Myrth

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by Myrth 10y ago
Drake equation always bothered me when used in argument of contact probability, because it doesn't take into account time. Yes, there might have been billions of extraterrestrial civilizations, but that doesn't mean there are curr
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by Myrth 10y ago
I can hear SSDs, consistently when I plug them, and the noise stops when unpluged, is that weird?
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by Myrth 10y ago
https://twitter.com/NewWorldHacking/status/79551083891643187...
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by Myrth 10y ago
Because the reality is not straightforward and to break many catches 22 it is required to make decisions that not everybody happy about.
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by Myrth 10y ago
If you're interested in the topic, highly recommend Peter Watts' "False blindness" and "Echopraxia"
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by Myrth 10y ago
Crashed during parsing of a php project... When tried to uninstall, GridinSoft Anti-Malware blocked it and said 5 bars danger malware...
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by Myrth 10y ago
Your post has touched me deeply and resonated a lot with my own life. Thank you for writing!
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by Myrth 10y ago
RIP server log file, analytics and clients' metered connections
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by Myrth 10y ago
I thought we were talking about what we already have, not what we want to have? EDIT: Bridges and planes are built by strictly organized companies, with clear (ideally) leadership and plans. Internet has evolved much less centralized, and a
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by Myrth 10y ago
I think it feels hacky because it is, and it's natural. And by natural I mean this is how spontaneous complex systems evolve. Internet is a result of half of a century of millions of people's contributions for different and often
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by Myrth 10y ago
And if you're using Ubuntu, you're trusting package managers, and if you're using Gentoo, you're trusting original developers (how often do you audit source code?)
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by Myrth 10y ago
Food/water supply/heating/cooling/medicine supply/medical equipment. Our tools, household items and clothes are built with planned obsolescence, can't be repaired by consumer and thus require frequent replaceme
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by Myrth 10y ago
I still don't understand what makes banks special from any other institution that practices leveraging and fractional storage of their clients' assets? Like Comex or LBMA vaults.
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by Myrth 10y ago
Exactly. I have no idea why people blamed IE for not following standards. It was totally all of its users' fault for using it.
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by Myrth 10y ago
It makes sense because it's de facto standard, and intuition is experience, and intuitive is what we're used to. I'm not sure how it can be explained more basically.
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by Myrth 11y ago
"Anything can go wrong?" "Don't be a buzzkill, man!"
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by Myrth 11y ago
Is there a difference between using bandwidth this way, or loading say 150MB image? (bandwidth costs wise)
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by Myrth 11y ago
A question for people in the know - if there's a research/treatment that can not be patented/monetized due to its generic nature, but it still requires millions of dollars in trials - is it doomed to never be done?
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by Myrth 11y ago
Previously-Secret 1955 Government Report Concluded that Ocean May Not Adequately Dilute Radiation from Nuclear Accidents http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/06/why-the-ocean-may-not...
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by Myrth 11y ago
Does it increase the cost of the proverbial wrench?
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by Myrth 12y ago
You've missed the "not" word. I had to double take too.
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by Myrth 12y ago
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/twoquestions.asp "Hitler's diet was primarily vegetarian throughout the latter part of his life; however, he didn't adopt a vegetarian diet for moral reasons, but because he
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by Myrth 12y ago
I would imagine a stand alone unit with an warning indicator panel, that you could attach/install on dashboard
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by Myrth 12y ago
I think he talks not about laws themselves but overzealous unreasonable enforcement, that is a result of lobbying
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by Myrth 12y ago
Would be nice to specify how much units to send to another planet, or at least don't send more than the other planet can accept...
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by Myrth 12y ago
I think the main issues to overcome will be making sure that only registered users vote, and only once per voting event. This could be achieved by distributing an undivisible votecoin to each registered voter upon presenting their proof of
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by Myrth 12y ago
Ok, how about not fully random sources and targets, but ones that somehow involved in DMCA lobbying and enforcement. That would remove the "innocent" from equation.
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by Myrth 12y ago
The sending itself wouldn't be hurting anyone. The responding parties would have to make a decision to hurt innocents or not, and maybe actually forced to do some due diligence, that is expected of them. And maybe voice out that curren
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by Myrth 12y ago
Someone needs to send a couple of millions DMCA takedown requests from random sources to random targets, to make this problem visible.
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by Myrth 12y ago
* Paginated content with different filters or sorting? Almost the same content on multiple pages * Product with a category name in url, or without, or under multiple categories Both are very useful for humans, but have to be massaged with c

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