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   Apple Exec: ‘We Are the Greatest Platform for Distributing Child Porn’(forbes.com)

   5 points by firebaze 5y ago|1 comments
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   by firebaze 5y ago

   I wonder if SHRDLU* would understand such queries better :) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
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   by firebaze 5y ago

   I think we're up for a new Apple CEO in a few days.
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   by firebaze 5y ago

   Thanks for the clarification!
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   by firebaze 5y ago

   I can't remember ever having paid using the magnetic stripe in Europe since 2010 (having been to Spain, Italy, France, Netherlands, Romania and living in Germany), before I didn't use a credit card at all since it wasn't very
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   My Journey on Developing a Custom Android Auto App(medium.com)

   2 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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   by firebaze 5y ago

   Let's extrapolate a bit on this.
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   by firebaze 5y ago

   I'm not sure if this addresses the main point. Apple promised privacy, as long as you're not violating laws. The most recent move changed this: now you're a suspect by default, your photos will be scanned even on your local d
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   by firebaze 5y ago

   That's one of the few good aspects of a legendary fuck-up like this: you learn about people defending it. People defending CSAM should go to hell, fast. But are we already done destroying all low-hanging fruits? Did we stop Johnny Savi
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    > Apple added that it will publish a support document on its website containing a root hash of the encrypted CSAM hash database included with each version of every Apple operating system that supports the feature. Additionally, Apple sai
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    Why the Hype Around Hypersonics?(backreaction.blogspot.com)

    2 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    I'll never buy anything from Apple again. Apple was to me the walled but good-willed garden, caring about their profits by respecting their customers and taking a stance against widespread anti-democratic tendencies. I own an iWatch, t
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    Mammals are close to us in the dimensions of reproduction and biological ancestry; also, there are countless mammals which are (way) less intelligent than corvids. Corvids may have small brains in terms of volume, but not measured by the nu
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    Forgotten Books(forgottenbooks.com)

    2 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_mechanics explains the mathematics behind the delta-v calculations quite well.
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    Please fix your units :) You don't need 16.1 m/sec to get to mercury, there's a 'k' missing. To put it another way: that's off by about a factor of 1000.
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    2019–2021 Locust Infestation(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    If I were a journalist I'd almost feel insulted if I or at least my organization hadn't been targeted.
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    Full disclosure, I don't have any experience with yarn aside from personal experiments, so I can't compare yarn with npm fairly. But is it possible that another package manager is even less safe than npm regarding dependency resol
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    Shrdlu(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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    He Toyota Way(en.wikipedia.org)

    1 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    If this is caused by climate change, we're probably doomed. Suppose there is at least a 50 year latency between human emissions and effect on weather, we're just starting to feel the effects of the past. I really hope this is just
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    Yes, DW is among the few who mostly report fairly. On the other hand, DW in germany is almost non-existent for ~95% of the populace.
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    Just focusing on Assange alone, it's not pertinent, sure. But Assange (and wikileaks, and anything behind it) in this (my?) frame of reference is not an individual, but serves as a pars pro toto for the freedom of press and the judicia
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    German press stays silent on this, again. Even magazines known for investigative stories just don't mention Assange in the context of the recent developments ([1], [2], [3]). This is so frustrating. [1] https://www.google.co
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    Reduplicative Paramnesia(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    Just to add another anecdotal data point: me neither. Neither in java, nor in .Net, and surely not in C++ (there were lots of other things to mess up), having around ~15 years of experience under my belt. To me it is quite elementary, almos
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    How Dangerous Are Solar Storms?(backreaction.blogspot.com)

    102 points by firebaze 5y ago|54 comments
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    I did not imply that at all.
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    by firebaze 5y ago

    "My car runs 100 miles!" instead of "My car runs 100 miles per gallon!", and almost anyone would notice something is amiss. I don't get the difference to mixing "Watts" with "Watts/hour".