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by gherkin0 11y ago
> time russian counterintelligence has to spend chasing down false leads. But don't do it if you ever plan on actually traveling to Russia or China. IIRC, they've held innocent Westerners in the past on suspicions of espionage
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by gherkin0 11y ago
That seems like something that competent counterintelligence people should be monitoring and shutting down. Hell, they probably should have unit in their new employee orientation covering this: "Do not list your occupation as 'Spy
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Does anyone have an technical details on what their "defeat device" was actually doing (like what systems it was disabling)?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Learning Fortran from scratch in 2015 might be bad career decision for a new grad. Isn't it still commonly used for scientific computing? So, maybe it would enable you to work on other kinds of neat stuff than the latest javascri
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Except their bottom line. Anyone remember the cost to Intel for their faulty FPU in the P5? I don't think that's as big of an issue with modern processors: https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode : > Processors f
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by gherkin0 11y ago
They may be smaller, but they have IP Apple needs now. Apple just can't do whatever it wants to just because it's big.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
That's a neat, different way to do it. Nowadays I think most people would go straight to building something with Arduino (e.g. http://apcmag.com/arduino-project-usb-foot-operated-mouse-sw... ), but that's not alwa
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> A friend of mine, a great cook, regularly performs what she refers to as The Dance of Smoke Alarm Supplication, wherein she and a broom jointly try to persuade the alarm gods that everything is fine. When she heard that there was a smo
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> because of the slap on the wrist in San Quentin It's that kind of thinking that gets people thrown in prison for 30 years for non-violent drug crimes. He went to prison , he didn't just get a fine and community service. I d
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Is there any documentation for this anywhere? The "binary relation detection" looks interesting, and I'd like to know more about it. Are there any other NLP libraries that can perform similar functions?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
>> Treating someone differently because they have a lower income than others is discriminatory. > Wealth is not a protected class; unlike gender, race, and religion, we don't have a legal mandate to avoid making decisions base
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> and one I found interesting was a model for summarizing text, including chapters, books, and other writing. Do you have a cite for that?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Article says "he doctored his browser history" which sounds less automatic. Or the writer could have been trying to introduce verbal variety and as a consequence ineptly misrepresented what happened. The link[1] immediately
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I misspoke, I meant size.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> 256 characters makes for a fairly sizable passphrase, and doesn't represent a substantial hit on storage space. They shouldn't be storing passwords at all so storage space should be a non-issue. My 20 meg password should has
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Self-driving cars are the solution to nothing. For better or worse, they are the solution to the continued employment of drivers of various kinds.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I think the Romans could sell their family members into slavery to pay off debts, etc.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I think the use of real names was identified as one of the reasons for Facebook's success[1], so they just copied that. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/myspace-quietly-begins-enco...
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Perhaps a small proxy application that is fully vetted and tested code. I think that's a good idea, but I think it would be better if it was a small hardware firewall than a program in the infotainment system. I would think someth
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Steering wheel audio controls are common and useful in motion. But wouldn't those likely be one-way commands TO the infotainment system? They would still work even if it was receive only.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Do the fans stay at a pretty consistent level, or do they throttle a lot from quiet to noisy? I'm thinking of getting one, but the people I know who have them tend to use them in noisy environments and can't answer my questions.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
IIRC, E.T. (from the movie) had DNA with six nucleotides.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
It would have to have evolved or be designed to be able to synthesize them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide#Synthesis
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Organisms with the new base pairs probably wouldn't have so much of an advantage that they completely replace all life that currently exists. However, it does raise an interesting question if some future species would be able to figure
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Not sure I understand the benefit, it's denser, on the other hand from what I understand DNA generally does have much in the way of size constraints. I'm a layman, but they could use the new base pairs to code for unusual ami
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I'm kinda surprised a Disney children's property has weapons like Gatling guns and rocket launchers.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The SCOTUS shouldn't wait on consensus. They don't need that. They need to decide if it is legal or not. This is a really bad idea, you're basically describing an oligarchy. The Supreme Court is really a consensus-enfor
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I think the "making law" thing is reference to creating novel kinds of unconstitutionality that often contradict older notions.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The problem with this is that once we've reached a "perilous level of global warming", it is quite possible that there is no way back. IIRC, there have been significant periods in prehistory where there were no ice caps,
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> If you are using LastPass without 2FA (YubiKey, etc), people attacking LastPass itself is really the least of your problems. I'd be much more concerned about keyloggers grabbing your password... Though even with 2FA, couldn't

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