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571.
by 21 8y ago
I was making a parallel with the outrage over the Google army contract.
572.
by 21 8y ago
Just imagine if GPS was developed today. There would be widespread blaming of programmers involved because "they are writing software for targeting missiles used to kill people".
573.
by 21 8y ago
Not everybody has a slow laptop. And while people wax how computers from 80s were booting in 2 seconds and everything was lightning fast compared to the bloated software of today, there doesn't seem to be much of a movement towards dit
574.
by 21 8y ago
Sounds like the argument C++ programmers use against Python.
575.
by 21 8y ago
There are so many other things that could leak besides thumbnails: When you opened that image from an encrypted volume in an image viewer portions of the memory could have been written to swap. All kinds of things will be logged to system l
576.
by 21 8y ago
And what about log files? Are you ok with leaking what operations you did to the encrypted volume?
577.
by 21 8y ago
> what stops QT from taking over all multi-platform targeted applications The fact that Electron is much better. I know this in a highly unpopular opinion here. I've programmed in them all (MFC/wxWidgets/QT/WinForms&#
578.
by 21 8y ago
Is drastically restricting the amount you eat equivalent to gastric bypass? Or is there something more? Put another way: is gastric bypass a way of solving the psychological problem of eating too much, the lack of will to stop eating?
579.
by 21 8y ago
> Americans for Prosperity counters that public transit plans waste taxpayer money on unpopular, outdated technology like trains and buses just as the world is moving toward cleaner, driverless vehicles. > Most American cities do not
580.
by 21 8y ago
Maybe you just need a new phone/device? With each new phone I had faster and faster GPS lock time.
581.
by 21 8y ago
I have a full disk encryption setup for my Ubuntu. It uses LVM, LUKS, and cryptosetup in GRUB. The problem is that it takes forever to boot (5 min, not kidding). Apparently the whole boot partition is decrypted to a RAM disk or something.
582.
by 21 8y ago
Today's music charts are already basically Spotify/Apple/YouTube streams. http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2018/06/kanye-west-ye-album-domin...
583.
by 21 8y ago
Some teenagers. Who do you think is driving the music charts today?
584.
by 21 8y ago
Fair enough. I don't know that much about India. I do know they tend to limit financial freedoms - capital controls, gold imports, now Bitcoin. Maybe it's for the better, but it's less free than the Western world on this fron
585.
by 21 8y ago
> What is stopping a state actor from using their backdoors in internet infrastructure to destroy the Bitcoin network Laws. In the Western world, something is legal unless explicitly forbidden by laws. Countries which don't care ver
586.
by 21 8y ago
Way to go bro :)
587.
by 21 8y ago
> It’s healthy to step back and consider how rare, in our world today and across human history, such an expression of the rule of law is The fact that German industry reputation got a huge blow might be a reason. It's one of those t
588.
by 21 8y ago
Exactly this. Another classic example, the 30+ of today comment on YouTube videos from 15 years ago how amazing it was, and how shit the music of today is, forgetting that 15 years ago their parents said the exact same thing about the music
589.
by 21 8y ago
When I picked this one there were quite a few more 2 digit usernames available. I didn't even write a script, looked for them manually. Go grab em everyone :)
590.
by 21 8y ago
I've seen something which I think is even more interesting. Second tier influencers (100k followers) paying expensive hotels and private plane trips of first tier influences (1 mil followers), so that they can appear on their feeds, an
591.
by 21 8y ago
It means that we live in an age were basic needs (for most) are taken care of with very little work. In the past you needed to rely heavily on the community for survival (food & protection from others)
592.
by 21 8y ago
It's not consensus, but there is no consensus either that yellow light is better. Here are some comments from the past, when yellow light was introduced: > Another skeptic was the Tribune’s legendary architecture critic Paul Gapp. “
593.
by 21 8y ago
I did read the article. And it is based on a scientific study. And it was discussed previously on HN. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-throu...
594.
by 21 8y ago
But apparently they are much worse in clear weather, so the new EU regulation require white lights: > Whilst yellow light improves visibility in wet or foggy conditions, it can also be harder to see with yellow lights in clear conditions
595.
by 21 8y ago
Cities look much better at night on white light. I doubt we will ever go back to yellow light.
596.
by 21 8y ago
I think it's more about human occupied area than modernity. There just isn't much space which doesn't have constant human presence through it.
597.
by 21 8y ago
How about some reproduction first. I'm sorry, but we live in an age where decades old famous social sciences experiments are proved to be frauds. I have stopped giving any credit to the various "scientific study proves X does&#x2F
598.
by 21 8y ago
I think we should have a website or something where you put in a pay-walled URL, and it does whatever trick or redirects you where-ever you can see it. Like SciHub basically.
599.
by 21 8y ago
Not really. Future contracts will also track the probability of asteroid mining feasibility. The markets are always fully discounting whatever information is available. The price of gold will crash before the first rocket will take off. Man
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by 21 8y ago
I recently bought Windows 10 Pro license from Amazon for $10 (normal price is $80). It had over 600 ratings, tens of positive reviews along the line "if it doesn't work immediately, phone Microsoft and they will fix it for you&quo

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