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Spooks··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
While bad in sensitive systems, breaking things seems preferable to blatantly giving account information to another country.

> There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers.

Spooks··on Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author
The activities are mindless. Cutting grass, shoveling snow, cleaning the house, gardening, painting, and going on a run. Sure, I'll get distracted by something and need to rewind it back in 20 seconds, but that happens in books, and I'll need to re-read a page.
Spooks··on Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers
That does sounds great. Though I'd imagine trying to retro fit plumbing for each apartment would be a nightmare
Spooks··on LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
but... you can post on HN pretty anonymously if you wanted, so that is a bit different
Spooks··on Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake
"The Japanese firm paid $21.15 per share for around 1.4 million shares"

That is some decent profit

Spooks··on Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone
At least for me, I don't do banking on my phone and my main email is not tied to my phone.
Spooks··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
>have the means to create a vaccine and so save the planet

is that true though? Aren't a lot of diseases being worked on in labs without the means to cure them yet

Spooks··on Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone
HN is a pretty minimal site though - it is just a message board.
Spooks··on Is carbon capture a viable solution?
Would the increase in investment have a better chance to facilitate research and development? As with more research comes the possibility of a better capture rate down the road
Spooks··on Why I chose Electron.js for my side business
I started working with C++ several months ago, mostly due to curiosity.

Though I haven't done anything that I would consider extremely complex, memory corruption seems easy enough to deal with by planning.

Maybe because it is so ingrained as whenever I heard discussions of C++, memory (de)allocation and memory corruption was always the first thing people talked about. Dealing with de-allocation feels like closing a curly brace, almost automatic.

Spooks··on Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML
I think because seeing someone's face is more important than seeing their background
Spooks··on AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
Intel current platform does not support PCI4 though, if that is important to you, you will need a new mobo anyways.

Also I don't think many people are going to upgrade from intel 10th gen to intel 11th gen, assuming gen 12 will have DDR5 (worth skipping a gen)

Spooks··on DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
I like to grab RAM towards the end of the generation, so far it has been the best bang for my buck (for my personal computer). From the production estimates, looks like I'll jump into DDR5 at the end of 2023 or most likely 2024
Spooks··on USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
Charging is fine, the issue is using under wattage 3rd party docks or using a bad charger for the dock while playing, as it pull more power when it is in dock mode.

Charging it has never been an issue for anyone and this is the first I heard being a charging issue

Spooks··on Social Cooling (2017)
Well that is always an option, which I have thought about. I would basically need to remove my entire family and a large amount of friends (not low-quality friends, they are just educated in other areas).

Once I realized that, it was easier to just delete facebook, and keep in touch with my close friends and people that are in similar studies to myself by using group chat messages, emails or just face to face (not so much this option in 2020)

Spooks··on Social Cooling (2017)
In terms of a social media site, what you are saying sounds exhausting. Having a couple of friends with different opinions is great, having like 100+ people not educated in certain topics, all with their own opinion is where it kind of breaks.

You mentioned Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scolia, they were both well versed in law and justice, so it makes sense even if their opinions are different, they can respect each other.

Spooks··on Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
I would definitely want more app stores on my game console. Sometimes the deals are just not there, for PC it has a lot of options, and it has been good for consumers, Epic store has been giving away free games like it was going out of business
Spooks··on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
For sure, also any of the news crews that were shot in the camera with rubber bullets were dangerously close to being seriously injured or death.

The below study would also assume not all the shots were head shots, aiming at a camera is the same as aiming at the head.

"The injuries in 90 patients caused by rubber bullets are described. There was 1 death and 17 people in the series had permanent disabilities or deformities. In 41 patients the injuries necessitated admission to hospital. One fatality outside this series is known. Injuries to the head and neck were frequent and severe."

source: https://archive.vn/20130106045139/http://www3.interscience.w...

Spooks··on Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies
I wonder if we did these preliminary tests with the flu if we would see a large death rate drop for influenza as well
Spooks··on Barnes and Noble’s new plan is to act like an indie bookseller
One main perk of amazon or online is the reviews. Now I don't just go by review alone (I have read some 3/5 books that I really enjoyed), but they definitely put more weight on my decision than looking at covers or spine of books.
Spooks··on The Korean Clusters: How coronavirus cases exploded in Korean churches/hospitals
If this was a new strand of the flu then I could understand what you are saying, but now we will have the flu which as you said many people die from, and we will have a new virus (nobody has immunity to) which many people will die as well, especially once this virus fully spreads across the globe.

Now I don't think extreme panic is a good, but fear on a certain level could help. I am in a major city and I have seen a lot better hygiene practices from civilians and businesses in the last couple of weeks.

Spooks··on Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
I agree, I never understood that argument. We have a fairly large and wonderful kids hospital that looks for donations and some of my friends said they wouldn't donate because their CEO makes 500k and he should donate his money instead.

I had to explain you want to recruit great talent, and that 500k is less than he could make some place else.

Spooks··on A small DIY air purifier
couldn't you easily test this by sticking your hand (wet it first) in the middle section of the filter and see if you feel any air coming through
Spooks··on Coin washer keeps Westin St. Francis' change shiny (2010)
I would imagine a lot more time consuming. Driving to the bank and waiting in line takes time
Spooks··on State of JavaScript 2019
Just started working with the new Redux Toolkit package and it is really good in terms of simplifying things.
Spooks··on FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes
what about...

sorry, whataboutism is not helpful or does not add any extra info into the current discussion. It actually tries to devalue the current discussion.

Smart TVs is a very established and popular device, so a study showing how it is a security concern is definitely helpful

Spooks··on Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology on its platforms
and as the article states - that argument is weak
Spooks··on Drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display (2018)
Panic and disorientation from fireworks noise can impact wildlife and domestic animals. Firework explosions do not last long enough for animals to become accustomed to the sound. I see the lack of explosion noise as a plus
Spooks··on Ex-World of Warcraft developer's thread about China and the gaming industry
I think you are selling gamers short. Star Wars battlefront 2 controversy lasted a fairly long time from what I remember, and still talked about to this day.
Spooks··on .NET Core 3.0
C# developer here. I picked up Java very quickly... most other OOP languages comes pretty easily as well, after learning the syntax that is.

But I definitely lean on the intellisense of the IDE fairly regularly, I don't think I would completely lost, but it would take me longer.

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