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A few weeks ago someone on Reddit posted a comparison of Walmart vs. Whole Foods in the SF Bay Area.

There's no Apple Stores up the 880 corridor until you get to either Oakland or drive out to Pleasanton. There's a ton along Hwy 101, which goes by all the affluent towns where there's a ton of cash.

Same thing for Tesla dealerships. If you're selling premium priced goods, you put the stores in the places where people can afford them. Not a lot of Ferrari dealerships down in Hollister.

Funny enough, you often see the same people (or at a minimum the same behaviors) behind the destruction. It's not just Adria Richards and Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn shitting up the things computer nerds love, it's gone fucking mainstream and can be seen everywhere, from the Eich excommunication debacle to the fuckheads Sarah Sharp and Matthew Garrett (mjg59) technicolor poop-spraying on Linux. The staunchly anti-political technology field has become not only politicized but strongly polarized. We need to cut out the social justice cancer without apologies.

CoralineAda (Coralina Ada Ehmke) or at least connections to "her" via "her" hot dumpster file "Contributor Covenant" seem to pop up often in places that subsequently find themselves embroiled in identity politics/feminist/SJW "live and let live as long as you live like we tell you to" controversies. Codes of conduct like hers are often used to marginalize white and male individuals under a patently false veil of equality.

krainboltgreene (Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene) is an aggressive "male feminist" that also makes an occasional appearance when something shitty and smeared with identity politics goes down.

Here, have some links for more reading. I'm getting depressed looking this trash can up and I don't want to dredge up more memories. Read for yourself.

https://github.com/opal/opal/i...
https://github.com/opal/opal/i...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mozil...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918
http://paul-m-jones.com/archiv...

Also, before they get around to replying, fuck AmiMoJo and PopeRatzo in particular. They are prime examples of the burnt crust that needs to be scraped off the Pyrex dish of computing.

Forget Intel chips, use AMD

Yeah, about that...

Other than the fact that it has been extensively security reviewed by independent people...
https://security.stackexchange...
https://www.androidauthority.c...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

https://www.reddit.com/r/consp...

Yeah, they specifically changed the tab-sizing algorithm to make them smaller when you have a lot of tabs which is more like chrome.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74983i/new_minwidth_default_in_todays_nightly/

If that video isn't thunderfoot I'll eat my hat. Hey, look at that, it is him

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futur...

Reddit had this to say today, "If you people would get even half as mad over Net Neutrality as you did with Battlefront II, we might get to keep our nice internet."

Stallman was right from the start, and everyone shut him down as being a crazy loon. I'd re-read 1984, but Amazon deleted it from my eReader.

Your information is out-of-date. You are talking about old school VR from the 90's.

In contradistinction, VR today renders each frame for each eye. And that was THREE years ago.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

"Lastly, NVIDIAâ(TM)s fourth and final latency optimization for VR Direct is VR SLI. And this feature is simple enough: rather than using alternate frame rendering (AFR) to render both eyes at once on one GPU, split up the workload such that each GPU is working on each eye simultaneously. AFR, though highly compatible with traditional monoscopic rendering, introduces additional latency that would be undesirable for VR. By rendering each eye separately on each GPU, NVIDIA is able to apply the performance benefits of SLI to VR without creating additional latency. Given the very high performance and low latencies required for VR, itâ(TM)s currently expected that most high-end games supporting VR headsets will need SLI to achieve their necessary performance, so being able to use SLI without a latency penalty will be an important part of making VR gaming commercially viable."

The Mozilla Foundation is in full on PR attack mode right now. Look at how they respond to users in the Firefox sub-reddit who dare discuss alternatives to keep legacy addons functional. The Firefox team probably realizes that if FF57 isn't a success the whole organization is sunk. The team is probably terrified they are going to lose a significant number of users and not make it up.

Opera committed seppuku when they changed their rendering engine to Chromium and lost all the features that made Opera worth using.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opera...

If you're going to use a Chromium based browser, why not just use Chrome?

You assume that, of course.

Here's the actual user admitting to this on reddit:

1. My brother(left) setup the face id. 2. Unlocks with his face. Does not with mine. 3. I entered the pin with the phone facing me. It it unlocked as expected. 4. Now I locked it again. 5. I raised it up to my face, and it unlocks. 6. It unlocks each time after that with my face

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphon...

So it looks like you are completely wrong. How does that feel?

