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by _alxk 4y ago
That doesn't preclude that further optimisation of solar panels could stem from research on photosynthesis.
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by _alxk 4y ago
No, they actively lobbied over the years of her reign to preserve their economic benefits. They enjoyed this luxury and made attempts at preserving and expending it. Elizabeth was not a passive victim of her birth circumstances.
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by _alxk 4y ago
I never bought this argument. France got rid of their royal family but the royal palaces and their art still attract millions of tourists each year. Tourists would still want to see Buckingham Palace and visit the royal gallery even without
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by _alxk 4y ago
The Crown Estate is not the private property of the Windsor family though. It is more akin to the wealth of a parallel state. One could speculate that in the event of the abolition of the monarchy the Crown Estate would be taken over by the
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by _alxk 4y ago
The "war on terror", like the "war on drugs", is a misnomer though; it's not really a war (although a couple of wars were waged as part of it, or alongside it).
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by _alxk 4y ago
You'll encounter two kinds in most Security Engineer roles: 1) reviewing and advising on engineering work carried by other engineers, so you need to understand what they're doing, why they're doing it that way, and what the m
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by _alxk 4y ago
I was interviewing for Security Engineer positions at FAANGs and put together this list: https://github.com/serain/crack-sec-eng-interviews You may find something to pique your interest in there. Security Engineer inte
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by _alxk 4y ago
> I guess those guys aren't real then? You didn't even check your own link I guess. That group's first attack was in 1984 when they operated out of Egypt and in the south of Israel/Palestine. Not a single one of their
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by _alxk 4y ago
There was no "Islamic Jihad" in Palestinian groups before the 90s. Religion wasn't a factor in Palestinian politics or militancy before Hamas, and Hamas only became a big player during the second intifada in the 2000s. I unde
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Cracking the Security Engineer Interviews(github.com)
1 points by _alxk 4y ago|0 comments
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by _alxk 4y ago
> PLO tried to distinguish itself from Hamas by claiming to be more secular Hamas was founded in 1989, a bit late for participation in the Lebanese civil war. > Arafat, the leader of the PLO, wasn't christian. That's ... wei
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by _alxk 4y ago
>largely as a result of radical Islamist Palestinians who had left Palestine and wanted an Islamic state in Lebanon Not accurate. Until the early 90s and the rise of Hamas the most active Palestinian militant groups were secular, some we
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by _alxk 4y ago
> Ballerina team told me that in the future Ballerina will not be hosted on JVM. They also told me that back at Kubecon in 2018 :D
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by _alxk 4y ago
That's not what I understood from this passage: > Late capitalism is certainly bad enough, with its explosive cocktail of climate change, inequality, police brutality and the deadly pandemic. To me this says "we're at the
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by _alxk 4y ago
Software Engineers are generally intelligent people. Intelligent animals need stimulation or they get bored and depressed. I think collectively, "let's move to Rust" is at least partially because we're not challenged eno
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Attacking GitHub Organizations(github.com)
35 points by _alxk 5y ago|0 comments
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by _alxk 5y ago
Blindsight is the best SciFi book I've read, and one of my top 10 books of all time. It's not for everyone though, I tried to get friends and family to read it, I don't think a single one got through it. You pretty much need
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Show HN: GitOops – map attack paths in your GitHub org(github.com)
1 points by _alxk 5y ago|0 comments
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GitOops Attacking and defending CI/CD pipelines(tech.ovoenergy.com)
2 points by _alxk 5y ago|0 comments
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by _alxk 5y ago
This trick no longer seems to work on The Economist. Any alternative?
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GitOops Lateral movement and privesc in GitHub orgs via CI/CD pipelines(github.com)
3 points by _alxk 5y ago|0 comments
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by _alxk 5y ago
They apparently used some ML to make predictions about the position of the driver and the future position of the vehicle to account for the lag when they pulled the remote trigger from hundreds of miles away.
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by _alxk 5y ago
Shameless plug for something I've been working on: https://github.com/ovotech/gitoops/ I wrote GitOops to map attack paths through GitHub and CI/CD systems, at scale. As an ex-pentester, for most compani
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by _alxk 5y ago
Sadly, I had to ask myself the same question. A report came out in the UK claiming widespread anti-semitism on University campuses and made the headlines. They had failed to distinguish between criticism of Israel and anti-semitism in the r
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by _alxk 5y ago
There's a few things. 1) One thing to keep in mind is that religion is usually only the backdrop for some geopolitical issues. Yes, ISIS was an Islamist movement, but it was first and foremost opportunists seizing a vacuum of power in
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by _alxk 6y ago
first of all, half my family are war refugees from a field that is way more dangerous than Israel has been in the last 20 years, so let's talk. you're making a ridiculous leap from "worked in intelligence for the government&q
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by _alxk 6y ago
how does selling spyware to authoritarian regimes to crackdown on opposition and activists have anything to do with their own survival?
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by _alxk 6y ago
I honestly just don't care, and I suspect most don't either. I live in London, so probably not far from the GCP data centre, I have a 50mb connection (pretty average and affordable for London) and I don't see myself ever inve
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Ask HN: Online computer language engineering course?
4 points by _alxk 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to get a part-time tech job?
4 points by _alxk 6y ago|2 comments

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