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   by jowea 3y ago

   I heard that in the present day that is mostly irrelevant. The hard part is procuring adequate fissile material more than designing the bomb. Maybe an ICBM design would help North Korea?
2. 692.▲
   by jowea 3y ago

   Even then, don't they have the type of userbase that would still keep arguing about equipment that is not in the game?
3. 693.▲
   by jowea 3y ago

   I would also add voice control.
4. 694.▲
   by jowea 3y ago

   I think tech just works by different rules.
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   by jowea 3y ago

   Only if those were interoperable. Having two major mobile operating systems already requires app developers to think about two apps, or platforms that work on both apps, or limit themselves to the web. If we had 6 OSes and chip manufacturer
6. 696.▲
   by jowea 3y ago

   What's the security disadvantage of IMAP?
7. 697.▲
   by jowea 3y ago

   Is this cheaper than just hiring a personal courier to hand deliver your letters?
8. 698.▲
   by jowea 3y ago

   And Yugoslavia was a communist but neutral country and the US presumably wanted to give incentives for it to stay that way, like market access.
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   by jowea 3y ago

   Much lighter and more responsive and uses a lot less RAM. I can't reasonably keep the normal viewer open in an 4GB RAM computer together with other tabs and programs. And I suspect a 2GB computer would just explode on the normal viewer
10. 700.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    I mean, do you think that comment would make sense if it was about Soviet EVs and the Cold War was still going on? There's lots of people, and I guess previous poster is among them, who think there's something like a second one go
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    by jowea 3y ago

    There's a few more Wikipedia pages on the theme, and it seems the weirder effects of decompression are more fictional exaggerations than fact. Lack of oxygen incapacitates in something like 10-15 seconds. > https://en.wik
12. 702.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    Graft is a word too. > graft (countable and uncountable, plural grafts) > (uncountable) Corruption in official life. > (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
13. 703.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    Care to share the secret that would have avoided countless exploits?
14. 704.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    But some types of software like medical or airplane controls do have those types of regulations around them, don't they? How well do they work?
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    by jowea 3y ago

    If there was a thread about a mass shooting in the US, and a non-American asked something like "people in the US are allowed to own assault rifles?!?" and someone answered with the literal text of the 2th amendment and no other ex
16. 706.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    Lack of context IMHO. The issue is controversial and the post is acting like it isn't.
17. 707.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    There's been some political controversy with the right-wing government favouring the Bharat name very recently. Nobody seems to have updated the Wikipedia article yet.
18. 708.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    The report this article is based on says about half of cybercrime is UPI fraud, so internal to India.
19. 709.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    For everyone else who is wondering what the other 22% are: https://www.futurecrime.org/cyber-crime-research
20. 710.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    Are you that confident that the political process will create new law on the issue? Maybe the EU and some countries but I have a feeling the US Congress will leave it to the courts to interpret existing law and apply it.
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    by jowea 3y ago

    High fixed costs, low marginal unit costs do seem like the sort of thing that ends up tax funded in a lot of cases. Like basic science (distributing the results if cheap), the electrical grid (one more connection is usually cheap enough), e
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    by jowea 3y ago

    There's a bit of a problem because even if it's a (partial) failure as far as project management goes, competition is so low that if you're a US-aligned state and want a 5th generation fighter, the F-35 is still the only reas
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    by jowea 3y ago

    > That's not true either. The malware would require privilege escalation to co-opt my browser. Does it? Sure it can't replace /usr/bin/firefox, but what's stopping the malware from writing a fake shortcut to
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    by jowea 3y ago

    > It's also about programs being able to hack into your accounts by keylogging you or stealing passwords from your clipboard Honest question: why does this matter? If you end up with running malware as your user haven't you alr
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    by jowea 3y ago

    Have you heard of email bankruptcy? When you empty your inbox unread and start over again.
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    by jowea 3y ago

    The more things change....
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    by jowea 3y ago

    But when we will be able to run the current models on customer level hardware, won't the models available from cloud hardware so much better we would rather pay for the cloud?
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    by jowea 3y ago

    I wonder if McKinsey just skipped over the part where they hired/assigned specific people for design, inter-team coordination and code monkeying or if they actually decided that "design sessions or managing interdependencies acros
29. 719.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    Aren't there legal reasons you need to keep some information for copyright?
30. 720.▲
    by jowea 3y ago

    But are most larger languages community driven like Rust is? Python and?