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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
India's moon mission budget ($145 million) was 11 cents per Indian person (1.353 billion). It was 0.02% of a single year's expenditure ($725 billion) by the Indian federal government-- spread out over multiple years. It amounted t
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Coronavirus is a cold? How many people die from a cold? Coronavirus has disappeared because it is summer? The original article was published in early June and maybe written in late May? May/June was a temporary lull. As of the first we
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Except to use your metaphor, software control of a webcam is like closing the blinds and putting a physical cover over the lens is like covering a window in aluminum foil in addition to closing the blinds.
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Does that happen often? We've been 100% Microsoft Teams since March so I'd say that in several hundred calls and conferences since then I've never activated the webcam without intent.
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
I've never understood physical covers, then again I am never in a compromising position in front of my laptop. Any malware that can take pictures can record keystrokes. I want no cover so I can see the activity light because knowing th
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
I've been using Riot to connect to Matrix. Works very well and Riot is on: iOS, MacOS, Windows, Google Play, F-Droid, Linux, and has a very nice web application. This is what got me started: https://matrix.org/blog&#x2F
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
You can call yourself a nation, but if the only reason you exist is the fact that the price of the fuel needed to ferry a police officer to your location and arrest you is more than what your country is worth, you're not a nation.
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
I enjoy Times Square. I remember Times Square before it was "disneyfied". Everyone bemoaning the loss of the "real and gritty" Times Square is either a: * hypocrite, * amnesiac, and/or * idiot The "real and raw
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Why do SO MANY pretend-libertarian tech bros pretending to be libertarians and liberty-loving freedom fans think that free speech applies to private property? And why have they let themselves be tricked into spewing the Section-230 nonsense
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Nooooo!!!! I am sustained by Apple hatred. It is an essential part of my balanced diet. Every time someone complains about how expensive Apple is I grow a centimeter and every time someone bitches about their App Store policies I gain a mon
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
>I feel like HN as a whole want blogs to come back Blogs never left— they may have withered to near-nothingness after the same exact people who claim to want them abandoned them, but they’re still here. I may be wrong but I believe the p
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Anytime someone equates private control of a private platform with an abridging of “free speech” rights I automatically think they have suffered a head injury that has damaged their ability to think and makes them take nonsensical positions
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
I snored so loudly that when I was in basic training that they made me sleep all of the way at the opposite end of the open-bay barracks we were in. I was 18 and near the height of physical perfection. As far back as 10 years old I remember
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
>It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel—including members of the National Guard—forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president's visit outside St. John's Church. I have to
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
"Thug" does have a definition that is not racist. So does "monkey". Death cultists will claim that monkey is non-racist, when used by bigots, too. "WUH WUH WUH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT BRUH 1488 ISN'T RACIST IT&#
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Virtue Signaling is made up bullshit and anyone using the term unironically is probably stupid. Supply me with a definition that also does not apply to your comment and we'll talk. Let's not play games here, we all know what Trump
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Then you’re saying that some speech is more free than others. And they won’t pick c, at least not after the first round of lawsuits. As far as highways go, I don’t follow the analogy. The government has to pay me for any land they take. Do
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Let’s say hacker news could be sued for me posting a comment threatening to kill you and refusing to remove it. Because in many states (maybe all?) they can be. Remember, websites are only given immunity if they fail to remove “sueable” con
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
This is impossible. People who want this want the actual, literal, impossible. And I don't understand it. Well, I do, mostly it's bigots wanting free reign to be bigots in someone else's house with a little bit of the ideolog
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
In what way is it security theater? It’s real and it works better than the technology it replaced.
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
The nudie-scanners have been gone for over six years and the current scanners are nothing more than (at a high level) low-resolution "difference" detectors. The only way they'll invade your privacy is if your genitals are mad
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
>it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the Apple I once loved is moribund If there is anything more pathetic than an adult expressing love for a publicly traded corporate entity regardless of what they make or where they're from o
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
It varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but generally speaking you do own the land under your house. You (or a previous owner) can choose to sell or lease the minerals under your house. It is so difficult to buy land without being infor
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
>We’ve replaced true ambition with egalitarian goals, free of risks, secure and comfortable. We crush true originality and individualism because it may lead to unbridled success and happiness, bursting the bubble in which the rest of us
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
Siri doesn't know that my front door is called "FRONT DOOR". I only have one smart lock, which works perfectly, and it is called "FRONT DOOR" in HomeKit. When I ask Siri about my FRONT DOOR she responds that she can
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
According to the video he paid $100k for the fuselage, and another article quoted him saying he paid an additional $120k to move and renovate and the square footage is 1,066. $100,000 initial purchase + $120,000 moving and renovation expens
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
> Rather they've all switched to extolling their inscrutable "holistic admissions process". They switched to that in the 30s because, and these are not my words, "Jews were overrunning the campuses". Now it is be
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
>The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this. The Founding Fathers used this to their advantage. They colluded with the handful of major publishers of the time to orchestrate a rolling, synchronized release of the Federalist Paper
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
I feed off people complaining about Apple's prices. I actually crave it. It's like blood to a vampire or candy and soda to a fat kid. Thank you.
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by kilo_bravo_3 6y ago
I participate in every email reply-all storm. Because I'm not a soulless, joyless, curmudgeon who gets upset by receiving emails "oh noes my inboxzero!" And it's funny.

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