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by portofcall 9y ago
Hacker culture in the mainstream workforce doesn’t exist, it’s SV and VC culture. Free food and casual dress doesn’t change that. The word hacker is thrown around a lot, as in the title of this site, but like this site it’s just a name.
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by portofcall 9y ago
At 3000 feet it’s about .9 atmospheres of pressure, but honestly humidity is incredibly variable. The lower pressure at 3k feet just places an upper bound on possible humidity, it doesn’t tell you what it is. My instinct is that you’re righ
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How Sugar Daddies and Vaginal Microbes Created the World’s Largest HIV Epidemic(theatlantic.com)
32 points by portofcall 9y ago|7 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
Technically feasible, practically worthless. This is a weapon that in no way alters the balance of geopolitical power, it isn’t an effective first strike, and it would be an insane vehicle for a conventional payload. This is posturing, dick
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by portofcall 9y ago
It much simpler to make MOFs than other nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes and graphene. Well yes, but nanomaterials are tough to make, and mass produced graphene is a nightmare. None of that changes the energy requirements to make the s
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by portofcall 9y ago
I feel like this conversation is taking place in a strange parallel universe in which people don’t appreciate what 15,000+ nuclear warheads being exchanged would do. The fires started from them alone would be an extinction event, and the ki
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by portofcall 9y ago
MOF’s are not mass produced, and while a method has been proposed to scale up production, as far as I know it’s never been tested. It’s also a solvent-heavy process, and often uses a lot of benzene. MIT the university is an amazing thing, b
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Venmo abruptly pulls its convenient instant transfer feature(theverge.com)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
They exist in two arenas, both (theoretically) subject to strict judicial oversight. The first as you reference is public safety, which includes inciting to violence, and other classic examples. The second is a bit murkier: national securit
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by portofcall 9y ago
It might seem counterintuitive for the reason you described, but the problem with water and ground bursts, is that the entirety of the radioactive byproducts interact with large amounts of dense material. I’m a true airbursrs, the fireball
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by portofcall 9y ago
Just an update, the Uber car did fail that badly, and it was a shocking failure.
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On the Hunt for the Lost Wonders of Medieval Britain(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
Coal in the quantities needed to rebuild a shattered civilization are not easily accessed unless you’re thinking of existing mines (which without maintenance would be inaccessible before we were done desperately trying to stay alive as a sp
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by portofcall 9y ago
In the USA thank god we still have the right to offend, but clearly this is something which has been lost to the UK and appears to becoming weaponized to surpress political activism as well (see recent stories of Tommy Robinson at Speakers
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by portofcall 9y ago
The truth is that we don’t know what the long term impacts of a total exchange would be. Theories range from extreme nuclear winter events, to just the fall of civilization. I sure won’t pretend to know where on that scale the reality is, a
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by portofcall 9y ago
Think more in terms of killing a whole carrier battle group in one shot, or closing a major port (for a long time) due to blast damage and radiation. Larger bombs are diriter bombs, and detonating in water is pretty much the dirtiest use of
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America’s Misguided War on Childhood Lead Exposures(undark.org)
2 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
One of the best and earliest uses of VR, long before Vive or Oculus or the rest came around, was for treating vets with PTSD. The technology was more or less indistinguishable from entertainment, apart from its application. Point being, don
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The Next Russian Attack Will Be Far Worse Than Bots and Trolls(lawfareblog.com)
7 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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Illegal Secrecy? The Prosecution of Phantom Secure(lawfareblog.com)
4 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
IRC baby, and efnet is an old network you can connect to. Bitchx is an irc client, free last I checked. To GP, are eggdrop bots still a thing?
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by portofcall 9y ago
For what value of “soon after” is very expensive automation going to reach Africa, India, and other places in numbers sufficient to put a dent in those fatalities? The slow march of other tech, safety included, suggests decades. Meanwhile t
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by portofcall 9y ago
That level of recidivism is most commonly associated with drug offenses, either as a user or a dealer, or both. Edit I’m not judging them, just pointing out the most likely cause of being incarcerated so frequently in the USA.
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by portofcall 9y ago
So you’ll use the local PD as bounty hunters, without the bounty. I’ve read through this whole thread, and I wonder if you’re aware of just how smarmy and evavise you’ve been throughout? As PR goes, silence would serve you better than your
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Robert Langlands, Mathematical Visionary, Wins the Abel Prize(quantamagazine.org)
117 points by portofcall 9y ago|7 comments
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The Controversial ‘Humanity Star’ Is Coming Back to Earth Early(theatlantic.com)
2 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
I do this a lot too, and just one word of warning from personal experience: don’t overwork one spot, or apply steady pressure to one spot for a long time. The former is going to cause a feedback loop of swelling and irritation, leading to m
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Mysterious Road Signs to Fictional Places Have Appeared in Didcot, England(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by portofcall 9y ago|0 comments
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by portofcall 9y ago
I think it’s the grid layout, the modular, beige metal racks, and linoleum, and the fluorescent lights. Plus their color scheme where there is color seems to be from the Ronald McDonald school of design. Finally, tired and miserable people
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by portofcall 9y ago
Wow, you do realize that fiat is the number 1 one way to fund the drug trade and terrorism right? It certainly isn’t crypto. Number 1 by volume (duh) or number 1 by percentage of transactions for illegal goods and services? Not exactly a

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