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by starwind 4y ago
Identities and financial information is worth stealing. People, before you go nuts securing your computers routers and phones, talk to your doctors office about adding additional security to your medical records and freeze or add fraud aler
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by starwind 4y ago
I worked at a cable company for a while and the guy who sat behind me managed gigabit connection roll outs. He always told the techs in the field to use fast.com because it was the only one they could rely on. He knew the cable company prio
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by starwind 4y ago
Hmm, interesting. I didn't know that
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by starwind 4y ago
> so the mechanics failed but the electrical part still worked. Electric cars use brake-by-wire. Push on brakes, computer processes signal, computer applies brakes. Glitch somewhere in that system
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by starwind 4y ago
> I don’t see how this benefits society in any way. It sends a message to those would otherwise help North Korea (or Russia or Iran) of "don't violate sanctions."
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by starwind 4y ago
Just 5 mph too slow :/
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by starwind 4y ago
> What if he did the exact same presentation in youtube, and in NK they saw that presentation? If it was general information about how Blockchain can be used to evade sanctions, it would probably be fine as long as he was reporting how i
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by starwind 4y ago
Robert Jackson, Supreme Court justice and lead prosecutor at Nuremberg: "any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances"
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by starwind 4y ago
From Coindesk: > Judge Castel read a series of text messages and emails from Griffith in which the defendant admits to sharing information with North Korea for the express purpose of helping the repressive Kim regime evade sanctions. ht
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by starwind 4y ago
You're 85 percent of the way there with 2FA and a credit freezes and the monitoring. The SSA lets you set up an online account. It's a good idea to do this before some tries to do it in your name—that scenario is probably unlikely
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by starwind 4y ago
You can go a step further. Use a computer vision algorithm to find planets, and then do some spectroscopy to identify planets with water in their atmosphere. Course correct to aim at one of those planets
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by starwind 4y ago
This is pretty popular from Karpathy https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/
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by starwind 5y ago
I wouldn't say Roberts's arguments are splitting hairs, I'd say he's turning the whole thing around and saying Putin interpreted every Western action in the worst light possible, Russia decided that Ukraine was its domai
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by starwind 5y ago
Yeah, the definition of a cold war is that the two parties don't come directly to blows. But I feel like there needs to be a credible challenge, and Russia's military is today light years ahead of where they were when they invaded
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by starwind 5y ago
Eh, I can see where you're coming from but Russia wasn't a serious challenger in the 2000s—their military was a complete mess until the end of the 2000s, and even then they didn't perform that well in Georgia, that's why
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by starwind 5y ago
I've never found Mearsheimer's arguments on Ukraine all that convincing. I really liked Adam Roberts succinct take down in the Economist a couple weeks ago. I know Roberts doesn't address all Mearsheimer's points, but he
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by starwind 5y ago
The Second Cold War started up around 2010 and it just turned hot. I doubt it will turn into WW3 but this isn't the last proxy war the US and Russia will fight. How do you cope? If you're like me and sleep better with fewer unknow
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by starwind 5y ago
> Everything else is based on some imagined harm that might or might not come to you or some other imaginary person at some point in the future. They threatened to report this to a credit rating agency. At any given time it's probab
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The Case for the US ICBM Force [pdf](airuniversity.af.edu)
3 points by starwind 5y ago|0 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
As I am an educated man, I'll take H.L. Mencken's advice and not take my opinion from his crusading in the Baltimore Sun. So I'll cede my entire political worldview to the Economist. Nice to scratch one big thing off my to do
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by starwind 5y ago
yeah nearly every time they refresh you see a red box exclamation point and "Heads up.." in the top right
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US tested hypersonic missile in mid-March(cnn.com)
2 points by starwind 5y ago|0 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
I have the 14inch M1 Pro MBP with 32gb of Ram and the 10-core CPU with the 16-core GPU and 500mb of storage and it's fantastic. I drive one 27in 4k 60hz monitor off the HDMI and it's great for everything except gaming. Compile tim
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by starwind 5y ago
You too can achieve nuclear fusion! https://makezine.com/projects/nuclear-fusor/ And just like everyone else, you'll suck up a lot more energy than you'll produce
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by starwind 5y ago
I love my S10e but it's probably the last Android I own cause--to your point--everything else is just too big
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by starwind 5y ago
> is it career suicide to take 3-6 months or more off of “official” work? Absolutely not. And if you worry about it, there's not law that says you have to put months down for when you worked. Years are sufficient and that will easi
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by starwind 5y ago
And no strategy can really deal with that beyond "prevent them for acquiring the means"
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by starwind 5y ago
> they'll do everything they can to deny you medical benefits for injuries suffered in basic training I know of a guy who got run over by a speeding MP during Basic and had his leg broken in like 3 places. The guy who got run over g
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by starwind 5y ago
the sentence from wikipedia definitely needs more context
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by starwind 5y ago
MAD sets ups a lose-lose scenario. No one wins if they fire nuclear weapons so, theoretically, no one would fire nuclear weapons

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