Darthy

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by Darthy 9y ago
When it comes to life-or-death questions, we should make informed decisions. "Just trust me" fundamentally lacks any valuable information that furthers the discussion. In addition, "just trust me" also endangers less cle
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by Darthy 9y ago
> Democracies are in retreat around the world Nope. Not even in the slightest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waves_of_democracy.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy#Waves_
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by Darthy 9y ago
> "We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't, we don't deserve it." Then why don't you put your money where your mouth is and delete those 5 billion shadow profiles you collected, Mark?
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by Darthy 9y ago
For reference, no 15 of 20 Glimpses is https://youtu.be/hgcoozH5Frk , and the mentioned major triad is at 7min40: https://youtu.be/hgcoozH5Frk?t=455
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by Darthy 9y ago
There _is_ a hug emoji: https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face/
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by Darthy 9y ago
Thank you for the explanation, and especially for being non-snarky, which unfortunately seems to be getting rarer and rarer on this forum.
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by Darthy 9y ago
The Meltdown attack requires an attacker to have a piece of code executed on your server. Epic's servers are used for login, where people send you data, and for game logic, where people also just send you data like "player x moved
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by Darthy 9y ago
Could somebody please coin a name for this? Wikipedia currently calls it "Intel KPTI flaw", but that is very vague. It's quite difficult to talk about something without a simple easy-to-remember name. Edit: has been settled,
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Settling Video Game Arguments, Part 1: Game Reviews(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
74 points by Darthy 9y ago|112 comments
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by Darthy 9y ago
Great concept. Why hasn't anybody done this yet?
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by Darthy 9y ago
> these are the kind of vulnerabilities that the NSA would salivate over No need to salivate over something that you paid for and that you already used for 8 years. Post-Snowden if you believe the NSA has already broken into most things
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HQ, a real-time video trivia app(theoutline.com)
1 points by Darthy 9y ago|0 comments
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by Darthy 9y ago
Thanks :-) I've got another 500+ of similar ideas. If you need one, just contact me :-)
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by Darthy 9y ago
Regarding the firefighting idea: why can't evacuate everybody, then have drones hold up a temporary "tent" around a building, then fill the whole space with a non-reactive gas? Such a system could be set up and work in minute
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by Darthy 9y ago
He's probably referring to the 1995 set-top box company cofounded by Steve Perlman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_TV#The_WebTV_set-top_box
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by Darthy 9y ago
Could you give more info please?
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by Darthy 9y ago
Apparently, currently there are none: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...
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by Darthy 9y ago
It's more than UI changes: the update from iOS10 to 11 removed support for 32bit applications, rendering dozens of applications that I use daily (and have paid for a lot of money) unusable. So now I have to decide between two bad optio
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by Darthy 9y ago
Yes, because the first two phonetic syllables of "Seriously" are [sɪ rɪə], which makes it different.
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by Darthy 9y ago
I always felt that Siri was named with the intent that it could be used as a wake word (so you could say "Siri what's the weather today?") because Siri itself is a rare given name and [si ri] are sounds rarely said at the beg
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by Darthy 9y ago
Full article: http://archive.is/1E59I
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by Darthy 9y ago
Full story at http://archive.is/pCgyl
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The Brutal Truth About Growing Up in the Top 1%(medium.com)
3 points by Darthy 9y ago|0 comments
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by Darthy 9y ago
Intimidating people into submission so that they do not report on valid criticism isn't just "capitalism", it is unethical behavior, Cersei.
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by Darthy 9y ago
One reason would be ApplePay. At least in Europe most payment terminals have their NFC sensors on their side, so you're supposed to hold your phone flat with the side of a box, so the selfie camera just points to the wall on your left.
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by Darthy 9y ago
How does you not wanting to hire leftists jive with your solution of "blind hiring"? If you did blind hiring, wouldn't you end up with a quite a substantion group of leftists? Your position doesn't seem to be consistent
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by Darthy 9y ago
No, phones before the iPhone running J2ME had side-loading. Some carrier turned that off, but if you bought directly from the manufacturers you got a phone that you could control and do anything with by yourself, without any third party sto
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by Darthy 9y ago
That is the most important comment here. Tim Cook, you have inherited the rules of the app store, but by now it's clear that with good sand-boxing, we wouldn't need any of your control mechanisms. If you would relinquish this cont
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by Darthy 9y ago
To be clear, what you mean by "having an app store" is "reverting 40 years of established software usage best practice and downgrade to dictatorial way where a central company can control everything". Words have power. &
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by Darthy 9y ago
So what's the likelihood of a naturally occurring geostationary satellite vs one created by alien life?

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