Cyberdog

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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Even though I like cryptocurrency, I greatly enjoyed the "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain" book by this author, which covers some of the greatest failures in the history of cryptocurrency - hacks, scams, bugs, and the like. I rec
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
> There's a problem, though: we're restricted by regulations from letting people know that this treatment is available. Both Facebook and Google require a third-party certification before allowing us to use their platforms, and
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
The browser is already a browser, mail client, download manager, office suite, multimedia player, game console, chat client, videoconferencing system… I'm okay with the browser being allowed to not do things sometimes, even if that t
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Spoofing. I start up faceb0ok.website or whatever and theme it to look identical to Facebook. I then make a viral Facebook post that tells you Facebook will send you a $50 Amazon gift card if you click on this link. You click, then instinct
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
If the entire NBA got suspended over one sick employee, could the same please happen to the TSA over two?
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Sometimes freedom and safety are at odds with each other. I will always side with freedom, and take my odds against a pandemic. But of course this is an academic exercise pretending that prisons, or especially jails which have a higher rate
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
But what predictions did he make which didn't even come close to coming true but you don't remember them as well because of that?
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Can't help but wonder if the new XFL would be better off if they had been able to ditch the tainted name. Even many people who don't follow football closely have heard of the old XFL and only seem to have the worst memories of it.
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
As someone who has been struggling while freelancing remotely for about three years now, I'm having many of the same problems getting noticed. I've only been able to land two long-term clients, and the one that's left is star
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Indeed. It would probably be socially responsible to cancel their season too, but I'm really enjoying their games (at least the ones that air on free TV). Here's hoping the NBA, and whatever leagues might be affected, are able to
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
I know the Constitution is already pretty much dead, but I'm still saddened that nobody in these threads is bringing up the potentially disturbing precedent of this sort of thing yet. This is literally abridging the right of the peop
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
It's interesting to see that the map reshapes as you move through the decades. Germany splits into two and then goes back to one, Africa and the Indian subcontinent get progressively decolonized, etc. It's not perfect, particularl
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Ah… You're right. My mistake.
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
According to the fine print, you need to keep a balance of $10,000 to get that 2.25% rate. There have been points in my life when I've had that much money in the bank, but this is not one of them.
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Taking this argument to its logical conclusion, you can't trust eating food someone grew for profit, riding in a car someone built for profit, wearing clothes someone made for profit… Under capitalism, encouraging repeat business from
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
> I believe even encrypted backups can be cracked. If anything, they're more prone to being cracked, since an attacker can load the backup onto a very fast system and run custom software which can run many permutations of keys again
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296 points by Cyberdog 7y ago|137 comments
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
So is the implication that it's likely that another major provider like T-Mobile or Sprint is behind this but isn't disclosing it?
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
> Intriguingly, a 2013 discovery in southeast France has led to tentative suggestions that Homo sapiens may not have been the first species to have made string. A tiny sliver of twisted fibers—just 0.028 inches long—was found in a site o
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Is your wife still with you? Are people still paying you to code and play music? Has the exercise contributed positively to your health? If yes, then you probably don't suck very much at those things after all.
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Show HN: DotArt – Image to Braille Character Converter for Slack/Discord/etc.(albright.pro)
2 points by Cyberdog 7y ago|0 comments
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
If by “Mac games” you mean Mac-first games… Marathon! Frog blast the vent core, baby. Also, wasn’t Quake III very briefly a Mac exclusive?
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
> Can you link them? I'm afraid I cannot provide links to original material from my childhood 25-30 years ago, no. I do explicitly remember seeing predictions of this sort of doom which were well within my lifetime, though.
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
For HN's audience, no, that's not hard. But this product is clearly not only for us, and you've also cherry-picked a very simple example. There's also the aspect of downloading the page in the first place and dealing wit
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Okay, perhaps you are seeing predictions that number X will increase by Y by year Z actually come true. I'm talking about the predictions that the Sacramento valley will flood, as I mentioned upthread, and various other doom-and-gloom
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Sure, everyone's time is free too, after all. (Alternate smart-ass reply: Surely you coded the browser, operating system, and network stack involved in posting this response by yourself, right?)
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
I mean, you just kind of proved our point, here. You immediately started talking about how CO2 will cause warming, and so many people like me are just gonna tune out from there because we're so desensitized from all this warming false
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
> The next generations of humans won't have it as easy as those of us lucky enough to live in the developed world today. Do you really think so? We continue to make great strides in improving availability of food and clean water and
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Growing up in California in the '80s and '90s, I recall seeing maps showing how rising ocean levels would flood the Sacramento valley with ocean water and turn the California coastline into a chain of islands by 2010 or so. One ha
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Not at all. Poe's Law is definitely in effect for that post.

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