DaftDank

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by DaftDank 1y ago
That will be quite a sight -- seeing the videos of people on the ground, filming future drone laser battles
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by DaftDank 1y ago
I think the difference with John vs. Assange is that Assange seemed a lot more willing to take political sides/positions, whereas John was more neutral. I have visited Cryptome on/off for something like 25 years now. I have never
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by DaftDank 2y ago
He says that, but what do you call being aggressive and hostile to allies -- i.e. threatening military force to take the Panama Canal and Greenland -- while aligning with Russia and China, who play the long game and will pretend to be frien
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by DaftDank 2y ago
The most genuinely good person I've known, my wife's very devout grandmother, who belonged to the United Church of Christ and whose husband was a preacher for a United Methodist Church, never once went out of her way to proselytiz
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by DaftDank 2y ago
It would indeed be hard to convince me Trump has not committed crimes, considering a jury found that he had and the whole, "Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck," thing. Tony Accardo ran the Chicago Outfit for 4-5 decades and nev
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by DaftDank 2y ago
Subjective interpretation is very fundamental to being human and the way our minds work, but the underlying physical reality -- the wavelengths of light reflecting off the shirt -- can be measured objectively. A physicist might say that gra
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Trump Allies Propose Manhattan Projects for AI(washingtonpost.com)
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by DaftDank 3y ago
Thanks, man. I appreciate that. Merry Christmas to you as well and Happy New Year!
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by DaftDank 3y ago
I learned this the hard way when I was homeless at 17-18 years old in the middle of Wyoming winters. I had at least had my old Grand Cherokee to sleep in the trunk space, but not enough money for gas to run the heater. I'd pile all my
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by DaftDank 4y ago
My brother has had life-long, serious mental health issues, and it's only been because of both medication AND life-long therapy that he has been able to reach a baseline of normalcy and being able to function. I think if you have a ser
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by DaftDank 4y ago
I'm not following. Why is being a doctor scary? And why do you believe or suggest doctors are killers?
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by DaftDank 4y ago
> I am pretty sure if I went straight to a psychiatrist instead of investing into long term therapy with a psychologist (that eventually suspected me having ADHD), I would have probably been given an SSRI and sent on my way. That's
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by DaftDank 4y ago
Out of curiosity, which test/company did you go with? A quick search reveals a lot of options, and I'm hoping you may have done some of the legwork already to determine if one is better than others for privacy reasons etc.?
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by DaftDank 4y ago
Doesn't the NSA represent a huge portion of our signals intelligence capabilities as a country? How would that role be filled otherwise? Wouldn't the best people to do many of those new jobs still be the people who used to work at
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by DaftDank 4y ago
In legal parlance, he will be "fu*ed."
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by DaftDank 4y ago
I assume that storage has gotten so cheap now that storing everything forever is feasible for companies? I always knew they had to retain content for X period of time, to comply with laws about data retention for criminal investigations, bu
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by DaftDank 5y ago
> I am thankful to HN's existence for this reason. It is among the last outlets where I can get quality content. Hopefully this doesn't make me some kind of elitist or something, but I specifically never link to Hacker News or
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by DaftDank 5y ago
I think there was more of a "break" in the decades since with Germany and Nazism, where in Russia, there wasn't as much of a break from the old Soviet systems and ways of thinking. Many years ago, I read this book, "The
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by DaftDank 5y ago
It does not seem unusual that an organization (NATO) created solely to defend/protect against one particular country would not allow that country to join forces with them.
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by DaftDank 5y ago
Let me start by saying I do not condone the destruction of government buildings in any way. Full stop. If there are separate parts of a system -- but all part of the same underlying system -- do you really see them as completely different t
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by DaftDank 5y ago
It is for me
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by DaftDank 5y ago
Check out APEC RO systems.
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by DaftDank 5y ago
Plot twist: He's applying at Pornhub next, and this gets him instantly hired.
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by DaftDank 5y ago
I'm not following. I feel like you are trying to tell me the Sun isn't warm, and is in fact, cold. Opioids are most definitely addicting by any definition of the word.
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by DaftDank 5y ago
I think when you are providing such a valuable service, there is almost zero chance they just stop.
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by DaftDank 5y ago
I think China's intention to surpass the U.S. as the dominant superpower by 2049, the 100-year anniversary of the PRC founding, is absolutely crystal clear and without doubt. They have said they would like to accomplish this through mi
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by DaftDank 5y ago
That's my mistake then, if it still allowed me to edit the comment I would do so to make that more clear.
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by DaftDank 5y ago
>Once you push parts into the supply chain you can’t really tell where they will end up. That's why I wonder if it wouldn't be a good, "broad spectrum" attack. I imagine aides to key Senators, Congressmen, White House
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by DaftDank 5y ago
I am spreading propaganda by mentioning a fictional book I read, which made me think of potential security vulnerabilities? Things like a LAN Turtle exist, and have probably existed long before most people were aware of them.
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by DaftDank 5y ago
After reading "Ghost Fleet" by P.W. Singer and August Cole, the idea in there about China putting backdoors in chips sent to the US for years -- laying the 'groundwork' for an eventual cyber and physical invasion -- has

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