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by daxorid 8y ago
Doubling is pretty significant, as is the rate of increase prior to, and dropoff after, 1963. If some sort of catastrophe befalls our current civilization and future archaeologists attempt to C14 date our fossils and artifacts derived from
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by daxorid 8y ago
Data point of one incoming. I work in ecommerce. 90% seems stupid low, based on our data. A couple years ago we were seeing a dozen or so successful login requests per minute against a background of ~40 unsuccessful requests per second . W
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by daxorid 8y ago
> Everytime we post an opinion against the consensus Downvoting was, long ago, supposed to be used to indicate trolling, incivility, not substantive, etc. Sometime recently, dang and sctb have ruled that downvoting for disagreement is no
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by daxorid 8y ago
> Now, all of the major economies around the world is tapped out with QE Tapped out? 1. Kuroda and Draghi are merely taking a breather. BOJ and ECB balance sheets were still growing as recently as April 2018. SNB shows no signs of ending
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by daxorid 8y ago
I love this comment. It was precisely my attitude eighteen years ago. I was supremely confident that Moore's Law and work by AGI researchers would usher in the Singularity well within my lifetime, and that my offspring would either b
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by daxorid 8y ago
Very cool configuration. I attempted something similar to this in a 20U cabinet some time back. The biggest issue is the fan noise that 1U form factor servers and network gear produce, with their rather high RPMs. One can hear the noise acr
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by daxorid 8y ago
The biggest problem with Windows is de-facto key escrow. If you want to use BitLocker in W10, you have two options: 1. Escrow your FDE keys with Microsoft Live 2. Go through the hassle of setting up a PDC and escrowing them to your domain.
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by daxorid 8y ago
LibreOffice works perfectly well for 99.9% of MS Office documents.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Fracking and horizontal drilling are the only things that have kept us out of a global energy crisis. Without their application to tight oil and gas fields, the world would be firmly on the downslope of the global Hubbert peak right now. Ba
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by daxorid 8y ago
OP said "central banks", as in plural. The ECB, BOJ, and SNB are doing a bang-up job to inflate global asset prices. As for the Fed, their balance sheet unwind rate has been a mere rounding error thus far.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Indeed. And the strange irony is that HN millenials will defend central banking, "inflation targets", and ZIRP vehemently. I don't understand it.
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by daxorid 8y ago
Security continues to be a concern. If FF can go a year without critical UAF bugs, maybe.
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by daxorid 8y ago
You don't get investigated or railroaded for insider trading if you do what the NSA/CIA/FBI tells you to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio <tinfoilhat>Covert access to IME may have s
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by daxorid 8y ago
edit: You've all made my point for me. Comment removed, Kommissar.
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by daxorid 8y ago
I'm going to defend 69132 here. 1. We know that the symptoms of many different varieties of mental illness have been helped by the administration of SSRIs and other drugs that alter brain chemistry. 2. But what we most assuredly do not
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by daxorid 8y ago
> The downvotes seem reflective of a delusion in the tech community The downvotes seem reflective of the reality that the vast, vast majority of present landmass will be perfectly dry with a 10m rise in sea levels. Climate change risks a
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by daxorid 8y ago
> governments can't just say, "Well every company does it, so why can't we." Odd. That's precisely what's happening with GDPR. While the EU governments are demanding that private companies limit collection a
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by daxorid 8y ago
> Genetics are over-rated Intelligence (all g-factors, not just IQ but reaction time, etc) are roughly 40-55% heritable, depending on which study you choose to run with. Similar numbers are found for behavior, political leanings, conscie
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by daxorid 8y ago
> So I doubt there is as much of a market for a male version Sperm count has been cut in half in the last 40 years in the West. Sperm motility and morphology has also seen precipitous declines, along with increasing DNA fragmentation iss
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by daxorid 8y ago
Care to elaborate? In which US court does the EU have standing to bring suit against a US citizen or corporation for violation of regulations the US does not recognize by either law or treaty?
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by daxorid 8y ago
I'm trying to understand how Gaskill is being charged, here. He gave a different address to avoid being swatted himself. It is now "conspiracy, wire fraud, and obstruction of justice" to exercise one's instinct of self-p
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by daxorid 8y ago
My understanding of historical life expectancy is that, adjusting for infant mortality and wars, we aren't significantly longer-lived now than in the 19th century. Specifically, once you've made it to 40, you're nearly as lik
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by daxorid 8y ago
> Why limit it to the USA? Threat modeling always considers the force your adversary is capable of bringing to bear against you. If you are a US citizen, residing in the US, then the US is far more capable of capturing and throwing you i
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by daxorid 8y ago
> Not sure what the actual target customer base is The target customer is someone who doesn't want to be spied on by IME, PSP, or TrustZone, but totally trusts IBM not to collude with FVEY :)
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by daxorid 8y ago
Ok, so the uplink gateways don't actually sink/source packets to the cleartext Internet, they have one more (encrypted) hop to your datacenters first?
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by daxorid 8y ago
Your project looks interesting, but what are your plans to solve the "exit node problem", e.g. one end user downloads child pornography and two weeks later the Uplink node is swatted by the FBI?
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by daxorid 8y ago
This is no guarantee. GoDaddy and Google Domains, in particular, have demonstrated willingness to throw you into clientHold hell for political reasons, even for "tried and true TLDs".
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by daxorid 8y ago
These appeals to saving lives would be entirely unnecessary with just one small fix. The supply of blood would be dramatically increased if the United Blood Services would simply pay $50 per unit. After testing and transportation, a unit of
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by daxorid 8y ago
Speak for yourself. Plenty of us want to do it, and are doing it . Cities are rotten.
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by daxorid 8y ago
What? In what world is QE 1,2, and 3, the dramatic and unprecedented expansion of the ECB's balance sheet, and the BOJ and SNB openly buying equities "focused on eliminating inflation"?

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