The difference is that I've also handled the actual device. I've seen the configuration options, I've tried them, and I've unlocked an iPhone X trained on my face with my eyes closed.

So you're the only one here that has touched an iPhone X? You're a sad, pathetic individual.

You assume that, of course.

Here's the actual user admitting to this on reddit:

1. My brother(left) setup the face id. 2. Unlocks with his face. Does not with mine. 3. I entered the pin with the phone facing me. It it unlocked as expected. 4. Now I locked it again. 5. I raised it up to my face, and it unlocks. 6. It unlocks each time after that with my face

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphon...

So it looks like you are completely wrong. How does that feel?

The difference is that I've also handled the actual device. I've seen the configuration options, I've tried them, and I've unlocked an iPhone X trained on my face with my eyes closed.

So you're the only one here that has touched an iPhone X? You're a sad, pathetic individual.

Someone needs to do a Cat Facts bot to keep spammers busy

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRe...

... don't get a laptop for any serious gaming (or even casual gaming beyond casual 'facebook type'). laptops that can play the "AAA" titles (e.g. the titles you buy in the store for $50+ each) are expensive as hell and can't be upgraded as games demand more and more out of the hardware over time.

get a desktop.. aka a "tower". custom built, as the prebuilt oem stuff (from dell, hp, etc) these days is either a) overpriced for what you get (gaming systems) or b) full of proprietary shit that makes them hard to add a video card to (the cheaper ones).

see https://www.reddit.com/r/build... for help and configuration ideas within your budget.

alternatively.. if the desired games are not "pc exclusive", get a console instead of a laptop, or even a desktop, especially if budget is tight. you cannot build a desktop (including things a desktop would need such as an operating system, input devices, and monitor) for less than the cost of a console you can hook up to your already-existing televisions. it can't be done. period. already have a ps4 or xbone? great. you're done.

for school work, whatever chromebook or laptop the school uses or recommends is enough.. perfect, even, because it's what *they* use or recommend.

keep school and 'play' separate, as you would also keep work or financial stuff separate from the gaming/play system.

Are you actually under the insane impression that Gamergate is remotely innocent? Because if so, you should really try what I'm smoking.

The FBI couldn't find any proof, so you tell me. The only proof they found was of 3rd party trolls, that was it. If you think gamergate is responsible for 'harassment' or 'doxing' or whatever bullshit some socjus is pushing, you should really dig into it more. It's kinda like how Sarkeesian cancelled a talk at a university in response to a gun threat(how it was presented to people by the media). The truth is that the state is open-carry, and they refused to comply to any of her demands regarding it. This was then followed up by Kotaku who said there was a bomb threat the day(or two after). Which happened 6 months before that. On the other hand? There's plenty of evidence of the big name anti-gamergate people simply being shitty humans. You've got the list of them who have been convicted by courts for rape/sexual assault, then the others who've been accused. Then the others who called in bomb threats to synagogues. Then there's the others that engaged in doxing and harassment, but that's a whole 'nother topic. I'm sure you might bring up "seattle4truth" but never mind that he'd been banned from every chan board, reddit sub, and ignored by anyone relating to GG roughly 3 months in. Went slowly insane, went anti-gg, and then went full conspiracy retard. But then I can always bring up the anti-gg die-hard feminist who blew his girlfriends head off. So you enjoy that shitshow.

Or you can go visit one of the anti-gg boards on reddit, and enjoy the shitshow of identity politics, active doxing, threats and harassment.

Then, we can get into garbage like this. Where the media is outright lying to you, and blaming gamergate when it didn't even exist yet. Are you paying attention to the bullshit being painted now? It's just like the garbage yesterday with "Trump and a koi pond and the 'international incident'" Never mind that Trump dumped the food in after Abe(who dumped ~1/3 of a box). Go on, watch those videos. It'll only take you 15 minutes, enjoy the lies, enjoy the bullshit while you're at it.

Yes, it does. It's called "AMD Secure Processor" nowadays, but it's better known as PSP (as in "Platform Security Processor", its original name).

GNU tools are required to have a usable system

How so? These reddit users find BusyBox/Linux usable. It's what you get when you replace glibc with uClibc, Newlib, or Bionic, and then drop Bash and Coreutils (GPL) in favor of BusyBox (also GPL, but not part of GNU).

the need for the GNU Compiler Collection to compile the kernel

Clang has been compiling Linux for seven years.

