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I grew up in Brazil in the 80's. There was hyper inflation, though not quite up to the 1M percent level that Venezuela is facing. (1M percent is a collapse, something else entirely) Coping mechan…

It's very much a thing in the traditional corporate world.

There's a sysctl: vm.overcommit_memory=2 What most people don't realize is that you will get more OOMs if you disable overcommit.

If this makes surveillance more visible it's already a huge societal win.

IIRC Fidonet had a real name policy.

The easy solution would be to delay the TV signal by as much. This is only a problem during the world cup, and only because your neighbors will yell goal before you can see it. Delay artificially the …

For those not into the whole American exceptionalism thing, you could go with Haiti, whose revolution started in 1791 and where independence and the end of the slavery were fought for at the same time…

Knockoff crap is never recalled...

True, but other things came about around that time as well, like the United Nations, or the rise of secularism/atheism/laicism, or the fact that the power game changed away from the national…

I come from a Latin country and the history of the Roman Empire is a huge topic in History classes. And I definitely learned about Trajan and knew that the Roman Empire reached its territorial peak un…

We tend to recognize the names that were involved in large territorial gains or losses (in other words, war). Probably for the average commoner, living in one of those boring kingdoms with a now-forgo…

Isn't the NES graphics chip considerably more complicated than whatever the Game Boy users?

An astonishing writer who couldn't write a bad book. But one is allowed to pick favorites, so here they go: Operation Shylock, I married a communist, and The plot against America.

I guess we should only enact new laws which already have established case law. /s

Or we took it from the lizardmen who put it there for storage :)

I'm Brazilian, and I was curious. So I just did the placement test (in English), completed all the questions correctly and was placed at level 11, with a few gray bubbles at the end of the tree. …

IANAL but I believe the GDPR is tolerant of incidental traffic. So if an European accesses a local job board in South Korea, the EU will not go after the Korean company and demand compliance. Now if s…

Another data point: I used to buy servers in Hetzner's auction by the dozens per month. It's very common that the servers will crash and need new HDDs or RAM. I never had a problem with supp…

I'm guessing it's mostly automated. Are you being used by a popular software package that you know of?

The explanation is at least slightly dishonest (hopefully not intentionally) in claiming that jurisdiction was established due to content being available in German, which makes it sound like a whacko …

I had never even considered such a drill could exist.

What happens when your trusted code gets exploited? That's also the reason why we have overhead in the form of ACLs, memory protection, ASLR, packet filtering, deprivileged processes, seccomp san…

I think he referred to SegWit, which increases the block size a bit under special conditions. That's the thing about bitcoin scaling: instead of improving scaling by increasing the block size (wh…

"Volkswagen Emissions Scandal Could Cause 1,200 More Premature Deaths" (from vehicles in Germany alone!) Seven years is a very light sentence for this. I would guess that sort of damage make…