big_chungus

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GE Is New Target of Madoff Whistleblower(wsj.com)
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by big_chungus 7y ago
PSA reminder they got caught scanning computers for specific documents at the behest of the Russians. https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-scanned-network... They've still got some brilliant malware re &a
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by big_chungus 7y ago
My biggest gripe is how hard they deliberately make it to disable. Amd even when I finally can, whatever settings I used may well have changed when MS updates. And when they do update, it gets re-enabled. One of many instances where MS ta
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> modern Lisp. I've never heard this before. Modern C++ sure, but I thought most of the "modernization" in lisp was done in descendant languages (i.e. racket).
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Still is, as far as I know. Technically ARC, which is a descendant and in the same family.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> why is said oil and gas industry not investing in solar power themselves? Some are: - https://www.chevron.com/technology/technology-ventures - https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-e
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by big_chungus 7y ago
There's almost always some mis-match between these two. The "duck curve" [0] is the best known example of this issue. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
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It's a bit sad, but I believe "protests" have lost their meaning. All of what you described were meaningful events, but it these days some one is always protesting something. For instance, there are "women's march
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Right, but Wikipedia still has lots of issues with vandalism. They do a good job, but it's just not accurate to keep something perfect at that scale. Here's the difference: wikipedia gets vandalized and people laugh. Mapping da
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> a little nudge from the government Like the subsidies they've had for years? Regardless, what are they going to do, come forcibly put solar panels on your roof? Keep them maintained? Repair them if a branch falls?
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by big_chungus 7y ago
And imagine when some internet forum decides to put a phallic object on top of some significant building, and all go vote it as legitimate. I'm not claiming it's impossible, but there will certainly be obstacles (see wikipedia).