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

I'm of the opinion they should add FPGAs to everything. Every chip now has an insane amount of die area dedicated to the northbridge or the L3 cache. Anything else turns the junk we buy into garbage the moment everyone switches to a new standard.

ryackoon The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up

Hopefully with more advanced stone-cutting technology, I could have a house with Inca-style stone walls. No reason for bricks to be rectangular.

ryackoon Cops are making fewer arrests since N.J. got rid of cash bail

It is immature to attribute financial cost to everything. What you say is social trust and cohesion is what accountants call goodwill, the value above the net worth of a corporation or something operating that is uncountable.

Prioritizing social trust and cohesion through omitting or ignoring by misdeeds of institutions or individuals that are too big to fail seems like extra effort to achieve nothing. It isn't real trust and cohesion, it is deception and coercion.

ryackoon Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival

It might be worth mentioning that Wikipedia spent several million on creating a more trustworthy search engine without anything to show for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(Wikimedia_Fo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/S...

I have serious doubts of this particular endeavor's success with statements like these:

"The business model of social-media companies, of pure advertising, is problematic," Wales told the publication.

"It turns out the huge winner is low-quality content," he added.

ryackoon Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft

https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/07/incoming-democrat-chair...

Overheard on Amtrak in some cases (strange since Amtrak does offer roomettes).

ryackoon Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event

I'm sure there would be some outrage if Spain got a player banned over "Free elections in Catalonia".

Fortunately many dictatorships are foreign and don't understand the subtleties of Western society. (ironic since the Chinese do hire white people for appearances)

ryackoon IBM’s Technology Powered the Holocaust

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=us+citizen+detained+ice

Cases such as you allege occur on a semi-frequent basis. People fall through the cracks, and the mechanisms by which the news ultimately reports on the truth is rather unfamiliar.

ryackoon Blizzard Cancels Overwatch Event

But in the West it is expected that token political statements are to be allowed and protected. "Free HK" isn't a particularly complex political statement, and it is over a topic which Westerners think is unfairly suppressed.

A similar comparison would be if Saudi Arabia had Blizzard ban someone for saying "Don't execute rape victims."

ryackoon Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

>HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.

>DEAN: It's a limited hang out.

>EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.

>NIXON: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

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

Sounds interesting when people are allowed to grep conversations for the scandal of the moment.

ryackoon Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

How do Taiwanese companies do business in China?

"Hello, I am the CEO of a company located in a fully autonomous province that does not pay taxes to the PRC?"

ryackoon Fallout from Blizzard Hong Kong Incident

Yes, people have incredibly short memories, they will forget all about Blizzard and never return.

ryackoon An Antique Toaster That's Better Than Today’s [video]

The Dualit toaster in my household was recommended by an appliance repairman. It is reliable so far, but it wasn't until the past year that the medium setting on the timer actually resulted in medium toasting.

ryackoon Project MKUltra

Rather unexpectedly, the President of South Korea was removed from office after evidence came forward that she was the puppet of a cult.

No one knows what the aims of the cult was, or how many people said nothing about it.

It is almost as if for the halls of power a different set of laws of physics applies...

ryackoon Update: Approaching IPv4 Run-out

The major browser currently hides "www" and " https:// " by default.

Now it has to hide port numbers and IPV4 space will suddenly be multiplied by less than 2^16.

ryackoon Rabbits may hold key to solving mystery of human female orgasm

A somewhat related HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744214

ryackoon What should the next search engine look like?

There's innovation as seen by the top down, where it is "add [new solution] to [old solution] to [madlib] the [industry]" and invention as seen by the bottom up, where it is "add [feature] to [old tool] to make better [tool]".

ryackoon What should the next search engine look like?

Sounds like you have serious backing, that is a fairly professional outline. Reminds me of some Goldman Sachs reports I've read.

ryackoon What should the next search engine look like?

I believe that those patents are only meant for mutually assured destruction.

I doubt Google would really use them.

ryackoon I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today

PR departments are amazing creatures, fine crafting a narrative to convince others that "it is we who have made it out ahead" while the average attention span is depressingly...

ryackoon Airbus-owned Voom brings its on-demand helicopter service to the US

That already exists, housing will cost less near airports, which in turn reduces property taxes or rents for people living near the airport.

ryackoon Twitter exec for Middle East is also part-time British army 'psyops' officer

You can spoof device fingerprints, but you can't spoof the top 100 common devices easily.

ryackoon New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat

Eat slowly until you feel satisfied. No single person has the same metabolism, and only processed food has exact measures of nutrition that can be measured.

ryackoon Everyone Has a Wealth Number. What’s Yours?

If goodwill could be valued as an asset, it would far outnumber actual exchangeable assets.

ryackoon A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit

Unix-compatibility has yielded more income to other companies than to the company that designed it.

ryackoon David E. Shaw and the Ultimate College Hedge

Endowments are funds that are restricted from being spent, however interest from the investment is used to fund other activities.

ryackoon A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonprofit

I don't think AT&T made much from Bell Labs.

ryackoon The Spinner

Reminds me of something about a true crime case on TV.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-drawn-to-murder/2/

>But the plan went still further: at one point, police duped a newspaper reporter into writing a phony story saying an arrest was imminent. They even left a copy of Tim's mother's obituary on the windshield of a friend's truck.

>"That's torture," says Tim's former attorney, Erik Fischer. "They're trying to get this poor kid to relive his mother's death. They're trying to make him snap! It's a psychological experiment to try to make him snap!"

ryackoon The Spinner

The real trick is to search for brands advertised in a magazine meant for a different demographic as you.

Beyond that, IP addresses are the primary identifier on the internet, and all other tracking is meant to differentiate between different users on a single IP address.

Temporary containers are a nice plug-in for Firefox.

ryackoon Black Blacker Than Vantablack

Archimedes solved figuring out for density, there are also other non-destructive tests.

ryackoon Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (2017)

I try to resize photos using a raster graphics editor. Strips exif, reduces fingerprinting based on camera lens dust (most reporting was based on this Facebook patent though: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... )

Give as much data as one is comfortable with, when viewing the image in a 1:1 ratio.