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ryackoon An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei

Maybe you guys should talk to Congress about it, there might be the political will to prevent the import of badly written code.

ryackoon An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei

No.

It is the British Empire.

The Saudis wouldn't even be in power if it weren't for the British endorsing them after the First World War.

ryackoon Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

What a creep.

ryackoon An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei

No one is required to recite a short history on why the entire world is terrible to comment on a single instance of wrong doing.

ryackoon Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

Reasonable mistake, must happen all the time when people have sex with someone with no breasts, hairless in the pertinent areas, and don't talk at all with them.

ryackoon Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground

If you can't speak English to the prostitute or she seems afraid, it would be a suspicious situation.

"child sex traffickers"

I don't know where you get that from.

ryackoon German university issues 38k passwords by hand after malware infection

Possible it has to do with cards that can be used for purchases, though usually schools in America have a photo on file. Something is being miscommunicated probably.

ryackoon Faults in Post Office accounting system led to workers being convicted of theft

If you can predict the future, you'd be rich.

ryackoon Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal

Food fraud is potentially related to this correlation.

ryackoon The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer

Require long lead times for planning and coordination, ensuring that they would almost certainly be caught before using them.

As for dirty bombs, the mafia takes low-grade radioactive waste and dumps it in the ocean.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/16/shipwreck-wast...

ryackoon The Drums of Cyberwar

Does the book talk about how the centrifuges are from Siemens and that Siemens still has offices in Iran?

ryackoon Sand Theft

Yeah, we could just dredge sand from poisoned seabeds around oil platforms with insufficient pollution controls.

ryackoon U.S. Says Accused Apple Secrets Thief Had Patriot Missile File

Their consumer market earn their wages in factories selling to foreign consumers using foreign IP.

ryackoon The Lesson to Unlearn

I disagree with this essay, I have no knowledge in the field that would allow me to argue against this essay, I think this essay lacks brevity, and the moral of the story seems weak.

ryackoon An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

There could be some hidden complex series of pained logic to justify destruction of evidence, so I am hesitant to judge on the matter.

ryackoon An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

Torture is illegal. Destroying records on torture with the permission of supervisors is not as there is no international requirement to preserve evidence of war crimes.

ryackoon An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

It can't be extralegal if she wasn't prosecuted for it. I think she is just a very tiny cog in a very big machine, a figurehead to throw under the bus if something goes wrong.

She is no more responsible for torture than a janitor who may have also been present.

ryackoon An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

I don't know her, and I'm not inclined to acknowledge her importance in being able to decide anything of value.

Edit: I also doubt how instrumental anyone can be in torture beyond the implements.

ryackoon Ask HN: Do you feel that the software industry is stagnating?

I think it is regressing, UI design is touchscreen first, the old text interfaces were more information dense, default font size is 16 or 18 now.

But software? Compiler writers keep finding clever ways to improve software performance. There are demos from the demoscene that have 3D graphics and run on the Commodore 64.

ryackoon An Illustrated First-Person Guide to the CIA’s Torture Program

I don't even know how Alfreda Frances Bikowsky still has a job .

To quote The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals:

… was reviled by some male colleagues for what they described as her aggression.

… Coworkers said she had no reason to be present during {Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s} interrogation. She was not an interrogator. “She thought it would be cool to be in the room” a former colleague said. But ironically her presence during Mohammed’s ordeal, sources said, seemed to anger and strengthen his resolve, helping him to hold out longer against the harsh tactics used against him.

ryackoon I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit

It was called the grand jury, they made reports on issues of public concern, and authorized private prosecutors to pursue cases against suspects.

It isn't clear what sort of reforms are needed, but grand juries are the only democratic institution in our republic.

ryackoon Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (2012) [pdf]

There are inter library loans so some college library that specializes in the field will retain the book.

ryackoon Amazon Braket – Get Started with Quantum Computing

>cryogenics and such isn't exactly free or easy to maintain

Room-temperature superconductors and other technologies using strange edge conditions are theoretically possible, but quantum computers have only a few specialties.

ryackoon Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for cargo

Narrow gauge is a good solution for mountainous or rural areas, but infrastructure intensive solutions require government investments.

ryackoon X17 Particle

Dark matter is a fudge factor.

ryackoon Tesla Cybertruck

It is tax detectable to donate directly to a public government, if you feel uncomfortable about it.

ryackoon Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car

They'll say the tracker must because of [dumb semi-plausible reason], nod at you, and keep it. Take it to a lawyer.

ryackoon The End of the Computer Age

How do you regulate public housing?

ryackoon Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

https://www.propublica.org/article/terror-in-little-saigon-v...

If you confront the powerful, it often ends up being too little, too late, in terms of government protections.

ryackoon Intel's CIP wants to collect the “categories of websites you visit”

Certainly propagation delay is higher. But for many applications it is cheaper to implement them in software than ASICs.

And besides, FPGAs are used for web scale applications, many of them applicable to small computers.