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by 394549 8y ago
> It's my understanding that the hoax papers in the article were also published by predatory scam journals. If the hoax papers were published in "predatory scam journals," they're engaged in an entirely different ty
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> Whenever some disrupter comes into a market, you always see some people saying this "just you wait, they'll jack up the prices sky high any minute now!!" and it seems to happen rarely, if ever. It's happening at Ama
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> There are tons of old SuperMicro computers on eBay for very reasonable prices. They could have bought lots of them of the appropriate vintage (2015 and prior). I think buying a bunch of old servers and looking in them for implants is s
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> Not really familliar with PCI DSS but it might be that the card-readers/terminals aren't PCI-compliant if opened? So not the manufacturer's issue but the customer's. I think that's the case. The EEV Blog guy d
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by 394549 8y ago
> That is my question as well, without getting their hands on the machine, how do the attackers start the attacks? And in case of AWS, since everything is so virtualized, does it make sense to install a hardware backdoor if it cant even
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Also, almost everyone who lies thinks they'll get away with it. Otherwise, why lie? Maybe AWS and Apple are counting on the top-secret nature of all this to enable their lies. Would US intelligence agencies really come out on the rec
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by 394549 8y ago
> Look at the stock of supermicro, since 2015 (the year of revelation) it's been going down for them - reason might be because none of the companies bought new hardware from them. They've also had accounting irregularities that
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> I don't like seeing groups shoehorn welfare into other areas. If you've got an income (or cash welfare) problem, fix that. And then the problem never gets fixed. You argue against this practice with the reasoning that the &q
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> Talk about putting the cart before the horse. I have no problem with saying, "that food isn't really waste, let's redistribute it if it's going unused." But someone's got their head turned right around if
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> But the total beet supply remains unchanged? Affluent customers are now buying the ugly beets, does that mean more pretty beets go unsold? Can they be donated? I doubt it. This is fresh produce we're talking about, the unsold &qu
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by 394549 8y ago
> I don't feel too bad about ordering from Imperfect Produce, it's convenient way to get produce delivered to your door Honest question: are there similarly convent ways to get produce delivered to your door that don't un
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> That was also the breaking point for me. I've switched back to firefox, I bought a new iPhone XS (moving off the pixel), I'm in the process of getting my own email server up (though I may just switch to proton mail we'll
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by 394549 8y ago
Maybe it will, but have a country-specific feature to report its users to the authorities. After all, gotta comply with those "local laws and regulations."
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IIRC, his issue is with the easement, not access to the beach itself. Forcing the public to take a boat to reach the public land is probably sufficiently onerous that Khosla would see it as a victory.
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> This exact approach seems applicable in this situation. People should take boats to it, just on the principle of asserting access. People are already asserting access by demanding use of the beach access easement.
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by 394549 8y ago
> I.e. your position is that state should be able to compel individual to run unwanted business? I'm sure the state would be fine if he just opened access to the beach to everyone for free. No need to operate any business. This que
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by 394549 8y ago
> Not an easy process to determine net worth of anyone let alone someone like Vinod. Most likely he does not even know his net worth. Maybe it's not easy, but he definitely has the ability to figure out how much he's worth, eve
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by 394549 8y ago
> Who says they can't have x86 servers with macOS? Just because they don't sell anything like that doesn't mean that macOS doesn't support it for internal usecases (possibly via a separate in-house build). Seems insan
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>>> > It's astounding that educated tech journalists think this is malicious. Clearly, this is an algorithm. >> Who's claiming this is malicious? In the first couple of replies to the tweet, there's talk abo
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>> A colleague said: "The three-letter agencies are done with these, so they can go public now" - I wonder how true that is? > Likely. Considering the three letter agencies get early access to these things from other vend
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> It's astounding that educated tech journalists think this is malicious. Clearly, this is an algorithm. Who's claiming this is malicious? In the first couple of replies to the tweet, there's talk about how this is probab
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> These forms are such bullshit and are only here to give authorities leverage against you at a later date incase you did purger yourself. Then they have it in writing that you lied. They're not bullshit. The forms' design is
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by 394549 8y ago
> Is it wrong to be glad FB's reputation has tarnished (and stock price sideways) over the past year or so? No, not at all. Their positive reputation was in many ways unearned, and it's a good thing to be glad that their own a
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by 394549 8y ago
> Basically, they investigated and then showed gasp discretion. Yet, people somehow think they did something wrong? The problem is it seems they used their journalistic position to blackmail someone into a particular course of action, an
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> Assuming we're at step $n on the path to corporatist dystopia, does Facebook care? Do they bait the EU into playing chicken with some sort of Facebook ban? There's a non-negligible chance Facebook might win that one. Why go t
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> $75B value and it still faces the most basic question. Makes me feel I don't understand business at all. You understand business, just not the shell-game that's grown up around it.
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Zuckerberg's profile is already "special." It's known that no one can block his profile, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's other stuff as well. https://qz.com/1066804/facebook-fb-wont
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> [Craftsman tools] seem to be making a resurgence in Lowe's stores. They're being sold at a slightly lower price point then the Lowe's standard Kobalt brand. Is that really a resurgence or just an attempt to profit by bur
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> Personally for me the term "personalisation" is becoming a dirty word and I am becoming uneasy when I hear it mentioned in design docs and product launches etc. I dont want to see what some algorithm thinks I want to see. Ins
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by 394549 8y ago
> This is no longer "just a little bit of effort and minimal cost" - most likely no one will use unique emails for every site It takes a tiny amount of effort: you setup your domain with a wildcard so all you need to do to cr

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