Arbalest

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by Arbalest 7y ago
(Hackers, as Sanders meant it, referred to physically hacking someone to death, not the digital hacking prevalent today.)
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Article comments on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNkQJzw4oA
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Because it would be too easy to influence public policy by any interested parties. We already know corporations sponsor papers for their PR, this just means it would become a simple tool to influence policy.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
But will anyone actually currently alive actually see it? If the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid, how are we supposed to be able to predict when this is going to happen? Also, surely change is inevitable, but who
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by Arbalest 7y ago
> Can you say with 100% confidence what is profound and what is nonsense in this Universe? Given that profundity only makes any sense at all in the context of humans, with a fair degree of confidence (100% is never possible), I believe a
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Agreed. There is no water scarcity if we spend the energy required to recycle it from other sources (I include desal in this). What this means is, where do our priorities lie?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
So without insulting people who disagree with you, what's your source? Does it apply to all business types?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The thing I don't like about the move to cashless most, is that it is very much centered around payment systems in the private sector. It makes the middleman compulsory. Our Australian government is moving to make all payments over $10
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I realise the significance of your comment about the histrionic now. Rather than ideas, the premise and the article both focus on this ideal of the person.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Now that I've thought about it, I'd like to posit that the Author is not in fact talking about "Hypersanity" as a state of mind, but in fact, just people particularly dedicated to spreading their ideas. As I was reading
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by Arbalest 7y ago
This article talks about sanity, but doesn't really state what it is. What it describes is essentially just alternative perspectives born out of those rejecting, or rejected by, society. This state has indeed produced profound ideas, b
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I wonder about the "you are now free to delete the certificate". Not everyone will do this if they aren't tech savvy enough, or don't care. This will mean 2 things 1. Those that don't may still be able to have their
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Reading a little bit of the way through, to the part about farmers vending in a non-present way, I am thinking, this is the hangover from a culture that is wary of it's peers. Trade is done in such a way that no harm can happen. A way
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by Arbalest 7y ago
This makes the assumption that time in and of itself has no relevance. Sure the money is reused, but ultimately what is valuable is labour output, and usually that has time relevance. Further, if we consider the activity as steady state, th
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Surprised it would be July, rather than January, which iirc is when the earth is closest to the sun... I'm concerned as to what that might mean for January, when we in Australia will have our Summer.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
> For faster sites going from 1s to 0.5s will be less impactful than going from 6s to 3s. So there are non-linear effects from a psychological perspective, but I think those are mostly relevant at faster timescales. I don't see how
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Your point about #1 doesn't make much sense. Sure the performance might scale the same on both low and high end devices, but two things come to mind. There is absolute thresholds of usability, that doubling the performance might not me
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by Arbalest 7y ago
What's the difference between a Battleship and a Destroyer? Are these defined per Country? Here in Australia we have the "Air Warfare Destroyer" but what exactly does that mean? Is it actually any different, or just a fancy n
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by Arbalest 7y ago
When all you have is Javascript, everything looks like a nail
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Makes me think, are they already the first Archivists. Preserving the manufacture of usable computers when the rest of the support infrastructure for modern tech no longer exists. That might just be me projecting my own thinking onto what y
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Looks like the best option is the EU radio if you're in Australia. However, that won't support Telstra's 3G, which might cut you out of voice calls. If you have the option of provider, go Optus, that will give you most of the
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by Arbalest 7y ago
They do burn, but not easily. They only seem to char slightly with an oxy acetylene torch (I assume that's what is being used here) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_yqriai7E It might be a heatsinking thing, as diamon
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by Arbalest 7y ago
You'd hope that the sort would be less intensive though. You might not need as many eyes to check that all the inappropriate stuff is out of the stream.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
From a risk management perspective, with the little that we do know, an increase in cosmic ray dose is indeed a concern. That we don't know the exact % isn't all that relevant, we know enough to know the baseline dosage was alread
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Didn't look like it to me. More that security by obscurity in having heterogeneous infrastructure across different distributions no longer applies, not that systemD was improving the situation.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Actually that's a fair point. IIRC google has their own version of Ubuntu. However, I also expect google to be all over this kind of thing, but government and corporate, not so much.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I imagine this is targeting Redhat Desktop installations then, as Red Hat is pretty big on GNOME, and as we all know, GNOME/Redhat has been at the spearhead of many unpopular systems, such as NetworkManager. So my guess is, they'r
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by Arbalest 7y ago
What makes you think an intern would be able to do this? A few of them might, but I imagine most wouldn't. Being able to make something easy to maintain means knowing what is difficult to maintain. Except for the sharpest, who actively
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Makes me wonder what the intelligence agencies themselves think about these developments. It sounds like it may be counter productive for them, if it means that no local business with which to pressure are even operating, because they'
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Record low perhaps? Yeah it isn't clear here.

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