3chelon

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by 3chelon 9y ago
Yeah, operation would normally be the noun. Surgery would still be the verb.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
They sent my son for an ultrasound to work out where exactly the fluid was laying on his chest, so yes, they do get some useful info from it. I've no idea how disruptive technology like cheap ultrasound compares with "traditional&
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by 3chelon 9y ago
I am so very sorry to hear that. I don't really know what else I can say. We were so lucky in comparison, we have nothing to complain about.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
I agree with you. This is the main reason we did not go down the malpractice route. It is far less common here in the UK than it seems to be in the US, but still fairly common. But as you said, everyone goes a bit insane. As it turned out,
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by 3chelon 9y ago
I suspect you are correct. The fact that the second doctor I saw immediately sent him to hospital makes me think the first doctor was not doing her job properly. I guess that's why they say you should always get a second opinion.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Yeah, we call the doctor's examination room a "surgery", and the place you get the actual surgery done is an "operating theatre". Divided by a common language and all that... but obviously it comes from a time when
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by 3chelon 9y ago
The problem for parents is it is so hard to diagnose flu. Flu-like symptoms cover so many illnesses, and no doctor wants you to visit them with a virus they cannot cure and that most people will recover from in about a week. But this statem
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by 3chelon 9y ago
That's very interesting. I'm an old-school embedded/C/asm guy who for the last 10 years has worked in mobile dev, and I'm increasingly interested in security work, particularly on legacy systems (mainly because I&#x
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by 3chelon 9y ago
> What's running in your $800 internet-connected 4K TV? Not my banking website, for one thing. Your point is completely valid, but sadly no-one in the media cares whether your TV or toaster is vulnerable. Perhaps they should be, bec
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Fair point, but wasn't zero-day back in June when this was first reported to the chip makers?
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Yes, but again, proving there's an exploit is different to implementing it and actually stealing someone's banking details (which is the media definition of a scary hack). And you say "even a security researcher"... sure
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Perhaps I'm reading the code wrong, but that seems to be a check if your CPU is vulnerable, rather than an exploit. It seems to me that in order to actually obtain any useful information using this method would require far more work. I
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Yes, but my point is I think the exploit would be extremely difficult, and any agent capable of doing it would not be too interested in making it available to anyone else. Perhaps I'm naive, but it feels like the kind of thing governme
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Having read the tech reports myself, the interviewee on the Bloomberg report seemed to be most sensible talking head I've yet seen in the media. While most of the press are shouting that we're all pwned and it's Intel's
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Not exactly rich, but I mined a couple of million of them back in 2013-2014. Still have a million left (the rest were stolen by Paul Vernon in the Cryptsy heist). Probably cost me around a thousand pounds in electricity and hardware costs,
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by 3chelon 9y ago
They could do even more age-based filtering if they wrote the ad entirely in emojis.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Paul Graham is no spring chicken, so it would somewhat hypocritical to be ageist when you're old.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Well this brings up another related but often unmentioned aspect to the debate. Governments get heaps of revenue from taxing fossil fuels. If people managed to sidestep that by using renewable (yeah, or fusion!) power, what will governments
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by 3chelon 9y ago
The part underlined in red in the original article is grammatically incorrect. Apple are generally very good at not making such mistakes.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Yes, I think autonomous/shared vehicles could be a massive factor in reducing the number of vehicles, but it wouldn't reduce the power consumption unless the number of actual journeys was reduced. A shared EV running 24/7 wou
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by 3chelon 9y ago
I'm totally in favour of electric cars, but I'm surprised the article never mentioned the problem of sourcing all the power. There have been a lot of contradictory claims over how many more power stations would be needed for a ful
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by 3chelon 9y ago
My first thought was the email was not written by someone with English as a first language, so I'd assume it was fake.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
About the only ting i know about quantum computing is it will make current encryption techniques redundant. Is anyone thinking seriously about what that will mean for global e-commerce? There will be a point in time when these machines are
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by 3chelon 9y ago
No, they're way too good for _that_.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
I nearly crapped myself. I thought it meant the London AIM stock market (bang go my investments!).
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by 3chelon 9y ago
No, that wasn't me, unfortunately. I'm a little wary of doing it because of pre-launch NDA issues. Maybe post-launch I'll write something up.
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by 3chelon 9y ago
This is so funny. I did exactly the same thing. I mean, exactly ! I wrote a podcast transcription service using IBM's Watson API. And as a result, having realised it was getting a very crowded space and I had neither the energy nor ma
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Has Coinbase just been hacked?(twitter.com)
2 points by 3chelon 9y ago|0 comments
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by 3chelon 9y ago
Is this live yet? Tried on .co.uk and .com and I can't see the tab under "More".
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by 3chelon 9y ago
>I don't know who started with the idea that it's smarter to buy more hardware than to spend resources on programming It was the CFO's idea. Software is expensive, and hardware is _incredibly cheap_. Moreover, if you'

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