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by qb45 9y ago
But their leaders live longer. Which exposes OP's fallacy - haters live long if their hatred makes them popular.
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by qb45 9y ago
The effects you described are absolutely real, but your abuse of control theory jargon deserves condemnation. Positive feedback is when a process reinforces itself: the uglier you are, the more others hate you, the uglier you become. Negati
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by qb45 9y ago
Reminds me of this classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_%28CG-48%29#Smart... On 21 September 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a databas
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by qb45 9y ago
USB and WiFi stacks can be fun, though.
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by qb45 9y ago
> he would not stop until the attacks had been shut down and those responsible were behind bars. That's cute. I wonder if he means Microsoft, people who use Microsoft products in safety-critical systems or maybe some nuke-capable na
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by qb45 9y ago
Maybe in the US and Russia. I wonder if it could be pirated Windows XP in North Korea, OTOH ;)
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by qb45 9y ago
Nitpick: isn't it β instead of ß?
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by qb45 9y ago
Given that there is a chance for things to go wrong, I wonder what's the real-world success rate of firmware upgrades performed by nontechnical users? Is it worth it when most devices very likely aren't infected?
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by qb45 9y ago
FWIW, I heard they convinced investors that economy of scales will make their pricing profitable in the future. At least that's what somebody said in this other Uber thread here. Whether their calculations will pan out is another story
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by qb45 9y ago
... and are accused of industry espionage, covering-up crimes of their drivers, mishandling medical information, covering-up managers repeatedly using company chat to solicit sex (wtf, I too want a job where I'm paid for doing that ),
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by qb45 9y ago
The detective in charge of my case sent me the police report. She had contacted the official law enforcement department of Uber to get more information. She gave Uber the date and time of the ride, as well as the license plate of the veh
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by qb45 9y ago
Not really. This time it's CPU and kernel failing to provide expected behavior in some corner cases which makes otherwise correct userland programs vulnerable to attacks for no fault of their own.
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by qb45 9y ago
Yes, it's a kernel deficiency which only allows taking over userspace processes and only if you are able to cause them to allocate the right memory and write the right data to it.
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by qb45 9y ago
I too had to spend a few minutes to understand it. The problem is with stack growing into memory previously allocated with mmap , including but not limited to mmap being used to back up large malloc allocations. If this happens, writin
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by qb45 9y ago
I don't think he has been accused of doing it personally. It also is weird that matt4077 repeatedly contrasts Kalanick with Steve Jobs in this thread, despite Apple having been accused many times of mean culture, sexism, harassment and
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by qb45 9y ago
It wasn't Kalanick's who did it but his employees. And guess what, Apple had a fair number of stories about toxic work culture and sexual harassment too.
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by qb45 9y ago
Still, it seems related to understanding and following others. I think many so-called "leaders" today aren't even serious leaders but actually they have a somewhat unnatural role of imposing on their subordinates arbitrary de
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by qb45 9y ago
Yes. I only said that it was a wider story than just the specific allegations against one particular shop, which you seemed to disagree with.
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by qb45 9y ago
The note: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/06/13/read-the-s... FWIW, the law seems to be against her in this case: the court ruling quotes a precedent where people were sentenced for play
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by qb45 9y ago
I thought it was because both Snowden and Greenwald believed that the US would identify him sooner or later and if his identity wasn't public the CIA would quietly arrest him illegally abroad, like they did to others before, and nobody
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by qb45 9y ago
I said "alien" because it's a legal term and I see it used a lot, including by US authorities. FWIW, I was once an alien in the US too and saw this term in my own documents many times. I don't even know any good substitu
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by qb45 9y ago
A good argument against mandatory seatbelts. You shouldn't need them in a drive-through.
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by qb45 9y ago
Oh, I see it, sorry for that.
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by qb45 9y ago
It looks like you are trying to suggest that she may have had reasons to wish him ill while I actually dare to question whether she wished him ill at all or just felt sorry for him. I read all the transcripts and the atmosphere somehow remi
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by qb45 9y ago
It's not, but apparently assisting can get you in trouble regardless. The court ruling in this case cites a precedent involving somebody handing a loaded gun to a person who said in an impulse that she wants to kill herself and then ac
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by qb45 9y ago
I'm afraid the craziest aspect of this story is that she wasn't even being vile, she actually believed that he wants to be dead and tried to help him. They had been planning it together for a few days, she threatened to "get
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by qb45 9y ago
In addition, she was on antidepressants so it's not clear what exactly her mental state was, she probably had some reasons to take them. And her defense argued that the drugs may have affected her actions, fwiw of course. http:&#x2F
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by qb45 9y ago
Your parent only claimed that Hussein was mild compared to other regimes. I tried to find the video you mentioned and immediately found articles about Syrian rebels throwing people off roofs and ISIS doing it to gays, so maybe this claim wa
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by qb45 9y ago
> If this case has no chance of going anywhere, then why run? I think it's common knowledge that he cited concerns about extradition to the US as the reason for leaving Sweden. For context, this was just a few years after The Pirate
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by qb45 9y ago
Macron documents weren't released by WikiLeaks, or are we talking some other leak from him? https://www.wired.com/2017/05/macron-email-hack-french-elect...

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