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by krn 6y ago
The fundamental answer to what changed with Reddit over the last 3-5 years – an IPO became the main goal of the company[1](2017): > Reddit may go public by 2020, said CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman during a keynote conversation at the
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GridSound: An open-source online DAW based on the new Web Audio API(github.com)
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Music: A Mathematical Offering (2008)(homepages.abdn.ac.uk)
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Flocking: A JavaScript audio synthesis framework(flockingjs.org)
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Multiple Kernel Vulnerabilities Affecting All Qualcomm Devices (2020) https://blog.zimperium.com/multiple-kernel-vulnerabilities-a... The Road to Qualcomm TrustZone Apps Fuzzing (2019) https://research.checkpoint
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I like Android One devices and the complete freedom of choice they provide me, but the likehood and the severity of CPU vulnerabilites seem to be much higher with Snapdragon chips. Also, the security patches arrive much slower to Android th
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I have never had an iOS device in my life, but these three paragraphs provide probably the most convincing reason to finally make the switch: > A billion or more Android devices are vulnerable to hacks that can turn them into spying tool
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Chinese government-paid scientists plead guilty to stealing research(thediplomat.com)
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There is a huge difference between "improbable" and "impossible" here. Was it highly improbable that Saudi crown prince could hack into Bezos's iPhone? Yes, it was. Nevertheless, that's exactly what happened[1]
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Are you arguing that the national intelligence agencies of the US are incapable to properly assess technical national security risks? Or that it is completely impossible that any widely distributed proprietary software developed in China co
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> None of your sources provide any concrete evidence. > Link to actual evidence that China uses it to spy on Americans. That's not how national intelligence works, I'm afraid. The actual evidence is often provided only to th
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It is not the first time I am surprised by the complete unawareness of the world of national security in the US tech industry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655803
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How can "similar US based social networks" pose a national security risk to the US ? They might pose a national security risk to China. And that's why all the US-based social networks are banned in China. Also, the US intell
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> if the US creates a precedent for "national security" in this way It can be a real threat to national security[1]: > Thursday's order alleges that TikTok "automatically captures vast swaths of information from it
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> it's called retaliation. Can you explain to me how a social media platform mostly used by teenagers relates to military clashes on a contested border? That's bullshit. The US and India are not the only countries that are conc
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VKontakte is not a national security risk in other Western countries, because it's only popular in Russian-speaking world. And Ukraine is currently the only country that is actively trying to break away from it.
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There is a reason, why India banned not only TikTok, but 58 other apps of Chinese companies, after at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese forces this year. It's called national security . Russia's Yandex,
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> In all seriousness: You shouldn't remote diagnose mental illnesses for anybody. As a counterargument: I am extremely annoyed by the people who publicly criticize the personal traits of others without even considering that they mig
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I guess the basic algorithm for finding the most rural progressive places in the US would then require selecting the most rural liberal counties[1] that are also in liberal-led states. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe
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> and conservative politics A European here. Does such a thing as a liberal rural state exist in the US? Could Colorado be considered as such? Edit: I forgot about Vermont, which looks and sounds[1] a lot like Northern Europe to me. But
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> Developers should be aware that VSCode is not as open source as it claims it is. VS Code is as open source as it claims to be. > If people were more aware about this, they might think twice before using VSCode for everything and g
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> Godot doesn't display native widgets, so it has no support for accessibility, for example to screen readers and blind users. Isn't this also the case with Google's Flutter on iOS by default?
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Who are the enemies of Russia? (2017)(quora.com)
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> what precise steps should I do to live off of my cash stack while doing absolutely 0 work other than sitting on my couch? I would put X% in Vanguard 500 Index Fund[1], and in Y% Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund[2]. X% shoul
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Well, if a company wants to reach its own followers on Facebook, it is forced to pay for that.
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> I doubt most people outside of the UK know the University of Edinburgh. Everybody knows the top US schools. My point was, that for 99% of Europeans living in Europe, there is absolutely no difference between a degree from Yale and a de
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> Because there isn't a lot of demand for English courses? Otherwise you'd expect them to increase prices and offer more English courses. That's because the first undergraduate degree is completely free for all Germans. &g
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> The rankings I have to disagree with, I'd like to see something that compared expected income or net worth for graduates. Universities are primarily ranked by the quality of their research output, not by the expected net worth of
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> While "most" might be true quantitatively, from what I've seen most of local "best" schools do offer studies in English. Most top schools in Germany seem to offer this. Even in Germany, probably 90% of the und
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> Even education - there's no Ivy League of Europe, there's no Stanford. There are some schools that may be considered good, but elite - not really. In the world's top 20, there are 10 North American universities and 7 Eur

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