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by Jerry2 5y ago
It's interesting that they submitted a paper for a talk at BLACK HAT USA 2021 but were rejected [0]. Looks like geopolitics (and politics) has permeated every aspect of technology. [0] https://twitter.com/h0t_max/s
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by Jerry2 5y ago
How many ICs are actually made in the US? They're pretty mum about it. My guess is that none of them are made in the US. So the phone was assembled in the US from all kinds of parts.
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Rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to: UN(businessinsider.com)
25 points by Jerry2 5y ago|1 comments
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I never said it was. I'm saying that adding carbon nonoparticles will only make matters much worse.
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> graphene Graphene has its own set of problems. Namely, it can be toxic to humans. [1] And who knows what massive quantities of graphene in concrete will do to an environment 10-20 years after the building's construction. Even demo
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by Jerry2 5y ago
> Have we seen this kind of scenario in economics before? Is this a known phenomenon? Sure, Tulip mania. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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> and this an act of war What an absurd statement. And what do you suggest we do? Attack them and hope they don't respond with nukes?
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> It's only a matter of time According to some sources, it's been done before: > CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline > Thomas Reed, a former US Air Force secretary who was in Ronald Reagan's Nationa
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by Jerry2 6y ago
That sounds like "social credit score" to me.
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by Jerry2 6y ago
> Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal. And this historian, Alexei Yurchak, coined the phrase “HyperNormalisat
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by Jerry2 6y ago
What he doesn't mention is that an increase in corporate taxes will mostly impact SMBs and not giant "Big Tech" companies that have all kinds of ways of avoiding them and employ hundreds of people in their finance and account
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Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count(twitter.com)
445 points by Jerry2 6y ago|478 comments
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In the past year, quite a few collections went online. I remember seeing that Van Gogh collection from Dutch museums was digitized and released recently. Does anyone know if there's a list of various online art collections? I'd re
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by Jerry2 6y ago
Personally, I would never work for a manager that had no skills other than "management" skills. I've been in a few organizations where every manager is hired from the outside and installed and they have no expertise in the ar
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Marine F-35B Fighter Jet Accidentally Shot Itself with Its Own Gun Pod(thedrive.com)
11 points by Jerry2 6y ago|0 comments
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Anyone have any opinions on the state of image search? What do you use? I find Google Image search, which I used to love, filled with absolute garbage now. 90% of links are to Pinterest which greets you with usual overlays, signup modals et
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by Jerry2 6y ago
Excellent work! Now Atari 800XL joins a bunch of other retro PCB recreation projects: Amiga 2000 PCB remake: https://github.com/Floppie209/Amiga2000-remake Amiga 1200 remake: https://wordpress.hertell.nu&#x2
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America has a vast overseas military empire. Does it still need it?(usatoday.com)
15 points by Jerry2 6y ago|6 comments
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Whenever I think about signing up because I came across some post and want to provide an answer, I remember that funny GIF that I've seen: "Are u ready to get insanely fucking mad" [1] and somehow hold myself back. I think I&
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by Jerry2 6y ago
> Is there a reason why uBlock Origin is still not included in the browser? Once you look into where Mozilla gets their money from, you'll find millions of reasons. And in the past, Mozilla has stated that bundling ad blocking with
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Chinese spyware code was copied from America's NSA: researchers(reuters.com)
7 points by Jerry2 6y ago|1 comments
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According to the original article [1] (The Drive one is just a poor rewrite), Hyundai is also affected. > After the publishing of this story, numerous Hyundai and dealership employees contacted BleepingComputer to state that Hyundai was
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by Jerry2 6y ago
Thank you for a book recommendation!
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Other than allowing them to use iTunes, Apple had nothing to do with Rokr phone.
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> He is writing a book about what it was like on the inside. Any idea if he ever completed the book? I can't find anything about it. Would love to read it.
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> I might add that while Nvidia is often reviled for its GPU drivers being proprietary, they are still excellent drivers nonetheless. Couldn't disagree more. For the last 4 to 5 months or so, Nvidia's drivers have been horrend
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I hope this invigorates even more people to start their own sites and communities and free themselves from the tyranny of the Silicon Valley oligarchs.
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Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles(bloomberg.com)
245 points by Jerry2 6y ago|237 comments
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That reminded me of the Linux GRUB2 bug where you could press Backspace key 28 times and bypass all security. [1] > The source of the vulnerability is nothing but an integer underflow fault that was introduced with single commit in Grub
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> We have seen that this trademark issue drives confusion with users thinking Amazon Elasticsearch Service is actually a service provided jointly with Elastic, with our blessing and collaboration. This is just not true. NOT OK. I do not

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