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by zkms 9y ago
The other effect is that drug prohibition can (and currently does) function as a subsidy for violent transnational criminal organisations: the difficulty in transporting contraband inflates its price at the destination, and if Alice'
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by zkms 9y ago
> but because of having a condition so bad that doctors are willing to give you opiods I concur. I've been prescribed opioids post-surgery and also for painful outpatient procedures (when the topical anaesthetic just didn't cu
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by zkms 9y ago
> possession for personal use should be decriminalized while drugs should remain illegal in large quantities Your objection is correct, a fundamental issue with "decriminalisation of personal use" is that it's still quite
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by zkms 9y ago
> Perhaps the pain doesn't need to go away. Perhaps it's there for a reason. Pain is indeed useful most of the time (to prevent damage to the organism) but like all warning systems, it has false positives or activates when th
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by zkms 9y ago
> You don't extend cell phone coverage across millions of acres of protected national park space for edge cases like "saving someone's life". Safety of life is not an edge case. Distress signals have been consistently
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by zkms 9y ago
> Also, cell coverage would probably reduce the number of "emergencies". Hikers who are two days late is an emergency, but not if they can phone someone to say they safe and waiting out the weather. This also holds without the
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by zkms 9y ago
> maybe a slow cobol mainframe somewhere Inter-bank money transfers in US are handled by a system that needs multiple "business days" for a transaction to be finalised so you're on the money here: https://engine
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Intel ME: Myths and Reality [pdf](events.ccc.de)
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by zkms 9y ago
> versus the 2 from AMT Until very recently, independent researchers had no access at all to the instructions that the ME processor runs; maybe normalise against that? http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/12/huffma
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by zkms 9y ago
> Specifically, versus other high profile products that continue to have multiple security bugs being introduced every release cycle - Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, etc. This is not the correct comparison. AMT has terrible code quality c
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by zkms 9y ago
That device is indeed for "communication" in the same way that a warning shot is a method of communication. This is not hyperbole, this is quite literally what the device was designed for, per the US military itself: "AHD is
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by zkms 9y ago
Speaking of medication naming schemes; there's the one for monoclonal antibodies. Ever heard a weird name ending in "-mab"? Blame this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_monoclonal_ant...
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by zkms 9y ago
The dimensions involved in modern hard drives are staggeringly small; the bit cells have dimensions in the tens of nanometers -- about as big as couple-year-old semiconductor feature sizes. It's not shocking that strong external vibrat
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by zkms 9y ago
> It's not only to make them run longer - they're reducing the peak demand on the batteries to avoid spontaneous shutdown when the aged battery can't handle the load. Yes. I used to have spontaneous shutdowns on my iPhone
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by zkms 9y ago
> All because FB's algorithm presumably decided that he didn't post much, so he didn't warrant enough attention in our feeds. This is the oddest thing to me. I would imagine that people who post rarely should be given pref
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by zkms 9y ago
> It's called "zoning", and it's a perfectly natural construct. No particular implementation of zoning law is a "natural construct", and USian zoning laws have an extremely particular focus on preventing the
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by zkms 9y ago
So I skimmed the paper ( http://sci-hub.la/10.1103/PhysRevE.96.063107 ) and it involves passing current through a conductive fluid whilst exposing it to magnetic fields. However, unlike mercury or NaK, seawater behaves i
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by zkms 9y ago
> Why pay $2000 a month when you have the whole country you could live in for much less? Why should I have to pay increased taxes for your ignorance/provincialism? Is living in San Francisco a fundamental right? The "is doing %
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by zkms 9y ago
> Take two video frames as big arrays of RGB values. > Subtract one frame from another, that leaves us with samples of raw thermal noise values. > Calculate the mean of a noise frame. If it is outside of ±0.1 range, we assume the c
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by zkms 9y ago
You kid but this is literally what is being proposed in industry conferences: https://www.assia-inc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TDSL-pr... -- sending ~200GHz [sic] RF into the dielectric spaces betwe
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by zkms 9y ago
Yeah it's marketed explicitly to righties, but if the hard-right set can make their own patreon clone (with sensical fee structure); other people can certainly do as well. I mentioned it not as an endorsement, but as a proof of concept
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by zkms 9y ago
> I’m inclined to believe they’re already doing this. AFAICT (from my charges) they have indeed been bundling charges. Charging the %+constant fee for each patron given that there is no individual payment-processor action for each pa
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by zkms 9y ago
You can do what Gemini does -- credit the account with fake money once the user requests ACH transfer, let them make trades with it, and only let them withdraw any proceeds of it (whether bitcoin or fiat) once the ACH transaction fully sett
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by zkms 9y ago
UK has Faster Payments; which runs 24/7 and has times measured in seconds, unlike ACH (doesn't run on weekends, takes days), and charges no costs to end-users. This is a well-solved problem, the issue is that USian banks make far
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by zkms 9y ago
Of course. There's no inherent technical countermeasures against someone doing so.
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by zkms 9y ago
> That's just training people to get scammed. Yes. All the work of "don't enter your bank password on any website that isn't your bank" went down the bloody trash once this awful workaround to the awfulness that
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by zkms 9y ago
I used to use coinbase but some godawful KYC/AML thing kicked in and asked me to send them a "selfie" of myself, which creeped me the hell out. I'm a US citizen, am not on any sort of list of prohibited people, and had a
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by zkms 9y ago
> purpose-built ABM systems use infrared imagers for terminal guidance What kind of optical window for the IR imager gets used for this application?
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by zkms 9y ago
> HDDs are pretty much magical. It's insane how delicate, yet robust it all is. Absolutely. It's bloody amazing how my laptop has a device with finger-sized actuators that read/write bit cells that are about as small as co
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by zkms 9y ago
> Why people think that AI with a gun more scarier than a soldier with a gun, I would never understand. In two words: scale and miniaturisation. A rifleman has inherent limitations -- he cannot move unaided beyond his walking speed, cann

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