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by Fej 7y ago
> fucked up the whole northern Pacific What now? The death toll from the Fukushima Daiichi failure is: up to 1. > We still don't have a long-term storage solution for the nuclear waste produced by the power plants Yes, we do. Put
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by Fej 7y ago
So taking the "free" credit monitoring is a net negative?
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by Fej 7y ago
It is better to post excessive disclaimers on the chance they're not necessary than to accidentally not post one where it's relevant.
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by Fej 7y ago
The majority of the US electorate is underinformed and/or misinformed. The most popular cable news network is Fox News, which pushes straight-up falsehoods as propaganda for the right. That's not to say the left-wing networks are
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by Fej 7y ago
To quote a headline from the Esquire: "We're Supposed to Believe the Russians Hacked Into Voting Systems But Did Nothing Once They Got There?"
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by Fej 7y ago
It is meant only for standalone Daydream headsets. Why this is the case, I cannot fathom.
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by Fej 7y ago
That's not just a hypothetical. From the article: > It also landed hours after Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, personally stepped forward to block consideration of a package of election security bills. The Republicans
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by Fej 7y ago
This is a great explanation. If the state sided with the scientists then I would have expected flashbang grenades and tear gas.
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by Fej 7y ago
The writing is on the wall. Netflix isn't doomed to fail, but it might be doomed to comparative (i.e. not a third of US internet traffic) irrelevancy. Every rightsholder has realized that it can make more money than Netflix will&#x2F
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by Fej 7y ago
It is not, strictly speaking, about censorship. Google is the best in the world at gathering information about people. If they operate in China, they will have to give over all that information to the Chinese government, of course. They hav
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by Fej 7y ago
Per usual, here's the video from Computerphile on why digital election systems are a terrible, terrible idea: https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI
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by Fej 7y ago
Why have coilguns not gotten the same amount of attention as railguns?
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by Fej 7y ago
A great retrospective: https://youtu.be/L958sMz1kWs
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by Fej 7y ago
It works like any other torrent client, if a rightsholder finds a torrent of their content they can attempt to sue whoever was downloading by looking at the IPs in the swarm. In this case that would be Bloom's servers. It's like a
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by Fej 7y ago
For Bitflow, how are you going to handle copyright infringement? You're going to be flooded with takedown requests. Surely you have realized this? Good luck, this looks to be a good start.
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by Fej 7y ago
Regarding (2), how are you funding the initial phase of the project? After all, you're offering 30 GB of storage - twice Google.
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by Fej 7y ago
I've always thought this is a terrible CAPTCHA, not because it's hard but because one could reasonably write a bot that simply reverse image searches the movie poster and picks the closest response.
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by Fej 7y ago
Yes, the vulnerabilities are not just Intel, but they're mostly limited to Intel CPUs. Why is AMD less prone to these mistakes? Perhaps there are simply fewer researchers looking into AMD processors?
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by Fej 7y ago
What is the recommended course of action? Stop buying Intel products, and devices which contain them? What about devices with older processors? I'm still running a Sandy Bridge rig and it works fine, except for the side channel vulnera
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by Fej 7y ago
I would love an answer to this as well.
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by Fej 8y ago
What's the chances that bacteria from Earth made it over on the rovers? I understand that NASA takes great pains to prevent this but they can't get every single one, surely? Especially extremophiles?
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by Fej 8y ago
No one got the reference. Unfortunate. (for those looking, it's to the movie The Hunt for Red October)
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by Fej 8y ago
That's in the UK. Such a law would run afoul of the First Amendment in the US.
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by Fej 8y ago
Whether you agree with this sentiment or not, people waking up to ethical questions in our field is unquestionably a good thing. It's important to ask these questions.
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by Fej 8y ago
No encryption is intended to be permanent. That's an all-but-impossible feat. Encryption exists to protect data for a meaningful length of time. A threat model extending far into the future is naïve. The Caesar cipher worked until it d
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by Fej 8y ago
"But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." - Arthur Eddington Another great quote: "A theory is the mor
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Notes on the Hawaii false alarm, one year later(blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
9 points by Fej 8y ago|9 comments
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by Fej 8y ago
Just that. It appears that they are not supporting Daydream View or Google Cardboard headsets at this time. Just standalone VR devices.
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by Fej 8y ago
What device are you using? I'm using a Pixel 2 XL and had to sideload it because the Play Store shows it as incompatible. It is broken, though, can't type more than one letter. There's a ton of promise though. I haven't
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by Fej 8y ago
Judging by the comments, there are a lot of us here who already know this. So what are we going to do about it, now? The system is broken but there are a number of entrenched interests who want to keep it that way and an electorate willin

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