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by s_q_b 10y ago
This was the one flaw in the otherwise excellent FBI and Pennsylvania Attorney General investigations. They never should have allowed the number of jointly tried cases that they did. They used joint prosecution as a tactic, combining lesser
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This occurred a few miles away from where I grew up. My mother's former law partner is the President Judge of the county, and another partner at her firm was appointed to fill one of the vacancies left open on the county bench. Both we
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I prefer flexible arrangements to full remote work. Some days one needs face time or in-person collaboration. Some days one needs silence and long stretches of uninterrupted thought for coding.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
My grandfather's car burst into flames in downtown Manhattan. Although, as with other rare but very bad events, humans are very bad at evaluating the relative risks. For example, you're far more likely to be killed driving a perfe
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I imagine that such vulnerabilities would be passed to US-CERT, without attribution.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Ah, the benefits of not having to listen to shareholders. SpaceX can take long term bets, for example moving capital into exploratory programs including the proposed Mars missions, without having to justify it by profit.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
It can be, for example with tumblers, CoinJoin implementations, or conversion to cash at a willing financial institution. However, none of those avenues are reliable for someone facing a sophisticated global adversary.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Anyone who did even cursory research on Bitcoin would know that it's trivially traceable when redeemed.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This reeks of misdirection. Nobody could be both smart enough to hack Equation Group and dumb enough to think that they could just cash out through bitcoin and walk away.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
We thought pulsars were alien transmissions for a while.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
A good rover would keep going. A good rover like they wanted. Did I do a good job? Do I get to come home?... Guys?...... https://xkcd.com/695/
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Every Year on August 5th, the Curiosity Rover Sings a Lonely Birthday Song(curiosity.com)
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Fully agreed. Your comment was a fair question for clarification of what I meant by "curriculum". I thought I answered it fairly by clarifying that I meant topics generally covered by most universities in their in algorithms and d
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I'm speaking more of generalized educational practice than standardized curricula.
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I have. My conclusion is that your assertion is incorrect. That is why I asked for a citation. Edit in Reply: I would like you to cite gold-standard scientifically verified evidence, not "common knowledge." As far as I know, insul
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> There is more and more agreement that obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and dementia are all in the end manifestations of various forms of metabolic issues, most prevalent of which is (frequently undiagnosed) insulin resis
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by s_q_b 10y ago
PDF viewers, browsers, web servers, office products, and mobiles are very common targets for exploit development. However, most vulnerabilities in these applications are simply too valuable to announce to the world. They are generally purch
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Bloom filters are beautiful and highly underutilized. I used a Bloom filter in an interview and they looked at me like it was some form of arcane sorcery. Isn't this standard in algorithms and data structures courses? Does anyone know
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Tor isn't designed for UDP. There are workarounds to tunnel UDP, but they're fragile and not suitable for production.
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There's also the fact that China is not as burdened by legacy infrastructure and business models. For example, consider high speed rail in California. Due to the existing rail system, the marginal increase in economic benefit gained by
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Yes, it's well established. See below, in subsection dealing with activities within the United States. https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockC...
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by s_q_b 10y ago
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, we frequently heard the term moral hazard. The reason why bailout money couldn't be used to restructure underlying mortgage debt directly, we were told, is that individual consumers would see
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The CIA's statutory mandate is limited to foreign intelligence. Virtually everything the CIA does within US borders is illegal.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Do you have another solution to achieve these goals? One that doesn't involve the interests of a nation?
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The end products of a powerful navy are openness of the sea for commerce, protection of international peace, and national security. Intelligence, when gathered in accordance with the law, is an invaluable resource in producing those end pro
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Okay, but you'll have to be willing to give up the following: agriculture, power generation (both fossil and renewable), housing, clothing, and shelter. Almost all industrial scale processes, including building your house, endanger a
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Scan the QR code hand-drawn in Elliot's notebook.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Fethullah Gulen is a Turkish Islamic religious leader in exile in the Poconos, founder of a movement called Hizmat, an Islamic offshoot, also known as Gulen. Gulen's followers represent a large portion of Turkey's police and atto
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's trite. Your argument is essentially "engineers at steel plants make steel, which can be used to make guns, which can be used to kill." At some point, the chain of causality is so remote that assigning unequivocal judgm
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Idealized spherical cows in a vacuum reduce to idealized spherical chickens in a vacuum if you work out the math ;)

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