piracykills

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by piracykills 8y ago
From what I've read, a single drink is usually good for sleep, 2 or 3 is too much and will do more harm than good. Wikipedia currently agrees with me, but the reference is from 1980, so not sure that's the best available informati
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by piracykills 8y ago
How they do this is basically to send google.com in the TLS SNI then when they get to the HTTP level send Host: signal.org This will only work with compatible servers. In Signal's case they use AppEngine which is behind Google's n
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by piracykills 8y ago
I don't think so - over-prescription of opioids and more common usage of fentanyl seem to the be the key factors in the death increases. Nothing to do with underlying socioeconomic conditions nor societal problems. I don't underst
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by piracykills 8y ago
That some tiny portion of the deaths in your country are from opioid overdoses? People voluntarily injecting themselves with drugs and fucking up? Why exactly does this concern you so much? It's hard to see it as representative of a la
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by piracykills 8y ago
I'd advise reading the article I linked, the increases are far from modest in many cases. I'll agree with you on the environmental issues, but I think we're well on the way to solving those too and largely via the same mechan
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by piracykills 8y ago
That's a very niche problem in comparison - we're talking hundreds of millions of people leaving poverty across the globe compared to under hundreds of thousands dying of opioid overdoses. Perhaps it's because I'm not Am
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by piracykills 8y ago
There was a whole push for netbooks like the Asus EEE PC that happened around the same time as the original XO.
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by piracykills 8y ago
I don't think so, reading real statistics on this kind of thing instead of alarmist and politically slanted headlines paints a very different picture of how the world is doing. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
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by piracykills 8y ago
Stupid clickbait.
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by piracykills 8y ago
Yeah, I managed to miss a digit when I ran the numbers myself so I was off by an order of magnitude when I wrote my post. Glad you checked it. Fucking hilarious what these guys will say - of course, I think that's a goal, to shock any
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by piracykills 8y ago
Are suspicions really enough to put you into illegal territory here? If so it'd be a very hard crime to prosecute as unless you were working for them or something it's very hard to prove you aren't just another victim.
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by piracykills 8y ago
> >6-7% annual returns I wouldn't say quite that low, even S&P averages are often higher than that. But 48% monthly is going to be something like a >1000% yearly interest rate. You really don't get much more of a dea
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by piracykills 8y ago
They've already managed to use CRISPR to give color blind primates their full vision back... http://www.neitzvision.com/research/gene-therapy/
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by piracykills 8y ago
They might just be looking for some way to differentiate themselves on iOS given Apple's policy of not allowing 3rd party rendering engines.
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by piracykills 8y ago
How widely deployed is that display stream compression?
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by piracykills 8y ago
Looking for a way to do better remote access to Linux boxes - Microsoft's RDP completely nails it on Windows, I used to quite like NX, but don't hear much about it these days, how do you find x2go, particularly from a server confi
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by piracykills 8y ago
Fun fact - "DivX ;-)" was a cracked version of the Microsoft MPEG4 decoder which was originally restricted to only play in ASF containers and has nothing to do with DivX the company which came later. For more history on this, see
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by piracykills 8y ago
> My hosting provider eventually took it down, because URL redirectors can be used for phishing. What provider was this? I'm going to make sure to never use them. That's not a valid reason at all to take someone's site dow
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by piracykills 8y ago
I think about 3 times a week I get emails from a new cryptocurrency upstart that I've never heard of but which is using either the hacked Mt.Gox or BTC-e list. The practices these people are using are scummy as fuck.
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by piracykills 8y ago
Doesn't scrypt suffer from much of the same parameter selection issues? I know I've had to choose some fairly obtuse values when using scrypt for login in a webapp. In fact, taking a quick look again I find Argon2's "mem
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by piracykills 8y ago
I suppose you're right, not necessarily between the two parties but between US citizens and each other, for which the parties are sometimes used as a proxy - you see lots of promotion of black rights groups with fringe views and far-ri
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by piracykills 8y ago
I'm under the impression Argon2 is at least marginally better than scrypt as it has heavily analyzed side channel mitigations and such. Is scrypt better in some other way?
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by piracykills 8y ago
Much of it seems to more be designed to sew discord between the parties than to directly influence the election. Mission accomplished I guess.
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by piracykills 8y ago
Curious - why is argon2 still second to scrypt on this list? I'd also question the backup solution, I think Restic is a better option due to its flexibility, I can do cheap backups to B2 and fairly reputable people seem to be approving
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by piracykills 8y ago
If you read the details of that decision, they're pretty interesting - they only did it because people were claiming CloudFlare were supporting their ideas. Matthew Prince basically said "this is dangerous" and a month or two
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by piracykills 8y ago
Not so sure, I saved over $1200 this year in about 1 hour of research and 1 hour of phone calls and live chats... my time is definitely not worth $600/hr.
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by piracykills 8y ago
Sure, you can sync to your own drives or to several commercial storage providers, but it's not as cheap as it should be. We're talking geographically distributed storage on an open marketplace, cryptographically enforced for extr
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by piracykills 8y ago
Yeah, I mean it only makes sense. It's about price discrimination - they don't want to give you a discount if you're willing to pay full price, same reason companies send out coupons or mobile app offers. They want to offer d
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by piracykills 8y ago
There are brushes that don't use bristles. For example: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B073VHLQNW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=U...
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by piracykills 8y ago
It's likely quite profitable, they don't buy bandwidth from Amazon, they get a few colo'd machines or dedicated servers in many DCs - you can get dedicated gigabit lines in several DCs for a few hundred a month. Most subscrib

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