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by nimbius 4y ago
>If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can While I agree the German position is more complex, the conclusion is reducto ad absurdum given the Fukushima reactor meltdown is an extraordinarily complex issue without a single definiti
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by nimbius 4y ago
The whole article is a plug for Chainalysis, a company that sells its ability to trace crypto transactions to the US government who ironically gave them KYC, the most fundamental and lazy ability to start a business that traces stuff like t
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by nimbius 4y ago
for those interested, you can do the same thing with a $20 usb dtv receiver and rngd using the rtl-sdr entropy project http://blog.cros13.net/2014/08/cheap-entropy-using-your-rtl-...
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by nimbius 4y ago
a big part thats missing from the list is the inherent hyperconsumerism in neoliberal capitalist societies. For example: in the past 60 years the trope of nerds and geeks being inferior and unliked served an important purpose: it prevented
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by nimbius 4y ago
I really want to be optimistic about this but as a us consumer of us healthcare its almost impossible to get even my vision prescription. I'm betting whatever I get from the hospital is in an ocean of binary formats too arcane to diges
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by nimbius 4y ago
I had a Jewish friend who once remarked that he knew when rosh hashana and yom Kippur were upon him because it added another forty minutes to his commute in Los angeles. he affectionately called it "the ten days of 'awe come on m
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by nimbius 4y ago
christ the IBM acquisition is turning out to be the WORST timeline. - Redhat kneecaps centos because some mid manager was worried he might not get this years bonus - Redhat kneecaps Ansible by making ansible-core and forcing everyone to re-
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by nimbius 4y ago
feels like the current POTUS is either signaling his parties future legislative priority at best, pandering for november votes, or performing the legislative equivalent of 'dnf clean all' as these low level offenders are becomin
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by nimbius 4y ago
this is an unamerican opinion on hn so I don't expect it to be popular but I would imagine this is a proactive effort by Apple in light of recent and persistent American brinkmanship over China in general. first huawei, then trump, th
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by nimbius 4y ago
make it a highly promoted position in the space force. we did this with AEGIS stuff and the navy, as well as SPAWAR and SCC software, and it was generally quite successful. release early and often, and always AGPL3. consider pull requests
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by nimbius 4y ago
thats the understatement of the century but true. abdicating your responsibility for a discovery phase during an acquisition is tantamount to fraud in the United States, but when he started to drag his feet and publicly proclaim a "ho
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by nimbius 4y ago
brought to you by the guys who learned nothing from a string of criticality accidents. I'm not surprised. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
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by nimbius 4y ago
this seems mostly like a well written argument for the politics and procedure as well as implementation of emacs, and its absolutely worth a read. I don't hope to see this comment beyond down vote oblivion. the author dances around a
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by nimbius 4y ago
true story I honestly considered emigrating from the us to Canada as a diesel engine mechanic when I was a greenhorn. Kirkland lake, a mining company, flew me up for two weeks to see things in their repair pool and even offered relocation.
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by nimbius 4y ago
nonsense. I for one recall my fathers near clairvoyant ability to sense minute fluctuations in the ambient air temperature even before they were made. he focused this experience into a sound known only to a child's ears 'don&#x2
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by nimbius 4y ago
title should be amended to read "so long as IBM is feeling generous." redhat managed to torpedo centos at the drop of a hat, so I have little faith they won't eventually come back to the table for seconds and find a way to m
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by nimbius 4y ago
maybe lorawan can be used to launder the traffic? IoT traffic obfuscators running on battery power
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by nimbius 4y ago
not true. prior convictions and prior drug use need to be declared on the SF86 during interview by your agency. most agencies deprioritize cannabis entirely. these factors along with mitigating factors will determine your adjudication an
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by nimbius 4y ago
>Can someone please explain what Sundar Pichai's big goals as a CEO are? Fighting a growing wave of calls from all political sides to regulate Alphabet and Google in the US, and paying an endless stack of compliance fines to the EU
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by nimbius 4y ago
the almost comical resignation of several politicians at the time which resulted finally in the confidence of parliament resting on the shoulders of a an unaccountable buffoon certainly led me to assume the decision had all the ramification
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by nimbius 4y ago
shameless plug: the EFF sells a dice set and fun sticker for use with their wordlist. https://www.eff.org/dice
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by nimbius 4y ago
the legislation seems a little pointlessly broad. "open source" is just software at the end of the day so it can easily be covered by existing STIG guidelines. these already work with Ubuntu and Redhat. https://en.wiki
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by nimbius 4y ago
>Whether the Fed actually has the technical tools to do this is another question. its unlikely the fed is reactive enough in the short term to have any real effect on inflation presuming its tooling is effective. the interest rate hike
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by nimbius 4y ago
fascinating read. from what I've gathered its a story about a three-hundred fifty billion dollar international company that employs child labor and once had to install suicide nets on their factory buildings. the story indicates they&
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by nimbius 4y ago
propaganda can seem innocent enough at first, but its most insidious trait is that it eventually poisons and undermines even the most essential functions of your government not only during a crisis but through even its most mundane operatio
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Twitter shareholders have approved the $44B sale to Elon Musk(npr.org)
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Dow drops 800 points after hot inflation report(cnbc.com)
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by nimbius 4y ago
i see quite a few confusing or ill spirited comments so I suppose most of this thread is from a distinctly United States American perspective. Its worth kindly pointing out the UK has its own law and order, much of which applies to your cha
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by nimbius 4y ago
arguably it was the same thirst for electricity that was the killing stroke for most of the POWER architecture. that, and IBM contract fees.
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by nimbius 4y ago
hoo boy if you car owners think youre getting screwed in the recession, its been like this for motorcycles for about 30 years. "oh we just sold it" "oh that ones not on our lot" "the price is only for financing.&qu

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