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by hguant 5y ago
>If you weaponize an exploit against US targets, you'll never get a US based broker to sell further exploits to you. If you weaponize an exploit against US - especially US government - targets you jeopardize the military and intelli
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by hguant 5y ago
It's frustrating seeing the rhetorical tricks people pull - "these regulations exist only hurt/harm the rich!" - when common observation shows that no, they just prevent people from becoming rich. The poor have nothing,
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by hguant 5y ago
>The small bakeries, the things that bring charm to neighborhoods all over the city. You're starting to see this in bits and pieces already. New rental space is primarily going to chain restaurants and box stores because the rent is
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by hguant 5y ago
Because for certain professions income is reliable but not set to a 14 day pay cycle. Could be that OP is a freelance author and is paid depending on when stories are picked up, or is contracting for multiple employers and has an irregular
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by hguant 5y ago
The L2 point is unstable with a period of 23 days? I believe, so the JWT needs a course correct burn to stay positioned correctly (called station keeping). It does have thrusters - a ring of 16 hydrazine "burning" units that can p
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by hguant 5y ago
Part of that is because they have to other wise the building would collapse on its own. A big issue people don't talk about is that a lot of the concrete China makes is subpar and not up to spec by US or EU standards - they don't
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by hguant 5y ago
Some available is more available than others I believe that the issue is that the Earth's crust isn't uniformly thick, and that there are places where one could drill for miles without reaching magma/suitable heat sources, an
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by hguant 5y ago
This comment violates one of the tenets of HN which keeps it a good place for discussion. >Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mi
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by hguant 6y ago
Data mining. They've got a huge corpus of information available to them that they haven't monetized yet (as far as I'm aware). Also, and I don't mean this flippantly - stickers and shit. People want to look different, an
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by hguant 6y ago
I thought this was a good article, but I wonder at the author's background. >her hardware expands to turn her bedroom into a dim, electrified jejunum I'd like to think I'm well read, but who the hell pulls "jejunum&qu
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by hguant 6y ago
>The contamination problem in common household products seems like something either the FDA/USDA/EPA should be monitoring It is - I believe that literally all imports of hand sanitizer from Mexico are subject to an emergency or
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by hguant 6y ago
It's really just incredibly shitty op-sec from The Intercept, which should have known better. This isn't really a novel technique.
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by hguant 6y ago
Type writer, mimeograph, stencils - if you're just doing text or intend for large distribution. Buy a cheap printer with cash, from a location several hundred kilometers from you. Go to a non-local Staples, FedEx, Kinkos with a USB sti
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by hguant 6y ago
I think that "because the corporations that make printers have a secret agreement with intelligence agencies to track printed papers, going back decades and based ultimately on coercive threats outside the rule of law" is a more c
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by hguant 6y ago
Oh look, another political appointee who didn't do their job, and is now advocating for other people to do the work they were too afraid to do. Give me a break, it's just another useless "advocate" pimping their book.
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by hguant 6y ago
> Back when I was using it, the standard computer keyboard had the "control" key directly to the left of the "A" key (where the "Caps Lock" key is now). One of the first things I do is rebind caps to control
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by hguant 6y ago
No, scorched earth policy is top down, systematic destruction of the strategic assets in an area to deny their use to an enemy, either to make the logistics of invasion more difficult (Russia during Napolean's winter expedy), to punish
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by hguant 6y ago
Python is great fun, and you can be really productive with it, but for people first coming into programming, a language with an explicit and strict type system is invaluable. I used to think that everyone should be taught python first, beca
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by hguant 6y ago
RE McDonnelDougalas takeover - I found this to be a pretty well written article going over the basics of what happened. I'm sure there's a book or in depth article floating around somewhere...or maybe not, people tend to be closem
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by hguant 6y ago
I think the big 'Americanism' comes from the somewhat two faced nature of HR culture in the States - HR are (generally!) the people being super friendly and coming up with "the company is one big family aren't we so happ
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by hguant 6y ago
>apparently there were female viking warriors This is a MUCH more controversial idea than pop-history would have you believe. There have been Viking women found buried with weapons and armour; however, there are also men who weren't
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by hguant 6y ago
This is DoD truthiness at the core - it only cost 159k to assemble the report, which was probably based on 7-8 multiple studies and analysis that cost a couple of hundred thousand to a million dollars each. This isn't greenfield resear
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by hguant 6y ago
As you might be able to tell, this comment breaks some of the first guidelines of HN, namely these two > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't s
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by hguant 6y ago
>The piece seems to equate capitalism with materialism. You assume the piece seeks to make an argument, or even a statement, as opposed to making vague references to popular/twitter sentiment.
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by hguant 6y ago
This article is written in what's becoming a new modern 'style' in which the author doesn't say much of anything at all, but makes references, references, and allusions to modern shibboleths and meta-idioms. This is the
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by hguant 6y ago
The question of what to call citizens of Utah is a long and thorny one; currently the US Government Printing Office uses "Utahn." [0] Apparently this was a big 'issue' in the 80's, when the US government usage was &
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by hguant 6y ago
It's not just governments - if you give them enough money they'll send you the source, and all the tools required to build it. Device manufacturers in particular need this - you think SeaGate is using the online windows docs when
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by hguant 6y ago
>They just start trying things they think will flummox the software. This works...until you go against a target that's heard of fuzzing before and has the time and money to do it to their own code. The really interesting Windows exp
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by hguant 6y ago
I was under the impression that this was common knowledge among the astrophysicist set, going back, well, according to Wikipedia, to the 1890s when Poincare figured out you could do zero-energy orbit transfers[0]. I suppose the novelty here
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by hguant 6y ago
Some of it is based on analysis of the actors motives - if you have 0-day works on fully patched Office 365, that took months/years to work, and throw it at a US government agency, you're clearly not in it for the money, _and_ you

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