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As long as your network traffic is sanitary before it hits the baseband (Tor, VPN, or something you trust) you're good on that end. A better design would be to have three settings for the mic: baseband, app processor, killed, so you could run the audio path through free software as well (VoIP). The idea is to minimize what the baseband is doing in the system, and assume it's malicious. It's hard to duplicate PhD person years on the signal processing side, and, if you get that far, then navigate the IP minefield.

This is a form of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

You'll find about ~5% (depending on source) of people have severe difficulties feeling empathy towards fellow humans, let alone animals.

Former 2600 owner, and aspiring current owner (although Arturia is keeping the itch scratched for now), I think this would be viable for Korg. TTSH kits were around for a while. You could get one built for 3500, 1000 for parts. Korg purchasing could probably do way better.

Oliver Stone's Wall Street was not an instruction manual.

Cutting a business off from the financial system seems like a fairly harsh punishment for plagiarism, especially when there are other routes for a remedy. We may never know if that was the reason, though, so it's hard to measure whether justice was done or not.

Did you continue to get billed for it?

Good incentive to get your social credit score up.

> To be honest I've never noticed the filter bubble everybody is talking about with Google.

Filter bubbles are personalized, so YMMV.

For most of the 20th century, parts of Minneapolis and surrounding areas had racially restrictive deed covenants which prevented the sale or rental of property to people of color. So, those neighborhoods they were trying to save may have a legacy of structural racism.

Examples and interactive map here: https://www.mappingprejudice.org/

I do care about privacy in all rooms, so is it 100% open source? Couldn't tell from the website.

Depends on where you live, I guess. Bitcoin is popular in Venezuela.

I remember reading about 147M$ bitcoin transfer (~195k BTC, would be much more today). [1] As the reference says:

"On the bitcointalk forums, some users were less interested in the owners’ identity and more impressed by the infrastructure that allowed such an amount to be transferred without any regulatory hindrance, lawyers, or fees (the user paid no transaction fee at all). Even handing over that amount in hard cash would be a logistical challenge."

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/194993-btc-transaction-147m-mystery...

> (that is somewhat backed by my government)

I think you've identified one of the advantages of bitcoin. There's no counterparty risk, ie bail-ins. This is the commodity gold replacement use case where the carry on Bitcoin is lower and paid by others.

I wonder if how Julian releases the primary source material is in line with his scientific journalism [1] practices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_journalism

As you probably know, short sellers and researchers have been teaming up (one example) [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/business/dealbook/hedge-f...

Ouch [1]

I like the cut of whoever sent 0.00000666 BTC's jib.

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15ZHnf1MPn6ybb8yUeAoC...

Had 2 clicky model M's, now have 2 K70s - K70 has everything I loved about the M. With the K70, you've got the 4 different kinds of switches (linear/non haptics, clicky/not) - I'm on the red, linear, non-clicky. The build quality (made in Germany) is definitely solid. I've been driving LEDs from my .vimrc - that's a trick the M couldn't do.

> What Totrov came up with were 26 unchanging indicators as a model for identifying U.S. intelligence officers overseas.

Terrible. That's a lot of signal.

> There is a demand for these, even though they become very expensive toys fast.

'EuroCrack' is the term I've heard bandied about ;)

Great explanation, thank you!

Good way to spend the weekend, I totally get it :) I was thinking that constexpr has been around since 11 (17 has if-constexpr, but I didn't see any of those). Were there particular features of 17 that you were able to benefit from?

May be affirming the consequent here.

That was the HST modulation training. Gets me every time. Wish I still had my courier dual just for the sound ;)

It looks like the needle has only moved slightly over time, although, there's a lot less left to the imagination or relegated to tin-foil hat territory.

Pew research gives a good lay of the land for the US [1]

The tldr: 70% believe it's for a purpose other than stated, 25% have changed the way they interact with technology, 27% believe content is being snarfed, 57% disapprove of use on US citizens.

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/06/04/how-american...

> hardware geeks worldwide searching like it was Willy Wonka's final golden ticket.

The stuff of dreams for security researchers.

Pensions needed to reach for yield with the fed funds rate scraping zero for the better part of a decade.

> Pension funds should have steady, modest gains year over year and minimize risk of dips as much as possible.

This is what hedge funds were built for - hedging.

Bill's putting his money where his mouth is with investments in Beyond Meat and Memphis Meats (meat alternative startups).

This surprised me:

"If suspect fuel tubes are installed, the part will be removed and replaced. If known good fuel tubes are already installed, then those aircraft will be returned to flight status."

How do they not know this? What if we were at war?

Now they can queue up some multi-billion dollar contracts to fix it. I'm in the wrong business.