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by daxorid 8y ago
You can also run pi-hole on a tiny VPS and set your DNS statically on all devices.
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by daxorid 8y ago
> Rust, the programming language project, is one of the most inclusive projects there is Right. Let's see Klabnik accept a PR from Curtis Yarvin. The "inclusiveness" of Rust, and projects like it, only applies if you hold
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by daxorid 8y ago
> You don’t get to say that without providing evidence Put a parakeet in a windowless room and close the door. I can reasonably make the statement that the parakeet is perching, looking around, and/or preening its feathers, because
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by daxorid 8y ago
I don't know about specific MTBF rates, but all hardware eventually goes bad or gets damaged. The standard protection against failure ( and loss, and theft ) is to register multiple devices with your accounts and physically secure the
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by daxorid 8y ago
You're not going to get an answer to this question, on this site.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Not the OP, but the obvious interpretation is that the Trump administration is not only not equivalent to, but in opposition to, the "Western political establishment". c.f. the "Deep State". True or not, it's a char
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by daxorid 8y ago
No. I'm done. Fuck this site.
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by daxorid 8y ago
edit: disregard. I won't ever question the scientific validity of technical analysis again, and will add it to my ever-growing list of unacceptable opinions on HN.
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by daxorid 8y ago
I'm not sure if you've been paying attention to equity prices. EM crisis, yield curve flattening, currency volatility, upcoming rate hikes, near-record P/E ratios, NONE OF IT MATTERS. Investors are bidding the ES and the QQQ
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by daxorid 8y ago
Same reason people take the Federal Reserve seriously, even after failing to see literally every single recession on their watch. A very human bias is to believe and follow those in positions of authority, despite long and verifiable record
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by daxorid 8y ago
I believe that https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOS is also one of his HN accounts, with some more recent posts.
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by daxorid 8y ago
I was legitimately curious, and there was no snark at all.
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by daxorid 8y ago
edit: Disregard, can't ask an honest question on HN. Understood.
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by daxorid 8y ago
There are ethical issues surrounding brokers like Zerodium, Grugq, et. al. Specifically, that 95% of the time you know that bug is going to NSA, CIA, FBI, DoD, GCHQ, BND, Mossad, etc.
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by daxorid 8y ago
> admitted that she is willing to sell a 0day for profit Researchers sell bugs all the time. Whether to a bounty program, a broker, a carder forum, etc, it happens all the time. Nobody is going to look down on her for admitting to doing
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by daxorid 8y ago
Full disclosure is not "irresponsible", and plenty of researchers do it even in the absence of armchair psychoanalysis by the Internet.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Why do articles like these never mention the fact that air conditioners are heat pumps, and therefore quite a bit more efficient at cooling than oil or electric furnaces are at heating? I rarely see similar articles bemoaning the carbon emi
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by daxorid 8y ago
Exactly. Low margin rates and the fact that TSLA doesn't pay a dividend really help shorts maintain long-term positions, as well.
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by daxorid 8y ago
I do this, but not out of compulsion or stress; I do it out of specific irritants: ingrown hairs. Oftentimes a beard hair will grow into my skin and I will unconsciously pick at non-ingrown hairs in the general region until there is a small
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by daxorid 8y ago
Moreover, cash is guaranteed to lose value. The mandate of global central banks has moved from "price stability" to "2% inflation".
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by daxorid 8y ago
> That makes you, me, and two other people on this site who've noticed it. No, there are plenty of people who notice it. We've learned to keep our mouths shut on the topic because the coordinated downvote attacks by FVEY sycoph
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by daxorid 8y ago
> but they expect knowledge of data structures/algorithms and programming languages that I don't have (I'm not a CS major) What about not being a CS major prevents you from picking up Sedgewick or a programming language re
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by daxorid 8y ago
many drivers have a tremendous sense of entitlement It seems to me to be precisely the opposite. It is extremely common to see cyclists have a full 4-5 foot shoulder to ride on, but they always choose to ride as close to vehicular tra
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by daxorid 8y ago
OWS's staunch refusal to permit anything other than phone numbers as identifiers should tell you everything you need to know about Signal. It is an authenticated, nonrepudiable communications platform using identifiers that are very
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by daxorid 8y ago
What is the norm? Fewer, or more bedrooms than two?
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by daxorid 8y ago
Trying to understand the downvotes to this comment. Cisco's been caught on multiple occasions including backdoors in their products. Expressing skepticism of their stewardship of a security company is perfectly reasonable.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Angel List has never been an option. You still need, and always have needed, "warm introductions" from other connected people to gain even a modicum of interest. It's effectively Facebook for the already-connected. As other
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by daxorid 8y ago
It never got old. Phishing+macros+lateral movement are still a very significant vector. The industry exacerbates this by running with the feel-good "don't blame the user!" mantra. At some point you really do need to give up
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by daxorid 8y ago
The primary source of our technical debt is launch impatience. Specifically, that most stakeholders in a feature or project accept "mostly works, with the exception of rare edge cases" as sufficient cause for launch. This usually
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by daxorid 8y ago
Demonstrably untrue. Consumers pay a premium for access to the Apple SEP and App Store review/analysis process (Jekyll and XCodeGhost notwithstanding, it's been a major security success)

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