Fej

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by Fej 9y ago
In the West, we decided that individual liberty is more important than mass control. The Chinese government is corrupt to the core. Do you want that kind of government controlling you?
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by Fej 9y ago
A total thermonuclear war would crater most of the Earth and irradiate the rest. Such a scenario wouldn't really be survivable. No arable land left.
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by Fej 9y ago
How are they paying for everything?
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by Fej 9y ago
An automated panopticon.
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by Fej 9y ago
The PATH subway system between NYC and NJ has been boasting on little ads inside the cars that they are implementing communications-based train control and positive train control. How would positive train control work underground, if it&#x2
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by Fej 9y ago
He is.
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by Fej 9y ago
This is the company that continues to ship new games with Windows XP Embedded (they are allowed to due to a technicality in the licensing agreement with Microsoft). No one expects them to up their security game all of a sudden - and I sure
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by Fej 9y ago
Perhaps, but the details could put certain people in life-altering danger. The safety of these people has very rightly taken precedence over publishing information which could be quite literally incriminating (although they almost certainly
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by Fej 9y ago
We as humans are pretty bad at responding to threats proactively. It takes some damage before we'll take action. In this case, IoT devices are going to have to take down some major infrastructure before we start regulating them.
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by Fej 9y ago
The poor and minorities have been systematically disenfranchised recently in many states, since they tend to vote against the party currently in power (especially minorities in red states).
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by Fej 9y ago
Poe's Law is kicking in pretty hard right about now.
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by Fej 9y ago
Nuclear terrorism is really, really hard, which is why it has been confined (so far!) to fiction.
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by Fej 9y ago
Bravo was an interesting fuckup. Yield was far higher than anticipated. The volume of the resulting fallout was also far higher than anticipated, which created an international controversy and eventually led to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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by Fej 9y ago
He doesn't actually believe the Earth is flat, he's just lying to the flat-Earth...community, if one could call it that, in order to raise money from them.
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by Fej 9y ago
I wonder how many comments they received with > n words, for, say, n = 10.
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by Fej 9y ago
People here are comparing the energy use of Bitcoin to that of banking institutions, but that's missing half the point. The energy here is wasted because Bitcoin does almost nothing of value. The single overwhelming use of Bitcoin is
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by Fej 9y ago
That would be an international scandal. Heck, it's not like we're unfriendly with the Australians anyway.
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by Fej 9y ago
Which (shared) web hosts remain opposed to Let's Encrypt? Namecheap (my host, until I get around to switching) still is, for business purposes. (their customer service rep gave me some BS about "security" as to why, but it&#x
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by Fej 9y ago
Destruction, or spoliation, of evidence.
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by Fej 9y ago
I wonder if at this point Google wants to keep Mozilla in the game. Their market share is low enough and it keeps antitrust regulators at bay. It looks bad if there are only two major browsers, one of which owned by a company which alread
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by Fej 9y ago
Apple does not dominate mobile by any stretch of the imagination, with about 15% market share. Google, on the other hand, is creeping up to monopoly status with Android and its roughly 85% market share.
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by Fej 9y ago
Normally this is where I'd expect to see "HN is turning into reddit", but hackers have always been interested in pot, so... (reminds me of Pirates of Silicon Valley )
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by Fej 9y ago
Title is misleading. There are two brains connected by a bridge.
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by Fej 9y ago
Perhaps cryptocurrencies are inherently volatile. We don't know either way. In any case, there is zero empirical evidence that they aren't, given that there has not once existed a stable cryptocurrency.
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by Fej 9y ago
Spectacles failed because they wouldn't sell us the damn things! There was all this hype but it was practically impossible to buy a pair except for scalper prices on eBay.
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by Fej 9y ago
Then the FBI gets involved, if anyone is willing to host it.
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by Fej 9y ago
This is an emulator. It looks very promising... we'll see how long it takes.
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by Fej 9y ago
KeePass is the perfect example of simplicity over complexity. It does exactly what it sets out to do and it does it well. Unlike online services, I trust it wholeheartedly, because it is free software, well-built, simple, and basically a fa
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by Fej 9y ago
Vive and Rift are pushed almost exclusively as gaming platforms. Hence, Mac support is meaningless.
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by Fej 9y ago
Telemetry was backported to 7/8. I imagine it's not as bad as the 10 telemetry, but still, it's there.

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