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by stopads 7y ago
When I learned to program (before 9/11) there was a big emphasis on assembly language and using low level interfaces to communicate with other hardware. The idea was that everyone studying computer science should understand every aspec
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by stopads 7y ago
The data is wrong for at least five or six cases near me, the county seems to be missing or just wrong. Why present a splashy tool like this if it just has bad data? This is irresponsible.
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by stopads 7y ago
Yes, after we eliminate all the trucking jobs in the county which are one of the last remaining decent jobs for unprivileged people, then the robberies will really take off. Better come up with a log(n) solution to those dirty poor people w
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by stopads 7y ago
The libertarian tech monoculture is the problem, not the solution. If you knew the history of the industry or Kansas over the past 30 years you'd realize you're exactly backwards. Deere and similar companies got the idea to create
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APS Physics conference canceled at the last minute due to coronavirus fears(space.com)
1 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
Calling it a "victimless grift" as this writer does is just naive and silly. The thousands of people who got laid off while Adam got billions in golden parachute funds is the very definition of the word victim. Just because we&#x2
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by stopads 7y ago
Everyone is getting tired of the bullshit industrial complex that so many companies seem to tread in. If you have zero plans for profitability, zero plans for sustainability, zero ideas for actually creating a new useful product or service
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by stopads 7y ago
Ambitious or half-assed? You'd have to know literally nothing about gaming to call Stadia ambitious.
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by stopads 7y ago
Yeah it's funny how he was the only corrupt CEO in all of corporate America during that time. So weird how nobody else besides him and Martha Stewart ever got prosecuted for insider trading despite it happening ALL THE TIME EVERY DAY E
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by stopads 7y ago
Yes, Qwest (the telecom, formerly US West) resisted and fought tooth and nail to not cooperate. Their CEO was prosecuted to hell and back for daring to do this, and the company was forced to sell to a competitor. Nobody even remembers his n
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Clearview AI says hacker accessed entire database(thehill.com)
2 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
It's kind of hilarious that they still spend money on the PR team to push these stories about how important and sanctimonious cash is while at the same time printing billions of dollars every night and just transferring to any bank or
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by stopads 7y ago
Yeah this piece really hit the peak of "lie to everybody and just keep pushing forward on bullshit" startup sentiment that was really big 10 years. It was a really dark time, we're still cleaning up those messes today.
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At Stake in Boy Scouts’ Bankruptcy: $1B in Assets, or Much More(nytimes.com)
2 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
It seems like Boeing (and the FAA and the industry more broadly) have been hiding behind the veil of the "zero commercial accidents" streak for however long that was happening while aggressively trying to coverup serious problems.
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by stopads 7y ago
It boggles my mind how terrible the web is becoming on lower end connections. I have about 200ms of delay to most servers and about 5Mbit of bandwidth, and many major web pages take over 30 seconds to load if I don't block most of the
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Mumps outbreaks across England driven by outbreaks in universities and colleges(gov.uk)
1 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
The news here is that all telecom equipment is required to have back doors built into them, the "crime" is the manufacturer sometimes using this too. I don't know if this is hugely revelatory or surprising, it has been common
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No Man's Sky's Interstellar NIMBYs Clash with a Would-Be Railroad Tycoon(vice.com)
2 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
It really seems like this might be the start of the collapse of an incompetent monopoly. Lots of new business opportunities here, this is a rare event.
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Uber expects to be profitable by Q4 2020(cnbc.com)
1 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
It's a bit surreal having multiple trillion dollar companies all of a sudden. Meanwhile, the tent city that used to just be under the bridge near downtown keeps spreading, it's up to a few hundred tents spread across almost two bl
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iHeartMedia laid off hundreds of radio DJs. Executives blame AI(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
This is really cool, I had no idea these exist and are somewhat affordable. For example: https://www.amazon.com/Resqlink-PLB-375-Personal-Locator-Buo... I'm going to pick something like this up before my next Wyoming a
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U.S. issues travel warning for China amid coronavirus outbreak(cnbc.com)
1 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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Waterboarding of detainees was so gruesome that CIA officials wept(latimes.com)
20 points by stopads 7y ago|3 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
Bzzzzt, try again. I can fit both kids and carseats in the back of my old tiny 2 door VW GTI.
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by stopads 7y ago
Shouldn't this link to the article? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max-idUSKBN1Z90...
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by stopads 7y ago
It's just a diamond, they are not very interesting unless you believe the TV commercials that tell you they are super important and special. Carbon is carbon. I'm just laughing at 800 MILLION YEAR OLD ROCK. Like you know how old a
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by stopads 7y ago
You think because the employees weren't executives and they were talking to eachother it's all ok? What on earth are you talking about? Boeing employees should be in prison, there shouldn't be bail while awaiting trial. This

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