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by talldayo 2y ago
Second worst hack. The worst one was when the FBI and NSA worked together to install the backdoors that China uses today, and then exploited them for warrentless surveillance for years without any significant criticism.
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by talldayo 2y ago
I don't know why I got flagged for identifying this as a shitcoin.
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by talldayo 2y ago
The fact that Bitcoin's blockchain is unusable without unofficial, unreliable and slow L2 chains is kinda evidence that it doesn't have much potential left. If you're a serious country considering using Bitcoin, why even us
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by talldayo 2y ago
Ah, the ultimate whataboutism. No, not like USD. That's actually somewhat the problem, and why KYC is pushed so hard despite being so unpopular.
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by talldayo 2y ago
Not all speculative assets are neccesarily securities. Bitcoin's value fluctuates in a way that makes it's store of value absolutely resemble a stock, albeit with fewer legal protections and guarantees.
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by talldayo 2y ago
Rockets are just really expensive. It's hard to get stuff into orbit cheaply, and even now I wouldn't be surprised if Starlink is a net-loss product for SpaceX still. Google's business strategy for the longest time has revo
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by talldayo 2y ago
> So we don't want to go to Mars or the moon in case we boost SpaceX? Maybe. The entire world came together to stop the Nazi regime just as they were on the cusp of spaceflight, it wouldn't be unprecedented to reject one man&#x
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by talldayo 2y ago
To be fair, "Russian lawlessness" is a concept that predates the entire nation of America, even between Russian authors. People immediately leap to accusations of corruption because the USSR and Russian Federation are both well kn
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by talldayo 2y ago
> Also better check if the UEFI firmware does understand the nice NVMe SSD brand, version that was bought. That's funny! I haven't heard of this being an issue since 2009. And back then, it was an issue with a select few manufa
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by talldayo 2y ago
But surely there was never any well-known whistleblower who had to seek political asylum after revealing a decades-spanning underground surveillance program deliberately hidden from American citizens to prevent distrust and outcry against t
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by talldayo 2y ago
I don't know if it's possible for iCloud's security to go any lower: https://www.xda-developers.com/icloud-windows-photos-from-st...
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by talldayo 2y ago
Privacy is something you give up for all online software. I give up privacy to use YouTube, search engines, Hacker News and even DNS. Unless you can show me the source code for Apple's implementation, I daresay they're forcing you
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by talldayo 2y ago
Apple's health obsession is going to go down as one of the least-hidden insecurities of modern business. "We know our business is predicated on the exploitation of worker health in countries where it's not protected, so we ne
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by talldayo 2y ago
"Ahh, you were at my side all along... my true mentor, my guiding moonlight..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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by talldayo 2y ago
Well shit, if Google's strategy was dreamed up by glue eaters then I'd hate to see the sorry sod that greenlit OpenAI's strategy. Something tells me a diet of glue and rocks wouldn't be enough to hallucinate something as
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by talldayo 2y ago
I honestly disagree. Google is the only FAANG member that has made AI features I actually consider helpful. Furthermore, I think their strategy is heads-and-shoulders above Microsoft and Apple, who are both desperately paying other busines
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by talldayo 2y ago
> If they would only actually open source their driver the community would have made their cards better than nvidia ones long ago. Software wise, maybe. But you can't change AMD's hardware with a magic wand, and that's whe
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by talldayo 2y ago
This is a weirdly obsessive narrative trying to paint Softbank as Intel's savior. Intel's main reason they can't compete is... that they don't sell enough low-margin smartphone chips and buy ARM IP? I don't see how
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by talldayo 2y ago
> (Hollywood/any cop tv show would have you believing the opposite) Hollywood and cop TV would have you believe that "zoom, enhance" is a legitimate means of surveillance. I suspect most educated Americans avoid framing th
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by talldayo 2y ago
> Sucks to really only have one valid option on Linux atm. I don't think that's a super fair shake? Intel iGPUs have been around for a while if you had a laptop chip or iGPU-enabled desktop chip. They've supported Linux ju
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by talldayo 2y ago
Considering how HN professedly struggles to use non-reversible cables, it wouldn't surprise me if someone started to complain about getting skillchecked by a Molex or SATA. And that CPU, with the little gold tab you gotta line up? That
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by talldayo 2y ago
Nvidia's monopoly is pretty much detached from price at this point. That's the entire reason why they can charge insane margins - nobody cares! There is not a single business squaring Nvidia up with serious intent to take down C
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by talldayo 2y ago
The TPU is not a GPU nor is it commercially available. It is a chip optimized around a limited featureset with a limited software layer on top of it. It's an impressive demonstration on Google's behalf to be sure, but it's al
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by talldayo 2y ago
Developers are tough, because we aren't lumberjacks or auto workers. We don't exist at a real physical bottleneck for employment that can force negotiations like a union can, and as white collar professionals we can generally be r
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by talldayo 2y ago
> And indeed that's exactly what will be required for any serious attempt to cut into their monopoly position. You misunderstand why and how Nvidia is a monopoly. Many companies make GPUs, and all those GPUs can be used for comput
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by talldayo 2y ago
Pat Gelsinger did not create VMware, and he is very obviously not responsible for Broadcom's actions as the present owner.
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by talldayo 2y ago
There's something richly ironic about calling your former self a sociopath. It's like a line you'd hear in a Mel Brooks movie.
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by talldayo 2y ago
> So, scolding is a type of manipulation that doesn't work, let's instead use this one, which does?.. Sure. If it was a for-profit product they would arrive at the exact same conclusion for the purposes of marketing. Any seriou
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by talldayo 2y ago
IBM didn't even have anti-BDS laws to follow at the time, they just willingly sold their product for the purposes of assisting a genocide. We don't actually know what Google's stance is, but we do know it would be illegal for
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by talldayo 2y ago
Promoting something you haven't built yet is kinda impossible. If you don't know what your product is capable of or what it will look like in the future, how are you supposed to logically convince users to consider your product?

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