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>XLennart is a modification of the arcade game XBill. >An evil and unpopular computer hacker named “Lennart”[1] tries to install his malicious init system on various BSD and Linux systems. >Like in XBill, the player has to hit him
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And a complementary video on the neighboring channel Military History Visualized: "Kriegsmarine's Wunderwaffen or Desperation Weapons?" [1]; showing and describing one of Germany's late war midget submarine models. [meta
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The aircraft was actively cooled[1], so I suppose they could always force a bit more cooling if needed. My guess is on engines - and not necessarily thermal limitation, probably rather inlet speed. Funnily enough, having read the Sled Drive
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Cue the "accidental panspermia hypothesis" - the real (messy) world variant of panspermia[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
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“Five Eyes” Nations Want Access to Encrypted Messages(youtube.com)
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>presumption of innocence is on the individual, not on whether there was a crime or not This is still wrong. A crime is an act of a person, which fulfills rather strict criteria. Both the legal theory and typical legislation [1] requir
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>Not scalable Yes, and that is a rather important advantage in case of news & opinion reporting. The old system consisted [1] of small number of large, vertically integrated media outlets. Each of the outlets was pretty close to a
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>It does cost them money when they get it wrong. Does it tho? Google has the problem of too much advertising space vs too few advertising clients. Being able to significantly cut down the advertising space means they get better prices
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Put it the other way around: 5B is one time 25% (or 9% of 55.8B revenue) tax. It's a far cry from a joke; certainly it's higher than AZ or other members of FAANG pay, while not outright terrible.
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>anecdotes >guy who sacks over half of his staff The real question is what the competitors will do. Every change in economic policy, and in market situation, causes some participants to benefit, and others to be hindered [1]. When
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Enable all filters (except the "uBlock filters – Experimental "). My uBlock Origin blocked 58/38% and I got not a single annoyance on this article.
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>composition I know it's not what you are asking, but... the mitochondria are example of biological composition. They are organisms that (d)evolved to live exclusively inside eukaryotic cells, in tight symbiotic relationship. Vira
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You described effect observed in population that grew up in, and descended exclusively from generations living in singular over-crowded space with full living necessities supplies. Humans out in the real world aren't like that. Some li
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>Not sure what comes after step 3 The steps 1...3 you described are literally "the demand for housing will gradually fall". What follows is, naturally, gradual lowering of the prices, with subsequent stabilization and rebirth
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There was a response here (sadly since deleted), that said something to the effect, >What makes you think this was designed as tracking system rather than anti-abuse feature? Which goes to the crux of the problem: the way "online
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>Seems these days the second option is always the preferred one. Not on the internet, no. The 2/4/8/whatever-chans are alive and kicking. Ditto the good old IRC. There's plenty of other services that are more rough-an
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The XKCD you linked is reasonable on the surface of it, but if you mull over it a bit more, you'll see the three glaring omissions: 1) people care much, much less about "hurting" automated systems, and 2) people feel much les
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>Is this a correct place to use 'GET'? Not at all; GET requests are specified [0] to not cause any modifications to the resources (aside of meta-data like logging etc.). It should also be 100% safe for web spiders to issue an
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Turtles all the way down. But in all frankness, if Cloudflare's own site did not run off of Cloudflare's infrastructure, why would anybody trust them with their websites?
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Physics is on the airplane's side [0]. The drag of rolling over rails, and of going through the dense air at ground level pressure is naturally much worse than that of flying up high for any non-trivial speeds. Right now the trains may
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Air travel is comparable in fuel usage to trains [1]. Which surprised me a bit, as I expected much better mileage for the air travel, thanks to the exceptionally low drag of the rarified air up there as compared to wheels on rails. However
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>IoT vendors are causing a tragedy of the commons, inflicting quite a lot of damage It's an interesting problem in that the value of hackale/wormable IoT devices stems from their sheer number. In a way the culpability of any
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>The internet is still an open place, and there are plenty of venues You are absolutely right that putting all the eggs in one basket is a textbook mistake, and one should diversify communication channels & sources of income. >
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"Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them" The proposal by the billionaire to tax themselves more becomes an efficient and pragmatic tactics when considered as closing up the path for the n
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A modest proposal: let's use only static libraries (plugins aside). Let's help KSM efficiently merge the R/X, and the R/O memory pages of the static libraries of running processes. To maintain the current performance,
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As salawat stated in the excellent parent post, >The key is really about detection A cursory search indicates ICBMs have terminal velocity comparable to, or higher than, of hypersonic missiles, at about 16...34'000 km/h. Th
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>tariff is more a tax on imports, paid by consumers ie citizens Only in the pathological case when most or all imports of the particular good is under the tariffs. Just for sake of example, suppose for a second America had diversifie
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It's a fine sentiment. The american government needs to balance the need to protect chinese citizens (and other ones under influence from China) vs. the economic needs of americans, who are the government's primary responsibility.
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>the US steel was very low quality >The US steel near me is generally higher quality than the chinese steel around here While this may seem contradictory, it's perfectly natural on an open market. There's always some dem
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...after 5 years of hand-wringing and investigations. By which time Facebook would have had made out like mad bandits. Plus they really can white-wash the data; as per the announcements, not only Facebook but also other major entities would

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