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Do a bit better research. It stands for Phrack World News in this context. I also read Phrack back in the day as well.

How about trying to search through all the Phrack articles to find the use of the word "pwn" that doesn't refer to Phrack World News? Spoiler alert: you won't find any usage of "pwn" or "pwned" until well past 2000. If it was so much part of hacker culture you would have seen a reference in the earlier articles, but you don't.

Likewise, my good friend.

As an engineer you need to know how to be efficient with code. Not every single test case needs to be handled otherwise your code becomes unwieldy and brittle. Sometimes it's okay to handle an exception, write to the log so that you can detect something went wrong, and move on.

Back in the day, I played Counter-strike, Quake, Warcraft, Doom (I played PvP against people in my dorm using modem using IPX protocol pre-Internet). The first place I saw it was definitely Counter-strike. My guess is that it originated in CS and then leaked out from there.

Nope. It 100% came from Counter-strike. There was a typo in one of the messages and that's how it got famous.

I think people should get in the habit of deleting all their convos that are more than a month old. Most convos are 99.99% worthless, and it's very freeing to be rid of them.

One of my friends had her H1B cancelled and was given a 10 year ban from entering the US because of her text messages. When she crossed the border back into the US, the border guards requested her phone, and searched it and found messages to her ex-bf about marrying him for a green card. She was joking but it didn't matter and she had to fly back to her country of origin that she didn't live in since she was a kid. Since then, even though I don't have anything to worry about, as a habit I delete all my apps except iMessage and delete all my conversations there.

I love how the term "pwn" came from Counterstrike culture back when I was playing it at the turn of the century, and it's still in use today.

He's morally responsible, but is he criminally responsible? Not according to the law. Plus, the direct analogy is that he would be responsible at the time of releasing the prisoner, before someone gets killed. That's why to me this verdict is ridiculous.

You aren't culpable today. You are culpable when the people die. You can't be charged for negligence causing death if those deaths haven't happened yet.

But the harm hasn't happened yet.

That's like prosecuting Tesla right now for their Autopilot before anyone has been killed because of their faulty software.

How can you prove that expanding the mine actually caused any damages to the environment? With a chemical plant, if it leaks waste and poisons a nearby river, the damages are very real and easy to understand.

Expanding a mine that doesn't directly cause damages but increases CO2 doesn't have direct damages that you measure because it's global. Even with something like Fukushima, you can measure the damage it did to Japan, but what about all the radioactive waste it is leaking into the Pacific? How do you measure that catastrophe? Can you even prove that it has done any damage, even though it's obvious?

I believe in strong environmental laws, but the idea that you have to protect people from "future harm" is absurd. How exactly do you do that? I understand that this is in Australia so their laws may be different, but the idea that you can sue someone because of possible future damage is legislating predicting the future.

In SF, when the DA refuses to prosecute a criminal and that criminal goes on to kill another person, did that DA fail to protect that victim from future harm? How far does this protection from the future go on?

The idea also seems to go in the face of abortion, because a fetus will grow into a human. So does that mean that you need to protect the fetus from harm now because it will be a person in the future?

There are just too many absurd situations that this result opens up, I agree that we need strong environmental laws but this is going too far into prophecy and fortune telling and opens up a lot of unintended consequences of what it means to "protect the future".

What LeetCode does really, really well is have a ton of test cases and chances are you will fail one of them and will have to try again. So they may explain a problem to you, but they never tell you the edge cases. For example, question #2 is adding two numbers where each digit of the number is a node of linked list. Simple things like carrying a 1 is easy to forget, but then you need to deal with other edge cases, like what if the lists aren't the same size, etc.

So in terms of testing and finding edge cases to handle, it's really eye opening how deep you may need to go. When I do LeetCode, I try to write my program once and if I fail a test case, I consider my attempt a failure and move onto the next question.

But otherwise, it doesn't make you a better overall programmer. There's no incentive to write maintainable code, and you're incentivized to get the code running as quickly as possible by trying to shave off milliseconds, which usually don't matter as much in real world situations.

They can still spend that cash though. It's just an accounting formality.

Have they delivered ANY of the features of FSD? Is even Summon out of Beta? I have a Model 3 but I refused to pay for basically a Kickstarter version of FSD. For the purposes of revenue recognition, they can't claim any of the revenues until the features they promised are delivered. But the fact that it has been years is still shocking to me. How have they avoided getting a class action lawsuit? And the fact that they admitted that their "FSD" is only Level 2 is mind blowing. Some of the statements by Elon are borderline fraudulent, if not fraudulent, like how he expects the price of FSD to be worth more than $100k.

