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1,244karma·643submissions·October 21, 2024
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>Things that definitely don't happen. Citation please? There's been documented instances of exactly that, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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>acting as if you are from the upper crust is itself a criteria for success Define "upper crust"? Because I'm reading this as "old money", and a lot of the "old money&…
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I've had people phish for my email then hit that with some bullshitpowershellladendoucument.pdf.docx crap, but sending it directly in the IM? Bold strategy cotton, let's see if it pays off.…
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>Downloading random unprotected scripts from internet, like it is 1995 is getting old pretty fast. It's ok, the guy with glasses from the Daily Show said it's ok.
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>It would be trivial to eradicate them almost completely Absolutely true, but droning their data centers might have some policy repercussions.
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Maybe that's because pleasure is down among schoolkids. Every minute of the day dedicated to homework, or a structured activity that can be a bullet point on a college application.
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thank you for the suggestion. i value open source over MacOS compatibility, I can spin up a VM if needed.
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How do you define bias? I feel like many publications are "biased" towards Austrian economics despite little evidence for their benefit, and many examples of it's proponents driving th…
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>Let me introduce you to the phrase "I don't see a mechanism." I'm not familiar with this phrase, but I think I did a good job citing a comparable example in my original post.
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>I think it's private schools in general. I think CS is a little unusual in that places like Berkley are ranked highly. (Interestingly, Harvard has a rather low CS rank and Zuck was in the pro…
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I'm not clear why this is in "Ask HN" but thanks for sharing your thoughts on the legislation.
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What skills? I've met several. Most of them got into a prestigious school on legacy, paid for by wealthy parents. Many were above average IQ, but by no means geniuses. They had access to computer…
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this is a variation on a common theme in steganography, but still interesting and giving something a name can be a useful contribution in itself
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I've had people straight up serve me malware when you attempt to OSINT them with Tor. Sometimes you need different kinds of anonymity, and I see a lot of one sized fits all proclamations on HN.
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I suspect any "backdoor" would be inserted at the protocol level. See https://web.archive.org/web/20130918135152/http://www.thegua... …
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The real issue is that it's a perpetual problem -- there are NGOs that literally pull out the same one pager, an endless dance of having some 1L repeat the same points over and over and over. (Wh…
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has RBY been disassembled, out of curiosity?
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maybe god is small too?
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I thought we had this, and it's called anonbib? https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/
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Thanks, this looks akin to what I'm looking for. Maybe a few features I don't need but looks interesting.
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Ah good point. I was looking into buying a used copy of Fire Red / Leaf Green and they were surprisingly expensive. I have a copy of red, but even with a new battery the save function keeps faili…
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Yeah to be clear, I replaced the internal battery. I don't know if the issue is that it isn't seated properly, it was working for a spell. But I can't solder and don't want my firs…
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Why Emerald -- is classic already done? If anyone has emulator suggestions, I recently attempted a playthrough and found that midway through my copy of red, the game was corrupted? Oddest thing -- had…
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Hypothetically, can we also put the CEOs of the AI companies on these orbital platforms?
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>Why did you feel the need to post this comment? Maybe parent feels like rocket science is a field that should have few launch failures? I can't give you a quantitative answer since I'm u…
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concern is less "expensive pee" more "it'll act as a diuretic" (which might have long term kidney effects)
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no edit: you never go full jim bell
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