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by rl3 6y ago
> This is why a UBI can raise the national IQ level, reduce stress, improve public health AND make us more productive and make better choices. > A person working overtime at McDonalds to make ends meet is not benefitting society as m
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by rl3 6y ago
> CISA expects that removing the threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging. That's an understatement. It's potentially intrusion to a degree where firmware becomes a reinfection vector,
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Attribution involves sources and methods, some of which are classified. If an APT is competent, definite attribution of their activities becomes almost impossible. Perhaps we now live in a weird world now where—with few exceptions—APTs can
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by rl3 6y ago
A decade earlier, in a 2000 IBM commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo
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by rl3 6y ago
It would be neat to see a game's proton rating displayed in Steam's client UI. You could just glance at your entire library and kind of feel out how comfortable you are jumping to Linux.
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by rl3 6y ago
> That's like supporting a protection racket... Wow. Precisely. A mere sample of the protection afforded: This same former intelligence official is “adamant” that evidence of such extraordinary renditions within the United States
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by rl3 6y ago
> That's a beautiful, committed, and complete fantasy. Nice drive-by zinger. Care to, I don't know—cite evidence to the contrary? Despite being Canada, the facts of the original article support my point of view: "Three s
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by rl3 6y ago
> I often think about ways of disrupting businesses which rely on shady deals/regulatory capture/other anticompetitive measures. I just as often decide that it’s not worth it, since I don’t want my legs broken. Any smart organ
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by rl3 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October_(film... The film caused a minor sensation in the black projects submarine warfare technology community.[13][14] In one scene, where USS Dallas is chasing Red Oct
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by rl3 6y ago
Why not just legalize the ransom payments? In a world where the IC was directed to fuck ransomware authors up, the money could be clawed back in most cases, or even fronted by the taxpayers as bait for CNE: https://news.ycombinat
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by rl3 6y ago
> ...itll keep you going up to 48 hours with almost no loss of focus or ability That isn't true. Sleep deprivation will significantly impact your cognitive abilities even so, perhaps just not as much as it otherwise would. Quality
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by rl3 6y ago
Call me old school, but I prefer to have Pierce Brosnan as my pyroclastic flow chaperone.
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by rl3 6y ago
I want to like JWT, but in practice I find it overkill for many scenarios, just contributing to further complexity and dependency bloat.
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More reactionary downvotes, please. Downvote this, too.
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One of the more esoteric security practices is client-side hashing, the mere mention of which tends to draw ire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24026233
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> Even so, Peninsula residents still spend $1M for townhouses and condos built on former SuperFund sites. Their gardens must offer a unique taste of computing history.
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> I can't even begin to describe how absurd it is to argue anything else. It's like... saying with a straight face that software doesn't "really" follow the rules of boolean algebra if it has enough lines of code
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by rl3 6y ago
> That is literally what it does. It slows down cognition. Yes, but I'm talking actual changes in the cognitive output. Look at all the physiological changes astronauts undergo. Those changes extend to their cognition, even if the
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by rl3 6y ago
> If the clock runs at half speed, your brain runs at half speed, so you see it ticking forward at twice the rate, and 2.0 * 0.5 = 1.0 Consider changes in gravity affect cognition. Likewise, if the brain has any quantum mechanis
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by rl3 6y ago
The Black Mirror episode Hated in the Nation kind of touches on this.
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Nothing like figuring out a new branch of physics in seconds rather than decades.
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After watching it again I agree with you now. Either way, the pace of the cuts are still jarring. Interestingly some of the cuts do jump forward in time, but they zoom in on the same subject usually.
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by rl3 6y ago
> Jump cuts refer to when the filmmaker uses roughly the same frame size and jumps forward in time. I believe I was referring to that. YouTube content is notorious for them, and jump cuts are part of the lexicon in that space as a resul
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by rl3 6y ago
Upon viewing the product video[0], I immediately wondered whether anyone's studied the effects of aggressive jump cuts on child psychology. Turns out, they have! Kind of.[1] Personally I find jump cuts jarring if not repulsive, emblema
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by rl3 6y ago
I believe GP was referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
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by rl3 6y ago
But that stress is statistically irrational. Until you're the one that develops an incurable carcinoma, or has a child with horrific birth defects.
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> ... also I don't think they open source much. You could say that: https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
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by rl3 6y ago
This is where data-oriented design really shines, without even considering the excellent performance. It affords a purity in design very similar to what's achievable with functional programming. Granted, what you describe very much sou
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> MS just decided to give up their independent browser. I really don't think they're about to turn around and do it again. Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to constantly change its mind.
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Precisely.

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