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psykovsky··on Street View, North Korea
Doesn't google/bing maps have NK satellite photos? We could always verify the CIA number to a great extent if said imagery exists.

EDIT: Gotta love the fog/haze over Pyongyang on Google Maps

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pyongyang,+Coreia+do+Norte...

psykovsky··on Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn
Dude, I bet those protocols were invented by humans. Humans mostly do destructive stuff. They're definitely very dangerous.
psykovsky··on Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people
Just click around until you find what you need. You even get to know the entire app if you do that. You're not going to blast a nuke or kill someone by clicking, after all.
psykovsky··on How famous people rate Google Play Store apps
Ah, I know what you are talking about. It's just that I use the appstore to search for apps I need/want. I never browse the homepage or the categories and recommendations, etc. Different uses, different experiences, I guess.
psykovsky··on Ask HN: How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?
There is no anti-virus against human stupidity.
psykovsky··on Ask HN: How do I put together a computer for my blind mom?
The Microsoft Security Essentials bit would be very true if they didn't end up installing other crapware AV's on top of it, which happens more often than not, at least on the Windows computers I get my hands on. And even using more than one AV they still manage to get their browsers hijacked, etc.
psykovsky··on How famous people rate Google Play Store apps
The play store on my phone never nags me to rate apps. The apps themselves, yes, but not the play store.
psykovsky··on Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it
Doesn't git use hashes also? The old hash could redirect to the new "commit" hash, keeping the cycle and allowing for updates at the same time. One of those updates could be the page "changelog".
psykovsky··on Real programmers can do these problems easily–author posts wrong solution to #4
Take out the ref=hn from the URL. Somebody forgot the '?', it seems ;)
psykovsky··on Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspicions
Officially he's not supposed to know and that was the unofficial excuse they gave him before he started asking too many questions. And then he gave you the information he wasn't even supposed to have, facing unemployment and disciplinary actions. How naive can you be?
psykovsky··on [dead]
Can't unsee!
psykovsky··on Cody Wilson, Who Posted Gun Instructions Online, Sues State Department
Reflective sunglasses, maybe
psykovsky··on Court says Skype's name is too similar to Sky's
Classic case of US interests having a thing for successful European technology companies.
psykovsky··on Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop
I guess a lot of them. I've seen it live, and I don't get out much.
psykovsky··on Tarsnap performance issues in late March, most of April
What if the disappointment is a surprise?
psykovsky··on Google Says More Searches Now on Mobile Than on Desktop
That is not surprising at all. Most of people who use the Internet on mobile don't even now what a browser is, much less a domain name. They search every site they want to visit, even if they just needed to add .com to their search term to open the site straight away in the browser. The "Internet" is the google search box.
psykovsky··on Court says Skype's name is too similar to Sky's
Skype was successful way before being an American company.
psykovsky··on How to Beat a Polygraph Test
>> The polygraph foremost is a way to arbitrarily filter people for reasons that interviewer would rather not reveal, and secondly to select for people willing to put up with the theatrics of procedures while being indifferent to their supposed purpose.

That... That was beautiful!

psykovsky··on The Medical Bill Mystery
You sound like an insurance company talking.
psykovsky··on The Grooveshark Settlement [pdf]
From what I understand those 50 millions will only be paid with assets from grooveshark. If groovershark the company doesn't have assets to cover the 50 million they will not get paid and also can't get paid from the individuals.
psykovsky··on No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning
Whole religions came to exist using that same method.
psykovsky··on My Apple Watch After 5 Days
To read a QR Code with configuration in it?
psykovsky··on EU study recommends OpenBSD
And that's why some stay away from AGPL licensed projects.
psykovsky··on Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You
I very much prefer this one http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt

Edit: I see some of the ones you posted are not on the file.

psykovsky··on [dead]
No, it's not hacked. His email can be seen on the whois for the akveo.com domain.
psykovsky··on TV maker Vizio may finally get paid after beating 17th patent troll
Or proxy the connection, blocking the tracking/spying requests.
psykovsky··on Google Fi Patent
I think it's because it had the word Apple when responding to a post about Google.
psykovsky··on Elon Musk's first wife on what it takes to become a billionaire
You say that like being a bi-millionaire was a bad deal. And she only got that end of the deal because she wanted to stop being married to said billionaire ;)
psykovsky··on Elon Musk's first wife on what it takes to become a billionaire
She forgot the marry a billionaire method.
psykovsky··on About Liberland
That feat was a hell lot more difficult in the last century, you know?
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