duckfang

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by duckfang 5y ago
switch the letters of my username. that's what I think of you.
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by duckfang 5y ago
> In my opinion, the truly beautiful concept involved here is Euler's formula: > e^(ix) = cos x + i sin x. And that right there, is the mathematical basis for a quadrature mixer... And all of software defined radios. https:&#x2F
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by duckfang 5y ago
But that's always been true. And companies are going to do that if they can, regardless if we WfH or WfW. More than a few of us have seen the mass firings, and training some barely-comprehensible foreign workers, whom wreck the place,
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by duckfang 5y ago
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jaywalking-arrest-black-... https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/stopped-... https://www.aclu.org/blog/crimin
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by duckfang 5y ago
EVERYTHING is political, when involving more than 1 person. The DMCA is political, and is the basis in which most orgs allow public comment. Copyright is political. Patents are political. Cryptocurrency is explicitly political WRT being a
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by duckfang 5y ago
I've refused going on WebEx calls and claim technical reasons why it doesnt work. ANYTHING is better than Webex. Even smoke signals over IP is better.
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Amazon’s Cost Saving Routing Algorithm Makes Drivers Walk into Traffic(vice.com)
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by duckfang 5y ago
- Social chatter. I associate with my friends and a few groups I frequent. I've never felt the compunction to do this at work or with work people for the most part. - Making friends with old employees who I didn'
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by duckfang 5y ago
redtube you say? redtube.com is a porn site. Its a poor product naming with google. I'd imagine that's going to make for some consternation.
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by duckfang 5y ago
It's not just VC finding. It's YCombinator funding. From https://tracxn.com/d/companies/platohq.com Jun 01, 2016 : $120K : Seed : Y Combinator How many predatory and scammy companies does YC have to fund
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by duckfang 5y ago
I suggest you look up some reading on the subject, and try to shy away from the US propaganda. No Choice but War: The United States Embargo Against Japan and the Eruption of War in the Pacific https://www.jstor.org/stable&#x
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by duckfang 5y ago
Lets remind us our dates. July 4, 1898, the Newlands Resolution was a joint resolution by the United States Congress to annex the independent Republic of Hawaii. In 1900, Congress occupied the Territory of Hawaii, despite the opposition of
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by duckfang 5y ago
Same here, with their email AND vpn. Its been flawless so far, tech wise. But yeah, they really need to control and focus their core message to a tech board. If you whiff that (which they did), there's a good chance in running off your
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by duckfang 5y ago
This line of discussion from Protonmail is making me greatly reconsider closing my accounts (plural) there for VPN and mail service. This is embarrassing at minimum, and show negative interaction with customers.
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by duckfang 5y ago
s/backed MMO metaverse game //g Fixed the title for you.
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by duckfang 5y ago
No. That's called bible-thumping. In our world, it's trivially easy to get hold of any major religion's works, and only moderately difficult to get hold of smaller religion's works, primarily due to translation issues. A
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by duckfang 5y ago
Sorry, but I dont base my worldview on what a bunch of bronze-age people said. It's a good mythological story, though. We have science. -------------------------------- Edit: I really don't understand the downvoters. This specific
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by duckfang 5y ago
Convenient that you ignore my link: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2... ------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 11-20 April 30, 2020 Intelligence
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by duckfang 5y ago
Of course it's political. The claim is "Chinese military virology lab was experimenting with highly infectious material, and it escaped into the general population." And back in October 2020, this was published: https:/
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by duckfang 5y ago
Easy to say that. But when you tear these claims down, they started with anything but factual or substantial. 1. COVID wasnt caused by 5G. Nor vice versa. 2. We've seen MERS, SARS, and other coronavirus diseases previously in the regio
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by duckfang 5y ago
You can say that, but I've heard the diatribes that the "China virus" was because they were playing with 5G and viruses and it escaped into bats and those chinamen ate the bats and...(cringe). Just go look up the conspiracies
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by duckfang 5y ago
The company was a shell company owned by Greetings, across from Peoples' Park. They sell lots of novelty goods like this still.
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by duckfang 5y ago
feel free to come into irc.libera.chat #reprap and offer to pay us to go back. I'll tell you where to put your money.
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by duckfang 5y ago
And this should be a sign to every founder-wannabe and capitalist: You can buy hardware, trademarks, and DNS, and stuff. YOU CANNOT BUY COMMUNITY. YOU CANNOT BUY GOODWILL.
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by duckfang 5y ago
Mentioning Libera.chat was a ToS violation as of last night. The IRCOP bots that swept doing the de-op, de-voice, de-ban, rename-topic, rename room was the initial pass. Then they updated their website to say that.
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by duckfang 5y ago
I work in this area. And yes, for any function that does malware, there's an infinity of similar functions that do the same. And you cannot catch them all. What you typed is good for an academic setting, in the "wellactually techn
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by duckfang 5y ago
> I'm not sure they feel ashamed or should; USD 0.7 billion solves a lot of problems for the owners/employees. Selling a company ALMOST NEVER benefits the employees. It ALMOST ALWAYS benefits the owners who sell. And giving th
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by duckfang 5y ago
This sounds like dumb marketing material of "This is the only security software you need!" Turing completeness means there's nigh infinite ways to convolute malware that will evade all scanners. And as long as users have capa
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by duckfang 5y ago
Email validation : Accept email from user. Send email to that address with a link to verify. Go/no-go test if link is clicked. (If you're doing some fever garbage or otherwise trying to parse it, you're doing it wrong.)
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by duckfang 5y ago
Because a 3 ft by 3 ft by 7 ft upright locking coffin is a PERFECT place for timeout.

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