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by gherkin0 10y ago
For those who don't get this reference (I didn't), it appears to be from Atlas Shrugged: http://theexplanationproject.wikia.com/wiki/Directive_10-289 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_S
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by gherkin0 10y ago
That would be a good subtitle: Did Microsoft steal its fonts from the Turkish army?: Font metadata proves 2003 Turkish coup plan evidence was faked.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Wasn't that conspiracy theory started by President Erdogan literally as soon as he possibly could start it (on the televised Facetime chat)?
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Those kinds of modifications are of a completely different category than modifications to an autonomous driving system. There aren't serious civil or criminal penalties to deter "ridiculous wheel/tire packages" because
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Realistically, you handle such things via deterrence. When an accident happens, the car's software can be dumped (in some cases), and criminal/civil liability can be assessed based on the results. The risk of heavy fines or jail
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by gherkin0 10y ago
That's actually way cheaper than I expected it to be. Though I supposed an actual spaceflight-worthy camera with that sensor would cost far more than the one you linked.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
That's a lot. Vitamin D tests are easy to get, so I just took a few over a few months to find a dose that would keep me at ~50ng/ml. Previous to that, I had taken 5000+ IU/day for some time and the test showed my levels wer
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> I believe you're required to keep something like 30-45 minutes worth of fuel beyond what you need to get to your destination. > I've noticed that people who work on electric aircraft express some annoyance with this. As so
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I think the bigger bias at play is the just-world fallacy. Employers assume that everyone who is unemployed must be unemployed justly because something is wrong with them (e.g. they're incompetent, slackers, toxic, etc.). That's
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I'm not so sure. Wouldn't leaving the bootloader/root filesystem unencrypted make the device more vulnerable to physical tampering by a non-Apple party that could compromise user data? I'm assuming that these things wer
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by gherkin0 10y ago
There's also a bias against the currently unemployed. It took 6 months of hard work for a friend of mine to find a job after he quit one after 3 months without anything lined up, because it was such a bad fit that it was making him de
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by gherkin0 10y ago
From what I've read, the shooter was contained and did not have hostages. They didn't need to bomb him to death because "negotiations failed," they could have kept him under siege until he was forced to surrender due to
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by gherkin0 10y ago
That may be part of the reason why it was so good. In 1998, they had to make it playable on 56k modems, and a lot of those optimizations probably transferred over to smooth play over better connections. Now there are fewer incentives to op
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> Fun fact: Dominic Giampalo (who wrote the BeOS file system) is on the APFS team. His book "Practical File System Design" is an excellent description of a traditional UNIX file system design. May be out of print now but I thin
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> I see "Start Encrypt" as a capitalist answer to a competing product with (very) cheesy marketing Also with very cheesy and bad grammar.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Honestly, I thought things were a whole lot better (from a UX perspective) when you just handed the cashier the card and they operated the card reader for you. They know their system's idiosyncrasies; the customer doesn't. I&#x27
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by gherkin0 10y ago
And all you'll get from the front desk is the hyper-inflated "list price" (for the uninsured). If you have insurance, your (insurance negotiated) price is treated as Top Secret confidential information until you're
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> but what part of the constitution allows you to ban a private citizen from speaking about their ideas? Perhaps no part. The article states the government has been careful to back down when challenged in order to avoid that question be
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by gherkin0 10y ago
This is total, corrupt bullshit. How the fuck is a traffic cop supposed to ascertain the origin of the money in your accounts, let alone if it was from the "the commission of a crime?"
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by gherkin0 10y ago
The acts may not be "illegal" but they are unjust and immoral.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
IIRC, there exist things for GPS called "null steering antennas" that allow a receiver point a "null" at a jamming source to block it. I believe they're considered controlled munitions by the US government.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
EEVBlog did a teardown part of one of these systems from a B-52 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzGaO4Kdz2Y ). IIRC, it used a completely mechanical analog computer.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
If the FBI asks for the power to access N without a warrant, it should be automatically be required to get two warrants from two separate judges to get access.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
The IBM clone business existed by 1985, but not "commodity hardware" in the modern sense. Like someone else said, the Macintosh was released at about the same time, was both IBM-incompatible and Apple II-incompatible, and it man
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> There was no reason for a proprietary keyboard, either. Amiga's refusal to work with commodity hardware meant that it was doomed I do not believe the concept of "commodity hardware" was well established when the Amiga wa
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Yeah, I'm sure he would've raised no suspicions whatsoever by taking snapshots of his NSA workstation screen with a camera. /s
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by gherkin0 10y ago
There are more factors than just goods and sales though, like the independence and autonomy of the country/community, it's level of infrastructure, social development, etc. Local producers can help with those factors, while forei
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by gherkin0 10y ago
>>> Everything went smoothly for about 6 months until I was updating Owncloud with a minor version upgrade, and then BAM; nobody (myself included) could decrypt any data on the server. > Do you back up the unencrypted data thoug
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> presumably until its copyright expires or copyright laws change. Then what's the point? The whole point of Sci-hub is to distribute copyrighted papers, "archive" would be inaccessible until it is useless.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> The headline is seriously misleading I think it's more a difference between technical vocabulary and colloquial vocabulary. I think a lot of people use the word "energy" to to refer to something more like "fuel.&qu

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