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by themafia 6mo ago
ICL is the 6th largest company producing Bromine. The US, China and India are also large producers. Why do I feel like every war is an opportunity to create artificial scarcity?
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by themafia 6mo ago
There was a lot of low hanging fruit at the advent of the internet. A few rich kids with some decent vision moved in and solved those problems. They then confused the ease of operating within this landscape with actual business acumen. No
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by themafia 6mo ago
> convergence to the mean That's a funny way of saying "race to the bottom." > The internet does that but it feels different with this How does "the internet do that?" What force on the internet naturally bri
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by themafia 6mo ago
> It is pathological that we keep attacking me and Automattic who have by any measure given the most. "I'm so self important I've decided I get to order you to do illogical things." Some people see leadership as a res
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by themafia 6mo ago
Sue them out of existence then.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Profits generated by AI: <not graphed> The absence speaks volumes.
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by themafia 6mo ago
> any website can now not only log that the traffic originated from org A, but specifically from org A, workstation N. GeoIP databases and Cookies exist. So I'm not sure how your threat profile has increased here. > I wonder, is
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by themafia 6mo ago
> It didn’t take 25 years for SSL. It wasn't even on the map until 1994. Prior to that it was an ad-hoc mess of "encryption" standards. It wasn't even important enough to become ubiquitous until Firesheep existed. E
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by themafia 6mo ago
inet_pton/inet_ntop handle AF_INET6.
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by themafia 6mo ago
It's just one firewall rule at the border to block all inbound traffic to a subnet or a range unless related to an outbound connection. Now you have identical security to a NAT. The huge win is you can forget about port forwarding an
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by themafia 6mo ago
> The main reason for IPv6, and its only real reason for existence, was bigger addresses. Which also allowed for better route aggregation in the core BGP tables. Better node mobility support. Better multicast support. Genuine link loca
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by themafia 6mo ago
> and spoof keyboard input That's because we had terminal side macros. They were awesome in the 1980s.
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by themafia 6mo ago
The military does not survey the population and then select the fittest. So, as a function, it cannot actually perform as you say. It's the same with F1. "We have the best drivers in the world!" You have the best drivers
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by themafia 6mo ago
> the starry-eyed "free web"/"open data" idealists. I love it when the people who just want to use technology to benefit humanity as a whole are dimly regarded as "starry-eyed idealists." > because i
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by themafia 6mo ago
"It says x on the side of the tin. Why would you expect to find x when you open it?"
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by themafia 6mo ago
> You do it because you're trying to help the people using google. Who are all _super_ interested in "Top 10 Ways to make a summer Mojito."
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by themafia 6mo ago
> "there's a baby driving" Why does your baby need internet? > We do want a way to signal there's a kid driving a device. Which is extremely irresponsible. It creates a false sense of security and abandons your ch
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by themafia 6mo ago
I had sort of hoped our Democracy would afford for a more effective approach. If you find those generals so onerous why don't you go fly over there and assassinate them?
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by themafia 6mo ago
> The Generals would siphon off most of it to buy their palatial Dubai houses and London condos. Next door to other world leaders doing the same? Is that truly our motivation for not transferring the money? Some generals might illicitl
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by themafia 6mo ago
> The unit costs are...high in the US So many products are bundled into purchase agreements at hospitals that you can't, in general, sensibly talk about per-unit costs.
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by themafia 6mo ago
The author complains that the function wastes cycles checking for a zero condition which can never happen. Which is ostensibly true; however, on a platform that had poor process isolation and almost no memory protection, it could be argu
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by themafia 6mo ago
It's a real shame that so much of the "payload operations" had to be directly integrated into the shuttle code for launch. Given that so many missions were DoD missions the code apparently became contaminated to the point th
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by themafia 6mo ago
> “Everyone in Europe is getting more and more awake on sovereignty ... For us it’s data sovereignty.” If Julian Assange wasn't the wakeup call necessary to put this into action then I don't think the whims of a few government
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by themafia 6mo ago
Yep. Do "bunker fuel oil" next. Shipping is going to get squeezed just as hard.
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by themafia 6mo ago
So what are the thresholds? For example with SES I will get automatically suspended if my bounce rate is more than 10% or if my complaint rate is more than 0.1%.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Language Models have demonstrated themselves as being completely incapable of handling something as complex as US law. There are multiple overlapping jurisdictions and court precedents that apply to any one action.
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by themafia 6mo ago
This is Hacker News. It should be filled with curious people who are willing to express their opinions and points of view. To tell someone to just punitively flag something and then "move on" is absurdly reductive and small mind
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by themafia 6mo ago
I think it's fine if they have more than one priority.
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by themafia 6mo ago
Comcast, one of the largest residential ISPs in the USA, has almost full IPv6 deployment by default. The majority Verizon Wireless is IPv6 by default. Residential customers in the USA have great access if they just enable the stack. The
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by themafia 6mo ago
Then why do you need a language model for this? How about completing the loop? Pose subject matter questions to them throughout the day, maybe via something like mobile push, collect their answers, immediately grade their results, and

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