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by rdl 9y ago
Microsoft Stores tend to have the surface books for demo. You could boot from USB to try xfce. You can also just buy one from a store with a lenient return policy.
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by rdl 9y ago
The Talos is interesting but $3700 as an entry point is pretty painful.
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by rdl 9y ago
I've known plenty of people who do 400mg 2-3x/day for weeks/months.
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by rdl 9y ago
I would be amazed if most important physical, mental, or social characteristics had zero underlying biological or genetic drivers, or if they were completely driven by underlying biology. Even small underlying differences can be amplified
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by rdl 9y ago
Not necessarily (depends on how you define e2e). One could handle group messaging in a way where membership gives you full historical access vs. only when you were subscribed. In a corp environment you might even require that some groups re
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by rdl 9y ago
There are lots of ways to do this in normal corporate environments more safely than Slack but with decent user experience. Some data can always be locally stored on the device and searched (maybe anything I've typed myself, or particul
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by rdl 9y ago
Er, I missed the second part of this. I don't advocate them doing anything unconstitutional; merely that in the initial clearance process and ongoing clearance process for cleared employees that relations hostile or adversarial foreign
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by rdl 9y ago
If TWiT wins do they have to take over Twitter? Seems like a sneaky way for Twitter to get a full-time CEO.
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by rdl 9y ago
They don't have an obvious foreign power to which they may have pre-existing relationships. They could still be motivated for financial, ego, or ideological reasons. USSR/Russia was more often ideologically motivated people (and v
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by rdl 9y ago
Oops. I was wrong on that one, sorry.
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by rdl 9y ago
That one was badly done, but there have been several since then; eg Candace Claiborne which was slam dunk.
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by rdl 9y ago
I assume he was pointing out why having family or close connections overseas and in a potentially hostile or at least adversarial nation has long been a factor in clearance investigations.
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by rdl 9y ago
I think it has to be done, but it should be done respectfully and proportionately — a high ranking CIA case officer merits much more scrutiny than a NASA scientist, etc. I think we have seen enough serious counterintelligence failures over
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by rdl 9y ago
People complain about racism whenever ethnically Chinese or in this case a naturalized Chinese citizen within the IC is subjected to extra security scrutiny, but China has a very effective intelligence program taking advantage of these peop
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by rdl 9y ago
I've had far better experiences as a passenger in Y and C (I rarely fly intl F) on 767, 777, 787, and a340s than on any A380. With some airlines I actively seek out the 767 flights because they pre-date the "maximum density seati
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by rdl 9y ago
This is exactly what I'd want a company holding my personal data to do. There are lots of problems with Uber, but this is one of the good things.
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by rdl 9y ago
There are a few other places in WA with fiber, too -- looks like Chelan County is one. They also have super-cheap electricity and are somewhat lower crime than Spokane, from what I can tell (which is the main drawback of Spokane; it's
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by rdl 9y ago
Devices containing multiple security levels/distinct users, and where performance matters the most, are generally socketed-CPU servers. For other devices, if they're security critical and can't be addressed through software,
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by rdl 9y ago
I wonder how Intel will deal with this. If I were Intel, I'd offer free replacements for at-par performance, and potentially tiny cash payment for upgraded performance. Assuming the marginal cost to produce chips, especially older&#x2
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by rdl 9y ago
I remember predicting this back when the Snowden first leaked, and someone popular on HN saying it wouldn't happen. I suspect the reorg and general politics outside NSA have had a bigger impact than "oh, spying is wrong" in p
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by rdl 9y ago
Yeah, flooding 911 with legit-seeming calls for weeks would seem to be an effective DoS on the 911 system.
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by rdl 9y ago
I am pretty cynical about humanity, but I don't understand why there aren't hundreds or thousands of swatting incidents per day, given the availability of anonymous communications, payment, and surplus of bad people in the world.
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by rdl 9y ago
Clearly the guy who made the false call committed murder and should be charged as such. However, there should also be civil and possibly criminal liability for the officer and department. SWAT should be held to a far higher standard for we
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by rdl 9y ago
This debate is exactly why I think some individual or small group is just going to do it without asking permission.
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by rdl 9y ago
https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
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by rdl 9y ago
Weird. While they're on Cloudflare Registrar now, it appears they used to be on Network Solutions. NetSol is pretty bad in a lot of ways, but you can make it less bad with some configuration competence. I would have assumed an IT secur
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by rdl 9y ago
We definitely don’t know for sure, but we absolutely know the harm caused by malaria and dengue. (I personally care about this from living in places with both, and because Elon Musk almost died from dengue, apparently.)
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by rdl 9y ago
I don’t care. Malaria and dengue are sufficiently bad that I’d take the risk. This has been studied, though. No animal only eats mosquitoes, and I’d only start with a few species (but likely expand to all of them.)
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by rdl 9y ago
I have a secret plan of once I have >$10mm in free cash, doing gene drive elimination of the disease vector mosquitoes without getting any permission or notification by any states. I’m not sure if someone else will beat me to it, but I’
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by rdl 9y ago
This worked surprisingly well on iPad. Great game!

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