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by pfundstein 6y ago
No. As with the previous article I am yet to see a single shred of hard evidence. I would take this series with a healthy dose of skepticism. Speculation: I read last time that Bloomberg rewards the authors of stories that cause stock swing
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Or perhaps disgruntled customers [possibly who purchased an artificially inflated 5 star item only to find it garbage].
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by pfundstein 6y ago
I think the distinction is usually drawn at (a) payment is exchanged for services, and (b) the person providing the service is free to leave the role at their discretion (possibly with a contractual requirement to provide advance notice).
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Hiring a chef and a butler is a far cry from having servants.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
How about Putin's palace? #FakeNews? Someone who's definitely not Putin spent $1.4 billion on this building despite all the evidence pointing at Putin? You'll need to employ some serious doublethink to continue on this train
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Did you just call C a high level language?
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by pfundstein 6y ago
The whole thing looks like a desperate money grab. The primary purpose of a search engine is to provide links to content related to the user's search. This gives the content providers visibility. From my understanding this law requires
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by pfundstein 6y ago
It's not that they failed to guess the dose, it's likely that the rapid treatment saved his life: > "a new and improved version of the Novichok agent, which has not been encountered in the world before", was used in N
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Arguably the the most important muscle to exercise regularly is the heart, and that doesn't seem to be included, so allow me to suggest a few exercises: * Running * Jump rope * Swimming * Dancing
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by pfundstein 6y ago
I'm going to guess a shock image like goatse?
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Interesting tidbit: This "dns by proxy" service was founded by The Pirate Bay founder, Peter Sunde.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
I think they have a pretty strong anti-censorship stance, and due to the way the data is en/decrypted on the client side, they have no visibility what the data consists of. On top of that, the data here (which is posted with the mega.c
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Either he's personally familiar with the system or he has taken a theory and extrapolated upwards. I'm leaning towards the latter.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
> Unfortunately most meteors never land because they completely burn up in the atmosphere. I think you mean "fortunately".
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by pfundstein 6y ago
To summarise it roughly: A software company (SolarWinds) whose software (Orion) is used by thousands of companies and government agencies worldwide, was hacked and a backdoor inserted into an update. An update which was subsequently instal
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Well that would explain why I've only encountered them in C.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Forgive me but are linked lists common in other languages?
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Sorry for the tangent but isn't litecoin and dogecoin one and the same now? Why separate clients?
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Never head of that, though I don't use C much. Are you referring to the CPU cache?
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Possible, perhaps, but feasible? Microsoft certainly had a go at it with the likes of Midori and Singularity, but these were met with the same fate that will likely befall any managed code kernel. While it's an honorable pursuit with c
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by pfundstein 6y ago
That's an interesting experiment, but that's all it is. The project relies on ASM/C/C++ to boot into a microkernel and to interpret and run the C#. But I suppose it would greatly reduce the attack surface of C/C++&#
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by pfundstein 6y ago
C#? You've got to be joking.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
I was curious what might happen if the containment field collapsed, and found this[1] on reddit from 6y ago. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it sounds pretty bad -- though not nearly as bad as a nuclear meltdown at a fission plant
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by pfundstein 6y ago
For me, seeing a grossly unhealthy doctor -- be it obesity or a drug addiction like smoking -- wouldn't exactly instill confidence.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
I think he's referring to a General Practitioner who IMO should really practice what the preaches. If doctor is unhealthy it doesn't exactly instill confidence.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
It's a bit rich to expect from immigrants what our own education system is failing to provide. Additionally, IQ is a very incomplete measure of a person's capabilities.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
It sounds like you have seen little of the speed and agility RC helicos can exhibit, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PptMrBFAO-A
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Obviously you don't dump it all on the order books at once.
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by pfundstein 6y ago
What advantage would a collective pitch quad have over a helicopter?
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by pfundstein 6y ago
Just noting cheaper quads often use geared props to compensate for their under-powered motors.

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