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Fake news and botnets: how Russia weaponised the web(theguardian.com)
2 points by ricw 9y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 9y ago
I'm getting a little tired of these "burning through money" reports. Of course they're burning through money. They're setting up a factory that is planned to produce 5000 cars a week. This costs a lot of capex money
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by ricw 9y ago
This is amazing. If only it would also work in my phone. Probably for the best to stop me “wasting” time ;).
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by ricw 9y ago
Am curious how and what exactly you blocked?! What precautions can be taken to make systems more secure?!
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Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors(arstechnica.com)
4 points by ricw 9y ago|1 comments
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by ricw 9y ago
I like the feel of the new keyboard, though I have two issues with it: 1. sometimes buttons do lock up. i'm unsure whether this is the same issue as in the article, but by pressing them harder they typically start working again. 2. the
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TIOBE Index for October 2017(tiobe.com)
3 points by ricw 9y ago|0 comments
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The Intel Core I9-7980XE and Core I9-7960X CPU Review Part 1: Workstation(anandtech.com)
14 points by ricw 9y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 9y ago
That is not representative of either the time frame or the resources available to Mozilla. Mozilla has had Hundreds of millions of annual income through their search associations [1]. It’s surprising how they’ve wasted that amount of money
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by ricw 9y ago
Easily said when you're young, unbound and without family.
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by ricw 9y ago
I love usb-c. It’s extremely convenient when travelling to only have to take one charger and a usb switch for all 4 devices. I also find it far more convenient when working. One usb-c plug to plug into my entire work desk (monitor, backup h
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by ricw 9y ago
that's my point! freedom of speech has been a still birth from the start.
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by ricw 9y ago
Thousands of years? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's really only been put into a constitution a smigeon more than 200 years ago. But that's besides the point. Freedom of speech has always been an imperfect principle. At anyt
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by ricw 9y ago
This is just the battle of freedom of speech vs the natural behaviour of humans to troll when in an "anonymous" internet environment. The difference now is that everyone can state their opinion all the time very easily in the inte
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by ricw 9y ago
This is one of the oddest false beliefs about electric cars. 1) they already have the 300+ mile range for the 4 hour round trip, 2) electricity is totally abundant anywhere. Far more so than fossil fuels. Building charging stations is reall
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by ricw 9y ago
A quick google Search states that there are 449 currently active reactors. Pair that with 50+ years of mass usage, and we have a pretty large data set that should be more than sufficient to calculate the risk. And as I stated previously: ga
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by ricw 9y ago
Gas has actually been this cheap before, and for a long time so. 20 years ago oil cost less than a third than it is now, and yet then fossil fuel prices weren't an issue. The real reason is deeper than that. Nuclear is simply put very
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by ricw 9y ago
I see a lot of technocratie on this site bemoaning the dying of nuclear. We've tried for 70+ years and have as yet not succeeded to use nuclear as a financially feasible energy source. Anyone trying to argue against this please answer
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by ricw 9y ago
The quoted statistics are interesting, but irrelevant when it comes to the actual use of nuclear. Furthermore, why are solar and wind energy missing from these stats? They account for 90% of new power in Europe in 2016 [1], and I'd ass
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by ricw 9y ago
God. I did all this years ago, even wrote a masters thesis on formal verification. And I can actually not remember a single time when this was actually useful, other than perhaps really obnoxious interviews. Don't get me wrong, it&#x27
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by ricw 9y ago
The climate predictions are exactly that: longer droughts and more rainfall when it does happen. Source: life partner who studies climate science...
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by ricw 9y ago
They aren't. They are Homo sapiens, vs homo neanderthalis, homo erectus or the like. There used to be many closely related humans. But we eradicated them (in all likelihood). From that perspective, sapiens would be a better term than h
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by ricw 9y ago
I never got why the heat in the tube was not being used as a heat source. You could extract the heat and supply it to surrounding buildings at a cost, thereby cooling the tube. The tech is readily available. It would be a win win situation.
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by ricw 9y ago
First hand experience. I applied for a job at google and this was given as an example of knowledge that I should revise for the interview.
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by ricw 9y ago
Entirely! Example: When has anyone ever actually needed to know the exact details of a red-black search tree?! In my decade of professional software development has this not appeared once. Not even remotely. Yet this is apparently "sta
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by ricw 9y ago
I love the concept.p But it's hard to tell whether this is ready for production. Anyone have any hands on experience with it?!
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by ricw 9y ago
For 2017 it is 14.75% [1]. The bigger question is to what it may change in the future. Vitalik has stated that it will be lower / closer to zero, but who knows. The only given is that it will change. [1] https://ethereum.sta
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by ricw 9y ago
This is just incorrectly attributing germanys success to the Marshall plan! Yes, the Marshall plan helped Germany recover. But the Marshall plan had absolutely nothing to do with the "Mittelstand" emerging as a predominant industr
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by ricw 9y ago
It has built and proven that electric cars are feasible. It has built THE trailblazing electric car. It is the iPhone of cars. All other manufacturers are now scrambling to catch up and build their own. Consequently we'll see millions
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by ricw 9y ago
Whilst your point is true, you're wrong in thinking it is a zero sum game. It certainly isn't. In stark contrast to the USA, it has largely been a win-win situation in Europe for blue collar workers. What has been devastating for

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