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vladtaltos

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    Comment #13667588

    apart from the pro/con arguments here, I want to ask whether you can call anything a 'manifesto' if you keep changing it ?

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    Comment #12247351

    Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

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    Comment #11109518

    the problem is you don't know that 'If it is a false positive, probably they just ignore it.' -> 'probably' is a fucking optimistic view. AND how the hell do you know this is a fal…

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    Comment #10122201

    any information about licensing the API ? cost-wise ? I couldn't find it in the site

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    Comment #9664339

    this is the biggest weak point of using git in my opinion. if you are not in the habit of using these undo/remove/fix operations in a regular basis, these commands slip away from y…

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    Comment #9664307

    that is awesome in its complete disregard of reddit :) and a death sentence to itself if it gains popularity as reddit-admins will have to ban the accounts/discard the content :) s…

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    Comment #9623992

    could skynet be too far away ? - with deep neural nets making ai advances in strides and - with robots/drones learning to autonomously navigate we should start including skynet cla…

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    Comment #9398773

    I wonder what would happen if a 'village' of chimps attack humans with spears :) hellfire ? or automated drone strikes on them ?

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    Comment #9392957

    even in a simulation ad to give a use case, the drones are used to target a small village in the middle of a desert. it's somewhat obvious what the use case will be: don't send tro…

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    Comment #9392929

    having this sort of income inequality between partners is a big problem. it changes how you look at the business. it seems to me you've already at a point where you have to find a …

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    Comment #9356798

    I was copy pasting a lot myself and then stumbled into this guy's modular setup - I built something similar from then on. it's pretty sufficient for almost 90-95% of my needs... ht…

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    Comment #9313254

    idle power consumption: 4 Watts - way too much for my taste... I can understand it needing 22 Watts during high speed writes but why this much during staying idle ? for comparison …

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    Comment #8832387

    you're supposed to 'believe' to benefit from the best case scenario dude :) just rationalizing about it is not supposed to be enough... and additionally, fasting was around before …

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    Comment #8712157

    yes of course but that requires to have an always on computer to connect to...

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    Comment #8693825

    Assuming writing a technical book will at least take 3 months of your time (probably 4-6 months more realistically for a good book), making ~$10K is outrageous. And this is in case…

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    Comment #8693177

    I'm travelling frequently to both Russia and Turkey - to avoid having stupid spatial location based limitations I've been using privateinternetaccess.com for more than 6 months now…

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    Comment #8692661

    I myself have electronics engineering background (telecommunications sub-specialty), 5 others are similarly with ee backgrounds and 3 or 4 people are from applied maths departments…

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    Comment #8689189

    what you say may be true for web-development but afaik there is not too much PhD requirements for web-dev work. I'm in the computer vision and pattern recognition field and as you …

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    Comment #8640309

    that's a pretty naive viewpoint. they could've just as easily built the facility on a military base... then what ? trying to prevent espionage through limiting access to resources …

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    Comment #8567124

    interesting - my windows machine throws a blue screen of death to me (tried it 3 times) when I try to open the link with firefox... no problems with IE...

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    Comment #8542497

    as we require more and more power every year does it make sense to charge your phone with a few percent efficiency instead of walking 3 steps to a damn wall socket? is it that diff…

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    Comment #8464479

    N is the number of variables in the system -> so considering your network problem, it should correspond to the undirected edges in the graph...

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    Comment #8431117

    They also sent an email to their users - This piqued my interest "You decide when your content goes. If you delete something from our platform, we won't use it anymore." it doesn't…

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    Shellshock – am I vulnerable?

    If I have a VPS and just connect to it using SSH - am I vulnerable ? or am I vulnerable through my home router ? I have no idea about the firmware on it. Is it possible that shells…