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by neotek 10y ago
"There is an extreme proliferation risk in the development of cyber 'weapons'," says man eagerly proliferating cyber weapons.
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by neotek 10y ago
Isn't a 5 - 8 degree rise catastrophic though? Genuine question.
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by neotek 10y ago
>I felt silly, but really everyone that I dealt with was cool about it. Twice in my life I've presented at the ER with severe chest pain that I thought was heart-related, twice it turned out to be nothing serious (musculo-skeletal p
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by neotek 10y ago
Bushnell is one of my all-time heroes. He struck the motherlode with Atari, and then parlayed that success into a bunch of different ventures that were way ahead of their time, most of which failed spectacularly, none of which failed specta
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by neotek 10y ago
The site is hosted on the free web space provided by the author's ISP, so just in case it goes down, here's an archive link: http://archive.is/PZZiu
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In Search of 256(members.optusnet.com.au)
3 points by neotek 10y ago|1 comments
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by neotek 10y ago
I didn't ever get the impression he was full of shit or bending the truth too far, but you're right, that could just be his skill at work! Either way, the book is engaging and funny and worth reading even if it's slightly apo
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by neotek 10y ago
Sounds like a mistake rather than some nefarious data collection strategy. Apple doesn't rely on advertising revenue like Google or Facebook so in the past they've been much more likely to avoid collecting data whenever it could
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by neotek 10y ago
Thanks mate, I wish other online communities were moderated this well!
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by neotek 10y ago
The author of this article, Ryan Holiday, is the author of Trust Me, I'm Lying [1], a fascinating book which goes into detail about the Tucker Max marketing campaign mentioned in the article, plus a lot of other scummy growth hacking
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by neotek 10y ago
That was a surprisingly frustrating article to read. It kept repeating the exact same things just worded slightly differently over and over again, like the four or five times it mentions machine learning being a major part of Evernote'
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by neotek 10y ago
"Smart" TVs are the worst TVs I've ever used, I really don't understand the appeal whatsoever. They're almost universally clunky and slow with horrific UI / UX choices and painfully high latency on simple thing
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by neotek 10y ago
Oh absolutely! I own at least one copy, and usually multiple copies, of everything Pratchett ever published, ranging from a first edition of The Carpet People through to all of the Discworld Collector's Library hardbacks that have been
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by neotek 10y ago
Fantastic, I'm so excited for you! I would also highly recommend reading The Annotated Pratchett[1], which provides insight into the many fascinating real-world events, objects, people, myths, legends, and more that Pratchett subtly (o
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by neotek 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out!
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by neotek 10y ago
Tried VOX, but it attempts to do way too much and kept crashing on my machine. The UI is nice enough, but all I want is a media player which lets me add a bunch of folders to watch, which monitors those folders for any files that are added
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by neotek 10y ago
Man I would kill for an ultra-simple, ultra-lightweight, robust music player for macOS that was just like Winamp 2.81, the last good version. No, not foobar.
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by neotek 10y ago
In the second case, at the very least there were rational, honest reasons for her doing so, and a human being is at least capable of discerning context and making a judgement call, even if it's just to kick the issue up the chain to so
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by neotek 10y ago
Ah, well, this is a bit of a contentious question in the Discworld community, with no clear correct answer. Discworld has a number of major story arcs which are generally able to be read separately although they often overlap, and so some p
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by neotek 10y ago
This very hack was undertaken by those "hunters" you're asking about. There was also Operation Darknet, an Anonymous-driven takedown of Lolita City (one of the worst child porn onion sites) and the original Freedom Hosting, b
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by neotek 10y ago
Of course you understand, you know as well as any of us that the average user knows next to nothing about how the Internet, their computer, or their browser works, either physically or conceptually. It's not unreasonable for a user to
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by neotek 10y ago
I love to know what prompted that change, whether it was due to user feedback, or a management decision, or even just the personal preferences of the individual responsible for rewording the warning.
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by neotek 10y ago
Breaking Facebook's TOS isn't a breach of the law. God help us if it ever becomes illegal, what a creepy dystopia that would be.
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by neotek 10y ago
You can postulate whatever scenarios you like, but they bear no relevance whatsoever to what actually happened here, which is about as clear cut a case of copyright infringement as you'll ever see.
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by neotek 10y ago
That seems unfair. The business she embezzled from, and by extension its shareholders, were harmed regardless of what she actually did with the money.
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by neotek 10y ago
Small Gods. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34484.Small_Gods It's the 13th book of Terry Pratchett's superb Discworld series, but it's the perfect entry point for anyone who hasn't read any
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by neotek 10y ago
Good.
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by neotek 10y ago
You know, I haven't used Firefox in many years - I switched to Chrome because I liked the Google account integration and preferred the UI - but reading your comment made me realise how foolish I've been not to at least check it ou
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by neotek 10y ago
I know this article is about more than just microbeads, but the thing that always angers me the most about this issue is that the people who decided to use them in shampoos and body washes must have known exactly what the long-term conseque
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Show HN: Do Not Want, an extension to help you protest website anti-features
11 points by neotek 10y ago|0 comments

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