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by evgen 5y ago
Given the sub-standard replacements that are suggested for some gadgets this article is a bit too close to "tell me that you don't actually know how to cook without telling me you don't know how to cook" territory. They
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by evgen 5y ago
This is just dumb. A person spends 15% of their life using educational facilities. It is possible they will need parking and attend places of worship for close to 80% of their lives. The latter are also not amenable to geographic consoli
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by evgen 5y ago
If you see a job where there is some validation cert listed you should apply anyway. Either the company is dumb and insists on the cert, in which case you dodged a bullet when they passed you over for lack of a cert, or they know that the
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by evgen 5y ago
We use it because it is a better IDE. I am a professional who gets paid for my output and I pay for tools that enable me to get more work done faster and with fewer errors. If PyCharm saves me one hour every year over other alternative ed
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by evgen 5y ago
I miss a high bar for entry that meant most of the people online were at a relatively small collection of universities, tech companies, or government and public service agencies. It was elitist for sure, but sometimes that is not a bad thi
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by evgen 5y ago
Strange, as this author misses the internet that they remember from the mid-90s and I miss the internet from the days before people like the author even knew what it was.
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by evgen 5y ago
Why subsidize? Let the producer pay the freight. We want to eliminate this oil source anyway, so if there is anything we should be doing right now it is to more heavily tax oil sources like these which have such significant negative exter
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by evgen 5y ago
The demand for shipping the oil via train or truck will also diminish over time as these horrible and expensive oil reserves are eventually made too expensive to extract. If you build a pipeline and put in the investment then you have stan
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by evgen 5y ago
We are all guessing at how it works, but if I were to try to translate that description I would guess that the first hop is used to anonymize the source address and it relays with an address that provides a region or country (so things like
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by evgen 5y ago
I don't think there is anything magic about three hops. You need at least two so that no single node knows both the source and destination. With a third node you are able to isolate the first and last hop from each other to make it m
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by evgen 5y ago
Were you not aware that the Indian government threatened social media platforms that allowed users to identify a variant as the 'Indian variant'?
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by evgen 5y ago
But their victims would have a hard time paying in that manner. For the longest time the exchange was the hard part of any ransom operation. Cryptocurrency makes it easy. If it changes to bank transfers then that is easier to trace and a
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by evgen 5y ago
Correct, crypto is to blame for the current ransomware epidemic. Weak security and a culture of passing the bunk may have created the environment, but crypto made the entire enterprise profitable and is completely to blame for what is hap
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by evgen 5y ago
This sort of mixed-case queries are 0x20 bit encoding and are a security measure for dns lookups, not a specific attack. The number and amount of queries may rise to the level of being a DDoS and in that case you should consider options fo
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by evgen 5y ago
UT-Austin has an enrollment of 40K in a state with almost 350,000 high school grads in 2021. It is in no way a 'last resort' college and is in fact at the top of the UT system in terms of exclusivity and admission requirements.
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by evgen 5y ago
> We can create viruses just like the ones in nature. This is simply not true. We have a limited set of tools that can be used to manipulate a gene sequence, a limited set of sites and sequences that these tools will bind to, and a lim
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by evgen 5y ago
In recent years? The adulteration of heroin with cheap fentanyl out of China made it much more dangerous for users because the dosage become much more uneven and this invited overdoses, while the crackdown on Oxy supplies over the past fou
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by evgen 5y ago
It is also important to note 'where' you are adding the five years. An additional five years of infirmity at the end of life? Pass. An additional five years of relatively healthy mid-60s? Sign me up. Extending lifespan is less
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by evgen 5y ago
IRA and a lot of the Russian APT groups have quite a bureaucratic system running the show once you actually start to do a bit of digging. Same for most western agencies as well, but that should be no surprise. I am not quite sure about th
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by evgen 5y ago
Yes. All three. Whining is fine, but a surprised pikachu face from either Russia or China when someone decides to turn the tables is more than I think anyone can put up with at this point.
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by evgen 5y ago
"I can't believe anyone would target us" says nation that is notorious for state-sponsored hacks and mass disinformation campaigns that are so large and widespread that they actually have a bureaucracy tasked with managing al
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by evgen 5y ago
https://archive.is/G5yOo
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by evgen 5y ago
Both sources provided are not news organizations, they are agenda-driven opinion peddlers. It is not hard to figure this out.
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by evgen 5y ago
You make the offer contingent upon the inspection and have the inspection performed prior to signing. The purpose of inspection is not the find 'the best one' but to determine if there are any major problems that should shift the
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by evgen 5y ago
It was the largest increase because of the large drop in 2018 and small 2019 rise from that low point. Yes, I am saying that the 2020 rise was in line with expectations and any attempt to link it to lockdown will be weak. In five years th
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by evgen 5y ago
Everyone has struggled to control Afghanistan, including every Afghan government in history. Not going to hold it against them for doing better than most at the task, but not expecting control given the nature of the task and territory.
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by evgen 5y ago
Cherry-picking? There has been steady upward growth year after year except for a single year (2018) that reset the numbers downward. The following year was another rise so, in fact, the most recent data _does_ support the hypothesis. The
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by evgen 5y ago
They had several stockpiles, including actual fucking short-range missiles. Didn't help them at all against a modern military force, did it? But you think the US Army is concerned about Bubba and his cache of AR-15s?
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by evgen 5y ago
Nobody sets out to overdose. I would agree that most people started taking heroin from a low point, but overdose is not an inevitable consequence nor is it necessarily a short-term outcome. Someone could have started using opioids a decad
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by evgen 5y ago
Do you have sources other than known right-wing advocacy groups for these claims? As a simple example the FEE article is nothing but random anecdotes, while the NR article does not have supporting data for the headline claim but tries to pl

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