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by xs 5y ago
What I see here is tax evasion. But done in a roundabout legal loopholish kind of way. 1. Establish profitable company in your home country. 2. Establish 2nd company in a tax haven country. 3. Give 2nd company some kind of ownership, and th
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by xs 5y ago
The last one on the list 30 - Arcosanti. Was actually built out in the desert of Arizona.
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by xs 5y ago
Oh wonderful. So that means John Deere can drop all the lawsuits against farmers who try to repair their own tractors since farmers didn't break any law. Right?
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by xs 5y ago
But you aren't using an M1. The article says M1s can only go up to 16GB of memory, and the M2 should be able to do 64GB.
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by xs 5y ago
The article says M1 can only support up to 16GB of RAM. The M2 would be able to support 64GB.
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by xs 5y ago
What I don't get is that the intel based macbook pros allow you to get 32G of RAM and 4TB hard drive. While the M1s only allow a max of 16G of RAM and 2TB hard drive. I'm not taking a hit on these other, in my opinion, much much m
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by xs 5y ago
The thing that isn't addressed. Their terms now say that people 13 and under cannot use their product. Yet this tool is taught in schools. They want to collect this data but do not want to follow COPPA laws.
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by xs 5y ago
You would think you could listen to an oral history right? Looks like it might be better titled "a written history".
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by xs 5y ago
I built one of these once. I even figure out a way to remotely trigger the garage door to close. I programmed it so that if I left it open for too long it'll message me telling me, and if I still stays open too long after that it'
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by xs 6y ago
Wait a minute... What about copyright? Like I would love to have a blog where I can just copy and paste my favorite recipes, and add a few notes myself. But I don't do that because it seems like plagiarism. Or another option is to use
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by xs 6y ago
This is what hacker giraffe used to print to 70,000 printers printing "subscribe to pewdiepie".
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by xs 6y ago
> The rest of the story is simple — you need to store a counter in the database and return an SVG image with the number of views as a response. Of course, there will be some extra requests from bots, but having such statistics is better
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by xs 6y ago
wenbin, for stats on hosting providers, when it's like podtrac, do you count both podtrac and the real host?
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by xs 6y ago
I just wonder, what % chance is there of lights out? Because if it's only a 30% chance that that'll happen, then doesn't that mean a 70% chance of it coming back up, quadrupling in price in the next year?
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by xs 6y ago
The bigger the map the better! When you have a ton of data points all mapped out Maltego has tools for you to analyze this data in amazing ways. You can sort of twist and turn the data to look at it in different ways to discover the meaning
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by xs 6y ago
Been using Affinity Photo for a year now. I love it. I feel confident with the tool and can make some pretty cool things. No other tool has made me feel that way. I've spent 10 years on and off using gimp and photoshop. Never could get
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by xs 7y ago
No. My entire business is based on RSS. And it's doing great. I'm a podcaster. All podcasts are RSS feeds.
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by xs 7y ago
Poking around I found this: https://pod.fund/ Apparently they are investing in podcasts with a lot of potential. And then when they become profitable they take a cut of the earnings.
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by xs 7y ago
There's glimpses of this out there. Leon Neyfakh created the podcast Slow Burn while working for slate. But he wanted to make a second podcast called Fiasco, but Slate wasn't on board with it or Leon was tired of slate or somethin
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by xs 7y ago
Anyone know anything about investing in podcasts? Like, suppose you find a fresh new one, where it has a lot of potential but just needs more practice/exposure/equipment. And you want to help them get there quicker by giving say $
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by xs 7y ago
First that comes to mind is Joe Rogan. He started a podcast in 2009. His SocialBlade profile says he makes between $16,500 - $264,000 a month from his youtube videos alone. But the bulk of his downloads are going to be from his rss feed, wh
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by xs 7y ago
Carbanak is a piece of malware originally used to rob banks in Ukraine and Russia by jackpotting ATMs and changing the account balances. Since then the malware has lived on to be used to target US companies such as Chipotle, Ruby Tuesday, B
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Ask HN: When did you lose control of your inbox?
4 points by xs 8y ago|10 comments
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by xs 8y ago
I just listened to this podcast episode. At no point do they answer the question on the title. This is a very short peek into cyber insurance and phishing. It you like podcasts and stories about hacking, skip this one and try the podcast Da
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by xs 8y ago
I learned how to podcast. Editing, writing, narrating, interviewing, sound design, publishing, and marketing were all things I had to learn to accomplish this. Some were technical others weren't. Glad I got into it. It's been a dr
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by xs 8y ago
The Boston's Children's hospital was attached once by anonymous. This podcast covers the story very well. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/14
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by xs 8y ago
If you like this story you may like this podcast episode. 15 year old hacks his school and gets more than he bargained for. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/17/
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by xs 8y ago
Been using Pixlr (a photoshop-like web browser app) for over 5 years now. Here's why. * It's free * It loads so much faster, and the interface is in my opinion just as responsive as photoshop. * It doesn't require 200+ Meg of
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by xs 8y ago
In many of these states there are still buildings that were made by native Americans far before the ones listed.
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by xs 8y ago
This is interesting timing. I just released a podcast episode today about the history of the relationship between Google and China. To get caught up on what's going on listen to this. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode&

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