kinsomo

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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Underdogs with nuclear weapons? For most of their existence their much larger Arab neighbors (who had the backing of a superpower) had the explicit and oft-stated goal of destroying Israel. Those weren't idle threats: several war
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> What's with this "rebuild the American manufacturing base" part? The US is already one of the top manufacturers in the world. Maybe so, but the US's manufacturing currently isn't strong enough to balance its ma
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> You should only be buying from an American supplier, even though we just spent 30 years shutting them all down > Factories won’t be growing up out of the grown churning out parts in 6 mos because of this If you wanted to reverse the
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> (a) does not harm China, as intended, as they are still the only viable place to purchase these items, yet (b) actively harms business in the United States, as we are paying the additional cost ourselves. There's an important qual
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> What I don't understand is the response. The burden of this cost has entirely been placed upon US businesses I don't think that's true, which is proven by the fact that China is strongly opposed to the tariffs and plans
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Developers are the only people Apple really needs to make Macs for and that's a pretty small market in the grand scheme. Creatives doing photography, 3D, video, etc. have long left for other platforms. I don't expect things t
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> let me piggy-back, is Apple going to have proper HDMI ports in future? Im going surface book the moment my current macbook stops working. Unlikely. That would require a 180 degree change of direction. Apple has decided that fewer por
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by kinsomo 8y ago
"Suicide drone" is just a trendy name for really old technology. Most people already know of them as "[guided] missiles."
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by kinsomo 8y ago
MIPS must've been in pretty bad shape if they were acquisition material by a startup. You'd think the acquisition would've been the other way around.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Hopefully they're laying conduit with new road construction. I read somewhere that there are proposals to mandate that (can't remember if it was state or federal level). Edit: seems like it's both: https://arstech
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> So... two of the routers affected by the recent VPNFilter malware? Interesting choice. If you're looking for a router that's never had a documented security flaw, you're probably going to buy a no-name brand that's
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Maybe SWAT can use this to validate that it's actually the right house when serving a no-knock warrant. How would a stick figure images help a SWAT team validate that they're at the right house? This could only help them by g
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Meh, that seems a little sensationalist. Any significant metal would likely throw this in a loop Maybe even chicken wire in the walls.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Because people rely on reviews and ratings to buy stuff? There are people who try to make a living on YouTube. Demonetization hurt them and they have a ready-made audience to vent to. But legitimate reviewers won't really care
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by kinsomo 8y ago
I read a ~400 page abridged version, but I do feel I missed out.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> If Amazon wants to implement a stricter review check you can rest assured that it will be like YouTube demonitization all over again. Why would it? No one makes money from legitimately written Amazon reviews.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
This seems like it's probably unhelpful and out-of-date. Any such how-to guide really should cover some kind of obfuscation to avoid the anti-VPN blocks. For instance, apparently the great firewall will let SSH terminal traffic throu
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Most of the repelled rules were in effect only since 2014. I don't remember the web being a terrible place before 2014. The now-repealed rules were a codification of the pre-2014 status quo.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> It is a matter of record that some local politicians made speeches about how the new freeway would benefit the original city it runs through. I think they use the phrase "tortured truth" to express how these statements reflec
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Do you have a source/cites for this list? I'd to give it to my congressman.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure freedom and democracy are a really good match for Chinese culture (probably a better match than American culture? hard to say). It works well here. But that's just my two cents. Would you care to elaborate on
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I'd say it's not irrational to consider the possibility that these firms either are directly or via the Taiwanese government cooperating with US cyberattacks. But to be totally clear: that's no more than speculation. It&
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The actual attack vector relies upon drivers signed by Taiwanese chip makers. But that's not a hardware attack. IIRC, Stuxnet used driver signing certificates to bypass some OS-level safeguards. It's quite possible that t
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Their dependence on American silicon may in fact be their greatest security risk. It's clear that the US and its allies will weaponize this advantage (see Stuxnet) Please elaborate on this point, my understanding is Stuxnet relied
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I believe almost no Fab manufacturing happens in the US anymore. I kinds lost count at least half way though, but this list has about 60-70 US fabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The fabrication of SoCs for mobile is mostly at TSMC in Taiwan Given China's attitude towards Taiwan, it might be tempted to acquire TSMC's technology by military force at some point in the future.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Does the api support creating old posts and back dating them? > FB is really good at hiding old activity and being utterly worthless at searching your feed, so if you can just put all the fake stuff in the past you'd be fine wi
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I actually had the strategy on fb to just like very random stuff like movies, groups etc. I’m not sure whether it has helped but it makes me feel better I've done similar, and afterwards nearly all advertising categorizations of m
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> You rested your argument on the fact that we should take away someone’s right because they got annoyed. So no, I am not being unreasonable. You are being unreasonable. You seem to be unable to imagine things except from the POV of
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by kinsomo 8y ago
It's #1. #2 is unreasonable, since the US has no problem with devices from many other countries and manufacturers.

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