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by rrdharan 7y ago
In Delaware on Route 1 if you follow this advice you are likely to get rear ended. They have traffic lights on a 50mph route that stay in yellow for a long time. I often find myself slowing down to a stop then awkwardly realizing I’m stoppe
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Is the reason all of this makes more sense than just building tracks and trains just the fact that there’s an evolutionary path to get there with incremental releases along the way? Because every time I hear this kind of thing I keep findin
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Little did we know, 5G didn't cause Covid but Covid will cause 5G...
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Kind of funny in this entire thread there's no one mentioning the posting for a job in Camrose that was on Hacker News only a few days ago: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200144575/software-engi...
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Wow, so now the nightclub line is a civil rights issue? This is an incredibly ignorant and offensive analogy.
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by rrdharan 7y ago
He played a pretty important role in convincing them not to acquire Slack, which was interesting: https://www.ccn.com/not-buying-slack-bill-gates-best-call-ev...
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by rrdharan 7y ago
IMO there isn't much of one, at least not enough for me to feel motivated to run Prime95 (the GIMPS client), but others may find the justifications here more convincing: https://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.ht
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Hooray - the inconvenience of local state with the inferior UX of a web app.
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Depends. AMT losses (from ISO exercise spreads and subsequent collapse) are separate and can't offset normal capital gains. That's what caused tons of pain for folks during the first bubble burst.
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by rrdharan 7y ago
That only makes sense if the total bribe outweighs the investment in building the credible alternative.
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Has he proven that? One successful toss (Alibaba), i.e. a sample size of 1, doesn’t really prove anything does it?
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by rrdharan 7y ago
So does Chrome, and even Safari used to be able to do this via extensions until very recently. I would assume the parent poster wants something richer than a single substitution though?
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Most core Windows APIs are C APIs, the only stuff that requires C++ AFAIK are things like ATL and MFC which are just (very thick) wrappers..
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by rrdharan 7y ago
The author speculates this as well in the article: > Maybe this strategy is similar to how the Nigerian scammers work: put some obvious errors in the text, anybody that misses those is probably well worth the time invested and those that
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Mutation is a thing.
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by rrdharan 7y ago
I think you meant "rip the battery out"?
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by rrdharan 7y ago
I believe it’s less black and white than that - all of these organizations have both offensive and defensive priorities and sometimes choose to disclose exploits publicly after calculating their remaining value. See e.g. https://
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by rrdharan 7y ago
> Device theft isn't that big of an issue. On what basis are you making this claim? At least for phones, activation locks had a noticeable impact on reducing device theft (which was rampant for a while earlier in the smartphone era
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Funny how much this comment is revealing about the nature of bias in how crime is treated and the accused are prosecuted. "This guy doesn't seem like a criminal" is misleading and revealing of all kinds of inherit biases an
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Seems kind of funny and sad given how much fanfare and money was associated with them, that in both TFA and this entire discussion, no one has mentioned genius.com ( http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Why did you stop using this scanner setup?
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Doesn’t QT belong on your list? Or am I missing something?
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by rrdharan 7y ago
> QEMU... has a pretty good security record That's an interesting and I would argue, contrarian take? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/30/google_cloud_kicked... "QEMU has a long track record
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Since I wasn't sure who this was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Morozov
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Wow. For anyone else who missed this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-botches...
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by rrdharan 7y ago
That’s a surprising expectation given that they funded and created the Internet.
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by rrdharan 7y ago
> Why, despite that fact, are no mass murders committed with machine guns? Because it’s cheaper and easier to get and use a bump stock? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting
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by rrdharan 7y ago
I don’t believe this is accurate - Aurora has maintenance windows: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
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by rrdharan 7y ago
Turns out most of us enjoy any exchange in which we receive goods whose value far exceeds what we pay for them. Same reason I love cheap ride share trips[1] and NYC ferry rides[2]. I'd probably really enjoy winning the mega millions ja
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by rrdharan 7y ago
You said "half of the people.. would be making significantly more" and then proceeded with further grouping. I assume the subgrouping applies to that same half? The other half of folks are quite successful hedge fund, private equi

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