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by firefax 4mo ago
One of the little gems the Russians pulled off in the twenty aughts when they were flooding nonprofits in the USA with dirty money was hijacking the green movement to promote fracking. (Because surely ANYTHING is better than those dastardly
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by firefax 4mo ago
>Things that definitely don't happen. Citation please? There's been documented instances of exactly that, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by firefax 4mo ago
>acting as if you are from the upper crust is itself a criteria for success Define "upper crust"? Because I'm reading this as "old money", and a lot of the "old money" people I've met aren't a
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by firefax 4mo ago
I've had people phish for my email then hit that with some bullshitpowershellladendoucument.pdf.docx crap, but sending it directly in the IM? Bold strategy cotton, let's see if it pays off.
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by firefax 4mo ago
>Downloading random unprotected scripts from internet, like it is 1995 is getting old pretty fast. It's ok, the guy with glasses from the Daily Show said it's ok.
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by firefax 4mo ago
>It would be trivial to eradicate them almost completely Absolutely true, but droning their data centers might have some policy repercussions.
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by firefax 4mo ago
Maybe that's because pleasure is down among schoolkids. Every minute of the day dedicated to homework, or a structured activity that can be a bullet point on a college application.
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Spy law on track to lapse after Congress rejects extension (2026)(politico.com)
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by firefax 4mo ago
thank you for the suggestion. i value open source over MacOS compatibility, I can spin up a VM if needed.
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by firefax 4mo ago
How do you define bias? I feel like many publications are "biased" towards Austrian economics despite little evidence for their benefit, and many examples of it's proponents driving their homelands into the ground. Should I
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by firefax 4mo ago
>Let me introduce you to the phrase "I don't see a mechanism." I'm not familiar with this phrase, but I think I did a good job citing a comparable example in my original post.
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by firefax 4mo ago
>I think it's private schools in general. I think CS is a little unusual in that places like Berkley are ranked highly. (Interestingly, Harvard has a rather low CS rank and Zuck was in the process of transferring to psych because he
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by firefax 4mo ago
I'm not clear why this is in "Ask HN" but thanks for sharing your thoughts on the legislation.
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by firefax 4mo ago
What skills? I've met several. Most of them got into a prestigious school on legacy, paid for by wealthy parents. Many were above average IQ, but by no means geniuses. They had access to computers earlier than others, due to said afflu
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by firefax 4mo ago
this is a variation on a common theme in steganography, but still interesting and giving something a name can be a useful contribution in itself
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by firefax 4mo ago
I've had people straight up serve me malware when you attempt to OSINT them with Tor. Sometimes you need different kinds of anonymity, and I see a lot of one sized fits all proclamations on HN.
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by firefax 4mo ago
I suspect any "backdoor" would be inserted at the protocol level. See https://web.archive.org/web/20130918135152/http://www.thegua...
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by firefax 4mo ago
The real issue is that it's a perpetual problem -- there are NGOs that literally pull out the same one pager, an endless dance of having some 1L repeat the same points over and over and over. (Why is it called a 1 pager you ask? Becaus
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by firefax 4mo ago
has RBY been disassembled, out of curiosity?
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by firefax 4mo ago
maybe god is small too?
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by firefax 4mo ago
I thought we had this, and it's called anonbib? https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/
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by firefax 4mo ago
Thanks, this looks akin to what I'm looking for. Maybe a few features I don't need but looks interesting.
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by firefax 4mo ago
Ah good point. I was looking into buying a used copy of Fire Red / Leaf Green and they were surprisingly expensive. I have a copy of red, but even with a new battery the save function keeps failing. I suspect I didn't seat the bat
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by firefax 4mo ago
Yeah to be clear, I replaced the internal battery. I don't know if the issue is that it isn't seated properly, it was working for a spell. But I can't solder and don't want my first project to be a 1st gen copy of Pokemo
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by firefax 4mo ago
Why Emerald -- is classic already done? If anyone has emulator suggestions, I recently attempted a playthrough and found that midway through my copy of red, the game was corrupted? Oddest thing -- hadn't reading the point where you do
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by firefax 4mo ago
Hypothetically, can we also put the CEOs of the AI companies on these orbital platforms?
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by firefax 4mo ago
>Why did you feel the need to post this comment? Maybe parent feels like rocket science is a field that should have few launch failures? I can't give you a quantitative answer since I'm usually focused on new research rather th
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by firefax 4mo ago
concern is less "expensive pee" more "it'll act as a diuretic" (which might have long term kidney effects)
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by firefax 4mo ago
no edit: you never go full jim bell
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by firefax 4mo ago
Out of curiosity the use of this API normally logged in MacOS? This is interesting work... thanks for sharing.

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