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by air7 7y ago
Nuclear critics seem to ignore, at least when discussing the dangers, that the world is currently producing 10% of its energy from ~440 nuclear power plants in ~50 countries. France for example, derives about 75% of its electricity from n
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by air7 7y ago
While car batteries are charged using fossil fuel derived electricity, you're gaining nothing, and probably losing due to inefficiency. Once electricity is green and cheap, electric cars will naturally follow.
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by air7 7y ago
That's just FUD. What possible use would there be for a list of Facebook profiles and their IP addresses? You can just go on Facebook and get as many profiles as you'd like directly. The IP only gives you an ISP that the user used
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by air7 7y ago
There's a quote I like that goes something like: It's not reality that we suffer from, but our perception of reality. I find that helpful. We all had "actually it wasn't that bad" moments which basically mean "
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by air7 7y ago
Something here doesn't add up. I'm unique even on my standard Samsung S10e with up-to-date Chrome or the stock browser. My screen height has a similarly ratio of 0.11%. My user agent is <0.01%. Perhaps their data is under-repre
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Hacker leaks passwords for more than 500k servers, routers, and IoT devices(zdnet.com)
4 points by air7 7y ago|0 comments
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China confirms human-to-human transmission of coronavirus(theguardian.com)
5 points by air7 7y ago|1 comments
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by air7 7y ago
Well, one can argue that every vulnerability is "already publicly available, and just a matter of time for someone with malicious intent to find it"
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by air7 7y ago
OT but does ytdl violate YouTube's tos? I'd guess so as it skips the ads. Can it be used commercially, say?
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by air7 7y ago
What precisely is "personal data"? Can a nosey neighbor look out their window and note passersby that they recognize? Can one recognize people whose face they saw somewhere (on TV, on a dating app etc) without "permission&quo
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by air7 7y ago
This is/was inevitable. We all know that once technology allows a beneficial behavior you can easily get away with, nothing can stop it. See torrents, ad blocking, reverse-engineering, cracking, etc. But even from a legal/moral pe
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by air7 7y ago
I hold the opposite view. I think this type of segmentation of people is (1)beneficial and (2)mostly harmless. (1) The sole reason for the feeling of "being surrounded by idiots" is lack of understanding of the other. If someone h
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by air7 7y ago
The issue with server side 3rd party ads is that the advertiser has no way to assure the impressions are real.
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by air7 7y ago
Coincidentally, I've just heard Milton Friedman talk about "Health Care in a Free Market". Fascinating and eloquent. He argues that the FDA did more harm than good, and that society would be better off without a governmental
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by air7 7y ago
He said "innocent- looking device driver". The good driver is actually padded so that it can be later replaced with the bad driver. I.E This doesn't allow the attacker to replace any driver, but only one they prepared in a
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by air7 7y ago
> Most papers I come across turn out to be difficult if not impossible to reproduce How is this even possible? Isn't Reproducibility one the pillars of Science? What gives such a paper credibility over say, an eyewitness description
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by air7 7y ago
Nice. Maybe an easier^3 could be: 1/3 = 0.xyz 4/3 = 1.xyz Meaning (shl,2) leaves the same digits after the decimal point. So it must be 0.010101...
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by air7 7y ago
Actually I really do. I'm wondering how I could, in terms of investment, without risk of pivoting of specific companies etc.
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by air7 7y ago
Here are mine: 1. Still no level 4/5 autonomous cars anywhere in sight. The promise of being "just around the corner" fizzles down and people just forget the hype. 2. Same with AI. The panacea hype dies down. No AGI at all. N
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by air7 7y ago
Perhaps an easier way would be to just do normal long division just in base 2.
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by air7 7y ago
The thing that ad-hating people (me included) sometimes gloss over is that ads actually work. They work in the sense that enough people willingly actually click them and then actually willingly give money to the advertiser in exchange for s
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by air7 7y ago
You do remember you've been showing your passport to these "private entitites" with your photo and personal details for decades?
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by air7 7y ago
Why is it so hard to believe that that is the intended purpose? The feature is small yet a nice touch and I can't think of any sinister usage of adding this technology (I'm sure they have hidden cameras/microphones/facia
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by air7 7y ago
How much of this nightmare happens in other 1st world countries? Does the adage "Never talk to the police" hold elsewhere/everywhere?
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by air7 7y ago
> Surfing the internet at 35,000 feet is now something that we expect on flights. Not only do I not expect this, I actually dread the time when it is ubiquitous and free. Flying is really a unique experience in that it forces you to si
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by air7 7y ago
When someone is not insecure, they won't take offense even if the speaker meant "response 1" and if they are, even "response 2" would cause them pain. In the end, one interprets other people's intentions based
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by air7 7y ago
Yes, I (think I) understand. My point was that while a robot indeed won't have a wrongly felt "fear for one's life" like a human cop might (be it genuine or a cover-up), it will certainly have other bugs. And because (I
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by air7 7y ago
Oh! So in that case owners just need to wait 32,768 hours and they'll be fine. /s
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by air7 7y ago
Another win for Hanlon.
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by air7 7y ago
> It also only takes 2 minutes to change dg3fkn.website.com to 3j4vdl.website.com (Hell, you can probably automate this). We mentioned above how much work it takes to gather all subdomains being used as a front for CNAME Cloaking. Now im

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