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by FFP999 3y ago
I wanna say I read about some high schooler recently making _a_ microprocessor in his garage, but I'm guessing it's a very simple one, not what we would consider a modern design. Also I could be thinking of something else entirely
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by FFP999 3y ago
There are better materials to make a Faraday cage out of, but foil is cheap, I'll concede that.
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by FFP999 3y ago
On a technical level, sure. In the bigger picture, I'm concerned that that is simply too esoteric an interest for it to have any significant impact.
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by FFP999 3y ago
To expand on this, you should assume that basically any significant device or microprocessor you buy comes pre-compromised by one or more intelligence agencies, by the simple expedient of them asking manufacturers to put them in. Devices fr
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by FFP999 3y ago
That's a funny area, I'd always wondered why it was laid out like that.
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by FFP999 3y ago
So that would be Portugal. The Man. The Website. The Google Sheet. Thanks very much I'm here all week, try the Beef Wellington.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Speaking seriously, I'll take your word for it, I haven't visited Miami since I was a little kid.
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by FFP999 3y ago
I actually use almost the complete opposite strategy, which is to make eye contact with the driver and stare them down. So far so good.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Is he, in fact, autistic? Has he been diagnosed by an actual doctor as opposed to, say, Reddit? If so Wikipedia is silent on the subject.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Imagine Miami only with ice storms, and you've got Boston.
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by FFP999 3y ago
I'll give them this: they throw a great puzzle hunt.
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by FFP999 3y ago
But on the other hand, I can think of a few books that really might have helped him. The Emperor's New Clothes, and also Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds (dated now, still a good read).
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by FFP999 3y ago
Hey, Musk did one thing right: he picked fabulously wealthy parents.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Not too different from the case of Elizabeth Holmes, when you frame it like that.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Maybe they'll let him play LOL in prison. But I kind of doubt it.
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by FFP999 3y ago
I'm talking here about Mass Ave directly adjacent to the bridge--so it's Cambridge but involving drivers coming out of Boston.
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by FFP999 3y ago
> Well, what's the difference between an unhinged, drug-addled loony and an eccentric visionary genius? One big factor is who your parents are. SBF coming from an upper-class background, that tilts the scales towards eccentric geniu
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by FFP999 3y ago
Well obviously then you should have been wearing a high-viz vest and a full Christmas tree's worth of blinking lights. Then when a driver hits you they can say they were distracted by all the visual effects.
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by FFP999 3y ago
As I mention in a thread below I'm using "book-smart" as a concise idiomatic way of saying "educated and talented in a traditional academic field", such as mathematics in this case. Kind of unfortunate that I had fo
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by FFP999 3y ago
This is exactly the case a little ways away at Tufts University in the city of Medford. There's a busy train line that runs through the campus and it's fenced off. Students do sometimes find ways in there and use the right-of-way
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by FFP999 3y ago
It's a little more complicated than I've laid out here. There's not a hard boundary between the MIT campus and the rest of the city, in contrast with Harvard Yard on the other side of Cambridge, which is surrounded by high br
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by FFP999 3y ago
I stand by what I said.
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by FFP999 3y ago
"Book smart" is an idiom. Doesn't mean they're necessarily a big reader.
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by FFP999 3y ago
I mean, I explicitly _said_ it was a cliche. But I'd argue that it's not wrong. I guess if I had to describe the kind of person I'm thinking of in a more nuanced way, I'd say they're educated and very good, often br
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by FFP999 3y ago
I found what I think is probably the same report. This one anyway had DC and Baltimore, two cities where I've personally driven a good deal, as the worst, and I would believe that. One other thing to note is that two of the _other_ top
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by FFP999 3y ago
Damn, you found me out. smoke bomb
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by FFP999 3y ago
You're not wrong--but all the more reason to be on your guard, and maybe wear running shoes.
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by FFP999 3y ago
True--but nobody made him talk to the media in the time before the trial, and nobody made him take the stand and thereby make himself vulnerable to cross examination. So in addition to "dishonest," "conman," "thief,
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by FFP999 3y ago
Quite right. One more related fact: competence in area X does not necessarily translate into competence in area Y, even if X seems to be a much more difficult thing than Y.
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by FFP999 3y ago
Some of the stuff he was doing and saying before the trial, even Barry Zuckerkorn or Lionel Hutz would have told him to shut the hell up. He just could not stay out of his own way.

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