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Comment #24136662
Prepare your downvotes. Occult books tell that we have all means to nearly stop aging with today's tech and the key is in extracting and using the essence of oxygen; that air at th…
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Comment #24088128
Even simpler: Stadia is the remote desktop rebranded. Want to run your own Stadia? Buy a bunch of VMs on some cloud hosting provider: a few for the game server engine and one per u…
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Comment #24060235
Don't forget to be insanely smart. Otherwise programming skills won't help.
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Comment #24031049
That's why CCP banned them in China.
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Comment #24023885
Most smartphones are made in China, so CCP has access to them at the hardware level. My bet is that tiktok has hacked the human psychology: it's an equivalent of addictive sugary d…
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Comment #24023706
An attempt to delay elections?
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Comment #24021583
Well, you don't really "own" capital, you've "just" earned an authorization to spend some amount per year. It's like a debit card thats auto refilled every year. In the meantime "y…
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Comment #24021286
What do you mean? Why wouldn't an HR sue his own employer? Because binding arbitration and the employer will make sure to destroy the reputation of that HR.
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Comment #24021208
Surveillance capitalism to the USA is like heroin to an addict: he thinks he can give up at any time, that he can manage the addiction and find the balance, until he realises that …
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Comment #24020966
No need to disclose anything: plausible deniability is enough. And "bias" can be fixed by ad-hoc quotas.
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Comment #23923197
It's the same thing. There were posers and those with practical knowledge. Today it's almost entirely clueless posers.
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Comment #23922947
My opinion is irrelevant here. I'm not giving orders to suspend or resume the economy.
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Comment #23922068
They probably know that visible effects of global warming won't manifest themselves until a century later: enough time for them and their kids. They don't care about their hypothet…
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Comment #23920120
If this was indeed such a problem, the world would be on a strict lockdown for next few years. It isn't happening because the expected global warming is too far in the future: too …
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Comment #23900068
The "legend" is that every civilization gets buried under a thick layer of earth, so we'd have to dig real deep, hundreds of kilometers deep, to find anything.
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Comment #23883691
This looks like straight from reddit: same vinaigrette of emotionally charged buzzwords.
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Comment #23883537
I think these minivans is a rational and smart move (amoral, but that's another story). The protest is snowballing and there's not enough police-like forces that blindly support th…
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Comment #23853039
Networking can in fact overturn results of the interview loop. In some cases, the result is known and the interview is arranged to support the case. You may outright fail some ques…
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Comment #23805043
Eigenquestion is a question that's when answered, turns into the same question, but on a different scale.
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Comment #23805013
This is 1/d^2. Exponential would be 1/2^d.
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Comment #23804982
This is what audit records are for. Unless you expect the bad guys to respect your schedule, you won't be around to see the LED light.
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Comment #23798026
Just pick a material that's opaque only in visible spectrum.
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Comment #23797996
Or to put it simply "to detect the single frame grab attack". LED lights can't prevent anything.
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Comment #23797858
Unlike a led light, a piece of tape prevents unauthorized webcam access.
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Comment #23763695
I couldn't get Verizon site to show me the cookie banner. I guess the banner code lives on another domain that my uBO blocked.