rphlx

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by rphlx 9y ago
I still think it's fair to question why it takes so long to deploy new transportation tech in the US. In many parts of Asia the rollout of something like PTC probably would have taken months rather than 10+ years (the act requiring it
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by rphlx 9y ago
The GP is simply wrong on many/most of its technical claims. ACPI implementations were common for 4+ years before the ME existed. The ME is not involved in DRAM refresh or initialization at all (other than waiting for it to complete..)
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by rphlx 9y ago
A cynic, and, perhaps, a realist could consider their motivation to be fairly similar to that of a private blackhat attempting to purge foreign malware on hosts that they own, or may want to own. Exclusive control being always preferable
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by rphlx 9y ago
Nope, you mostly devalue existing claims which is - depending on your perspective - either a nice feature or a glaring bug.
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by rphlx 9y ago
> Stocks very rarely come back from 70-80% declines, unless the stock is Amazon or similar. FWIW Bitcoin has already come back from a >85% decline at least twice, if you use intra-day data.
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by rphlx 9y ago
And that's precisely the problem that an immutable issuance schedule, like Bitcoin's, attempts to solve (fairly successfully so far). It prevents either of those 2 sides from unilaterally manipulating the currency supply to rob th
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by rphlx 9y ago
My understanding is that in general under current law a US citizen cannot be held in contempt or put in prison indefinitely for failing to disclose a password. The 5th ammendment protection there is not entirely void, but it can be void u
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by rphlx 9y ago
I would strongly disagree with that characterization. The bank note system - the major form of private money - worked reasonably well for centuries in Europe, evolving into the check clearing systems that virtually every first-world nation
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by rphlx 9y ago
> dropping bombs on brown people. That's the vast majority of where the money goes. Military spending is about 7% of the Federal budget. But roughly 50% is used for social transfer payments, which is - to keep your phrasing - a net
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by rphlx 9y ago
The problem is that "recent" seems to mean <3 years old, and often, <2 years old. But there are still millions of active Galaxy S3s, S4s, S5s, etc.
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by rphlx 9y ago
It is, arguably, pretty broken even in some closed-source arenas. For instance if your objective is to have the IEEE first define thorough, carefully reviewed standards which are then closely and widely implemented throughout an entire indu
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by rphlx 9y ago
I really doubt the problem is "nobody there understands the theory". More likely, as a large public company with considerable presales and aggressive public commitments, the ops people are probably being pressured to "just pu
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by rphlx 9y ago
> ... no obvious way to tell which is the One True Chain. One obvious way - whether you agree with it or not - is to use hashrate. It's quite unlikely that both chains will have a nearly-equal hashrate for a sustained period of time
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by rphlx 9y ago
The real concern here is not loss of thrust, but rather, what other parts of the airframe are seriously damaged or destroyed by the debris. In the accident record I believe there is precedent for separated engine parts seriously damaging wi
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by rphlx 9y ago
It's interesting to watch how Apple marketing - at least on some products - has become increasingly technical over time. It was certainly rarer to see them explaining the intricacies of a file system - the cost of retrieving the size o
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by rphlx 9y ago
It's possible to build a lineageos ROM from source, mostly. There are still some binary blobs and it's true that virtually no one has the time to rigorously audit the entire source tree themselves anyway, but technically you do no
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by rphlx 9y ago
That's certainly true and I do wish they would move to a non-animal-based sensor to reduce that vuln.
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by rphlx 9y ago
I think there is a significant difference in extent. There are certainly many cases where US corp media lays obediently in the government's lap, but there are also some crucial cases where it was majorly non-compliant - TV coverage of
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by rphlx 9y ago
Their use of drug dogs is a critical factor that should be mentioned there.. once a car's flagged by a dog, there is probable cause for a further search federally and in most states. So for better or worse I believe their actions were
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by rphlx 9y ago
One major problem with state-owned centralized media, in my opinion, is that objectivity usually degrades into propaganda whenever that's seriously requested by a senior government official, e.g. in times of war. IIRC the BBC was not a
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by rphlx 9y ago
> a society with no control over (certain) information is one which is more vulnerable to control by bad actors. Centralized (state and/or corporate) control over information is itself an incredible asset to bad actors. Goebbels et
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by rphlx 9y ago
They don't use the SSN to check for prior IDs issued by other states and/or the Feds, and compare the applicant's photo/gender/age/height/eye color, etc to them first?
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by rphlx 9y ago
The thief would have to physically resemble the victim's photo, height, age, gender, etc, which is some added defense in depth. For instance it would be hard for most males to pass themselves off as a typical female.
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by rphlx 9y ago
I am surprised this flight was approved and permitted by airline, government, and insurer procedures... the risk/reward looks exceptionally poor, as the storm could amplify a normally-moderate, manageable mechanical failure into a situ
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by rphlx 9y ago
I agree with your broader point but The Guardian is a consistently far-left, pro-large(r)-government publication, so it actually doesn't take much for them to publish something like this; the suggestion is right up their alley.
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by rphlx 9y ago
The high ER "tail latencies" effect almost everyone in the US, UK, etc, at least everyone that's not hyper-rich enough to proactively retain dedicated private doctor(s) with high-end private facilities that can handle everyth
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by rphlx 9y ago
> Gains in instructions-per-clock start to flatten out. And that's where the gains were coming from in the last years. This is commonly claimed but it's actually false for x86_64 desktop parts. For a single core scalar integer
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by rphlx 9y ago
Well, there's a large middle ground between "little Jimmy's raspi's 4GB sdcard' and 'VISA's multi-PB datacenter'. While there is certainly centralization pressure on mining, I do not agree that 8MB bl
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by rphlx 9y ago
There is at least one viable theory that says that by removing the risk of an "even bigger problem" (malicious rollbacks and double spends caused by warring miners battling over a single chain, etc), and by allowing all camps to p
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by rphlx 9y ago
Obviously I won't condone everything they do, and internal corruption remains an issue (as we've seen with Bitcoin..), but US LE - at least at the federal level - is certainly not stupid. They have a level of strategic, tactical a

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