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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
> Thank goodness we are kept fat and happy. This concept is actually called "bread and circus", and was originally applied by mid-roman emperors to better control the populace and keep political satisfaction up. I'm kinda
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
introducing yourself using the MIT-definition of hacker is a huge mistake anyways because they'll ask you how you hack computers or something; which will lead to you having to explain the difference between the classic hacker and the M
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
>They've done a pretty good job of scaring people into securing their APs How is this even remotely a bad thing? It's trivial to MITM people on unsecured networks - I can't think of a single consumer router that actually d
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
yes - make an enemy out of the most powerful intelligence agency in the world in fact lets expel their embassy too!
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
this is terrible advice
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
the best thing to do when a website is hacked is link it to as many people as possible
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
depends on the software installed on both and the adversary you have in mind if we're talking defending from suits; your phone is probably turned on a lot larger percentage of the time than your laptop so it's more susceptible to
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
facebook doesnt exist to "advance the understanding of the human race", it exists to make money same with google, apple, and every other new age special snowflake company that pretends to be the good guy publishing these findings
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
i cant wait to see facebook to leverage this to condition users into favoring advertisers/products who pay for premium advertising packages seriously what the fuck is facebook's PR team thinking letting their research staff publis
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
ice cream party and booze
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
you really shouldnt mock apple products on HN
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
to give investors a more significant incentive to invest rather than save money in savings accounts may as well be dead money as far as the economy is concerned
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
beware: this site's session cookie is scoped to "/", and can be hijacked by any malicious page on their domain that you nav to. also there's no httponly flag on the session cookie gotta love bitcoin sites
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
honest question: is there any reason to add lazy evaluation to c++ other than to just add more features to the language? lazy evaluation is one of those features where i have absolutely no idea what benefit it actually provides
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
fun semi-related EE design fact that readers may find interesting: one of the fastest ways to tell that someone didn't know what they're doing when they designed a board is that they placed the oscillator anywhere other than right
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
If you enjoy reading and absorbing this kind of knowledge, I suggest reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It's a book of personal thoughts/writings/observations that Aurelius wrote while he was emperor of Rome. It's a
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
IEEE also actively lobbies against any kind of patent reform.
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
it's also possible a lot more people were compromised and the trail was covered using log injection or something security is really hard to measure
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
sorry, in that case I didnt mean to be pedantic
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
talk to any soldier about this and they will acknowledge that america's security is not directly threatened in todays world, and believe that the military mostly acts as a "preventative force" to keep it that way.
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
if a student is able to study all the content the night before and still get a decent grade compared to long-haul studiers then there's something seriously wrong with the coursework
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
> the father seems to be clinically psychotic i dont think you know what this means
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
nsfw language warning - afaik the monster girl quest articles proc'd the big porn cleanup fiasco https://web.archive.org/web/20110908191300/http://tvtropes.o...
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
I'm still mad about them going and removing all the monster girl quest articles during that spiel. That was pretty much the end of tvtropes for me.
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
not everyone wants to end up like brendan eich
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
>What's the use case for this? job security and returning more than 1 object from a function without return pointers in the args
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
I'll get around to that right after I make the one that changes all instances of "Hacker" to "Rockstar" on HN and in the hiring threads.
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
With the karma system, there is no difference between "trolls" and "people whose opinions you disagree with".
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
It also means people will censor their true opinions or just neglect to post if it puts their internet point cache at risk.
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by wwwwwwwwww 12y ago
it's likely all candidate higher-ups in mozilla will be required to reveal all past political affiliations to make sure their beliefs don't conflict with mozilla values such as acceptance and tolerance of people of differing opini

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