gulfie

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by gulfie 6y ago
Nahhh, it's just good business(tm). "I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." - DV
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by gulfie 6y ago
This is _exactly_ the situation that this society came up with a new agreement to avoid. E.g. Presumption of innocence, and Habeas corpus to mention two.
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by gulfie 6y ago
They do take it seriously. It's just like the Nigerian prince scams. The insanity acts as a filter. What you get out the other side doesn't know or doesn't care that they are being misused.
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by gulfie 7y ago
https://permies.com/w/better-world : this covers this exact topic... in several different ways. Most of the electricity being used in the Wisconsin winter is going to be for heating. The best dollar ROI is typically
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by gulfie 11y ago
Due to shipping company economics the ships are in port. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-11/nothing-moving-balt... Amazon needs move product to make money. If others will not physically move that product
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by gulfie 11y ago
"The first rule of Fight Club is : You don't talk about Fight Club." -Tyler You get into the gang by sharing an existential threat to the group. Be it killing someone to get into a gang, be it telling your life's secre
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by gulfie 12y ago
yes, but when will it stop crashing?
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by gulfie 12y ago
We can learn that doing the right thing technically is often not done in business. QNX is another great example of awesomeness squandered.
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by gulfie 12y ago
The arc of development is clear. This is only a small beginning step. Existing boats are an easy low risk low cost platform to develop on. Expect air, submersible, and larger surface units with the same capabilities within time. Thought n
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by gulfie 12y ago
luckily that didn't happen with the hacker movement... oh wait.
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by gulfie 12y ago
A quick review showed a lack of : Reflections on Trusting Trust Ken Thompson ( http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html ) Any list without it, is a list without it.
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by gulfie 12y ago
Everyone dies, no one gets saved forever. Plumbers and garbage men saved more lives in the past century than doctors. (so I hear)
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by gulfie 12y ago
People just need to rewatch robocop.
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by gulfie 12y ago
I'd rather have them focus more on content and less on spelling. Especially when we are talking about the procedures for avoiding killing lots of people. Priorities are important in life.
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by gulfie 12y ago
tldr; The mission is to avoid aggravating the local population any more than necessary, and they may be angry for good and valid reasons. Hurting/shooting people tends to anger people and turn the military presence there untenable(co
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by gulfie 12y ago
Bull pucky. Have you ever been to Louisiana? http://www.businessinsider.com/most-corrupt-states-and-terri... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territo... If the big government e
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by gulfie 12y ago
1) business-friendly == 6 newly formulated rule books writen by the corporations will allow the corporations to help themselves to state resources without much in the way to stop them. Think about just a few. a) selling off state parks,
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by gulfie 12y ago
Yet another stunning advancement in the computer sciences. I wonder how Knuth will respond to being one upped.
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by gulfie 13y ago
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin... (speaking from second hand knowledge) They don't go into much of the really interesting detail in the paper. The awesome part of all of th
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by gulfie 13y ago
Bankrolled purchasers are attempting to commodity the server landscape into a platform that choke smaller companies. Something about embrace, extend and extinguish... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_ext
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by gulfie 13y ago
He moved to SF in late 2011. I'm guessing he moved to or was in the cheaper hipper places, which is exactly where the crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash hang out. They were there before he was. How long has the Tende
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by gulfie 13y ago
The notion of two tiered economy is overly simplified. It allows people to believe that they might be on or close to the upper side of the divide. Wealth and money (richness) distributions seem to follow power laws. He moved to SF in 2011
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by gulfie 13y ago
So how can we get the same people motivated to work for a cure?
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by gulfie 13y ago
Durable goods, that $750k took a lifetime to build. The least you can do is see it last another lifetime to hand off to someone else. Things that will decrease your monthly out of pocket expenses. E.g. if you have a home, solar panels, an
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by gulfie 13y ago
My 32 Billion dollar guess is Harvard. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list... Harvard students? Faculty? huh? Why would $32 Billion USD care about that?
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by gulfie 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Trojan
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by gulfie 13y ago
APT in a flash drive is just a cute trick. Just because you wrote zeros over it doesn't mean that the APT thumb drive firmware won't give you a trojan next time you read a the right kind of file off of it. Or maybe it waits a we
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by gulfie 13y ago
1) In this case fixing seems to be behavior(or thought) modification. 2) We fix people all the time. 3) Industries are built on it. 3) Fixing people is what pays for the internet of today. $557 Billion USD, of fixes just this year alone.
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by gulfie 13y ago
The comments were better than the article.
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by gulfie 13y ago
We are increasingly finding out that even owning and having physical control over the hardware isn't enough to insure secure a physical device. Google 'BIOS based Advanced persistent threat' and 'Hardware Trojan'.

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