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by nikcub 4y ago
Further: - headcount from 150k to 186.5k (!) - EMEA + APAC largely driving slowdown in growth as both regions were -2%, USA + Americas are still at +12% Feel like this might be a pattern this quarter - declining margins + growth as companie
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by nikcub 4y ago
> because of it's ability to work independent of local weather. Just this summer the French had to shut down half of their nuclear reactors because of the heat https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug&
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by nikcub 4y ago
I hope you revise your policy of keeping all known instances of cheating amongst titled players on chess.com private. Further, as part of this report also reveal who the other professional players who confessed to cheating are. I attribute
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by nikcub 4y ago
This might be a case of where a less efficient format provides greater end-user satisfaction
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by nikcub 4y ago
Likely hacked/purchased browser extensions
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by nikcub 4y ago
Terrible advice. If there is one thing I know from ~8 years of following the darkweb markets is that there's nothing worse than stepping outside of the common practice of: use Tor, use Tails, use Whonix If you read the the DOJ indictme
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by nikcub 5y ago
If anybody is further interested in this, a recent YouTube video by Spencer Cornelia went behind the scenes of a similar operation that is still running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N05vGcw_tI They are betting the spre
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by nikcub 5y ago
Reminds me of the lip syncing interview candidate that went viral a little while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mfohGyeBg This is why remote exams have all of those strict requirements like "show us your room&q
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by nikcub 5y ago
Want to plug your second source admiralcloudberg as a brilliant blog that is worth reading if you're into airline crashes and system failures. He's very in depth and detailed in his writing https://admiralcloudberg.medi
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by nikcub 5y ago
I wouldn't have bet a public accusation of this magnitude on those auto-incrementing ID's. There's a possibility the earlier positive test was conducted privately and was only registered with the government at a later date wh
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by nikcub 5y ago
I found it interesting that again we might have had a prep leak in this years tournament, this time involving positions and lines on chessbase cloud: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/r4cw22/was_the
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by nikcub 5y ago
Larger point would be if it's obtained unlawfully it can't be used in a court of law against you. Recent cases: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkppqk/court-throws-out-mess... https://www
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by nikcub 5y ago
The NYTimes has a live blog - it was only pushed below the fold on the front page because of the school shooting: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/30/nyregion/ghislaine-m... It's also the m
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by nikcub 5y ago
The first scene releases of mp3's were in 1996[0]. It was 1997 when things got rolling, just as Winamp was released. I recall then that even new PC's couldn't decode at full CD quality and you had to downscale. We also picked
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by nikcub 5y ago
This is why I love HN
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by nikcub 5y ago
If you want a modern-built classic style toaster check the Dualit[0] Only problem is they've been sold out for a while now in a lot of places [0] https://www.dualit.com/products/classic-toasters
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by nikcub 5y ago
Further to this there has been some recent coverage in the Israeli press about the strong relationship between NSO Group and the Israeli government. The gov used NSO and it's products as a lure to the Gulf states to bring them on-side
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by nikcub 5y ago
This is a rather elaborate con that is being poorly covered in a lot of media, largely because it is complicated to understand if you haven't been following it closely. Both sides in the case before the courts here agree that Craig cre
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by nikcub 5y ago
> Protonmail even has an SSL cert for that onion address even though it’s completely unnecessary. It is absolutely necessary, especially with the new, longer v3 onion domains[0]. Generating a v2 onion address that begins with "proto
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by nikcub 9y ago
You'll be happy to hear then that a lot of progress has been made on Lightning since MtGox imploded I probably should have linked to these from my original comment - rather than removing anything Specifically with lnd the lightning dae
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by nikcub 9y ago
I'd use a search engine that removes any result that includes an affiliate link. Some shopping sectors are so crowded with affiliate links that it's impossible to figure out what is real or not
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by nikcub 9y ago
> You have to a) pay to open up a channel with each person you wish to use it This simply isn't true. You open one channel and then payments are routed over channels to your destination. It's no different to TCP/IP in this
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by nikcub 9y ago
I know that cable - it's rather famous for predicting a lot of what took place but is far from a US plot to overthrow Assad
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by nikcub 9y ago
Have a link to the original cable? A lot of what is written there doesn't pass the basic smell test of anybody even vaguely familiar with the conflict
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by nikcub 9y ago
> UAE has no oil or gas income and is living off loans. You're thinking of Dubai. The major emirate has always been Abu Dhabi and they're resource rich a.f (and they provider of many loans to Dubai, including financing of the B
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by nikcub 9y ago
> Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Europe, US and Turkey was the big alliance which tried to take down Syria. This isn't true - they have all backed different factions in the conflict against the Syrian government, against ISIS and today agains
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by nikcub 9y ago
The RRP of a terabyte of hard drive on NewEgg has almost nothing to do with the cost of provisioning an additional reliable terabyte of datacenter storage + IOPS
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by nikcub 9y ago
I run 10-15 containers on my Mac and don't notice it after fixing particular containers (I don't doubt there is a more general issue) Find out what is causing the CPU spikes with docker stats or screen into the Docker for
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by nikcub 9y ago
> Svelte itself is written in TypeScript I completely missed this as I looked at the sample project and saw js files - this has me going back and taking a second look, so you might want to mention it.
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by nikcub 9y ago
I've seen a lot of people do this with wireless bridges from Ubiquiti. You can extend networks over 20km if you have line of sight - lots of examples of it in Australia[0] You want two of these[1] or two of these[2] - you need line of

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