781 7y ago
> But also imagine all the wannabe journalists that would just do character assassinations on long-dead people revered as heroes That's an easy one. Pretty much anyone of notice living today will be labeled a "savage meat eat
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by 781 7y ago
> In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them Tell me again one meaningful action against a data leak in the private sector. I'll wait.
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by 781 7y ago
This is a losing game (think halting problem). This exact scenario was played by antivirus software versus malware in the 90s/00s. The antivirus was trying to figure out if the binary did something like modify a file on disk, while the
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by 781 7y ago
And look at that height... This would never be approved in SF, ruins the local character.
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by 781 7y ago
They is overwhelmingly used for plural. See how the wikipedia article starts: > They is the third-person plural personal pronoun (subjective case) in Modern English. And only after that: > Although still controversial,[citation nee
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by 781 7y ago
SEO is one reason, but the reduced attention span of today's people surely is another. People just won't bother figuring out what a "mystery title" book is about.
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by 781 7y ago
This is one thing that worried me during the Fukushima disaster, they were quite concerned about the safety of the responders and many things were delayed until they could figure out a way to do them safely. If things deteriorated even furt
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by 781 7y ago
Gives a new sense to "fake news" Now we need a robo-reader who reverses the article back into the source data.
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by 781 7y ago
Well, none of his code is public. Furthermore, on his blog he wrote about a lot of topics - economics, history, politics, crypto contracts, but not even once about a programming topic.
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by 781 7y ago
The problem with Szabo is that nobody was able to locate any sort of code written by Szabo - ie, he doesn't seem to know how to program and the first version of Bitcoin is way beyond noob-level - crypto, GUI, distributed networking, ..
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by 781 7y ago
I worked at a software company where you were not officially allowed to bring your own keyboard/mouse, but the unofficial policy was that they would look the other way. However they would not support you or help you install it - that w
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by 781 7y ago
Short reenactment of the final decision to postpone for one day this at today's ceremonies: https://youtu.be/mSL9NJ8WJMM?t=3808
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by 781 7y ago
This is truly one of the best long-cons in the tech industry history. Invest 10 years into creating a browser and get the whole industry and it's developers to love it, push it and develop solely for it, so that you can reap the benefi
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by 781 7y ago
With everybody now having an iPhone and Macbook, they don't feel that exclusive anymore. So they need to up the game, to show they are still a luxury product. A $50k computer is certainly a good start from this point of view, Apple nee
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by 781 7y ago
Does it have RGB? For that price it better have one RGB led in each of those holes.
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by 781 7y ago
If it only were that simple. Airbus in particular has a lot of systems which PREVENT the human from doing things. One plane actually crashed because the prevention system disabled itself and the pilots believed it was still there to protect
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by 781 7y ago
Google is famous for measuring everything. If you think they did this without extensive testing/polling/... you are naive.
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by 781 7y ago
> A benchmark for me would be a game that can handle a MMOPG like eve-online I don't think they managed to connect Excel to their game environments yet.
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by 781 7y ago
There are scientists who argue that what the mitochondria does is fundamentally cancerigenic on a long enough timeline, so in a sense, yes, everything we eat is associated with cancer. https://www.nature.com/articles/cr
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by 781 7y ago
I'd be more interested in Google/Amazon/FB paying taxes than in anti-trust actions.
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by 781 7y ago
Human brains are the most efficient at some problems . This is trivial to demonstrate: try multiplying two 10 digit numbers in your head. Now pick up a calculator and do the same in a fraction of time, using a fraction of power, and with p
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by 781 7y ago
The brain architecture is not the end-all of computing. For example weather prediction is just about fast math, a brain like architecture is useless here.
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by 781 7y ago
A previous version of the same story says: - one in philosophy - one in communications and history https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-indi...
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by 781 7y ago
What you call original style is a "modern" modification from the 1800s :)
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by 781 7y ago
I'm, all for bitcoin, but articles like these are bullshit. How many cryptography and bitcoin experts were consulted/hired to babysit this transaction, knowing that the smallest mistake could lead to total and irreversible loss of
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by 781 7y ago
I did read. Google will not completely block ad-blockers in a single step, they will do it gradually. Which is why parent suggested complete ad-blocker embargo on Chrome, to force the issue. But Google is too smart to fall into that trap, a
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by 781 7y ago
People warned for years here that exactly this was going to happen. But the HN tech community was "no, no, you are just a hater, Google IS GOOD, it's a company run by engineers, not by suits, they will NEVER betray us, this is tot
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by 781 7y ago
uBlock Origin is GPL. Someone will just fork it and keep Chrome support. Welcome to the beauty of open-source.
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by 781 7y ago
When you sell such a sensitive product, which could be used for example by swiss account tax evasion whistle blowers, maybe you should disclose on the front page that you can be compelled to log IP addresses and advice users to plan around
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by 781 7y ago
There is precedent for that, a Swiss crypto company which sold NSA backdoored crypto systems to the Iranians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

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