While you were coming up with that, did you stop at all to think about how many very non-capitalist countries are the worst offenders here? Iran, whose economy is 60% centrally planned (which is a wet-dream-come-true in your case) holds the #1 most polluted city in the world, with many other either pure socialist or mostly socialist countries not far behind them. For comparison, the US, which is arguably the most capitalist country in the world, doesn't even have a single city that falls within the top 1,000 polluting cities in the world.

What an epic fail on your part. You aren't very good at thinking, you know. It's best to leave that to the competent people.

As war profiteering, you realize much of this has nothing to do with weapons, right? Even your own link says so. But let's stay on this subject, now that you've brought it up: Which country focused the most effort on building high powered nuclear weapons? (Hint: It wasn't a capitalist one.) And speak of weapons:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/30/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Though I could go on forever; in fact Russia alone does many of these in tandem for different military branches.

But what's the first Google result on this for America?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHi...

I pity those with weak minds like yours...they always end up being somebody's useful idiot.

This is linked from the article:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IPTV/...

Also, please, name a legal cable/satellite company with a package that costs $50.

I think they were underestimating to prove their point. Wrong conclusion, but nice big number.

https://www.reddit.com/r/datai...

I certainly can't detect any latency or compression on my steam link and that's on 100mb cabling. Replace with gigabit and surely one tried and tested cable is better than a load of usb extenders right? Sure I know that steam link isn't a total desktop solution but there are plenty of KVM solutions out there and much discussion on the latency concerns (it appears that there are none) https://www.reddit.com/r/gamin...

Not sure what software issues you are referring to but H264/H265 encoding is done in hardware on modern graphics cards and with a dedicated kvm it doesn't matter anyway.

I'm pretty certain you can get cat6 cable shielded enough to not be affected by power cables!

Yeah the stock market is full of rampant speculation, but I think Wall Street is probably has it right. I know I will be modded down for pointing this out but Coffee Lake is sold out everywhere, Ryzen is not. Although Ryzen has made AMD competitive, most PC builders are still buying Intel.

Given that it took Intel 8 months to add Coffee Lake in between Kaby Lake and Cannon Lake and it took AMD 5 years to develop Ryzen... the situation that happened between 2003-2006 when AMD was the technically superior choice is unlikely to ever happen again. The good news is that Ryzen has made AMD just slightly profitable again, so at least they are no longer in danger of imminent bankruptcy.

A secure laptop should have verified boot because it addresses an attack model that has become more important after the Snowden revelations. We learned that:

  - NSA wants to keep their best exploits secret. For example, it uses more valuable exploits on less technically sophisticated targets who are less likely to discover them.
  - NSA goes to great lengths to achieve persistence, for example hard drive firmware attacks that expose the exploited code the first time a sector is read, at boot, but the original code from then on, when the system is scanned for malware or checksum mismatches.
  - NSA has many BIOS- and firmware-level attacks because it wants persistence even if the OS is wiped and replaced.
  - It's unrealistic to expect we will ever patch all the bugs the NSA knows about.

Verified boot is very powerful in this scenario because, even if you don't know about a bug, it can stop that bug from permitting secret persistence. It drives persistence techniques into the open. For example, to attack ChromeOS and survive a reboot, they may need to install a malware extension, which can be audited from cloud side thus making everyone a technically-sophisticated target.

Intel breaks verified boot with their FSP blob. Verified boot starts with "read only" firmware which contains the verified boot key(*), checks the signature on the read-write firmware and jumps to it. But the processor must be fed the FSP blob before it runs the first instruction, so there's no way to check a signature on the FSP blob. A variety of CPU errata are fixable by updating the FSP blob, so it's prohibitively costly warranty exposure to leave the FSP blob un-updateable by linking it into the read-only firmware.

This undermines the defense ecosystem / attack recovery benefits described above. To get them, all state on the machine needs to fall in one of three categories:

  1. not verified but impossible to change without physical access (ex. "remove the developer screw" on Chrome OS, or the trivial solution of replacing the entire CPU with a backdoored one)
  2. auto-updateable, but verified by boot signature chain
  3. wipeable user data

The first verified-boot key in the chain is in bucket 1, and other keys are in bucket 2. But Intel FSP inserts step 0:

0. CPU and RAM bring-up code: auto-updatable and not verified by boot signature chain.

It undermines the entire purpose of verified boot.

