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Re:Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @07:50PM (#22252485)
Independent of network cards, TLS using AES-GCM will cost one cycle per byte.
Re:McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @12:29PM (#22238322)
DARPA's budget is three billion dollars. Intel's net income is twenty-one billion dollars. The need for public-sector investment has ended.
>It's not to far of a stretch that someone leaked this from their lab.

You may not know about this national news item from 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

Which was strangely well timed to be after 9/11, I wonder how long Ivins planned to mailed the spores.

>But if technology makes this concept obsolete, then we must adapt.

The point of the Third Amendment is that people do lie. Do you trust the King's soldiers to report on the coming and goings around your house truthfully?

Re:Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:09PM (#22140190)
Space colonization is only viable for a small handful of people who produce at least a million dollars in revenue per year.

Programmers and CEOs.

>not how a bureaucracy thinks. Come on.

Conspiratorial bureaucracies operate that way. Trust no one, allow nothing that can be used to undermine...

Read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.

>Would you expect an ethics class to do anything more than provide a forum for debates like these? Do you think anyone will actually change their view?

I've been on the receiving end of several ethical issues and find that it is often less about ethics and more about tribal politics.

Re:NOBUS (Nobody but Us) on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:10AM (#22052787)
looks at the history of major criminal conspiracy cases and historical events

The answer is throwing everything you have, and only some of the time reveal what you know.

Re:Video Gaming Will Take Over on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:45AM (#22052410)
Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf was a turn-based game that was tactical and strategic.
Re:Equinix is acquiring Packet on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:33AM (#22052358)
An affidavit doesn't cost much and requires presenting government ID. There would be no fraud if affidavits were required.
Re:Academic Torrents on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:23PM (#22037632)
Wikipedia does cover that issue. Competing views are difficult to reconcile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Systemi...

(using a version of the article from ten years ago because everything is unnecessarily verbose on wikipedia now)

Re:Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:18PM (#22037589)
Don't worry, Trump tweets assist in my mental stability.
Re:Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:11AM (#22032221)
>But this is one of those things that was historically only available within a government office

If you want to know where a person lived pre-internet, you looked them up in a phone book, which is substantially less privacy preserving than looking up the owner of a house.

Well, post-internet, 2FA has been leaked to advertisers.

Some IRC clients would change the nick of the user if the user toggles that they are AFK.
Re:A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:14AM (#22026597)
No, the millions is not backed by bonds. It is a complex topic, but Brazil stopped their inflation by issuing a new currency and implementing price controls.

Much of economics depends on expectation, there is nothing inherently logical about any of it.

Re:Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:12AM (#22026586)
You're right, Epstein was engaged in a platonic mentoring relationship with scandalously young women who by many metrics were also good looking.
Re:A Sick Giant on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @11:44PM (#21998635)
The Anti-Masonic Party was a thing for a time.

There are certainly mood and history defining events for various historical periods that are under reported.

The earliest secularists were all freemasons.

I don't want you making decisions with ambiguous information over life or death situations.
Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:26AM (#21944480)
Who? Whom do you think I'm talking about?
Re:American Letter Mail Company on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:58AM (#21944351)
Horses are still just as expensive as they were. Railroads are faster now, and more efficient through diesel-electric engines.
Yeah, it must've been at a pretty high altitude far away.

Too bad the pilot was flying past a building, blocking view of the civilians carrying indistinct objects. Maybe the pilot didn't know what he was doing. I suppose I will be downvoted for my views, but I abhor dishonesty.

The aircraft flies like a plane, not a helicopter. Helicopters have very small turning radii.

I think it is from a drone.

Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010) on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:00AM (#21943345)
I think Electron's advantage is to shorten training time, not development time.
Re:I Was Google’s Head of International Relations on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:26PM (#21943152)
It would be more honest if they all said, "we weren't thinking."

I think they would have even been acquitted on the charges of criminal conspiracy if they used that argument.

Re:Iran general Qassem Suleimani killed in Baghdad drone strike on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:10PM (#21943068)
Collateral Murder was disturbing in the enthusiasm by the soldiers for what is a grainy video. I wonder if WWII bombardiers when looking down and seeing miniature sized vehicles and buildings were as enthusiastic as well.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstri...

Amusingly, the video starts with Wikileaks decrypted the video, but all drone feeds are unencrypted.

Re:I Was Google’s Head of International Relations on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:49PM (#21938381)
This is just the following orders excuse, but with more institutions participating.
If Facebook were to defeat astroturfing, all advertising firms would just promote their new social media network on all the major news networks.

Our economy is founded upon mutual relationships of grift and greed, even if Zuckerberg were to disagree with his own platform, he would not be able to change it.

Re:The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919) on Friday December 27, 2019 @07:38PM (#21896186)
>If I asserted that the Japanese secretly drank the blood of children, that Japanese women were unchaste, that the Japanese were really not a branch of the human race after all, I guarantee that mot of the newspapers would print it eagerly, and that I could get a hearing in churches all over the country.

Given how well Icke is doing, Lippman wasn't wrong.

Re:Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:11PM (#21875282)
Not between XX32 and XX00 as per last century.
Re:An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei on Saturday December 21, 2019 @02:49PM (#21853002)
No, read this, but I doubt it would convince you and may only fall on deaf ears.

https://spartacus-educational.com/SPYbsc.htm

>Roald Dahl was assigned to work with Drew Pearson, one of America's most influential journalist as the time. "Dahl described his main function with BSC as that of trying to 'oil the wheels' that often ground imperfectly between the British and American war efforts. Much of this involved dealing with journalists, something at which he was already skilled. His chief contact was the mustachioed political gossip columnist Drew Pearson, whose column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, was widely regarded as the most important of its kind in the United States."

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