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yabadabadoes
7y ago
> Destroying the world because they use energy Yes, and participating in blocking the Kyoto accord. You can feel as good as you want that you save a few people after displacing millions and covering countries in spent Uranium.. Then your
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Why by the elite? Finland has proportional representation so it is likely it's political system represents views that cross a large spectrum of the population. I think most Europeans are against cheap junk food and an underpaid service
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Except the Pentagon doesn't actually do that. Vast amounts of what they do is in fact destroying the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_usage_of_the_United_Sta... What you focus on and what you achieve ar
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
If you are using web of trust in a gpg style then homoglyph attacks are not particularly effective.. If you are using CAs then homoglyph attacks are the simplest of many attacks based on a system of minimal technical compliance.
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
I think the issue is that they want people who use it less than 10 minutes a day to still make progress and feel they are making a lot of progress. Following spaced repetition rules they can only add minimal amounts of vocabulary and they n
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
It can and should be made illegal which is the only practical countermeasure for most things. (I.e. every electronic device manufacturer is relying on EMP disruption devices being illegal.) In Switzerland it is usually illegal to cover publ
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
I think you have to choose a limited perspective to make a diseconomy of scale for batteries. CPUs, RAM, Energy and Energy storage have each reached the economy of scale point where innovation is heavily rewarded. Single core, static dram,
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Based on being an occasional technical mentor to a friend with ADHD, I might suggest: I would experiment with plenty of exercise during the work week to try to find a mellow yet energetic state. I would look for ways to do something you fin
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Yes, but AFAIK all these archives have nothing to do with their primary source, so while we might all prefer no ads there is no objective way to say marc.info is the authorative source over ad ridden sources. With Wikipedia or stack overflo
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Banned until manual override, so banned until you are substantial to either the community at large or the tech community.
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
I think OSHA and DOT should have a problem with it and its risks in the wild have really only been so ignored because of the silos of these agencies. (The cat lady on the Simpsons and the mad hatter in Alice in Wonderland each express the s
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
I think at least 1/10 should fail with assets at least partially insufficient to cover. So going bellow 5-10% above government bonds says something very odd about the market. (I think in past markets most companies in this class would
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
> It means performance expectations of BBB is quite stable. Given that we are in a period of disruptive innovation I find that market optimism alarming. I think it means that even the least competent accumulations of capital are expecte
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
> It's similar to what happened in Europe in the last few years, now it's business as usual when soldiers in full gear + assault rifles patrol the streets in major cities or during big public events I've not seen a lot of
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Google? No, Yandex.. obviously not blocked in Russia, also not blocked in China. I don't really notice any infrastructure problems for ddg in Europe though, so Finland may be atypical?
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
A user has clientids and/or userids and Google seems to be capable of connecting these back to learn things about users and sites. So what exactly is personally identifiable is a secret.. As I see it Google has fallen into the false po
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Even with a Google account, a great deal of data like analytics is not associated or partly associated with the Google account. In theory one would have to go to every website and request they report/purge data from analytics, but Goog
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
I just read urbit.org's introduction that sounds like a FSF or EFF release on how we are going to take back computers. You seem to be saying this is sleazy Astroturfing (a .org manifesto) by a company that wants to compete in the syste
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
If they have truly crazy plans for .org, one can drop a domain name and still block its assignment based on IP infringement.. The oddity here is that no matter what they do it makes no real difference to the kind of organization that regula
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
So an illegal alien should talk to non-immigration officials for the public good or should not? This isn't really a question for the individual, this is a question of government policy. The US decided to force other government institut
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
He sounds like he might be someone with a pathological need to be relevant to authorities. Interpol, Singaporean Police, FBI, DOJ who will talk to him?
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
A video call would be just as illegal. If he insisted on giving individual advice to NK instead of just publishing the same information then he needed to cease being a US person first.
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
> What's not replaceable or too expensive about a $400 or so nVidia Tegra board in a $100k car? https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/community/lifecycle Tesla needs to have stock relative to replacement r
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
My impression on systems from the days before linux/Intel began having real SMP is that if you are willing to go off the rails completely on supporting 1-2 core machines and making every CPU available to every task, then blocking side
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
It's like they want to prove that no crimes committed while on federal payroll can ever get you prison time.
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
> Or you depend on software that doesn't work any more on Win10. I was hoping this would be about WINE.. I've seen old software run better/safer in WINE than Windows, but I'm hesitant to get involved in recommending a
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
We keep them separate and for good reason. A threat from an enemy doesn't usually involve additional security for every Disney employee because Disney animatronics is AFAIK not a legitimate military target. Boeing primarily is a legiti
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
Bell and Xerox are great examples of why. If the ideas were separate entities, Bell or Xerox could have decided which to buy back and run as a business. They didn't decide anything and each idea had to be stolen by a visitor.
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
The question is really how common each base group is and then how many single field experts each accounts for.. I.e. on one extreme every Expert is a jack of all trades that hasn't reached acknowledgement in more fields. A little absur
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yabadabadoes
7y ago
I don't see it as sad, the existence of NeXT as a separate entity allowed many possibilities. I.e. it left room open for a completely different startup to roll new tech directions back into Apple and NeXT to end up as new direction at
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