Afforess

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by Afforess 10y ago
I don't know what you're talking about, it's in there plain as day. The company has a department called IT Security . Not IT. Not Security. IT Security. Companies that legitimately care about security integrate security pers
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by Afforess 10y ago
Two words: Regulatory Capture. See Also: Boeing, IBM, CGI Group, AT&T, NRC, etc.
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by Afforess 10y ago
Ubuntu 16.10 using libvirt 2.1 + KVM
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by Afforess 10y ago
Both internal. The motherboard supports 4 slots, using only 2.
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by Afforess 10y ago
I run a multi-headed desktop, running Ubuntu 16.10 + Windows 10 simultaneously. Specs: * CPU: i7-3820 * Motherboard: Asus p9x79 deluxe * Memory: 32GB DDR3 * Graphics: EVGA GTX 680 SSC + ASUS GTX 970 SSC * 1tb Samsung SSD + 2x1TB
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by Afforess 10y ago
Finishing "A Memory of Light" and the The Wheel of Time series left me in a funk that lasted a whole week. I sometimes regret finishing the series, I now know how it ends, so I can not go back and re-read the series for a 4th time
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by Afforess 10y ago
I wonder if the author has ever experienced the joy of reading a good book, or the first showing an amazing movie. Finishing an amazing story, you feel a let down afterwords; the characters were not real and you can never interact with them
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by Afforess 10y ago
I've seen Arrival, so minor spoilers. (rot 13) Gur nyvraf ner sne qvssrerag sebz hf, jvgu n aba-cubargvp ynathntr gung vaibyirf "abayvarne haqrefgnaqvat bs gvzr". V chg gung va dhbgrf orpnhfr gur rssrpgf ner qrzbafgengrq va g
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by Afforess 10y ago
Looks like 1.25M well spent now.
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by Afforess 10y ago
No, it's not. Courts are a last resort, when private mediation has failed, not the first line of action. If I publish news articles claiming "the sky is the color red, and only evil people disagree", courts do not need to be
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by Afforess 10y ago
Censorship of libel and intentional mischief is no vice.
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by Afforess 10y ago
There is no such thing as an original idea. If another company can take an existing product and do it better, I can't see a good reason they should be prevented. Better products are always a win for consumers, and a win for innovation.
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by Afforess 10y ago
Not terribly novel or interesting; the article entirely ignores that Soylent culture is driven by a disinterest in cooking and a desire to avoid the time spent during food preparation, cleanup, grocery shopping, etc. Grocery shopping for on
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by Afforess 10y ago
A pithy quote, but it does not have to be. There is no reason or law that prevents us from acknowledging our failures in the past and updating our beliefs to the corrected findings of the present. Death is just the minimum bar, the floor, f
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by Afforess 10y ago
Dropbox works. Put aside all the concerns over War Crimes or Spying, or Security, Dropbox simply works. Every mobile platform is supported. Every desktop platform is supported. Sharing, Teams, direct links, all the core features are there.
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by Afforess 10y ago
If you're interested in money lying on the floor, and believe the SolarCity + Tesla acquisition will go through, you can buy SolarCity shares while they are below the strike price of 22.19 and make instant profit in November. https:&#
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by Afforess 10y ago
Ending world hunger would cost a lot more than time spent trying to get out of Earth, because in order to end world hunger, you'd have to reform political systems that are impeding the abolishment of world hunger. For example, there
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by Afforess 10y ago
You do understand the citizens of North Korea are effectively captives, and victims, not enablers of the regime, right? Starving out North Korea to win the war will leave behind nothing worth rescuing.
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by Afforess 10y ago
Plea bargaining is the modern equivalent to medieval tortured confessions. There is no incentive to look too closely. http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
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by Afforess 10y ago
I don't agree, there is software that is designed to run on faulty hardware. This is often in high radiation environments (see: outer space). I agree this is not an area that much hardening has been done in conventional security models
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by Afforess 10y ago
The gold standard is now Apple MacOs or Linux. I've converted my parents over to Apple systems and no longer have to do any support for them, Apple products "just work". Worth the premium in saved support, in my book. I use U
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by Afforess 10y ago
"Crypto Wars" is a historical term, not slang or embellishment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
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by Afforess 10y ago
Network effects. Same reason Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter can suck, and yet not be displaced by technologically superior products.
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by Afforess 10y ago
When this topic comes up, I feel "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup"[1] should be mandatory reading. Tolerance isn't about allowing dissent or including marginal groups. Tolerance is difficult, unpleasant, and uncom
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by Afforess 10y ago
At this point, Cable companies are all members of a single large shadow monopoly not unlike Standard Oil was in the early 20th century. The rational the justice system used to break up Standard Oil is shockingly similar to the situation we
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Charter Wins U.S. FCC Approval to Buy Time Warner Cable(bloomberg.com)
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Nature abhors a monoculture. Forests with 'resistant' strains will end up causing more problems if they are only a few types of trees. Maybe we should do nothing, and let trees that are more capable of surviving fill in the gaps l
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I'm not sure why you suspect Russia or SE Asia, when both are paragons of stability compared to the Middle East. I think the unwinding of the value of oil over the coming decades is going to take away the last pillar of stability holdi
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by Afforess 10y ago
> This is a rather unusual contribution graph. Most I've seen follow a very stark power law, with one contributor doing over 90% of the work, and the second contributor doing around 5%. This graph shows a lot more collaboration from
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by Afforess 11y ago
Is it really a link-shortener or just atavist providing a short perma-link? 'atav.st' == atavist.com?

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