nekomancer

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by nekomancer 10y ago
The Brussels atttacks were against strategic targets though. As for the indiscriminate killing of civilians, what else would you call the example from the article? > in Pakistan, in attempts to take out 41 men, American drones actually k
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by nekomancer 10y ago
There have actually been a ton of examples over the years of researchers hacking into car systems wirelessly, some of which used the media system as the attack vector. Even if the media subsystem is running on dedicated hardware, the fact t
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by nekomancer 10y ago
Why couldn't/shouldn't people complain about it? It's like how you can be against paparazzi. The fact that something is legal doesn't make it morally right or immune to criticism.
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by nekomancer 10y ago
I'm trying to understand what was going through peoples' heads for something like this to happen in the first place, but I'm drawing a blank. Is this what mass hysteria looks like?
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by nekomancer 10y ago
Wouldn't you usually know them already before cofounding a startup with them? It seems like a pretty big committment.
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by nekomancer 10y ago
With memorizing numbers as well, splitting them into chunks is also a good tactic, for example 392619582767 -> 392 619 582 767. It makes the whole thing a lot more tractable.
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by nekomancer 10y ago
True, but I also need people I want to talk to to be on the messaging tool, which is the real issue here. As for email, to me it just doesn't serve the same purpose that IM does. It's analogous to sending letters back and forth as
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by nekomancer 10y ago
As much as I dislike facebook, I've moved around a lot throughout my life, as have a lot of my friends, both from high school and university. So realistically, I just don't see any realistic alternative single platform which allow
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by nekomancer 10y ago
Somewhat related, I started out using Emacs and have since moved to using vim. I'm at the point where I feel semi-proficient in it, and I've started playing around with .vimrc, pathogen-based addons, as well as other stuff like ct