Disabling the ME is not very convincing unless there is some verified-boot way to make sure it stays disabled. The hypothetical persistent attack would simply un-disable the ME, so part of the problem is that it's there at all for an an attack can turn it on: it's a perfect hardware rootkit that can surveil without detection. There is no verified-boot way to disable the ME because of the FSP, so this Purism promise is pretty close to snake oil. They have hand-wavily reduced the attack surface somewhat, so it's not worthless, but it's not enough to fundamentally unbreak Intel's platform security-wise.

AMD has a similar blob called PSP. Many ARM chips also have this problem. FWIH Rockchip does not, so currently I would suggest a Rockchip Chromebook over Purism if security is the goal.

(*) You may have heard verified boot uses TPM. This is to prevent rollback from a current patched version of the OS to an old exploitable version without wiping user data first. The TPM starts in "willing to roll back counter if asked" mode, but before the program running on the CPU exposes its full attack surface, it either wipes userdata or sets the TPM into "only willing to roll forward the counter" mode. The read-only firmware obviously cannot maintain state. The purpose of the TPM is to maintain state with rules, and in this case the "rule" is a fuse that's reset on each reboot.

Reddit's main code is no longer open-source. Sept 1st, 2017) https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...

Where reddit falls apart is in attracting advertisers to pay for it's hosting cost.

Why is that? Lack of imagination? Advertisers love targeted marketing, especially if you can reach the target at the moment they may be open to making a purchase. Reddit is a place where people self-segregate themselves into targetable groups. You don't need to rely on Facebook or Google's guess of what their users are interested in. Each reddit has fairly obvious indicators. Domino's Pizza should be all over r/whoarude. Canon and Nikon could be advertising on the various photo-related reddits. GoPro and Red Bull on r/holdmybeer.

Where reddit falls apart is in attracting advertisers to pay for it's hosting cost.

Why is that? Lack of imagination? Advertisers love targeted marketing, especially if you can reach the target at the moment they may be open to making a purchase. Reddit is a place where people self-segregate themselves into targetable groups. You don't need to rely on Facebook or Google's guess of what their users are interested in. Each reddit has fairly obvious indicators. Domino's Pizza should be all over r/whoarude. Canon and Nikon could be advertising on the various photo-related reddits. GoPro and Red Bull on r/holdmybeer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Peopl...

In reality, both parties are essentially the same

Well, almost, perhaps?

Firstly, who in their right mind would check a laptop. I mean come on. Who the heck would let expensive electronics out of their site at an airport...

secondly, last time i flew a few months ago i had to declare that there were no lithium ion batteries in my checked bags. They were worried about things like e-cigarettes if i recall the examples of banned items from checked bags..

Mind you this was in canada, so maybe its different.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Canad...

someone else discusses the same thing above.

I find it quite unlikely that this ISN'T the full-scale engine, seeing that the first flight version is supposed to have 1.7 MN at 25 MPa and they're now in the 20 MPa range or so. They were at 1 MN a year ago.

They have yet to test the full-scale engine. See recent Musk response here to a question about the status of scaling up the Raptor.

After you account for everything there is still a gap. It's smaller than the uncontrolled gap of course, but it's still a significant gap. Headline figure is 2.4%, which is equivalent to working nearly 9 days a year for free, and it's worse in some industries.

Detailed analysis: https://www.payscale.com/data-...

Q/A session that probably anticipates most of your rebuttals: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

Note however that the controlled gap, comparing like-for-like in terms of experience, time worked, age, education, children etc. doesn't tell the whole story. For women there is less opportunity to reach that same level and then get paid 2.4% less. Not just women either, it can affect men who are in some groups such as those with disabilities or who are widowed.

And yet you still fail to account for how individuals negotiate their priorities, etc. Some take lower pay on purpose in trade-off for other benefits - this is extremely true of many women, especially those that have children, and the others in the group you mentioned (those with disabilities or caring for someone elderly or with disabilities). As I said - once you take *all* the factors into play, there is *no* pay gap, or at least not one that is statistically significant.

Also, a 2.4% difference would fall within normative ranges deltas, and can be accounted for numerous things - from work-life balance to performance, etc.

