nasredin

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by nasredin 9y ago
A "rambling nutjob" that has been proven correct time and time and time again. We need more people with RMS-type views in Google, Facebook, etc.
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by nasredin 9y ago
>Once you’ve created an account and installed it, you can start adding dozens of plug-ins, including various synthesizers, gates, reverbs, compressors, sequencers, keyboards, etc. Sigh.
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by nasredin 9y ago
So Google people and the Germans were working on the same thing without knowing of each other until Intel connected them?
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by nasredin 9y ago
Project Zero AKA Google is probably a better choice than "Tailored Access" guys at the NSA or their Russian or Chinese equivalents.
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by nasredin 9y ago
One of the things TFA mentions is installing modern switches. Of all the solutions it's seems the least difficult and disruptive. It seems like a problem of will and not technology. Maybe NYC subway needs some huge disruptive event to
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by nasredin 9y ago
>Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything I just can't help but smile and remember the scene from The Sopranos of some wiseguys seating in lawn chairs at the construction site eating pastrami sandwiches.
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by nasredin 9y ago
There goes my afternoon.
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by nasredin 9y ago
>It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men. The Gini coefficient for the Tinder economy based on “lik
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by nasredin 9y ago
My guess: Google the hopefully unique username. Find the first and or last name (Facebook). Find the state and or city. If you have the name and the city you can find the address. My friend's 11 year old is already in THE database. If
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by nasredin 9y ago
There's an age factor here. From personal experiences games with older gamers tend to have less... idiots. They are still there, it's just they are banished from well admined servers quickly. Games from Tripwire Interactive are a
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by nasredin 9y ago
>...this is probably how most religions got to exist and propagate FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: FWD: SHOCKING! Learn this one secret trick a carpenter used to resurrect from the dead!
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by nasredin 9y ago
>1) Anyone who gets shot by cops must have done something to warrant being shot. Done something like being poor, minority or both? I've recently read a nice piece (Vox IIRC) on authoritarian personalities and I think this is the new
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by nasredin 9y ago
>Lack of independent impression counting AKA Advertising companies are afraid website owners (and everybody else who can do it) are going to steal from them.
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MoviePass [Netflix Cofounder] Adds a Million Subscribers, Theaters Aren’t Buying(nytimes.com)
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by nasredin 9y ago
It's like requesting a chocolate bar, paying for the delivery, and the store sends you a truck full of garbage with that chocolate bar at the bottom. Sorry I'm all out of car-themed analogies.
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by nasredin 9y ago
I had so much respect for Google about a decade ago. Now they are on the same level as Microsoft. The Orweillian attempts at redefining language is... not surprising. This is beyond regular corporate-speak. Their search results are full of
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by nasredin 9y ago
It's in the gathering-signatures stage. There's a quiet a lot of, ehm, "interesting" ballot initiatives here. Legalized psilocybin anyone? http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/initiat
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by nasredin 9y ago
I meant the OP as she should have been smart enough (spoke 3 ME languages IIRC) to realize she should stop talking. IF she did something illegal, she must have thought a day like that may come and had prepared herself. It's interesting
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by nasredin 9y ago
Pfft. If you were a TRUE American, you would of course use the one true, correct and proper measuring unit. The Library of Congress.
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by nasredin 9y ago
1. You really don't need MadVR. The default install of MPC HC or BE should be fine. 2. VLC has this resizing behavior that I do not understand how people tolerate. It just feels clumsy compared to MPC which feels more native. VLC is a
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by nasredin 9y ago
If the FBI shows up at your door, and act very nicely, very friendly... but they have a search warrant... It's not a speeding ticket, you are not gonna out talk them out of searching your house... so you should... not talk?!
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by nasredin 9y ago
A quote from Michael Mann's Heat: "I'm alone, I am not lonely."
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by nasredin 9y ago
Sweet Tomatoes? Is that a restaurant or did you mean that literally?
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by nasredin 9y ago
>since 90% of everyone is undateable. [0,1] Non-Seinfield non-Youtube citation needed. --- I have become one of those "Citation needed" people. Argh.
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by nasredin 9y ago
This is the same guy who did the keyboard latency test: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ thay was on the frontpage of HN. IIRC there was some critism there. He didn't include the mechanical switch type and it&
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by nasredin 9y ago
Annexation of Crimea in 2014. Support for the only active war on Europe. Destabilization of EU, NATO, US elections. --- Take a look at Russian TV and polls. The Russian government (TV propaganda) and people (Putin has 80+ approval) do not w
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by nasredin 9y ago
The only openly hostile country with SLBMs is Russia. So Russia is probably the best choice. IIRC both have about 60 subs and Russia is back at their post-1991 strength. See the recent WaPo article about them mapping undersea cables.
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by nasredin 9y ago
>The reason we need those specific Compaq laptops is that they run a bespoke CA card which is installed into them," explains a McLaren spokesperson to Jalopnik. "The CA card is an interface between the laptop software (which is
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by nasredin 9y ago
TLDR: to prevent DoS in case of natural and man made disasters: hurricanes, terrorist attacks.
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by nasredin 9y ago
...And the IP you used to sign up... and the city for that IP in the geolocation database at that specific date... and the exact User Agent string... and the time zones... and... Or maybe they should stop being idiots and allow people with

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