xevb3k

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by xevb3k 8y ago
Thank you for your detailed answer. I understand the reasons better, it’s unfortunate and slightly depressing to me that the community hasn’t been able to come up with a better solution. Particularly as the google analytics approaches invol
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Yes but you’re saying twitter say their metrics are off by a factor of 5 because it’s not running the GA JS. If you wanted to properly investigate that looking at the server logs would probably give a better idea in this case. I guess with
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Why do you (and why do people in general) not use server logs for analytics of this sort? Seems like it might show requests that failed to get to the point of processing the analytics JS as well as those running adblockers.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’ve not heard it used that way, but I could be wrong. There’s possibly also a historical usage in this sense.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Right, but the word 地球 can only mean the planet Earth, it’s not synonymous with anything else and there’s no room for confusion. Soil, or ground (on any planet) is a different word. There’s not much room for confusion.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Interesting, it’s always been my assumption, and unless everyone is operating in good faith, if don’t have board control (and/or >50% of equity) it’s a possibility that I might well get diluted to nothing. As such, unless I’m confid
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by xevb3k 8y ago
In Japanese there’s 地球 which means Earth (this planet), and 土 which means soil. 地 can also mean soil, but it’s a different word from 地球 meaning the planet earth. I don’t think it’s commonly used by itself to mean soil either, but I could be
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by xevb3k 8y ago
While the OP has said they have 20% equity. Given the other two founders have a controlling interest, to what extent could they push the OP out and take/reduce their equity? I’m not saying they would, but I’m wondering how possible it
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by xevb3k 8y ago
First author should be the person who did the work, that’s pretty strandard. Corresponding author doesn’t always need to be first author. Honestly this does sound pretty terrible. The student doesn’t have to publish, and you don’t get to mi
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Can it completely satisfy our current energy requirements? Last I heard, nuclear was the only non-fossil fuel way of doing that. Is that still the case?
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by xevb3k 8y ago
That’s fair enough, I don’t think that process would work here though? I also don’t understand why you would do that. Given the ceramic part in question doesn’t look like anything that would be on a motherboard, and has been identified as a
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by xevb3k 8y ago
If you find evidence of discrimination, you take action. What action exactly is up for debate. You could even go so far as replacing the board. But not all, all male boards will be caused by discrimination, and adding a few females members
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by xevb3k 8y ago
No it wasn’t? They used to use gold caps. You could absolutely use a novel manufacturing technique to make something that looks like the picture in the article. It wouldn’t make much sense to do so, because that part doesn’t even belong on
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by xevb3k 8y ago
It’s reasonably clear that the chip shown in the article is very unlikely to be any kind of microcontroller/semiconductor. It’s embedded in ceramic. Such devices need to be fired at very high temperatures which a semiconductor wouldn’t
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by xevb3k 8y ago
If a fence is knocked down you fix the fence. Quotas suggest an approach that works more like “we know some fences are damaged in various ways, one way many of the fences are damaged is that they have water damage. So we’re going to replace
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Let’s say you expect boards in general to be 50% male/female. In case where this is not the case, and where it has not been the case for a number of years you might launch an investigation. It might be that there are reasonable reasons
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I find quotas in bad taste, and somewhat lazy. There is clearly an issue, but if we attempt to fix it with positive discrimination, we just create more issues. A better way to approach the problem might be increased scrutiny (for discrimina
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by xevb3k 8y ago
How much comes from China or Russia?
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I don’t understand this comment. The USA has a strong semiconductor industry. Probably stronger than China’s. China is traditionally not very strong an semiconductor fabrication. What they are strong at is PCB assembly. Or rather cheap PCB
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by xevb3k 8y ago
It’s not how things work everywhere I’m sure. But it seems likely in this case. As such, the content doesn’t surprise me, and I would put the blame solely on the author in this case.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
That maybe the case, but bad enough to get fired over? That’s not clear to me. The way modern writing works, I would expect he got paid very little for writing this. You’re kind of asked to push out X many blog posts a day, there’s not a hu
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I guess we read the article differently. Because he didn’t seem to be saying 5G was dangerous, more that this was the public perception, and that vendors are doing little to manage the PR around this.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Given the size estimation, it wouldn’t cover the whole footprint. But... why put it on an unpopulated footprint. Why not just replace the original Quad SPI IC with a backdoored device?
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by xevb3k 8y ago
If that’s the case, I guess Banksy will be laughing even harder...
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’m mean they could do that too... but why do this weirdly awkward thing described by Bloomberg at all? It’s not like doing both is extra sure, it’s just weirdly difficult and more easily detectable to do it in the way described.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I assume they won’t actually have to pay? I’d guess whatever contract their is with the seller also requires that the art is delivered safely to the purchaser. I wonder what the message is here, or if there is a message beyond the publicity
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Or just replace an existing chip, which is the most logical way to do it...
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by xevb3k 8y ago
And is there anything in that denial that has been shown to be technically incorrect? My understanding is that there wasn’t involvement from google, that data was extracted without their knowledge from links between data centers.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Two different stories, about two very different situations. There’s not really much equivalence. The report contains elements are are near impossible, and has other aspects that are very unlikely. It has also been denied far more strongly t
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I also feel that the hack described is only borderline technically feasible. They describe a microcontroller the size of a decoupling capacitor that is installed between the main CPU and main memory (as far as I can tell from the vague desc

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