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by Phlarp 11y ago
Spoiler alert...
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by Phlarp 11y ago
The CIA keeps it's own personnel records, so as I understand it, this SF86 form is a new addition to the previously hacked OPM records. Not sure if CIA held SF86's are considered classified, but even if they are I suspect we won&#
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Can't upvote this hard enough, it didn't take four whole posts for people to start calling Hillary by name in this thread.
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Minneapolis reporting in, 200k houses abound. But hey fuck us flyover states-- what with our high paying jobs and affordable housing
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by Phlarp 11y ago
>The guy knew probably about Clinton emails case. Of course he knows about the Hillary situation. Since this is the CIA, would it be entirely tinfoil mad-hat of me to suggest that this was an intentional honeypot left out, knowing it wo
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Doesn't matter-- He's talking about torture and Iranian "realpolitik" on an @AOL email address. In an election cycle. With one headline candidate already getting grilled over improper use of private email.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
It doesn't take some shady secret black site to find cops who will knowingly keep an arrestee in the dark about his/her rights for the purposes of obtaining information. This is completely standard practice at _every_ precinct in
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by Phlarp 11y ago
What can a U2 do that a drone can't do?
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by Phlarp 11y ago
The requirements for a working antenna are actually pretty loose-- In most cases the TV will have two RCA jack inputs; one for cable and one for an antenna but the coax cable that goes from the wall to the TV will generally work just fine a
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Even for 18 year olds with an inclination to think it's all bullshit-- nobody will ever present you with an alternate viable path. It's always "You don't want to end up a loser right? Sign here..." and next thing y
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by Phlarp 11y ago
In [1] and [2] the "target" of the strike was eliminated and the dozen or so civilians that died in each are considered acceptable collateral damage. I suspect this is also the case for [3], however they are unlikely to own up to
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by Phlarp 11y ago
It was a "consensus algorithm" in name only-- any conflict in consensus was "solved" by a central or semi-central control structure. It was also "pre-mined" in that all the ripples already existed and had been
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Here is a link where the Director of the CIA openly and proudly admits to killing people based on meta-data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQiz0Vavmc Surely you don't think they have gymnasiums full of junior analys
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Nice to see someone able to move the ball forward with distributed consensus systems-- The bitcoin community as a whole has been stuck in the mud for far too long at this point. Sadly, I still can't shake the subtle feeling that someth
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Right, a human always has a close eye on the drone's operations, so if it were to target something silly like an MSF hospital the human operator can stop the strike! Drones will be deployed in situations where human based intervention
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Also worth noting that "shielding" electronics is not a binary field-- The damage that occurs depends on both the strength of the magnetic field produced and the specific electronics in question. A strong enough EMP, perhaps one f
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by Phlarp 11y ago
It's possible this is just a submarine after a few months of negative press. I have to imagine they hired a serious PR firm after all the drama over Ellen Pao and random firings.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
It seems naive to assume that neither Paulson's personal relationship with Fuld nor his strong ties to Goldman influenced these events. We wouldn't let a judge with as many potential conflicts of interest rule on a case, but when
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Tesla's battery packs are really just a very large array of relatively standard lithium ion cells, 18650 lithium ions if you're curious. These individual cells fail independently of each other, so the packs slowly degrades over ti
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This fact does not excuse the current behavior of either side.
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I recently finished watching this show, and can confirm it was excellent, but I felt exactly the same way as I read through this. I guess this is just how journalism is going to work for now.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
The the underlying technique used to fudge the test was that the ECU firmware behaved differently during testing than it would in the real world. I imagine the performance / efficiency curve can be similarly tweaked in a gasoline engin
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Insurance companies essentially already do unload what data they have about you to any willing buyer. Doubtful many folks will stop buying insurance due to this fact.
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The last thing advertisers want is reliable data-- that would just prove how useless the advertising was!
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Personally, I won't be the least bit surprised when we find out all the major American and Asian manufacturers do/did this same stuff and worse. Ultimately I can't place total blame on the manufacturers, consumers demand emis
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by Phlarp 11y ago
A few edge cases to consider here: 1) ASIC hardware running on free, stolen or "creatively accounted" electricity. Maybe it's as mundane as a janitor with a bunch of hardware stashed in a closet, or an office complex that cha
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by Phlarp 11y ago
To some extent it's fallen off because we've reached (somewhat) of a plateau. Originally all mining was done using CPU resources, but the first big jump up in hashrate came as folks started to figure out GPU mining. As GPU mining
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by Phlarp 11y ago
"Can you make a profit with the 21 Bitcoin Computer after accounting for energy costs? Yes, you can indeed make a profit with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. However, you would do so not by directly selling bitcoin, but by selling digital goo
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by Phlarp 11y ago
It'll be even lower by the Nov. 16th release date, if they manage to ship on time. If the past is any guide, that quarter a day will rapidly decay towards 0 as the global hashrate continues to grow.
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Alcohol is heavily taxed, and as any liquor store owner will tell you, it's taxed at every possible opportunity: production, distribution and end user sales. We should be striving to bring overall tax rates for tobacco and marijuana up

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