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721.
by yborg 7y ago
I know that reading the actual linked content on HN is verboten, but the Bloomberg story says "Thompson was previously an Amazon Web Services employee. She last worked at Amazon in 2016, spokesman Grant Milne said. The breach described
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by yborg 7y ago
And ironically Safari has the worst adblocking capability of the 3. Open source is the only effective weapon against corporate control of software.
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by yborg 7y ago
I don't know how you infer ideology from this. Wall Street is all about betting on winners, and NOBODY thought Trump had a chance. "In 2012, the same group contributed twice as much to Republican candidate Mitt Romney as it did to
724.
by yborg 7y ago
Clickbait, basically notes that major websites use analytics. Use uBlock/uMatrix everywhere, because Google and Facebook, and a lot more companies, are tracking your preferences in everything.
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by yborg 7y ago
I didn't include the followup statement from the SpaceX press release : "Titanium has been used safely over many decades and on many spacecraft from all around the world." The implication being that there's just no way S
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by yborg 7y ago
Not very, since it lacks a warhead. And it's a late-70s era missile, so not even valuable for reverse engineering.
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by yborg 7y ago
>Boeing report published 1970 >SpaceX: "It is worth noting that the reaction between titanium and NTO at high pressure was not expected." SpaceX did not expect a reaction known to Boeing almost 50 years ago. My guess would b
728.
by yborg 7y ago
Nice packaged solution, if your problem is that you need to run macOS on a five year old midrange Dell notebook. If you are just looking for a cheap macOS solution, 2012 Minis seems to go for around $250 on eBay ...
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by yborg 7y ago
The reliability of these products was sacrificed before a golden idol of Jony Ive on the altar of Thin. I find it interesting that this program is announced more or less at the same time he announced his formal retirement from Apple. He did
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by yborg 7y ago
Same here. It's an unpopular opinion because you lose nerd cred but I remember the din of a cube farm full of people banging away on mechanical keyboards, and I have no desire to repeat the experience in an open plan office. I'm g
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by yborg 7y ago
People like you keep buying from them.
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by yborg 7y ago
"Professional security consultants unable to hack hotel" is actually more interesting. I can see why the cybersec team didn't want to be named, the whole thing sounds more or less humiliating - despite standing on ironing boa
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by yborg 7y ago
Aegisub is how we did it in the aughts. http://www.aegisub.org/ But fansubs are dead now.
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by yborg 7y ago
"Synthetic" shares seems like a bit of a misnomer, these are actual shares of Toshiba stock bought overseas and then held by a US entity that sells receipts on them. This seems to be a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of buying
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by yborg 7y ago
That's a very good observation - you make uncorrelated premium features require also getting the larger screen, and then your sales numbers prove that there's a strong demand for large screen devices!
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by yborg 7y ago
This isn't how the Unites States evolved. Arguably, the success of the experiment still hasn't been fully established, but the major institutions that govern the US system were more or less present right from the beginning.
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by yborg 7y ago
The mere existence of a blogpost by a guy complaining that it's a hassle to shill his thing that generates spam on the Internet on the Internet makes the point better than anything written in it - it's almost the pure essence of S
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by yborg 7y ago
There are a number of court cases currently in Brazil that suggest that the "Brazilian Way" is not in fact in accord with Brazilian law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash Parent may argue that
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by yborg 7y ago
>...Oberlin College in Ohio is the equivalent of the “China syndrome” during nuclear accidents, a point where chain reactions become impossible to stop or control. You find literally comparing this court case to a nuclear meltdown "
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by yborg 7y ago
If the corner coffee shops took 26 minutes to get me a cup of coffee I'd probably have to give it up entirely if I was really too lazy to spend the 90 seconds of effort in my kitchen that gives me a cup of coffee in about 5 minutes.
741.
by yborg 7y ago
>Renting your office productivity suite for a monthly fee Meanwhile Apple gives away a spreadsheet, presentation program, and a word processor for ... free. I guess with open source, et. al. that's the mainstream now? I frankly pref
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by yborg 7y ago
Also found in rural Japan. https://en.japantravel.com/saitama/honesty-shops/59159
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by yborg 7y ago
You really think a significant number of people are going to get on a plane to Switzerland and then drive to Vaud to steal pumpkins?
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by yborg 7y ago
Yes, very much so to the generations of Western executives who have made these decisions over the last 25 years.
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by yborg 7y ago
Colloquy. Desktop version more or less hasn't been touched in 8 years, and it remains the best Mac client. Also has an iOS version that is more recently maintained.
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by yborg 7y ago
IRC remains in use in the Japanese manga/anime fan translation community on Rizon.
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Sun's Solar Cycle Is Governed by the Alignment of the Planets(link.springer.com)
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by yborg 7y ago
fish is friendly.
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by yborg 7y ago
I think you meant 'For me, Google'.
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by yborg 7y ago
I'd like Cloudflare to not do a Google and let a thousand flowers bloom only to let most of them wither. They seem to be taking on a lot just with their new public VPN service.

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