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ryackoon Netflix Now Streaming AV1 on Android

Independent of network cards, TLS using AES-GCM will cost one cycle per byte.

ryackoon McKinsey, technocratic management, and structural inequality

DARPA's budget is three billion dollars. Intel's net income is twenty-one billion dollars. The need for public-sector investment has ended.

ryackoon Coronavirus Outbreak: Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories Spreading Wildly

>It's not to far of a stretch that someone leaked this from their lab.

You may not know about this national news item from 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks

Which was strangely well timed to be after 9/11, I wonder how long Ivins planned to mailed the spores.

ryackoon Police begin operational use of live facial recognition technology in London

>But if technology makes this concept obsolete, then we must adapt.

The point of the Third Amendment is that people do lie. Do you trust the King's soldiers to report on the coming and goings around your house truthfully?

ryackoon Rolls-Royce plans mini nuclear reactors by 2029

Space colonization is only viable for a small handful of people who produce at least a million dollars in revenue per year.

Programmers and CEOs.

ryackoon 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones

>not how a bureaucracy thinks. Come on.

Conspiratorial bureaucracies operate that way. Trust no one, allow nothing that can be used to undermine...

Read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.

ryackoon Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs

>Would you expect an ethics class to do anything more than provide a forum for debates like these? Do you think anyone will actually change their view?

I've been on the receiving end of several ethical issues and find that it is often less about ethics and more about tribal politics.

ryackoon NOBUS (Nobody but Us)

looks at the history of major criminal conspiracy cases and historical events

The answer is throwing everything you have, and only some of the time reveal what you know.

ryackoon Video Gaming Will Take Over

Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf was a turn-based game that was tactical and strategic.

ryackoon Equinix is acquiring Packet

An affidavit doesn't cost much and requires presenting government ID. There would be no fraud if affidavits were required.

ryackoon Academic Torrents

Wikipedia does cover that issue. Competing views are difficult to reconcile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Systemi...

(using a version of the article from ten years ago because everything is unnecessarily verbose on wikipedia now)

ryackoon Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate

Don't worry, Trump tweets assist in my mental stability.

ryackoon Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate

>But this is one of those things that was historically only available within a government office

If you want to know where a person lived pre-internet, you looked them up in a phone book, which is substantially less privacy preserving than looking up the owner of a house.

Well, post-internet, 2FA has been leaked to advertisers.

ryackoon We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers

Some IRC clients would change the nick of the user if the user toggles that they are AFK.

ryackoon A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song

No, the millions is not backed by bonds. It is a complex topic, but Brazil stopped their inflation by issuing a new currency and implementing price controls.

Much of economics depends on expectation, there is nothing inherently logical about any of it.

ryackoon Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

You're right, Epstein was engaged in a platonic mentoring relationship with scandalously young women who by many metrics were also good looking.

ryackoon A Sick Giant

The Anti-Masonic Party was a thing for a time.

There are certainly mood and history defining events for various historical periods that are under reported.

The earliest secularists were all freemasons.

ryackoon Iran general Qassem Suleimani killed in Baghdad drone strike

I don't want you making decisions with ambiguous information over life or death situations.

ryackoon Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

Who? Whom do you think I'm talking about?

ryackoon American Letter Mail Company

Horses are still just as expensive as they were. Railroads are faster now, and more efficient through diesel-electric engines.

ryackoon Iran general Qassem Suleimani killed in Baghdad drone strike

Yeah, it must've been at a pretty high altitude far away.

Too bad the pilot was flying past a building, blocking view of the civilians carrying indistinct objects. Maybe the pilot didn't know what he was doing. I suppose I will be downvoted for my views, but I abhor dishonesty.

ryackoon Iran general Qassem Suleimani killed in Baghdad drone strike

The aircraft flies like a plane, not a helicopter. Helicopters have very small turning radii.

I think it is from a drone.

ryackoon Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

I think Electron's advantage is to shorten training time, not development time.

ryackoon I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

It would be more honest if they all said, "we weren't thinking."

I think they would have even been acquitted on the charges of criminal conspiracy if they used that argument.

ryackoon Iran general Qassem Suleimani killed in Baghdad drone strike

Collateral Murder was disturbing in the enthusiasm by the soldiers for what is a grainy video. I wonder if WWII bombardiers when looking down and seeing miniature sized vehicles and buildings were as enthusiastic as well.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstri...

Amusingly, the video starts with Wikileaks decrypted the video, but all drone feeds are unencrypted.

ryackoon I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

This is just the following orders excuse, but with more institutions participating.

ryackoon Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

If Facebook were to defeat astroturfing, all advertising firms would just promote their new social media network on all the major news networks.

Our economy is founded upon mutual relationships of grift and greed, even if Zuckerberg were to disagree with his own platform, he would not be able to change it.

ryackoon The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)

>If I asserted that the Japanese secretly drank the blood of children, that Japanese women were unchaste, that the Japanese were really not a branch of the human race after all, I guarantee that mot of the newspapers would print it eagerly, and that I could get a hearing in churches all over the country.

Given how well Icke is doing, Lippman wasn't wrong.

ryackoon Flight stats, entertainment, and trying to crack Widevine

Not between XX32 and XX00 as per last century.

ryackoon An overview of why the US has problems with Huawei

No, read this, but I doubt it would convince you and may only fall on deaf ears.

https://spartacus-educational.com/SPYbsc.htm

>Roald Dahl was assigned to work with Drew Pearson, one of America's most influential journalist as the time. "Dahl described his main function with BSC as that of trying to 'oil the wheels' that often ground imperfectly between the British and American war efforts. Much of this involved dealing with journalists, something at which he was already skilled. His chief contact was the mustachioed political gossip columnist Drew Pearson, whose column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, was widely regarded as the most important of its kind in the United States."