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by neckardt 6y ago
Could you elaborate on why this is dangerous and shouldn't be done?
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by neckardt 6y ago
What is the current state of the software on the Librem 5? I would be happy to replace my main phone if it ticks the following boxes: - Can handle phone calls and texts - Cellular data works most of the time - Has the Signal app - Has a wor
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by neckardt 6y ago
Looks like in the right location you could get it for around $1M: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Mile-156-State-Hwy-77-Win...
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by neckardt 6y ago
> > How is this software licensed? > I don't know. Do what you want. People tend to be afraid to use software without an explicit license do to the way copyright works (at least in the US). If you don't explicitly give pe
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by neckardt 6y ago
Any disc mirroring software should work. I would probably try using dd and fdisk, but if you want a graphical option clonezilla[0] might be what you want. [0]: https://clonezilla.org/
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by neckardt 6y ago
> That problem could have been solved politically with regulation plus (in the countryside) ground based radio, or (in cities) with regulation of cable infrastructure such that it was separated from packet-routing and customer-service. M
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by neckardt 6y ago
Why? It seems like a decent way to measure how valuable something is. All of the money changing hands in a city for one year could buy you Tesla. $300 billion on its own has nothing I can relate the size to.
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by neckardt 6y ago
This sounds like a great way to reduce my Starcraft 2 ladder anxiety! I was thinking of giving up my 2 pylon before gateway build, but maybe with this I can push though.
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by neckardt 6y ago
Is fastmail the best email service provider these days? I switched my own domain to them a while ago, but then abandoned it when I heard about the new laws in Australia.
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by neckardt 6y ago
For me this depends on the context: 1. On the first message of a conversation I prefer a wall of text, because that lets me read all of the details really quickly. 2. If the conversation is likely to be short I prefer the one message after
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by neckardt 6y ago
Don't you have old phones laying around? Install the app on one of those and keep using your main phone.
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by neckardt 6y ago
> creating output images with file sizes up to 2500 times larger than the originals. This is the perfect format for storing all of my family photos! I never thought I'd find a good use for the 8TB of storage I impulse bought last bl
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by neckardt 6y ago
This is known as the sterile insect technique(SIT) and has proven effective in quite a few cases[0]. Looking at the list of times this has been attempted it doesn't look like there have ever been any adverse effects[1]. [0]: https:&#x
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by neckardt 6y ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/244/
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by neckardt 6y ago
I played through a few of the scenarios, this is quite interesting. The failure states seem quite harsh though when I'm trying to explore the paths. For example, while playing through the "How a Bill Becomes a Law" example, i
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by neckardt 6y ago
> An organization of people that seeks shared profit for all its members and does not exploit the labor of non-members It doesn't make indication of the distribution of the profit. If I were a business owner couldn't I get aro
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by neckardt 6y ago
> Jeff Bezos Ends Day with an All-Time High Net Worth of $X Couldn't this be said any day Amazon stocks hit a new all-time high? What makes today special that a news article is written about it? I could imagine $200B being a signifi
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by neckardt 6y ago
This recent thread covers the same research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24172385
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by neckardt 6y ago
> Calculating the trajectory to account for gravity would be problematic. Couldn't you just make every fuel pellet a powered spacecraft just a tiny engine? It could adjust its velocity when it drifts off course. That would add some
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by neckardt 6y ago
I wish we would switch to higher FPS video already. Youtube at least supports 60FPS which is watchable, but most feature films are stuck at 24. I remember a while The Hobbit[0] tried to move the bar to 48FPS but it didn't catch on. [0]
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by neckardt 6y ago
What sort of adversary do you imagine would carry out an attack like that? If you're defending against your own government, they already control the network and could hold on to your S3 network traffic until they can decrypt it. If you
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by neckardt 6y ago
Reading through all of those signs makes it clear that most people who come to HN for civilized discussion also enjoy the opposite end of the spectrum in a different context.
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by neckardt 6y ago
> If I put private data on the Filecoin network, I would like to be able to largely prevent most people from even pulling down the encrypted files. Why do you want this? The files are encrypted and thus illegible. To anyone without the k
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by neckardt 6y ago
I hadn't heard of Plenny Active before, looks like you're right about the price. I'll have to give that a try, thanks for the suggestion!
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by neckardt 6y ago
I enjoy eating too, I don't think I would ever switch to meal replacements completely. But I would consider switching my default from my own terrible cooking to a meal replacement and eat out for my other meals.
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by neckardt 6y ago
> Society just wont change to support it. Maybe this is just me, but I would happily change my diet to be around 50% Soylent or other meal replacement if the cost was cheaper. Currently I eat around 2400 calories a day, with Soylent that
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by neckardt 6y ago
Are any of these projects ready for personal backup use, or still experimental?
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by neckardt 6y ago
Do you know what the half life of methane in the atmosphere is? I did a search for it but couldn't find it.
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by neckardt 6y ago
I think a more effective solution than a breakup would be requiring Facebook to interoperate with other social networks. We could force them to implement APIs which would let users from other platforms chat with and send posts to Facebook u
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by neckardt 6y ago
I hacked together a quick bookmarklet, here's how to get it working in firefox: 1. Create a new bookmark to any page, name it whatever. 2. Right click the bookmark -> Properties 3. Replace the "Location" field with: ja

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