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New comment by 21 in "You Can Now Run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi 3"

21 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:15:57 +0000

Technically you are pirating.

New comment by 21 in "Nostalgia and fun with calculators"

21 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:18:02 +0000

This article reminded me of this classic:

https://i.imgur.com/fYuWMTq.jpg

New comment by 21 in "Canada's forests emit more carbon than they absorb"

21 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:23:49 +0000

Right now they don't even account for the factories in its territory...

New comment by 21 in "El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown"

21 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:22:25 +0000

That is a valid defense.

But he had plenty of opportunities of doing something about it.

New comment by 21 in "3 years later, IntelliJ is still unusably slow on macOS with a 4K display"

21 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:04:31 +0000

Fortunately Electron apps don't have this problem, since their UI is GPU accelerated.

New comment by 21 in "The Chinese fascination with numbers"

21 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:27:05 +0000

> to never flush toilet paper

Interesting note.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-people-not-flush-down-toilet-pa...

New comment by 21 in "IE is a 'compatibility solution', to be used selectively, warns Microsoft exec"

21 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:55:19 +0000

All aboard the Chrome train.

New comment by 21 in "Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues"

21 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:22:18 +0000

> It's also OSS and it is much easier to surface security bugs for Linux than for Windows.

Shouldn't then the number of bugs decrease much faster, since they are easier to find? Unless they are introduced at even a greater rate than the ones in Windows.

New comment by 21 in "Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues"

21 — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:16:21 +0000

And it has MORE reported CVEs than Windows:https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php?year=2018

New comment by 21 in "Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory safety issues"

21 — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:14:16 +0000

It's about increasing the costs to the attacker.

Now a Windows/browser zero-day requires months of research and can be sold for $100k+.

New comment by 21 in "Microsoft Ironically Proves Forced Windows Updates Don’t Make Any Sense"

21 — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:45:08 +0000

This argument is like saying that "vaccines are not necessary because as we can see, few people get infected"

New comment by 21 in "The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted"

21 — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:38:02 +0000

The problem is integrating it into the existing skeleton. Our arms are not just glued to the body, they integrate with the shoulder.

New comment by 21 in "The first dexterous and sentient hand prosthesis has been successfully implanted"

21 — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:27:52 +0000

Where do you attach a third arm?

New comment by 21 in "A thermostat company shut down every thermostat in the middle of a cold night"

21 — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:04:18 +0000

This guy complains, but he is the one who bought a Internet connecting thermostat. Darwin effect at work here.

New comment by 21 in "Ask HN: Which 5 investments of £1k each should I make?"

21 — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 19:37:56 +0000

10 years later, millions of percents higher, still waiting for the final collapse to zero.

New comment by 21 in "Does Jeff Bezos Have a Legal Case Against the National Enquirer?"

21 — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:09:03 +0000

The article explains why, because sometimes this kind of thing is needed and good:

> This reasoning is why, for example, a lawyer can send someone a letter saying their client will agree to settle a lawsuit if certain terms are met.

New comment by 21 in "Does Jeff Bezos Have a Legal Case Against the National Enquirer?"

21 — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 13:59:58 +0000

Read the emails carefully, and remember they were written by lawyers. It didn't seem to reach the level of criminal blackmail to me. Experts quoted in the article agree.

If they do however publish the picture everyone talks about, I'm pretty sure they will be destroyed just like Gawker was in the Hulk Hogan case.

New comment by 21 in "Child abuse images hidden in crypto-currency block chain"

21 — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:29:05 +0000

To use your own argument, "child porn being illegal didn't work for stopping child porn, did it"?

The second huge fallacy (you are also making it) is that the government wants to ban crypto, but is afraid of saying it and comes up with all kinds of contrived tactics.

New comment by 21 in "Child abuse images hidden in crypto-currency block chain"

21 — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:16:01 +0000

Well, in that case embedding child porn on it will not help either, would it? I was just highlighting the massive fallacy of parent.

New comment by 21 in "Child abuse images hidden in crypto-currency block chain"

21 — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:45:17 +0000

No, the easiest for the government to destroy blockchain is to just declare it illegal.