This is so true. Just like people keep on waxing how innovative Tesla is, when in fact electric cars were thoroughly explored more than 100 years ago so Tesla is mere copying the innovation of others.
> But also imagine all the wannabe journalists that would just do character assassinations on long-dead people revered as heroes That's an easy one. Pretty much anyone of notice living today will be labeled a "savage…
Mocking is still legal in the West. But not for long. Mocking anything but white men/Christianity creates huge uproar today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/09/1...
> In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them Tell me again one meaningful action against a data leak in the private sector. I'll wait.
This is a losing game (think halting problem). This exact scenario was played by antivirus software versus malware in the 90s/00s. The antivirus was trying to figure out if the binary did something like modify a file on…
SEO is one reason, but the reduced attention span of today's people surely is another. People just won't bother figuring out what a "mystery title" book is about.
This is one thing that worried me during the Fukushima disaster, they were quite concerned about the safety of the responders and many things were delayed until they could figure out a way to do them safely. If things…
Gives a new sense to "fake news" Now we need a robo-reader who reverses the article back into the source data.
Well, none of his code is public. Furthermore, on his blog he wrote about a lot of topics - economics, history, politics, crypto contracts, but not even once about a programming topic.
Short reenactment of the final decision to postpone for one day this at today's ceremonies: https://youtu.be/mSL9NJ8WJMM?t=3808
This is truly one of the best long-cons in the tech industry history. Invest 10 years into creating a browser and get the whole industry and it's developers to love it, push it and develop solely for it, so that you can…
There are scientists who argue that what the mitochondria does is fundamentally cancerigenic on a long enough timeline, so in a sense, yes, everything we eat is associated with cancer.…
A previous version of the same story says: - one in philosophy - one in communications and history https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-indi...
I'm, all for bitcoin, but articles like these are bullshit. How many cryptography and bitcoin experts were consulted/hired to babysit this transaction, knowing that the smallest mistake could lead to total and…
People warned for years here that exactly this was going to happen. But the HN tech community was "no, no, you are just a hater, Google IS GOOD, it's a company run by engineers, not by suits, they will NEVER betray us,…
uBlock Origin is GPL. Someone will just fork it and keep Chrome support. Welcome to the beauty of open-source.
You paying the cost for the "jihadi-john" account for a 1x/9x profit sounds like a good way of getting yourself into trouble.
When you sell such a sensitive product, which could be used for example by swiss account tax evasion whistle blowers, maybe you should disclose on the front page that you can be compelled to log IP addresses and advice…
There is precedent for that, a Swiss crypto company which sold NSA backdoored crypto systems to the Iranians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
So if Poland summons you into their parliament, you would go with no objections and consider that normal. What if Saudi Arabia summons you?
It's called "orange and teal". Yes, it's everywhere in Hollywood big budget action movies. https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-h...
There are quite a few (relatively) famous pigs on Instagram. Try suggesting to someone that maybe they should be turned into bacon this Christmas. I'm not talking about vegans, but regular meat-eating people. Study…
Disgusting animal abuse... There is place for everybody in our cities. Meanwhile in more civilized places: > Fat rat stuck in manhole rescued by firefighters in Germany…
Fair enough. Can you point out some groups of people who "got suicided/..." in France/US/UK in recent years because of their political views? More interestingly, while some have voted communism in, nobody seems able to…
Interesting, I believed that propofol alone is enough to not feel pain, I wasn't aware that opioids are also used at the same time.
This is so true. Just like people keep on waxing how innovative Tesla is, when in fact electric cars were thoroughly explored more than 100 years ago so Tesla is mere copying the innovation of others.
> But also imagine all the wannabe journalists that would just do character assassinations on long-dead people revered as heroes That's an easy one. Pretty much anyone of notice living today will be labeled a "savage…
Mocking is still legal in the West. But not for long. Mocking anything but white men/Christianity creates huge uproar today. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/09/1...
> In the private sector, they'd have been fired and probably legal action levelled against them Tell me again one meaningful action against a data leak in the private sector. I'll wait.
This is a losing game (think halting problem). This exact scenario was played by antivirus software versus malware in the 90s/00s. The antivirus was trying to figure out if the binary did something like modify a file on…
SEO is one reason, but the reduced attention span of today's people surely is another. People just won't bother figuring out what a "mystery title" book is about.
This is one thing that worried me during the Fukushima disaster, they were quite concerned about the safety of the responders and many things were delayed until they could figure out a way to do them safely. If things…
Gives a new sense to "fake news" Now we need a robo-reader who reverses the article back into the source data.
Well, none of his code is public. Furthermore, on his blog he wrote about a lot of topics - economics, history, politics, crypto contracts, but not even once about a programming topic.
Short reenactment of the final decision to postpone for one day this at today's ceremonies: https://youtu.be/mSL9NJ8WJMM?t=3808
This is truly one of the best long-cons in the tech industry history. Invest 10 years into creating a browser and get the whole industry and it's developers to love it, push it and develop solely for it, so that you can…
There are scientists who argue that what the mitochondria does is fundamentally cancerigenic on a long enough timeline, so in a sense, yes, everything we eat is associated with cancer.…
A previous version of the same story says: - one in philosophy - one in communications and history https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-indi...
I'm, all for bitcoin, but articles like these are bullshit. How many cryptography and bitcoin experts were consulted/hired to babysit this transaction, knowing that the smallest mistake could lead to total and…
People warned for years here that exactly this was going to happen. But the HN tech community was "no, no, you are just a hater, Google IS GOOD, it's a company run by engineers, not by suits, they will NEVER betray us,…
uBlock Origin is GPL. Someone will just fork it and keep Chrome support. Welcome to the beauty of open-source.
You paying the cost for the "jihadi-john" account for a 1x/9x profit sounds like a good way of getting yourself into trouble.
When you sell such a sensitive product, which could be used for example by swiss account tax evasion whistle blowers, maybe you should disclose on the front page that you can be compelled to log IP addresses and advice…
There is precedent for that, a Swiss crypto company which sold NSA backdoored crypto systems to the Iranians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
So if Poland summons you into their parliament, you would go with no objections and consider that normal. What if Saudi Arabia summons you?
It's called "orange and teal". Yes, it's everywhere in Hollywood big budget action movies. https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-h...
There are quite a few (relatively) famous pigs on Instagram. Try suggesting to someone that maybe they should be turned into bacon this Christmas. I'm not talking about vegans, but regular meat-eating people. Study…
Disgusting animal abuse... There is place for everybody in our cities. Meanwhile in more civilized places: > Fat rat stuck in manhole rescued by firefighters in Germany…
Fair enough. Can you point out some groups of people who "got suicided/..." in France/US/UK in recent years because of their political views? More interestingly, while some have voted communism in, nobody seems able to…
Interesting, I believed that propofol alone is enough to not feel pain, I wasn't aware that opioids are also used at the same time.