As to opportunities - it's a matter of what you make of it. I've transitioned from being "at the office" to WFH. The opportunities for advancement have significantly changed as a result; yet it's a matter of what I do - how I engage, etc - both within my team, and within the company as a whole that makes the difference in advancement opportunities.

After you account for everything there is still a gap. It's smaller than the uncontrolled gap of course, but it's still a significant gap. Headline figure is 2.4%, which is equivalent to working nearly 9 days a year for free, and it's worse in some industries.

Detailed analysis: https://www.payscale.com/data-...

Q/A session that probably anticipates most of your rebuttals: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

Note however that the controlled gap, comparing like-for-like in terms of experience, time worked, age, education, children etc. doesn't tell the whole story. For women there is less opportunity to reach that same level and then get paid 2.4% less. Not just women either, it can affect men who are in some groups such as those with disabilities or who are widowed.

Oh and if you're wondering?

This was taken a couple of days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/minne...

While searching for a generic image classification solution I happened to stumble over a project called miles-deep, a "Deep Learning Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Caffe". I have tried it out once (for strictly academic purposes, of course) and it yielded some interesting results. The classification of the acts from a test movie was not perfect, but some of the classifications were correct. It even gave information about what time into the movie a defined act started and when it ended. The project's author seems to be active on the site that shall not be named around here.

Presumably they just bought it from https://www.reddit.com/r/micro... like the rest of us?

Burning Chrome
(atmospheric lead-in)
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/3s4xju/the_sky_above_the_port_was_the_color_of/

Purism exceeds $1 million in funding for Librem 5 Linux-based smartphone

"The most popular mobile operating system on the planet, Android, is already based on Linux, but with Google in charge of it, many consumers cannot depend on it for privacy. With that said, Purism is planning to fight the impossible fight against Android and iOS with the "Librem 5" smartphone. This is a device that will run a privacy-focused Linux-based OS called "Pure OS," but the hardware is wide open for any OS, really. Purism is trying to raise $1.5 million through crowdfunding, and earlier today, it reached a significant milestone -- $1 million! Maybe the fight isn't impossible after all..." - via BetaNews

In the news:

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

Purism exceeds $1 million in funding for Librem 5 Linux-based smartphone

"The most popular mobile operating system on the planet, Android, is already based on Linux, but with Google in charge of it, many consumers cannot depend on it for privacy. With that said, Purism is planning to fight the impossible fight against Android and iOS with the "Librem 5" smartphone. This is a device that will run a privacy-focused Linux-based OS called "Pure OS," but the hardware is wide open for any OS, really. Purism is trying to raise $1.5 million through crowdfunding, and earlier today, it reached a significant milestone -- $1 million! Maybe the fight isn't impossible after all..." - via BetaNews

In the news:

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

That said... All people I've met who picked up a Windows Phone, figured them out quickly.

That's not at all what Microsoft's own UX designer found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/windo...

But you know what was a thousand times worse? Going on site, handing someone a Windows Phone, and watching them universally struggle with it.

--snip--

The stark look of Windows Phone seemed to turn off more people than fell in love with it. I know here in this forum we're all fans but in the mainstream marketing was only one problem. Apps was another. But the biggest one was lack of relevance. People didn't understand why they should care. A lot of people said it looked like a nice phone, but it wasn't for them.

Furthermore, we have empirical data to suggest that metro's design concepts really don't work that well:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
https://www.nngroup.com/articl...

And the Microsoft UX designer I mentioned above also had this to say:

This isn't a popular opinion on this particular forum, but the interaction patterns in Android and iOS are better designed (at least compared to 7). You can disagree, you can say I'm a fanboy, whatever, I don't mind.

But get into the labs and watch people use all three platforms. There's data here that not everyone is privy to, but that doesn't make it less true. There are some real weaknesses in the old Metro patterns.

So yeah, you can say, without a shadow of doubt, that Windows Phone has a crap UI.

A bunch of GPIO, without a way to run them in realtime. Or is there a subprocessor or something I can use for super accurate timing?

Yeah, an Arduino Pro Mini/Micro. Because when you want super accurate timing, you want a coprocessor. Sadly, there's nothing like that actually onboard the Pi's SoC. Happily, an Arduino costs bugger all, and you can program it from the Pi. (Yes, how annoying that they didn't bother to implement DTR in the serial driver. Yes, you could add it in the serial driver on the GPIO pin of your choice, if you cared enough.)

