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Eerie

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    Comment #14810747

    Encrypted files that nobody but the owners can decrypt.

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    Comment #14769252

    A dream can't be failed. A dream is a dream.

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    Comment #14762007

    >Space hostile Earth is hostile, too. A large part of human civilization is dedicated to making Earth more hospitable for humanity than it is in its natural state. We can do the sa…

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    Comment #14760727

    I just thought it was funnily relevant. You know, drink enough blood and you just might turn into wight...

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    Comment #14759789

    >wight loss technique wight

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    Comment #14747238

    Keep up the good work. You are such a great example of Poe's law. I can't even

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    Comment #14747061

    There is no stealth in space. Therefore, instead of hiding, the aliens are going to pro-actively fry every competitor civilization by using their solar shades as a Nicoll Dyson Bea…

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    Comment #14747030

    USA spends 50% of its budget on health-care and social security. Looks pretty socialist to me.

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    Comment #14724659

    You are complaining about free stuff. Stop complaining about free stuff.

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    Comment #14724253

    > Don't use FB as content storage, don't expect to have your FB content back. Why would you consider using a free service as a content storage in the first place? How naïve can you…

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    Comment #14705472

    Most biological components function in 3D space, though, not on a surface.

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    Comment #14689964

    It couldn't, because it's theoretically impossible. That's the joke.

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    Comment #14688580

    Call me back when Bitcoin can process as many transactions per second as Visa. Or, heck, even 10% as many transactions.

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    Comment #14685950

    A billion years of living things eating each other. Quite happy, indeed.

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    Comment #14683201

    >Unless you mean that some data is shared, but cannot be modified, but this would be semantically identical to not sharing anything. That's the gist of Rust's borrow checker. Share…

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    Comment #14681109

    Any country that will dear to sink an US aircraft carrier will either have the means to wipe out most of US population too (Russia, China) or just won't care about the consequences…

  17. story
    Using fake ransomware to stop real ransomware

    We all know ransomware, right? It encrypts your files and demands money. You pay, your data is decrypted. The only reason you would pay is if you believe there's a reasonable chanc…

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    Comment #14662410

    I know someone who programs in LabVIEW for 15 years, and is horrified by the idea that he could be forced to write in a different language, because visual programming is so much be…

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    Comment #14647376

    You totally could pump it out, and I suspect that's what humanity will have to do, as clearly we are not going to stop pumping it in for a while...

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    Comment #14635966

    >In fact, even just forcibly building infrastructure without putting the groundwork of civil society, democracy and working laws in place doesn't work so much - see Soviet Union. 1…

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    Comment #14627399

    This is fake news.

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    Comment #14620599

    >The mild sedative of alcohol to drown out the screaming void of my mind left idle without access to the internet. Consider doing something with your mind...

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    Comment #14594344

    My impression is that most people buy Bitcoin, expecting to sell them at higher price, while claiming that it won't crash because it has real use. Well, tulips are also quite usefu…

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    Comment #14594279

    >"Information wants to escape" might be less ambiguous. "In current age, information is easy to copy and disseminate, and hard to keep from being stolen".

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    Comment #14594218

    Nothing. It's not bingo until it includes node.js (rewritten in Rust).