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by qb45 9y ago
Nothing really bad yet. Allegedly Russians spear-phished user accounts of some people involved in the election, possibly stole documents and theoretically could attempt using this access to social engineer them into misconfiguring voting
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by qb45 9y ago
Russians did you a favor pentesting your voting infrastructure for free. What really is important is how people have no problem with a voting system which apparently is at risk of hacking by foreign nation states and presumably also by ca
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When you are self-conscious doing a silly show of yourself for rationalization will only give you something more to be self-conscious about. Merely taking a walk once in a while would pass and is a good idea for other reasons, but this cloc
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I heard that good lawyers can earn more than good coders. And dunno about Germany, but in my country brain drain is also a problem. And I'm not sure if there really are that many smart people to begin with ;)
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So which parts did you study and actually understand? I have contributed to device drivers a few times, for example. And I wouldn't really recommend this part of Linux for learning. Maybe they work but code readability is often neglect
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Meanwhile on Google: Twelve Things This Book Will Do For You Get you out of a mental rut, give you new thoughts, new visions, new ambitions. Enable you to make friends quickly and easily. Increase your popularity. Help
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So there isn't much new stuff in Rationality that one wouldn't already find in HPMOR , for those who have read the latter?
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> At the very least, we might have far fewer Christians who insist upon Biblical literalism. Many of those who insist on Biblical literalism have already read this stuff. You lose one life. Try again.
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> I would not want to believe in such a neurotic, angry god. I'm under impression that people may have created gods in their own image so to speak, which immediately makes me wonder if there will come a time that you will eat these
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Not the OP but... I read Gospels once. Or twice, actually. The first time as a clueless teenager and it made me worry that maybe this paranormal stuff is real because so many people seem to believe it. This was probably the closest to &quot
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Not really, it could equally well be a pre-6.3 GCC bug which resulted in outputting bad code. What makes me think it may be CPU rather than GCC is that the segfault seems to happen nondeterministicly in a single-threaded bash binary running
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Considering that it happens only on Ryzen and with multiple GCC versions and that the first post in this Gentoo forum thread shows segfaults in bash (not gcc) it looks rather like a CPU bug manifesting itself under load. Nobody talked about
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Simple viruses will just email themselves to all your contacts and steal your banking password, no special privileges are required for that.
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> Facebook doesn't provide an information service, it's an endpoint of one. It provides information service at an endpoint of a telecommunication service. To me this bill reads rather like an attempt at codification of the &quo
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The real study is "what happens to the EU in the coming decades". The jury is still out on this one.
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> Your quote does not directly support mass surveillance. It doesn't need to. I wanted to point out that mass surveillance is one of the costs of terrorism, regardless of its effectiveness in fighting it. And that we know little abo
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“The government is clear that, at a time of heightened security threat, it is essential our law enforcement and security and intelligence services have the power they need to keep people safe. The internet presents new opportunities for t
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Rumor has it that certain Arab states are directly funding Islamic terrorism today. Also, Western states and NGOs supported and continue to support various rebels against old, mostly totalitarian and often USSR/Russia-friendly regimes
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And the fact that the mainstream media are steadily bending to this pressure (sometimes in spectacularly ridiculous ways) is exactly why a growing number of people distrust them.
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> This was one of bin Laden and al Qaeda's explicit goals. [citation needed] I can't speak for bin Laden but in 2000 I would have never predicted that the EU will allow this kind of immigration on such scale. I suspect some of
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> Facebook paying people's data costs for traffic to Facebook services I think it could be argued that sponsoring 3rd party services required to access Facebook under the condition they won't be used to access competing sites i
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Wow, that's an old post. For currently supported versions I believe they released all patches at the same time, but XP was a problem because users without extended support contracts were left vulnerable which facilitated spread of Wann
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Yes, hardly, because there is little chance that Assange is going to confirm this. We don't even know for sure if he actually knows something or simply pushes for investigation of this murder solely because other leakers are worried th
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> As I recall, the goals of that project were somewhat different. There were many, from "truth serum" against captured enemy spies through mind control over the US population (they considered adding psychedelics to tap water) u
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> To be honest I'm not entirely sure what the point of the article is at all. He freely admits that the FBI had cause to be suspicious about his travel to Iceland, it coincided with a massive breach of information and he definitely
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> No more crypto, no more NSA. It's that simple. Not at all, they will still record all your comms to make sure you aren't spying on the US. Also keep producing malware, etc. > DLP will also be the death of AES and any ciphe
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> There's a revolution in the US every four to eight years. Democracy is a fast-path civil war: "yeah, I guess we could go actually shooting each other but let's just count who has more men and move on".
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> In short, black-bag some elites, and shoot them up with a witches brew of MDMA, LSD, DXM, Datura, nicotine, cannabis, salvinorin-A, high fructose corn syrup, fluoride, chemtrail distillate, et cetera (Poe's Law disclosure: the lat
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Off the top of my head, examples of people who have more means and expertise than a random HN commenter: 1. nonprofits like EFF 2. investigative journalists who search for truth and expose corruption instead of writing emotional pieces tell
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And the likelihood of Google streaming a copy of all your URL bar keystrokes to the NSA archive is larger still. Or hell, even if they don't stream them live, they surely store them for analysis and can respond to subpoenas.

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