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by 4cao 6y ago
Interesting. Can you see the story that you submitted yourself? When I look at your list of submitted stories, the last entry there is from 3 months ago. I also see some of your submissions, including those with only 1 point. Now, I only ev
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by 4cao 6y ago
> it was submitted 28 times in the last couple of hours 28 times? I only see it was submitted once, 3 hours ago (and the original article was apparently published only 4 hours ago)
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by 4cao 6y ago
It's important to note that the entire story is no longer about just Supermicro, which (if the allegations are to be believed) was only a piece of the puzzle: “If you think this story has been about only one company, you’re missing the
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by 4cao 6y ago
The statement from the NSA as quoted in the article was that: > NSA cannot confirm that this incident—or the subsequent response actions described—ever occurred. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but to me this looks as if they wer
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by 4cao 6y ago
This is truly great. The original version of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elrnAl6ygeM
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by 4cao 6y ago
An update: the auction has ended, the seller claims they accepted a private offer 1. https://www.ign.com/articles/stolen-cd-projekt-red-files-rep... 2. https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status&#x2F
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by 4cao 6y ago
> What do you expect someone [...] to do? I don't expect anyone to do anything. As a person reading this story, I just commented on the fact that it would be interesting to know more details as to how the app ended up making these r
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by 4cao 6y ago
Apparently, you have to deposit BTC 0.1 (~= $4,700) to be allowed to bid. Presumably, you'd be losing this deposit upon each iteration if you refused to pay.
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by 4cao 6y ago
The leak supposedly also includes an upgraded version of The Witcher 3 they've been working on, scheduled to be released later this year. [1] Although it's supposed to be a free update for anyone who bought it before, it's no
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by 4cao 6y ago
I agree with what you're saying about not going public immediately if anything malicious had been discovered, but then they probably wouldn't have written: > We will thus hold back the banning of the url for now [...] If on the
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by 4cao 6y ago
> 12. By this time, we had isolated the app and were convinced that this is the one that is fetching the image on startup. We could not find the image anywhere in the app, confirming our theory that it fetches the image but does not disp
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by 4cao 6y ago
Vaguely reminiscent of an earlier controversy regarding qmail's removal from OpenBSD ports: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=99867604230539&w=2 But that one was much more fierce, with the exchange culminati
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by 4cao 6y ago
It started as a fork of Firefox when Mozilla decided to restrict UI customization, and make most existing add-ons incompatible. Partly it was also about how these changes were communicated. That was a couple of years ago. For a while it was
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by 4cao 6y ago
It gets even better than that: "unfortunately, the economic benefits [of outsourcing to Argentina] started to fail when the Argentine economy started to improve."
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by 4cao 6y ago
Apparently, some of the worst things that can be said about Paul Graham are that: (1) he is a centrist, (2) he got rich through his work, (3) he does not hold the US public education system in high regard, and (4) he advocated the use of, a
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by 4cao 6y ago
It might have also had something to do with the fact that the subheading of that article was incendiary (literally).
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by 4cao 6y ago
> For GTA VI, Rockstar will only release a smaller sized game and instead add sizeable updates spread out over time Sounds like Windows 10, only with microtransactions.
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by 4cao 6y ago
While this comment is problematic because of the entitlement it exudes, it draws attention to two important phenomena: (1) the issue would have likely been avoided if the studio did not set a day-definite release date (announcing it more ge
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by 4cao 6y ago
I keep reading about this every once in a while, and it appears to be industry-standard practice. Is there a major game developer known not to require this of their employees? (According to the article, CD Projekt appearently made such a pr
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by 4cao 6y ago
Could it be that attempts to improve them were reverted?
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by 4cao 6y ago
> overexaggerating the difference between the two variants is not helpful for Chinese learners I wholeheartedly agree. In the grand scheme of learning Chinese, this is a relatively minor consideration. It wasn't my intention to play
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by 4cao 6y ago
This is a good summary of some of the technical issues Wikipedia is facing. Those can be overcome and eventually will. The really serious problems are organizational in nature: the overgrowth of bureaucracy, the jungle of policies and &quot
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by 4cao 6y ago
> The best analogy I can think of between traditional vs simplified is akin to American English vs British English, except English learners don't make a big fuss about which version they should learn first. There isn't really m
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by 4cao 6y ago
> I don't think I'm pedantically attacking a strawman. Unfortunately I think you are. Note I never wrote anything about the "PRC" that you keep bringing up all the time. It's almost as if you were here to defend
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by 4cao 6y ago
> Simplification is a many-to-many mapping. Technically you are correct but this is just pedantry. Of the 4 examples you listed, 3 are corner cases, and 1 is also a variant traditional character. You know way too much not to realize this
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by 4cao 6y ago
Even if you completely obstruct some characters from view, people will still be able to figure out the meaning from context but that doesn't necessarily mean they learned the other variant. And on top of that, they might be reluctant t
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by 4cao 6y ago
Formal written Chinese is very different from the spoken form, essentially to the point it could be considered another language altogether. This situation isn't really comparable to anything in English. In spoken Mandarin, lexical unit
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by 4cao 6y ago
Here's one rendition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFNhuDQ0Tc
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by 4cao 6y ago
Absolutely. 足 is an augmentation of 止, which itself originated as a drawing of a foot. 母 is a picture of female breasts. Both are pictograms.
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by 4cao 6y ago
I'd classify 化 as a simple ideogram (part of group 2, called "indicators" in the article) because it conveys the abstract idea of 'change' by showing one person upside down from the other. It isn't a compound (

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