Mithorium

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by Mithorium 8y ago
To save people the reading, the safety feature triggered was an automatic dive maneuver initiated by the flight computer as a result of an incorrect angle-of-attack sensor reading causing the plane to believe it was in a stall, when it actu
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by Mithorium 8y ago
I have coworkers like that too, guys who've been working for much longer than me (and getting paid more), without savings. We're not working at a minimum wage job, how do they even manage to spend all of that? Do they not plan on
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Google Chrome will soon say “no changing browser history”(slashgear.com)
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by Mithorium 8y ago
The evil seller doesn't ship the item but signs the product shipped message anyway. Who's gonna stop them, it's not like the blockchain knows if they actually shipped it or not. Or maybe they shipped a fake or non working ite
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by Mithorium 8y ago
>Bush’s contracts with Yellowstone show that the company advanced him a total of about $250,000 and that he paid them back more than $600,000. how do people get tricked into agreeing to terms like this
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by Mithorium 8y ago
Well I guess our disagreement is that the world at that point had the dynamic where any electronic item was to be confused with a bomb. I was alive in 2007, some LED lights arranged in a star would certainly not have screamed "bomb&quo
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by Mithorium 8y ago
Well, if in her view, it was just a nametag and not a scary piece of technology , then I think it's reasonable to not understand why anyone would be uneasy. Did people wearing google glasses back when that was a thing respond to every
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by Mithorium 8y ago
the only naivete I can find in those links is that of the airport workers thinking a light up nametag is a bomb. About as ridiculous as the time boston shut down over some light up LED signs [1]. Something has wires and LED lights? Must be
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by Mithorium 8y ago
Arguably stronger than the locks on most home doors, that could be picked in under a minute
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by Mithorium 8y ago
I should hope he didn't roll his own encryption, pretty sure openssl existed in 2000, the NSA could have gotten a copy of that easily
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by Mithorium 8y ago
not the master key, the schematics to the lock maybe. Assuming no bugs, I don't see how the source code could help in any way, they may as well have downloaded the source code for openssl. He also didn't bother to verify whether i
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by Mithorium 8y ago
No tether has ever been destroyed. While tether in its terms maintains that Tethers are redeemable "provided that you are a fully verified customer of Tether" [1], there is no known case of this ever happening, in fact it is a run
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by Mithorium 8y ago
I don't know if I'd describe the speed of light as "low", more like the universe is really, really big
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by Mithorium 8y ago
Someone have a readable version? Article shows up for 250ms on my screen then disappears leaving only the reuters header, tried switching browsers and everything
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by Mithorium 8y ago
so the plane will tow the rocket beyond the environment? as long as the front doesn't fall off, seems like a good plan
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by Mithorium 8y ago
Never used next, looks interesting. So with this setup, the browser doesn't do any work, all pages are loaded as if they were static, and rendered server side?
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by Mithorium 8y ago
Late response, but I think it has to due with social pressure. You may meet the host in person, and feel bad about giving someone you know "personally" a bad rating. Additionally, they are also rating you as a guest, so it may be
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by Mithorium 8y ago
I also distinctly remember enjoying going to the mall as a kid because of the fountains and glass ceiling atrium, lots of seating spaces, is that not a thing anymore?
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by Mithorium 8y ago
leave it to the lawyers to take the fun out of everything :(
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by Mithorium 8y ago
we are ALL teapots on this blessed day :)
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by Mithorium 8y ago
I was interested to see what that looked like and found Opening down: http://www.mobiletechworld.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/... Opening up: http://i.stack.imgur.com/gZdjo.png I like it
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by Mithorium 8y ago
This reminds me of "lets do x, except in THE CLOUD" all over again. fight censorship by putting things in THE CLOUD where it can't easily be blocked, stream video from THE CLOUD wasn't "the cloud" supposed to d
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by Mithorium 8y ago
The technology has existed for many years already, and it has already made 'broader implications', see git. The only thing new about it is that people now call it 'blockchain' instead of a merkle tree. The reason banks a
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by Mithorium 8y ago
lazy actor: I print out the barcodes, and stick them on the paper rolls at random bad actor: I manufacture the cheaper rolls, and stick labels for the expensive ones on, and scan them How will "the blockchain" prevent either scena
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by Mithorium 8y ago
I imagine something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MKcTbYDP7w except for bricks
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by Mithorium 8y ago
What about airlines with online booking websites? People have travelled for sex tourism to countries with trafficked sex workers, and it's such a known phenomenon that there's no reasonable way the operators of an airline could be
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by Mithorium 9y ago
All her tweets on the subject are great >Internet rando 2: What about people who live under oppressed governments with unsound currency >Me: Only if the problem with their currency is that it's not volatile enough and the transac
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by Mithorium 9y ago
If it's been 2 years, can they even prove that he can still remember the password? He hasn't had to use it for over 2 years, it would be entirely probable his memory of it has faded. How about this theoretical situation: I place a
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by Mithorium 9y ago
on the contrary, popular opinions would gather more karma, thus allowing them to share their ideas more often, unpopular opinions will quickly have their posting ability removed via downvotes. Soon enough only the prevailing popular opinion
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by Mithorium 9y ago
wasn't there a judge somewhere that gave people a choice between a "creative" punishment and a traditional one? I found at least one example at http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-judge-unusual-punishments-peop

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