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by tal8d 7y ago
Technology is the application of scientific knowledge, so you've got a tautology there. That said: Capacitance Electronic Disc.
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> The majority of people don't live in the U.S. Now that is not an argument. The majority of people don't <insert nearly anything>. The net did pretty well under American stewardship. Sure there was Tipper Gore, but every
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> I guess shipping Windows API cargo crates makes too much sense. Does anyone have any context for gaps in Rust they are addressing? I haven't finished digging through the OP, but it looks like a bunch of Microsoft employees (alread
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Yeah, we've seen this play out where rules are made explicit. Think of all the people who want to speed, but know that they can avoid tickets by driving no faster than the posted limits!
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Good thing illumos implemented the CoC a few weeks ago, we wouldn't want anyone to miss out on the cancel culture! https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T89a037970789a...
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https://www.warrensmemeteam.com/home "️Wagons: Run Warren Wagons, our answer to Trump Trains, to increase network strength." wow, the stupidity of that is hard to explain... it seems like the product of a cargo cu
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> The only advantage signal has is a conservative interface and small userbase. Signal is open source, WhatsApp is not. So how did you determine Signal has only one advantage over WhatsApp, without access to the WhatsApp source code?
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Nothing has ever not happened more than this. Since almost none of it can be corroborated, and CNN's investigative journalism does little to inspire confidence, we can only check for internal consistency. There is none. It appears that
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It sounds like you missed the show, because I don't know how anyone who watched it realtime could forget the comical cycle of Greenwald releasing enough to draw out Clapper for a denial, followed by another release proving Clapper a li
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Try harder: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/alloc/trait.GlobalAlloc.html#t... You can implement your own global allocator, use an existing crate, or (in the case of user applications) use the system's. That is
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This hypothetical 21st century National Socialist German Workers' Party would likely be a little more subtle than blatantly enforcing existing immigration law. They'd obviously be interested in establishing a common enemy, even if
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That is the point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orteig_Prize
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It is actually a pretty long list of resulting changes. I'll describe a couple: The German government became very interested in open source firmware, I've heard talk of RFPs requiring it from vendors - which compels vendors to put
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And this is why the morning of the Snowden leaks will always be a fond memory for me. Anybody with experience in the kinetic aspects of the USG, who also had a solid understanding of what is technologically feasible, knew about that mass s
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> We even use SSNs for identification! Funny you should mention that in your call for caution against black pilling. When SS was proposed there was massive popular outcry against serializing citizens with a federally assigned number. T
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Oh I miss the good old days when we were fighting things like the clipper chip and weaponized algorithms. Now it is all about the data, which is much more difficult to rally people around. Anybody else remember the time the Office of Perso
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For some dark comedy, look into NIST and their resistance to the release of their biometric software purpose built for the FBI. The solution they have since found is the purchase of COTS with contracts explicitly denying any kind of ownersh
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TwitterServer, generating templates from which servers at Twitter are built(github.com)
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> Don’t see why anyone would object to removal of Neo nazi content yet go along with the removal of wahabi sermons. Setting aside the fact that this culling has nothing to do with Neo nazi content... maybe islamic extremism is a greater
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Maybe. I have no doubt that cryptocurrency use will be common, primarily because it will be necessary in a world dominated by software agents that can't rely on meatspace money, but I'm starting to wonder about likelihood of the
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> ...but with alternative-media sites rising... That should be happening, but isn't - not to the degree it naturally would. Debanking. Payment processors have been very busy weeding out potential competitors to the big names in SV