skynet-9000

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by skynet-9000 6y ago
I'd like to take a moment and refute these silly arguments that I made. > You are forgetting that DRM stopped all that piracy that bankrupted the movie industry. That's also why there were so few movies released in the last 15
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
True. :) but adding /s is not as much fun, especially on April 1st.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
A new Java application? Java is getting pretty long in the tooth. You might be better off building on top of Go or Rust, especially for those specific scenarios (Go in particular was designed to build network services.)
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Or k3s ( https://k3s.io ), which is Rancher's awesome and lightweight Kubernetes distribution.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
You are forgetting that DRM stopped all that piracy that bankrupted the movie industry. That's also why there were so few movies released in the last 15 months or so. It really debunks that myth that open source software could ever han
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
This only applies to the first request until the cache expires. If a client makes 50 requests before the cache expires, then those will all be based on the cached result. This is still efficient enough that there's probably no more tha
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
I watched a documentary about an attempt at this, and it almost started global thermonuclear war! Here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
You might want to build some rate limiting into your lambda as well!
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> Twitter systematically allows illegal behavior like parler did. Does this sound libelous to you, and do you have evidence supporting this? Even AWS's response didn't allege Parler "systematically allowed illegal behavior
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> If you’re not flaunting ToS,... you should be fine. https://aws.amazon.com/aup/ : You may not use, or encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to use, the Services.. for any.. offensive use, or to transmit
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Isn't that part of the charm? ;) You can call them or email them for details ( http://www.myatari.com/atariord.htm ), or check out their Ebay store: http://www.ebaystores.com/Atari-Sales-and-Service/
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
These use Ethereum, not Bitcoin, and ETH is usually mined with GPUs, not CPUs. This isn't overly relevant to your point, since it probably doesn't matter too much in terms of power consumption per unit of work; GPUs consume huge a
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
My first Atari was a 130XE. I now have 800XL's and a couple more XE's, but my favorite case design is still the XE. It just always seemed like a futuristic case to me, while the XL beige case kinda felt more like the previous era.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> if unions hadn't existed, you'd still be slaving away 6 days a week (minimum), 10 hours a day, your children would be working instead of going to school and everything labor related would certainly have been worse. This is no
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> a great deal of the benefit of salt comes from friction as cars drive over it You may have never tossed a handful of rock salt on steps that have a quarter-inch of ice on them and watch holes actually form in the ice within a half hour
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
who owns any of those companies? the shareholders. are they treated any better? the issue is the spectrum auctions.. a new carrier can't even get off the ground, even if they were willing to fight through the morass of local and compet
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
that's what socialism is (well, if they're govt controlled or effectively govt controlled). real capitalism encourages competition, and real entrepreneurs try to discourage it and gain an effective monopoly. that tension is part o
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Their prepaid plan is only $25/mo w/ 8gb lte when prepaid the year in advance. That's wayyy cheaper than any of the other big players, and their network/coverage is supposed to be better than t-mobile (and almost as good
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Incorrect title. Nothing in the title about workers elsewhere being inspired. Wapo title: Amazon fights aggressively to defeat union drive in Alabama, fearing a coming wave Subtitle: Amazon’s relentless push to beat back a union drive among
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
"All" the foods you buy? This is a seriously clickbaity headline and not even what the Oxfam source material claims. (It would be slightly more correct if it said, "All the junk food you buy in the grocery store")
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
In that case, the rights of the (private) service provider are in tension with those of the (also private) individual, so it's a matter for legislation and the courts. Congress has passed laws protecting the speech of the individual wi
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
You can say anything you want, as long as you do not infringe on my rights, such as by consuming my resources (time, telecom services, fax paper, etc) when I explicitly said not to (via a Do Not Call listing, etc.) It's similar to a No
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> Swartz never created a social media platform nor had to make decisions on how to moderate user generated content across millions of users. He is credited as a co-founder of Reddit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aar
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Things change; the liberal become illiberal. Twitter used to be "the free speech wing of the free speech party"[0] The American left used to stand up and fight for free speech. Only eight years ago, the ACLU defended the KKK in co
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Why does an air filter need wifi?
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> Don't pretend any other country have as much surveillance capability as the US does. The level of surveillance in Xinjiang vastly exceed that of anywhere else in the world except for military installations.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
mitigations? you mean exploits?
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
Agreed. This is the "Francis Bacon" I was expecting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
> Apple prioritise the user at the expense of the developer. I think this is the right balance. Not for the developer.
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by skynet-9000 6y ago
We always use interns to do security critical work -- the less experience, the better. We also have exacting security standards, and a Critical Password Policy, since there are no non-critical passwords. Critical Password Policy Rule 1: All

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