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by MertsA 9y ago
That may or may not be true depending on how the program is written. All of the math can be correct, but make the mistake of relying on floating point math having the associative and distributive properties (it doesn't). I'd imagi
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by MertsA 9y ago
The NSA has made direct targeted attacks at US companies in the past. Just look at Google, they got NSLs and had to cooperate with PRISM yet at the same time the NSA still dug up their fiber and tapped it. With the NSA's twisted logic
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by MertsA 9y ago
The Chinese have quite the problem with exactly that. Eating something pulled out of a sewer tends to have health effects and gutter oil is sometimes made from grease from a sewer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_o
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by MertsA 9y ago
"Ninety three per cent of its complex structure was said to consist of the element “wet wipe”." It's made of something meant to be stored for very long periods in water without losing cohesion.
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by MertsA 9y ago
This isn't quite correct for American health care. It is absolutely cheaper to pay insurance premiums than to pay directly for medical bills. The insurance company takes in more premiums than benefits that they pay out but the price th
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by MertsA 9y ago
The whole point of gasification is the production of syngas. You don't vent syngas to the atmosphere for the same reason you don't pour gas on the ground. Burning syngas doesn't have to emit carbon monoxide, a catalytic conve
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by MertsA 9y ago
>Failure to separate is almost certaionly on SpaceX. One thing to note here, the payload adapter was made by Northrop Grumman instead of SpaceX. If the payload adapter itself failed then that's not on SpaceX even though normally the
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by MertsA 9y ago
Sure. https://www.cvedetails.com/product/156/Apple-Mac-Os-X.html?v... https://www.cvedetails.com/product/32238/Microsoft-Windows-1... https://www.cvedetails.com/product&#
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by MertsA 9y ago
That's not entirely without precedent. Look at macOS, still comparatively little malware compared to Windows even though macOS has had quite a bit more vulnerabilities in the OS itself compared to Windows.
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by MertsA 9y ago
To elaborate on this, the write to the array isn't what's being read here. array[value_of_kernel_memory_byte] = 1; This assignment gets rolled back like it's supposed to. It's when reading the array after the rollback th
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by MertsA 9y ago
Especially microcode updates. Microcode is just a giant obscure binary for everyone outside of Intel. If there was a mitigation possible via a microcode update this could have been published months before disclosure without any meaningful r
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by MertsA 9y ago
Forget impacting their productivity, we've already seen what happens when you defer these questions to the user. They always hit yes or okay. It's like it's not even there, people would view mindlessly accepting prompts like
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by MertsA 9y ago
I totally agree with that, I'm not trying to claim that the community as a whole currently likes or supports the name BCash, just that it wasn't "the other side" that originally came up with it like so many people claim.
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by MertsA 9y ago
That's not true, there's a handful of people that now want to call it BCash just because it annoys Roger Ver. People in /r/btc that support it. Just because they want to annoy Roger Ver does not mean that they aren'
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by MertsA 9y ago
Falcon 9 does have engine out capability and that's been proven in the past on CRS-1. In theory even if one of the engines were to rupture the shrapnel should be contained by walls between the engines. Having less engines per core woul
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by MertsA 9y ago
Ah, good point I remember something about that bug a number of years back. Point being SegWit is designed to be compatible with old versions of Bitcoin. Bugs aside it's still a valid chain, old Bitcoin nodes just break on blocks that a
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by MertsA 9y ago
To clarify, I was referring to /r/btc where I lurk from time to time. There were plenty of people bikeshedding over the name but Roger Ver is the only notable public figure who has thrown a temper tantrum over the name. Just beca
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by MertsA 9y ago
Rather than engage in an argument on semantics let's look at the facts of the matter. The Bitcoin project has been the organization behind the official Bitcoin client since Satoshi was still around. If you were to start up an ancient B
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by MertsA 9y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that "bcash" was something coined by the bcash community. The only notable opposition to it was by Roger Ver because he wanted his fork to have the name "Bitcoin" in it. I don't
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by MertsA 9y ago
Right now if you run an ancient bitcoin node it will still see the segwit addresses and the real Bitcoin chain as valid just fine. It cannot follow the BCash chain because it's not a valid chain to it. Also, the Bitcoin project has bee
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by MertsA 9y ago
>how does the size of the earth matter? Because we are but a mote of dust in a tiny span of time. The earth has such a tremendous amount of volume that it's impossible for us to change it any significant amount. Look at global warmi
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by MertsA 9y ago
Does a 40% contingency fee seem normal here? The article makes it seem like this didn't escalate past sending a strongly worded extortion letter. Is it normal for lawyers to take such a huge cut for something that never went to court?
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by MertsA 9y ago
Anything signed would have been arguably under duress. If someone is actively threatening you and coercing you to sign something the signature is irrelevant.
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by MertsA 9y ago
>I don't want to defend Uber here, but I don't see what this letter business has to do with Waymo's allegedly stolen LIDAR. We don't know what's in the letter (yet) but it very well could touch on exactly what Ub
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by MertsA 9y ago
If that doesn't scream "hush money" I don't know what does. What possible reasonable excuse for giving the lawyer millions could they possibly come up with? I get the feeling that I'm somehow reading this wrong as t
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by MertsA 9y ago
>The letter is sealed but the judge said he intends to make it public after hearing any objections. I love this, not only do we get to read the letter, we also get to read Uber's transparent objections beforehand.
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by MertsA 9y ago
Unfortunately it seems like the Trump administration doesn't even bother responding nowadays.
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by MertsA 9y ago
It's a bit more than a TPM, since it's running the Secure Enclave firmware on it. It's like a mix between a TPM and Intel ME.
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by MertsA 9y ago
That's the case for any nuclear meltdown, Chernobyl isn't special in that regard. If you have a very dense blob of liquid fuel (called corium after a meltdown) generating megawatts of power it's going to melt through concrete
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by MertsA 9y ago
That's not true, the other poster had it right. You have peak torque at stall and it decreases mostly linearly all the way to zero at peak rpm. Power is simply torque times speed. Also torque has a basically linear relationship with cu

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