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by shasheene 6y ago
Oh, I hadn't realized your question was paraphrasing a quote made famous during the 1950s
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by shasheene 6y ago
Don't insinuate shilling ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). If you read that comment again with more care you'll see it's not at all whataboutism (the "What about America doing xyz"
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by shasheene 6y ago
You are being downvoted, maybe because Citizen Lab has already investigated Zoom before: https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto... That report is one of the reasons why Zoom has such a poor r
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by shasheene 6y ago
Also not yet possible to install a snap using a chroot yet : https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1609903 (the bug has been open for 3 years). Chroots are a key mechanism to building any customized Linux image.
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by shasheene 7y ago
The choice is not between the United States and China. It's between Sweden (Ericsson), Finland (Nokia) and China (Huawei).
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by shasheene 7y ago
Huawei is in large part built upon technology stolen from Cisco and Canada's Nortel Networks. In the latter case, there is strong evidence China was able to maintain access to Nortel's internal networks for over a decade (!!) whic
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by shasheene 7y ago
Change in relative GDP is a very weak argument. A massive productivity boom in other nations (via the Industrial Revolution) doesn't necessary effect a nation's existing production (except when workers they are placed out of work
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by shasheene 7y ago
As part of the exact employment contract, a researcher's work may be patented by the institute they work for (with the researcher being remunerated for this). Biomedical patents are not trivial software patents. Billions of dollars of
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by shasheene 7y ago
I was hoping it was carefully written enough to not be flagged. I think it's an important debate for the technology community to work through. I do recognize it's a sensitive issue especially (with the risk of racism if not handle
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by shasheene 7y ago
As far as China at its historical peak goes, the sentiment I was trying to express is the PRC's goal is for China to regain the world's most powerful nation and the worlds most powerful military with all nations recognizing this a
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by shasheene 7y ago
The risks of working with Chinese state-owned enterprises are well known. The risks of working with private companies (large and small) in China are are also great with CCP "party cells" officially embedded into at least half of p
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by shasheene 7y ago
There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realisti
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by shasheene 7y ago
This refers to the CIVICUS Monitor rankings. See the interactive world map: https://monitor.civicus.org/
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by shasheene 7y ago
"Tesla Cybertruck (pressurized edition) will be official truck of Mars" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1197627433970589696
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by shasheene 7y ago
Here's the timestamp of the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw&t=7m22s
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by shasheene 7y ago
Comparing Uigher concentration camps to Nazi Germany is valid and accurate, not a frivolous example of Godwin's law. Your comment has a lot of whataboutism that isn't relevant to the discussion. I'll mention that US president
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by shasheene 7y ago
It suprises me that intelligent, reasonable people like Andrew Ng and Sam Altman were willing to help develop and invest in the Chinese Communist Party's AI/ML capabilities helping to create an authoritarian surveillance state use
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by shasheene 7y ago
This is great news. After a decade of stagnation [1], an exploit that in theory allows Linux (and Android) to be ported to iPhone, iPads, Apple Watches, and I believe, Apple TV. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpeniBo
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by shasheene 7y ago
Facebook's realistic VR avatar research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCB_mfGmh9w&t=1h47m12s
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by shasheene 7y ago
Facebook Horizon was announced at Oculus Connect Day 1 keynote yesterday. I highly recommend people checkout Michael Abrash's keynote discussing some jaw dropping "social teleportation" research: https://www.youtub
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by shasheene 7y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention it here, but this concept is known as a "terrarium". There have been terrariums that have been sealed for 50+ years and are still thriving.
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by shasheene 7y ago
Slightly tweaked the above, in case anyone is interested. Copy the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-block-device-history-rules: > SUBSYSTEM=="block",ENV{DEVTYPE}=="disk", RUN+="/usr&#x2F
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by shasheene 7y ago
Yeah, here's a one-line udev rule to log USB removal and insertion into the journal. > $ echo 'SUBSYSTEMS=="block", RUN+="/usr/bin/logger --tag=block-device-history -- %E{ACTION} | %E{DEVNAME} | %E
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by shasheene 7y ago
> it was well before my time and the graphics just didn't work for me. Older now, and I feel like I can appreciate this game now and overlook the old graphics As mentioned on the featured article, Zelda: Link's Awakening is bei
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by shasheene 7y ago
On the merits of the lawsuit, after reading the whole district court filing [1], the core allegation is that the 'Nreal Light' is based on Magic Leap's unproductized internal designs produced "after extensive investment
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by shasheene 7y ago
You may not be aware of the great talk titled "Modchips of the State" [1] (presented at 35C3 in Dec 2018). The speaker managed to reproduce the exact single-chip hardware implant attack suggested in the Oct 2018 Bloomberg Business
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by shasheene 7y ago
The article reports on the lawsuit, but is light on details about the headset. Tested recently did a 10 minute review on this headset, the 'Nreal Light' [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9A9u-lwjTs Regardless o
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by shasheene 7y ago
I've played quite a bit with the Oculus DK1, GearVR, Oculus CV1 and the Oculus Go, and after 2 weeks of usage I can say the Oculus Quest is much better than any of them. Low barriers to putting the headset on and immediately walking
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by shasheene 8y ago
Carefully constructing a household network topology and being disciplined with separate physical machines appears to be a strong mitigation. But will your colleagues who play competitive online games be willing to buy a separate machine use
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by shasheene 8y ago
Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games, which develops the incredibly popular Fortnite Battle Royale computer game. Epic Games happens to also develop the influential tool Unreal Engine, which is used widely throughout industry to produce interacti

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