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421.
by lvs 7y ago
When you are in an arms race, it is important to keep your adversary busy.
422.
by lvs 7y ago
Or launch ddos on a third party with a series of unique executables.
423.
by lvs 7y ago
It's not a bus. It's a second-generation groundcraft.
424.
by lvs 7y ago
False equivalence and straw man. Refusing to associate a private educational institution with a person does not disenfranchise them from participating in government. He should be able to vote with respect to governments, and upstanding priv
425.
by lvs 7y ago
What are you arguing exactly? We should support disenfranchisement if we believe in institutionally ostracizing rich criminals?
426.
by lvs 7y ago
Google simply doesn't have any interest in customer service. It's just not part of the culture. When new services launch, it appears as if Googlers are running some of the interactions to give a good first impression, but soon aft
427.
by lvs 7y ago
> The lack of science education. A banana modified in a lab and one that is bred through selective breeding are both "GMO", it's just that one is done in a targeted manner and the other relies on random luck in the mutatio
428.
by lvs 7y ago
I love how you all just walked blithely right into the open jaws of this. Naysayers just a year or two ago were getting downvoted to hell on here. Now you've gotten the taste of the acid in the first stomach, and you think there's
429.
by lvs 7y ago
And yet there are lots of excellent reasons why. There's nothing safe about pipelines. In Canada alone there over a hundred pipeline leaks or explosions every year [1,2]. [1] https://equiterre.org/en/news/new-
430.
by lvs 7y ago
Not hard to achieve during unscheduled disassembly. But the same report also notes: "Nitrogen tetroxide with a water content in excess of 2.5 percent can accelerate titanium intergranular corrosion to the point of violent reaction.&quo
431.
by lvs 7y ago
No big hacks, but I've brought a couple of those Saeco superautomatics back from the dead. One of them had a crazy power fault that caused the dosing solenoid to emit a very loud and scary buzz as soon as I gave it power. It was so jar
432.
by lvs 8y ago
Sounds like you're putting a lot of words in my mouth. Delete this account please.
433.
by lvs 8y ago
You're clearly engineering on how to evade antitrust law. But the better argument is simply that if antitrust law doesn't sufficiently cover Amazon's business, then it needs to be changed to ensure that it does.
434.
by lvs 8y ago
No, a personal attack would be to suggest the moderators at HN are defending Amazon employees from criticism using intellectually dishonest tactics. That would be a personal attack. Nothing I said was about the poster as a person, but rathe
435.
by lvs 8y ago
You can't engineer anything to be immune to exploitation except for laws. Genetic modification is absolutely the wrong message to send for this purpose anyway, if you want to get it done fast. We only have a decade or two in which to d
436.
by lvs 8y ago
The NTSB seems to get a lot of work. https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom
437.
by lvs 8y ago
The West was never a democracy until it suddenly was one. Heads rolled.
438.
by lvs 8y ago
Let's go with the term bigotry in response to this throw-away objection.
439.
by lvs 8y ago
Dersh argues many things confidently and aggressively that seem perhaps facially convincing. Or perhaps you simply don't have time or the presence of mind to present a counterargument in the moment. That's his "strength"
440.
by lvs 8y ago
Obviously they want data for research, but it would be ideal and self-consistent if a privacy-oriented tool would make data upload opt-in. ... Otherwise we're going to need an IoT Inspector Inspector.
441.
by lvs 8y ago
I've seen some of the massive empty developments myself. Not the city written about here.
442.
by lvs 8y ago
You're debating numbers you don't like by making up other numbers. Whatever. The point is that it's a massive waste of energy and emissions, and that's undeniable.
443.
by lvs 8y ago
Generally agree. One thing can nevertheless be used as an excuse for the others, as certain little aides carry out their certain little agendas.
444.
by lvs 8y ago
Well, the head of USSS was fired today. Unclear if it's related.
445.
by lvs 8y ago
And then the feed goes to the Feds, and they have their own tools to mine the dataset that aren't subject to your controls and audits. This is an area that requires laws.
446.
by lvs 8y ago
The notification prompt should be a good lesson in feature creep for browser vendors. Pretty much applies to all "engagement" features: If you build it, it will be abused.
447.
by lvs 8y ago
Courts and legislatures could stop it or regulate its use. The heart of the legal question is what aspects of domestic surveillance might be seen to violate 4th amendment protections. Thus far, "the right of people to be secure in thei
448.
by lvs 8y ago
Gmail has become ridiculously aggressive at spam filtering, and not in a helpful way at all. As I posted here some time ago, they're spam filtering government agency communications sending authentic mail from .gov -- which is really fr
449.
by lvs 8y ago
Thanks for the actual paper. No authentic standards were used to validate the assignments. These are being identified by low-resolution single-quad mass alone. The chances that these compounds, if they exist, are correctly identified is ver
450.
by lvs 8y ago
And it's all from the same URL, showing up on successive days on HN.

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