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by daeken 8y ago
Yep, it also drove them to take payments primarily via an e-check service, which promptly got owned and a huge number of FL users had to deal with fraudulent charges.
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by daeken 8y ago
This is the case with the vast majority of Windows malware as well. System files aren't important; sure, you need them to run the system, but it's not like you can't reinstall. The issue is damage to user-owned files, no mat
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by daeken 8y ago
100% agreed. I've used Airbnb several times now, and any time I'm in any kind of shared housing environment (e.g. an apartment), I've felt this. At this point, I solely use it for renting entire houses, and that's been
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by daeken 8y ago
Because this isn't a good hustle. By not disclosing this nonsense on their listing, they're putting the customers in extremely awkward spots. If you list it and someone else consents to it (and adjusts their mental pricing model a
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by daeken 8y ago
Yes: A guide to acupuncture. That's it.
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by daeken 8y ago
Neither of these doctors have published a single paper relating to vaccination or immunity in general, according to PubMed. A Youtube presence does not an expert make.
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by daeken 8y ago
They conveniently don't share a key point: those on public healthcare or food stamps were required to vaccinate. This particularly affected those with special needs, e.g. autism, thus completely skewing the numbers. The vaccines didn
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by daeken 8y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bad-medicine/
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by daeken 8y ago
Your links don't say what you think they do. 1) You're blaming the CDC for not holding people accountable, then linking the CDC ... holding them accountable. 2) The second two links don't have anything to do with the US, thus
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by daeken 8y ago
Evidence?
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by daeken 8y ago
The information is out there, and is being broadcast publicly. Shutting down misinformation is essential when people don't care about getting valid information.
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by daeken 8y ago
This misinformation is literally killing people. A private company fighting that is absolutely something to celebrate; GoFundMe gets my full support here.
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by daeken 8y ago
Eh, it depends on the topic. Binary reversing stuff rarely gets much love, but there frankly just aren't too many people doing that stuff. Web security things get lots of love, usually -- I both launched and sold a web security class v
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by daeken 8y ago
And how many people know about Voat versus Reddit? With each ban, the reach drops dramatically. C.f. 4chan vs 8chan.
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by daeken 8y ago
Platforms that explicitly enable harmful things (child pornography, racism, and much, much more in the case of 8chan) make the world a worse place. And sure, if this person hadn't created 8chan those horrible people may have just congr
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by daeken 8y ago
I run an OpenSSH server inside WSL and then connect with Putty. It works perfectly, it's fast as hell, and it's super simple; it's just like connecting to any other box, really.
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by daeken 8y ago
NOTE TO ALL: The use of the word "mas...bation" will automatically kill your comment. Might want to censor yourself, as silly (and understandable, in most contexts) as it is.
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by daeken 8y ago
If you want to get an intuitive, visual understanding of linear algebra -- including eigenvectors/eigenvalues -- 3blue1brown's playlist on the subject is just ... perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNk_zzaMoS
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by daeken 8y ago
Zero-day is most generally used in security to mean a bug that is released without a patch. This is a zero day.
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by daeken 8y ago
You can absolutely do everything you described. You can use raw pointers in C#, to the extent that almost any C code can be converted 1:1 to C#. The memory safety goes out the window when pointers are in play; this is why we have 'unsa
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by daeken 8y ago
As a father of a daughter, I particularly enjoy snow cones. Non-sequiturs are fun! When my daughter was born, my mom asked if my views on the death penalty (which I have historically opposed) have changed. When I said no, she asked "if
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by daeken 8y ago
Fair point, thanks!
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by daeken 8y ago
Personally, I like the idea of doing everything of mine through a full-immersion app. But my ideal use-case for these is also to just have windows from my desktop anywhere in space, which isn't exactly the norm.
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by daeken 8y ago
You can do that by rendering text yourself, particularly in a full-immersion app. Rendering distance field text is cheap and really easy to do properly in that situation, but I don't know if anyone has actually done it in practice.
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by daeken 8y ago
I used the HL1 as my full-time computer for a while. The display itself was actually fine -- the text rendering was great, so it worked out well. The issues were 1) software (I built an app called VNCaster that was a decent implementation
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by daeken 8y ago
I picked up a Magic Leap a month or two ago with the goal of doing this. I'm building a Wayland compositor that forwards its rendered windows over to a headset, so you can have an arbitrarily large 'display'; windows can be
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by daeken 8y ago
I frankly don't care to try to convince anti-vaxxers. You can't logic someone out of a strongly held belief that they didn't logic themselves into. If someone can seriously look at the breadth and depth of information on th
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This is literally the worst argument I've read on Hacker News, and that is really saying something. They didn't in any way validate the claims of the anti-vaxxers. The medical community has repeatedly given the answers, these
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by daeken 8y ago
Understanding the math and doing the calculations are two different things. Most kids rail against math because they don't see a practical application, not that it's being done for them; everyone knows that in the real world, the
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by daeken 8y ago
> after all, LIFE ITSELF comes from just such an action, so pretty much anything is in play if that is the standard! That's how an instance of life came about. A very simple, most likely extremely short-lived, not at all efficient

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