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by Perdition 12y ago
How are they buying Bitcoin in the first place? I also doubt that people who don't have bank accounts have private computers. So really the pool is "people with computers and bank accounts in countries so replete with fraud that P
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by Perdition 12y ago
I first saw it on a friends laptop which has a shitty screen with the brightness cranked too high and it looked gold/white to me. When I looked at it on my desktop (which I have set so that blacks are as black as the monitor gets) it d
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by Perdition 12y ago
You got some citations? Because in most of the countries you are talking about the poor who will do anything to survive aren't getting university degrees and sexist discrimination exists in abundance. For example in many Islamic countr
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by Perdition 12y ago
That sounds like a crutch for a malfunctioning team and bad management. I find it incredibly ironic how many software companies apparently don't believe in the power or usefulness of Information Technology.
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by Perdition 12y ago
Companies don't care about security and don't pay for security professionals. Most big hacks could have either been prevented, or detected and limited, if the company had a proper security team with the authority to make the chang
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by Perdition 12y ago
Aircraft delivery of nukes is cheaper and better for tactical application (easier to disguise the nuclear capability of the strike). But they are far more vulnerable to interdiction and counter-force strikes. I suspect the UK's relianc
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by Perdition 12y ago
There is a difference between "being as simple as required to reliably function" and "being as simple as possible". False activations of things like alarms are dangerous because it conditions people to ignore the alarm o
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by Perdition 12y ago
Going skydiving is taking a risk. Going skydiving without training and without checking your equipment is just being an idiot. It isn't noble or poetic it is just dumb. The only thing sadder than McCandless pointless depth is the peopl
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by Perdition 12y ago
Except he didn't prepare as well as he could. IIRC there was a ferry or similar a few miles upstream of where he was "trapped" (because he didn't expect the river to swell as it did) and died. Learning about seasonal wea
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by Perdition 12y ago
Why would you presume that a startup would offer better wages and conditions for those "below the API"? The first one might, but then the second one would start trying to drive costs down in competition. In countries that allow su
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by Perdition 12y ago
DevOps was originally supposed to be about moving dev and ops out of their respective silos and into one combined team so as to break down communication barriers and help each side understand their duties better. Under this model there is n
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by Perdition 12y ago
Yeah but ejecting is often career ending because of those G's.
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by Perdition 12y ago
Difficulty of international agreements, and the expense. Upgrading to fully autonomous systems adds a lot of cost but is only going to make a difference in a small number of incidents (civilian aircraft don't fly as low and fast as fig
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by Perdition 12y ago
In reality giants like John Deere have such chokeholds on the market that they can either buy out "disrupters" or bankrupt them. Hardware is so costly and slow moving compared to software that the swiftness of startups compared to
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by Perdition 12y ago
Not a chance. Anything sufficiently complex enough to be a "work" is automatically copyright (in most countries). That means absent an open source license you cannot "copy" (as distinct from "view") or create a
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by Perdition 12y ago
Incorrect. A free account means your repos are publicly accessible, it does not mean the code in those repos is under an open source license.
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by Perdition 12y ago
So you are arguing that despite the US (and other Western governments) capabilities at electronic intelligence being openly talked about in the press since the '90's that the terrorists only learned about this due to Snowden? Osam
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by Perdition 12y ago
You don't want a "framework" you want a CMS or "app platform". Drupal isn't a "framework", laravel/symfony are "frameworks". You are comparing a Tesla model S to a kit car chassis. Ther
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by Perdition 12y ago
This would break too many websites (I've seen it used by a lot of banks as part of their authentication systems) to get through any kind of standards committee. Instead download something like RefControl, and advocate for browsers to i
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by Perdition 12y ago
Messing with the URIs isn't going to work because most ads are from ad networks and their domains can be blocked. And no ad network is going to trust some system where they need to rely on the client server to not lie about ad impressi
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by Perdition 12y ago
I'm not sure of any names but I know there are neuroscience people that study vision and might be interested in studying you. The human visual system is fascinatingly complex so something like this isn't too surprising.
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by Perdition 12y ago
Yeah if you are focusing on points in the background you probably won't notice it (because your eyes are moving as the image moves). A better demo would probably be something like a fight scene. Close ups of fast moving objects very ob
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by Perdition 12y ago
>24fps has long been the standard for "as smooth as real life" motion in the movie & TV industries. Which is fine only for non-action scenes, and film also has motion blur to make movement look smoother. Action scenes in ga
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by Perdition 12y ago
I would think you have something significantly wrong with your visual system if you can't see the difference. People have gone "blind" while having no physical defects to their visual system, so it is possible you really can&
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by Perdition 12y ago
>which enabled working-class people to own fairly large amounts of clothing for the first time, and even have fashionable clothing, which had once been the exclusive preserve of the rich. No, that was due to social reform as a result of
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by Perdition 12y ago
They are a huge publicly traded corporation and you expected different?
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by Perdition 12y ago
They don't even need to invalidate the patent, they can just run the lawsuit out for decades and most likely get the patent holder to settle for a pittance.
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by Perdition 12y ago
So they sell a database with an analytics front end?
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by Perdition 12y ago
To RMS? Probably. The majority of programmers use free software for practical reasons and are willing to "compromise" with the desires of proprietary software companies. For RMS free software is an ideological struggle. In his ide
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by Perdition 12y ago
I believe judges have compelled people to surrender decryption keys. It is in concept no different to having a magical safe which can't be opened by any method except the owner's key. The court does have the authority to compel yo

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