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siliconunit

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    Comment #47367756

    How is this preventing anyone booting up an old pc and sharing a usb key data. This is utter nonsense made to control people and instigate fear and self censorship... this is 'the …

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    Comment #47152189

    tried to roll my own email server on a .xyz domain...basically a big no go, couple of emails went through, then nothing, just a black hole. Thanks corpos and the safety theatre.

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    Comment #46670801

    as much as I'm all for the freedom of knownledge, given the sorry state of the world, releasing these tools to imbecils is not peak foresight.. mcafee for linux next ha../s

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    Comment #45630301

    also basically if enough companies agrees on helping the cause your crypto secrets are quite more likely to be exposed...

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    Comment #45067493

    imagine having to rigorously prove that blood is really essential for the survival of a human being before every surgery, thanks Bourbaki. /s

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    Comment #43947783

    very nice analysis! personally I'm a DEC alpha fan.. but I guess that's a too big endeavor.. (or maybe a selected portion?)

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    Comment #42761270

    when the state if the nation is so bad that you have homeless everywhere, healthcare, housing and education are something you have to fight for, prisons are a business, suddenly an…

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    Comment #36513486

    I agree. Modern stuff is childish at times.. and old stuff when slightly drifting tended to go toward poetry.

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    Comment #35135561

    I'm quite confused, not the same project at all? To me tiny c compiler always meant the bellard page. Super useful stuff for micro hacky projects.

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    Comment #35135504

    Should have a super emergency mode that shows tactile controls on the screen and allows for steering and stoppage of the car...

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    Comment #35135268

    Interesting behaviour, usually any normal rope knot makes the rope weaker at the point of maximum curvature/choking etc. Would be enlightening to get a comparison why the different…

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    Comment #34511660

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    Comment #33546585

    Unhinged capitalism will be the cause of the most devastating global crisis that is just around the corner. You can see it very easily on a simplex plot, you cannot solve for anyth…

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    Comment #33305580

    It really boils down to medical professionals developing one or more protocols to a peaceful death, this has been hindered by too much religious crap being forced down to everyone.…

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    Comment #33005640

    Just wait for the trickle down...

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    Comment #31315095

    Also I think the real estate disaster is one of the main culprits of most 'common people' problems. One cannot afford an early retirement from a taxing job, cos guess what mortgage…

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    Comment #30599614

    Exactly, same goes for pollution, container ships, aviation..etc.

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    Comment #29869221

    I ran a citadel mail server on a pi, using a xyz domain..worked for few days before getting blocked as possible spam from google..no appartent solution... the old internet is indee…

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    Comment #29499134

    soon we'll own our lives to some 'benign' all knowledgeable government...I guess it's where everything is heading, all needs to be measured, assessed, risks calculated, resources o…

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    Comment #29484886

    absolutely agree, probably the worst general category in wikipedia, feels very much Bourbakian, extreme rigor and nothing else. Worst way to teach/introduce math imho.

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    Comment #28870595

    I think there are a lot of misconceptions about GM crops, most people think they are modified to be resist/repel vast types of insects/pests and what not, this is in average not th…

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    Comment #28735779

    I'll try to setup a meetup group with these premises, see what happens. At this point in life I feel like telling younger (or not) people the things I learned about 'life' in gener…

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    Comment #28592574

    It would take about 115k square miles of normal solar panels to cover the world energy use (23000TW), this translates to about 340 miles side square of land, I'm sure we could spli…

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    Comment #28264171

    yep having a centralized pollution source is much more controllable and optimizable, a breakthrough in emission filtering techology and in a short time span it can be effectively i…

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    Comment #28167028

    it looks like the vast majority of our pollution and energy generation through chemical/physical transformation (like the hydrogen in the article) could be rendered 'green' by reme…