The other benefit is that it makes it a lot less likely that you will fry your Pi with GPIO.

Facebook banned Bosch Fawstin, winner of the Draw Mohammed contest that was attacked by terrorists

Facebook censored war correspondant Michael Yon

Facebook bans Arab atheist pages

Facebook banned Anonymous Germany for posting police statistics about immigrant crime

Facebook suspended a Dutch MP for criticizing Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Facebook suspended Syrian blogger PartisanGirl for making fun or ISIS

Facebook banned a guy for calling the Muslim Brotherhood liars

Facebook banned a liberal Muslim Shireen Qudosi for insulting a member of the Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR.

Facebook suspended Stop Islamization of America for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned Gaystream for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned a researcher for reporting on crime by Muslim immigrants in Sweden

Facebook censors a news article exposing the racist words of a Muslim activist.

Facebook finds that the page Stab Zionists meets their community standards and refuses to remove it.

If someone wants to look for foreign interference in Facebook, they should start with the moderation staff.

Uh no. Most countries do not build their own pickup trucks. They might have pickup trucks built there, but the most popular brands in the world (in order) are Ford, Chevrolet, and Toyota. Essentially all the pickup trucks on the planet are made by one of those three companies.

International popularity of the F-150, Ranger, and Silverado is massive. I don't know where this myth about American trucks not selling worldwide came from, but it is bullshit. Our pickup trucks are the most popular in the world, because they are the best. People talk a lot of shit about Toyotas but they don't build anything made to do work at the level of an F-Series or even a Silverado. The next step up from a full-size, full-fat American pickup truck like a 3/4 ton or 1 ton diesel is a much heavier vehicle, like a Unimog.

As for the chicken tax harming American auto buyers, it really hasn't. In fact, arguably, it's done the opposite. In the recent lull in American mid-size truck production, people bought plenty of Japanese mid-size trucks which were actually produced here in the USA. The Chicken Tax actually has helped preserve or even create American jobs! The only vehicles to which it applies are light trucks, and even then only ones for cargo and not for passengers. We've got a 2006 Sprinter T1N and Mercedes has to drop the front subframe and ship the vehicle and the engine+front suspension separately to dodge the tax. But passenger vans just get sent over fully completed, even though they're the same vehicle with holes cut out and windows slapped into 'em. The truth about the chicken tax is that it is not arduous to dodge around its requirements, and also that its requirements only affect a minority of buyers.

There is one group of people who were harmed slightly by the chicken tax: people who bought Toyota pickups before about 2015 or 2016. I'm not sure which year it was, but in one of those years they finally started sharing drivetrain parts between the HiLux (the international model of pickup) and the American pickups. Parts sharing is important to parts availability, and the HiLux parts in question were also stronger.

I came across this Reddit discussion for their entry in the hyperloop competition. It includes a spreadsheet and comments about various failure modes and mitigations. page 1, page 2.

I came across this Reddit discussion for their entry in the hyperloop competition. It includes a spreadsheet and comments about various failure modes and mitigations. page 1, page 2.

It feels like it was only two years ago or so that people were stocking up on GPUs to mine bitcoins and selling strawberries that had been dried using the heat of their computer. About a year later, "oh that's not powerful enough. now you have to have this specially designed ASIC computer to do your mining." Now you're telling me people can't even mine bitcoins in their houses anymore, but they have to build or buy a datacenter?

In another two years "oh, only the vacuum of space can cool the Zafflebrox computers needed to mine bitcoins. good luck with your i7."

"gab is a free platform without draconian censorship enforcement."

Hahahahahaha oh you blind stupid bastard....

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...

And yet man in jail for refusing to reveal PIN
https://www.reddit.com/r/priva...

Sadly in the USA, it is might be better to not help the victim. This is due to how their legal system allow victim to sue the helper, and how the victim in the USA mentality willing to sue the helper. (search on google, you'll know 1, 2, 3)

So if you helped someone in the USA, you can be sued even if you are genuinely trying to help to save lives. it might be better to "Let the people die".

Who can you trust?

99% of AV is Proprietary Software!

(The rare exception(s), 1%, like clamav, ClamWin, etc?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stall...

"With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. " -- rms*

[*] it really is that simple

Now if you're willing to play the game and install AV software, go nuts and install as many as you can from around the world to air gapped systems and see if you can find any type of APT infections from other (and/or your) nation(s) and collect your prize!