Absentinsomniac

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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
AFAIK, the exploit only works on older iphones. It'll quickly lose value going forward.
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
Space isn't an empty vacuum, but that's tangential. The expansion in this context is metric explanation, which just means things are getting further and further apart between two points due to space "expanding" between n
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
One of my CS professors had us writing papers, and we got extra points if it was in comic sans. I had to specifically install a ms fonts package for it. Ever since I've liked it, but don't actually use it. I think the whole thing
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
Ya, pretty sure Sanders does better in polls against Trump than Clinton anyways.
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
Unless you're just hiring people for the sake of employment to do things that don't need done. I've read China's housing market is in a bit of a pickle due to this. Course they also apparently have really clean streets.
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
Maybe google just licensed or asked to use it as a part of an undefined April fools joke, and she / they assumed Google wouldn't do something irresponsible?
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a joke.
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
Almost certainly not. Most likely no one in the world has that capability, at least as far as I can tell. It would be extremely surprising if any government somehow broke AES without researchers around the world figuring it out within the s
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Quantum Computers Move Closer to Reality with ‘Fredkin Gate’ Breakthrough(ibtimes.com)
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
If you start a graph at like 50 on the y axis it's easy to make data look more pronounced. The official graph showed they dropped to "zero", presumably a bigger difference than 50%. Like it would look like the line dropped to
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
I just down an energy drink that's sitting by my alarm clock every morning. Not healthy maybe but oh well.
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by Absentinsomniac 10y ago
Yeah, foam doesn't really "soundproof" anything. Foam is normally for sound treatment, so you get less interference when making music for mixing / mastering / recording purposes. You need extra drywall / more i
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
The distinction is important because people in government and people in corporations usually have different motives than people in general. (Particularly people in leadership roles within these org's)
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Or even the police, who last I read do sell their plate data gathered from their car cameras.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
That's the problem, where is the line? Because there barely seems to be one. Shuffle a few laws around and whoops, authoritarians in power have infrastructure to do as they please.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
They may not "have everyone's data", but they have data on most Americans in one form or another. Presumably pretty extensive data. You can claim the NSA has data on the majority of people and still recognize the FBI doesn&#x
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I wonder if it's a matter of apathy or if they genuinely like that idea. Most people I talk to about this say "I don't even want to know" or "who cares". They just find the whole thing difficult or painful to e
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Too simplistic, regional arrangements don't necessarily mean everyone in said community follows the ideology of that group. Moving outside of the realm of abstracted ideological thought experiments is kind of a difficult thing. So how
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I'm just kinda reflecting what I read about a book called "bullshit jobs", where he gives examples like telemarketing and a lot of paper pushing admin positions. Basically anything that society as a whole wouldn't notice
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
What if the value to someone is keeping people busy and thus not challenging the status quo? Or what if the job is useless to society but still makes some money?
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
But this can have the effect of reducing incentive to work, according to the criticisms section of that page and some other stuff I've read.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Ya, but we don't even know if the racial disparity and gender disparity are affected by the same factors. I'm not arguing they don't exist I'm arguing for comprehensive evaluation instead of assumptions based on incomple
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
I'm not really trying to make a judgement on the moral aspects, I'm just a fan of accurately representing the situation. What if a disproportionate amount of the applications are from women? That'd be a societal thing and not
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
OK, but like 63% of the U.S consists of whites. If it were an even distribution it would be disproportionate. Whites are somewhat over represented based on your numbers, but not as much as you seem to imply.
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
My kneejerk reaction to this is to panic about the opposite of what the concern here seems to be. Seems to me like ubiquitous surveillance via any and all available technology is a bigger threat than "going dark" would be. I know
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
That's anecdotal at best. According to a good deal I've read, the "new generation" actually does have quite a few problems previous generations never had to deal with. My father was able to buy his parents house after a
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
In most places it's much easier to get some heroin than psychedelics, in some places about as easy as getting weed. There are delivery services in major cities. People don't see its ubiquity but from personal experience, it's
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Yes, I don't know why really. I actually started at like 8
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Eh, I work in the service sector and when everyone was bumped to 9/hr I got bumped to 10. It wasn't a 1 to 1 bump but only like 2 people complained. Not sure how financially viable this is for other companies, but we're a med
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by Absentinsomniac 11y ago
Yes I did, my fault.

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