And this seems to be par for the course for Tesla. If you look at what they've done with Solar Roof, they have increased prices by 50% for people who already have signed contracts. It's blatantly illegal and yet they are fearless in trying to trick people into cancelling their contracts. Hopefully the current class action lawsuit for Solar Roof gets traction because it's incredible to me that Tesla behaves like this and doesn't get their ass handed to them in court.

I'm a staunch Democrat, but the Kavanaugh accusations were absurd and angering to me. There was nothing there to back her allegations at all. The witness she said was there, her friend, said she didn't remember the incident. She couldn't even remember where the alleged assault took place. She even got the year wrong and had to backtrack to a "more correct" date range later on.

I think she has some form of false memory syndrome, which would explain why she believes so strongly that this event happened, but she has absolutely not even a single atom of proof.

It's funny that a letter signed by 65 (SIXTY FIVE) women all stating that he was a gentleman was completely ignored by the media. The media hones in on a single woman who claims sexual assault with no evidence, meanwhile there are 65 women willing to testify on his behalf. It's incredible to me. If he were a predator, wouldn't you think there would be a single woman in the 40 years since this alleged assault would have come out?

> Treasury can't just set a price and expect people to pay

The Federal Reserve is the largest purchaser of UST, so effectively yes, they can. As long as QE is happening, and as long as the rest of the world doesn't stop calling USTs "risk-free assets", it won't ever stop. If somehow the US loses its grip on that status, though, all bets are off.

We have seen massive inflation in asset prices. Just look at housing and the stock market, both of which took off after the Financial Crisis. This is the primary cause of the massive income inequality we see these days, because poor people can't afford houses and stocks but upper middle class and wealthy people can and do.

The Fed will do WHATEVER it takes to prevent house price deflation. They've already shown this during the Financial Crisis. Too much of the economy and financial system is based on house prices, there's no way that they can ever afford to see house prices decline in our lifetime.

Economists like Bernanke have talked about dropping money from helicopters in the sky, in order to prevent deflation.

What the government has done in the last year with its $10+ trillion in stimulus, is the exact definition of dropping money from helicopters and yet no one is pointing this out.

Which means we must have narrowly averted a truly horrific situation as a country. The fact that everyone keeps talking about more stimulus means that the government knows more than we do, and the risk of deflation still remains high.

I think what OP is suggesting is to go out 1 min the first day, 2 mins the second day, etc, until you have built up enough melanin in your skin and have a natural defense against it.

> What does it mean to own a widely shared digital content, if you don't have the copyright to it?

Therein lies the question. It's basically selling a digital derivative of something that gives you no rights besides owning that derivative itself.

Is there anything saying that the copyright owner can't sell another NFT to a competing NFT blockchain? What if people start using different NFTs for the same digital good?

I've never seen this video before, and I've been on the Internet since the mid-90s.

It doesn't make sense to take down the video though, because it's the views that make it more valuable.

Listen to the people you want to influence.

Get in their heads, and understand their point of view.

Be smart enough to know how to bridge the gap between where they are in their thinking, and where you want them to be.

I have an older version of Ultraedit (probably 10 years old now). I believe in supporting software developers but I will NEVER pay for a yearly subscription of $80/yr for any piece of software unless it's being expensed by my employer. That's way too expensive once you start using it for a couple of years. $20-30/yr like Sublime is more appropriate. I also have purchased Sublime Text will pay for v4 as well.

Wasn't Google supposed to have some sort of AI that could make phone calls for you? It looked amazing when they demo'ed it but I haven't heard diddly squat since then. Did they cancel that project?

Are you only believing what you read in the media or do you know people that actually work at Amazon? The fact that Amazon employees in a warehouse rejected unionization speaks volumes. And I know plenty of Amazon engineers that love working there.

To put it in perspective, there may be employees that hate working at Amazon, but there are also 100,000 employees. If only 10% of the employees hated working there, that's still 10,000 employees. But a 90% satisfaction rate for any company is amazingly high.

What's the point? After reading all the evidence, people such as myself firmly believe that it came from the Wuhan lab. Nothing the inquiry will come up with convince me otherwise. It's pretty obvious once you read all of the unbiased articles that show that months earlier, the same research facilities and scientists were touting their research in gain-of-function in bat coronaviruses. I mean come on!

Bureacracies like WHO will NEVER EVER say that it came from a Chinese lab. The "inquiry" will say that it's unlikely and try to bury the issue, and then it will just keep popping its head out in news articles that get ultimately ignored.

The Phoenix lights were easily explained by flares that disappeared behind mountains.

I replaced my toilet by myself, after watching a few dozen youtube videos. I was so scared because I'm a germophobe but $250 was too much for me not to try.

The internal warmth from the glow of saving that money instead of hiring a plumber lasted at least 3 days.