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by _nedR 7y ago
This is already a thing. In fact the rumour is that the US govt discovered the identity of Bitcoin's Satoshi using this. https://medium.com/cryptomuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nak...
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by _nedR 8y ago
Au contraire, i think the bell meme is more widespread than you think. Taking India as an example, the lower levels of literacy has actually made video content the primary form of online content. And with youtube being one of the major port
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by _nedR 8y ago
Could you help dispel the myth by providing sources? Info regarding Android phones would be appreciated. I certainly was still under the impression that phones were a crapshoot of vulnerabilities especially outside the iphone.
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by _nedR 8y ago
It is literally being used to abuse less tech literate ppl (elderly, children, non english speakers, non-tech savvy people, people from third world countries). Such people just click yes yes yes to these popups without reading them (thinkin
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by _nedR 8y ago
Just a couple weeks ago i was helping "disinfect" an android phone for a acquaintance (shopkeeper) here in India. The "virus" in question was chrome notifications for spam/porn/malware probably from malvertisem
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by _nedR 8y ago
The honeymoon may end sooner than we think. There are already rumours floating around online of Uber Eats selling their India operations to Swiggy.
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by _nedR 8y ago
In third countries with lax food safety regulation i feel they matter. When there are more layers of separation between you and your end customer i think its human nature that you will be little less vigiliant / anxious about seeing a
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by _nedR 8y ago
You are in all probability correct and you arent the only one. ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47114401 ) Like the other commenter pointed out, the DRDO has long claimed this capability. But this surprise ann
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by _nedR 8y ago
Was his company awarded 500 million dollars in damages?
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by _nedR 8y ago
>It tends to bring this pointless debate to a quick end. Not really.. all the before photos are for keypad phones. All the after photos are for touchscreen phones. I would argue that if you are going to design a pure touchscreen phone, y
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by _nedR 9y ago
Ah, a perl user ;) For those who don't know : "The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris." - Perl man page
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by _nedR 9y ago
Fair enough. Especially In the case of the iPhone there seems to have been a lot of 'wasted' vertical space that could have otherwise been used for the display (albeit requiring a different aspect ratio). But my point still remain
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by _nedR 9y ago
Cinderella phones, I call them.
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by _nedR 9y ago
which phone was it?
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by _nedR 9y ago
Seriously.. This obsession with thinner, bezel-less flimsy phones that look good only until the first time you drop it at a height greater than 2cms; Its cancer, causing manufacturers to make phones that are objectively worse from the vie
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by _nedR 9y ago
What's to laugh at. In the first case you are financially vested in something's success. In the latter case you are invested in something's failure. There is a difference between insuring a house you want to live in and insur
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by _nedR 9y ago
I believe his point is that although it is useful to analyze someone to see what they're doing wrong (so that you don't repeat the same mistake), it would be more useful to study what they are doing right so that you can apply tho
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by _nedR 9y ago
Fair enough. It does not seem to have undergone the level of scrutiny that one would hope for. But for me it seems to make sense to trust one app rather than having to individually trust the dozens of random apps i encounter day-to-day use.
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by _nedR 9y ago
It works well enough for most applications and games although I have had issues at times; for example with firefox installs. Using portable version of apps will make it easier in such situations. It is mostly trial and error fiddling with t
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by _nedR 9y ago
https://www.sandboxie.com/ You can either run Steam sandboxed which in turn will sandbox all the games it runs, or you have to do a bit of finagling if you want to individually sandbox your games.
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by _nedR 9y ago
Make software patents last 5 years instead of 17.
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by _nedR 9y ago
As a user, screw you. Sorry to be harsh, but the fact of the matter is the harder your life is, the easier my life becomes, no joke. I dont want AMP. In fact, I want emails to go the other way. It already annoys me that email marketers can
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by _nedR 9y ago
Note : You have to watch the embedded video as the article text is sparse in content. Many may raise eyebrows at the source (am not a fan either), but i shared it anyway because i found the video quite eye-opening wrt how precisely Google t
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'It Knows When I Got Out of the Car': How Google's Tracking You(insider.foxnews.com)
1 points by _nedR 9y ago|0 comments
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by _nedR 9y ago
One 'anonymous' source cited by the Daily mail; Really? That too claiming that billionaire prince Alaweed no less is being dangled by his feet.
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by _nedR 9y ago
Some of the reforms have already happened. Prominent examples include the reforms to the guardian system and woman's driving issue. Also there is the planned and widely announced IPO of Saudi Aramco. If the IPO announcement is a market
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by _nedR 9y ago
Art is supposed to inspire our inner eye for beauty. Seeing the 450 million dollar price tag, i feel an unusual amount of anger, disgust, revulsion at the ostentatiousness, excesses and brazen corruption of the rich and of the fine art worl
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by _nedR 9y ago
>Any useful theory of consciousness has to be able to explain animal consciousness too Taking it further, i would argue that whatever physics theory that claims to state the truth about the Universe and its origins has to explain how con
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by _nedR 9y ago
As a Computer Engineer by training I am curious about the field of research regarding conciousness. Is there any contemporary book or resource that summarizes the current academic views and discoveries on the subject?
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by _nedR 9y ago
Thats a product, not a feature.

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