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by Ansil849 5y ago
> It seems like finding some way to prevent the thefts is better. It seems like it should be possible to use locks which are harder to open in a short amount of time...but I suppose the cost of that would outweigh the current costs of th
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So the thieves just lurk around the area, waiting for trains to come to a pause, and then break open the containers, I guess the containers are not very secure? And there's minimal patrols? It just seems like extraordinary 'easy p
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I don't really understand what is happening here. Why is the ground completely covered in packages? Do thieves just break into the passing train compartments and start throwing out packages?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
You can use sci-hub.se to access virtually any academic paper (which has been digitized) you want. No browser extension required.
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What if there were Americans being 'protected' by the American government for doing something legal in the US, but illegal in other countries?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I've just compulsively been doing it any time I get anything from a store with a loyalty card, which is all of them now, and not once out of a dozen different local stores did I need to create the account--someone always already had :)
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The use case I'm thinking of is when buying random sundries at the store, not ordering sensitive items.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Never give them your phone number. Give them Jenny's number: (your local area code) 867-5309 It works way more often than you'd think, and if no one has yet made a store loyalty account with the number, you can be the first a
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by Ansil849 5y ago
This is precisely one of the dangers of vigilantism and mob justice. In a civil society, it is up to the criminal justice to pursue criminals and discipline them, not the internet mob.
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By this logic, would it likewise be acceptable to dox someone who wrote a positive review of the book, if it is found that the author of the review works somewhere favorable to Krebs (with the implication being that their review would then
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Do you have evidence of these claims about Bellingcat?
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Brian Kreb has a history of doxing essentially anyone he doesn't like. He literally once doxed someone whose crime was leaving a negative review of his book [1]. That kind of behavior is not OK, full stop. What I think has happened is
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The point is that after the initial few contracts, the two parties could have very easily conducted all further business and contracts without the middleman, Upwork.
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This blogpost does not make sense. > Is Robin really asking for a chargeback? That’s impossible. I start investigating by calling Robin. He apologized and said he never called any bank, additionally, he said this is a bit of a mess-up as
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> the common copy shops were either Kinkos or (sometimes) USPS/UPS/FedEx stores that offered printing services. Outside of the US, copy/print centers are extremely common and fairly cheap/convenient; checking maps, th
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I switched to a Brother printer not only because of the toner/ink issue, but because it was the only model which afforded a straightforward USB printer. No useless bells and whistles, not even WiFi, which I neither need/nor want i
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> That is more reasonable to me than Skynet. Have you heard of RYAN [1]? Or LAWs [2]? Skynet is here in full force, while strong crypto remains unbreakable. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020&#x2
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And Hackers had Emmanuel Goldstein, and Wargames had Willis Ware as consultants. But all three were still Hollywood films, which means they mixed in a heavy dose of nonsense alongside some technical accuracy. Doing it 'knowingly'
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> but it also features WOPR, a 1980's computer that can speak and learn and reason like a human. While Sneakers features a box which can decrypt anything, at the touch of a power probe. Both films have nonsensical MacGuffins as thei
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Yes, exactly. And them knowing which relay points the NSA had tracked. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great film, but I feel like because it's a great film overall, technical-minded folks sweep all the technical bullshit
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Sneakers was the best technically How so? In terms of technical accuracy, Wargames is vastly more accurate (everything down to the old paperclip trick to get free phone calls, a very old school fone phreaking trick) than Sneakers, or H
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I love Sneakers, but you have to admit that the central MacGuffin is nonsense. A magic literal black box that decrypts literally anything when you touch a solder plate...um ok. If the film itself were poorly done, this would be ridiculed to
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> If the airline offers seat selection while booking Which airlines do this? I genuinely think I've never seen the option to select seats while booking.
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> the Amazon Leadership Principles. Such bullshit. > Strive to be Earth's Best Employer > Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead wi
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If available ticket data is available, isn't that sufficient to map something like this? I'm just thinking outloud, but something which queries a ticket broker for a large number of tickets for each flight, and if the return is co
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Is there some sort of service that identifies these planned-to-be-nearly-empty flights so that you can book them? I would absolutely love to be on a near-empty flight instead of a congested flight, and my schedule is such that I can fly out
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> I heated it at 200C for 1 hour on a hot plate. Now this is extremely helpful, thank you!
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What frustrates me with how-to guides such as this one is the lack of followable detail, the vagaries and lack of conciseness. Take this phrase: > I heated the iron hydroxide strongly to convert it into iron oxide. What does this mean? W
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The parallel being drawn was that gas cars do not have components which can kill you when they are turned off: "it that can kill me dead when my car is powered off,", and so do not require stringent safety controls. My counter was
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I'm saying no such thing. What I am saying is that I find this 'we're just code monkeys, we don't enact policy' retort I see so frequently here incredibly annoying, because it acts like programmers are not human bei

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