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by sverige 8y ago
> However, sometimes knowing the agents of a corp well on a personal level can help in that process. Exactly right. For example, there have been many stories here of people who are able to get a form of customer service from Google becau
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by sverige 8y ago
One time in the 80s I took a date to a sushi place in Santa Monica. We ate, talked, had a nice time. When I went to pay, David Byrne was sitting right by the cash register. I'm sure he saw that I recognized him when we locked eyes very
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by sverige 8y ago
Nope, Sweden dropped the case. https://www-m.cnn.com/2017/05/19/europe/julian-assange-swede...
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Thirty Years On, How Well Do Global Warming Predictions Stand Up?(wsj.com)
10 points by sverige 8y ago|3 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
It reminds me of the old "IT employee gets revenge" stories that were so popular ten or twenty years ago.
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Dragonfly commit: Kernel – Additional cpu bug hardening part 1/2(marc.info)
1 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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More Mitigations for (potential) CPU Vulnerabilities(undeadly.org)
1 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
I'm sure it burns just like regular lithium-ion batters.[0] The addition of FeF3 probably doesn't change the correct response to the hazards much -- put out the fire if you know how to safely do so with the proper personal protec
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by sverige 8y ago
Actually, Big Pharma happened. And it was the left who argued that asylums were inhumane, more than the right arguing that it was too expensive. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was a real agent of change in how people thoug
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by sverige 8y ago
Plus, none of us have any family members who can tell stories of the people he killed.
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by sverige 8y ago
My point is really that no one calls their opponents 'Stalin' or 'Commies' the same way people in America tend to call others 'Hitler' or 'Nazis,' which is surprising, given the enormity of the crimes
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Bird is the fastest startup ever to reach a $1B valuation(qz.com)
50 points by sverige 8y ago|60 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
'more' still works on OpenBSD, but funnily enough it's just 'less' in disguise. https://man.openbsd.org/more
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by sverige 8y ago
More or less.
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by sverige 8y ago
I still pause to remember that I have to type 'if=' and 'of=' and 'bs=' instead of just remembering the order of arguments.
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by sverige 8y ago
Plus all the good one character commands were already taken by the standard text editor, ed(1). It would have caused confusion.
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by sverige 8y ago
Stalin's propaganda was even effective in the U.S. He really deserves to be at the top of the list when evil leaders are discussed. Yes, Hitler was awful, but Stalin was far worse. But saying so often draws only criticism. That's
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No one is opening those emails about privacy updates(cnbc.com)
42 points by sverige 8y ago|27 comments
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'Am I in the bad part of town?'(m.sfgate.com)
30 points by sverige 8y ago|16 comments
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IQ Scores Are Declining and the Environment Is to Blame, Study Finds(sacramento.cbslocal.com)
1 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
Not the greatest quality video, but interesting content as Theo de Raadt discusses an undisclosed Intel FPU bug or bugs, speculation on what the bug or bugs might be, NDAs, the correct response to preserve security. Sparks fly.
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BSDCan: Theo de Raadt speculates on new undisclosed Intel bug [video](youtube.com)
38 points by sverige 8y ago|2 comments
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by sverige 8y ago
I agree, they are more likely to become conservative if they follow that route.
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by sverige 8y ago
I used to use Excel's RNG to determine random winners for various drawings at work, including such momentous things as shift bid winners when there were more otherwise equally positioned people than available slots for a specific shift
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by sverige 8y ago
Yes, it is the best OS for security, and the audits have gone on for the duration of the project.
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by sverige 8y ago
Actually, they do get paid by the word.
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by sverige 8y ago
Interestingly enough, many rural communities in the Midwest have been soundly rejecting wind farms, and some have voted down solar farms. The real problem with agriculture these days have been caused by subsidizing industrial production of
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by sverige 8y ago
Land is far from zero cost in Colorado. Assuming these solar farms would go on the eastern plains rather than in the even less productive (but more expensive) land in the mountains, it is true that much of that land can support only sparse
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by sverige 8y ago
Pretty ancient stuff to bring up, especially in this context. Here's the last denial I recall by one of the people accused of planting backdoors in OpenBSD. Note the date. https://www.itworld.com/article/2744922&#x
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by sverige 8y ago
Oh, the irony of defending Google and Facebook's right to protect anonymity!

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