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Myrthon NASA’s $8B plan to find extraterrestrial life

Drake equation always bothered me when used in argument of contact probability, because it doesn't take into account time. Yes, there might have been billions of extraterrestrial civilizations, but that doesn't mean there are currently ones that 1) already can communicate or receive EM waves, and 2) not yet deprecated use of EM waves. Oh and there's also speed of light issue.

Myrthon Bose Hearphones

I can hear SSDs, consistently when I plug them, and the noise stops when unpluged, is that weird?

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https://twitter.com/NewWorldHacking/status/79551083891643187...

Myrthon Total Nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3

Because the reality is not straightforward and to break many catches 22 it is required to make decisions that not everybody happy about.

Myrthon Can Transcendence Be Taught?

If you're interested in the topic, highly recommend Peter Watts' "False blindness" and "Echopraxia"

Myrthon KDevelop 5: First Windows beta release

Crashed during parsing of a php project...

When tried to uninstall, GridinSoft Anti-Malware blocked it and said 5 bars danger malware...

Myrthon Confessions of a Necromancer

Your post has touched me deeply and resonated a lot with my own life. Thank you for writing!

Myrthon PageAccelerator – A very light solution to load web pages faster

RIP server log file, analytics and clients' metered connections

Myrthon Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

I thought we were talking about what we already have, not what we want to have?

EDIT: Bridges and planes are built by strictly organized companies, with clear (ideally) leadership and plans. Internet has evolved much less centralized, and as a result, in a more natural fashion. No one stopping you from attempting to write a perfect software, but if you want to re-use results of million man-years of development, you'll have to deal with natural processes.

Myrthon Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?

I think it feels hacky because it is, and it's natural. And by natural I mean this is how spontaneous complex systems evolve. Internet is a result of half of a century of millions of people's contributions for different and often opposing goals and priorities. For other examples of hackiness take a look at other complex natural processes, like multicellular living creatures and ecosystem in general.

Myrthon How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac

And if you're using Ubuntu, you're trusting package managers, and if you're using Gentoo, you're trusting original developers (how often do you audit source code?)

Myrthon Confessions of a Former Apocalypse Survival Guide Writer

Food/water supply/heating/cooling/medicine supply/medical equipment.

Our tools, household items and clothes are built with planned obsolescence, can't be repaired by consumer and thus require frequent replacement.

Former CIA director estimates 2/3rd of US population will die in EMP [1], others 90% [2]. In US it would be so much worse because we used to comfortable consumer only life, and most wouldn't be able to adjust. Is that really that outlandish?

[1] http://www.offthegridnews.com/grid-threats/former-cia-direct...

[2] http://www.powermag.com/expect-death-if-pulse-event-hits-pow...

Myrthon Growing Unease as British Mutual Funds Block the Exit Doors

I still don't understand what makes banks special from any other institution that practices leveraging and fractional storage of their clients' assets? Like Comex or LBMA vaults.

Myrthon “autocomplete=off is ignored on non-login input elements”

Exactly. I have no idea why people blamed IE for not following standards. It was totally all of its users' fault for using it.

Myrthon Urbit is now in open developer beta

It makes sense because it's de facto standard, and intuition is experience, and intuitive is what we're used to. I'm not sure how it can be explained more basically.

Myrthon A programming language for living cells

"Anything can go wrong?"

"Don't be a buzzkill, man!"

Myrthon WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC

Is there a difference between using bandwidth this way, or loading say 150MB image? (bandwidth costs wise)

Myrthon Why Is It So Difficult to Develop Drugs for Cancer? (2010)

A question for people in the know - if there's a research/treatment that can not be patented/monetized due to its generic nature, but it still requires millions of dollars in trials - is it doomed to never be done?

Myrthon No One Knows What to Do with Fukushima’s Endless Tanks of Radioactive Water

Previously-Secret 1955 Government Report Concluded that Ocean May Not Adequately Dilute Radiation from Nuclear Accidents

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/06/why-the-ocean-may-not...

Myrthon TripleSec – Symmetric Encryption in the Browser Combining AES, Salsa20, Twofish

Does it increase the cost of the proverbial wrench?

Myrthon React: CSS in JS

You've missed the "not" word. I had to double take too.

Myrthon Why Not Eat Octopus?

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/twoquestions.asp

"Hitler's diet was primarily vegetarian throughout the latter part of his life; however, he didn't adopt a vegetarian diet for moral reasons, but because he suffered from gastric problems."

Myrthon US plans to require inter-vehicle communication technology in new cars

I would imagine a stand alone unit with an warning indicator panel, that you could attach/install on dashboard

Myrthon How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries?

I think he talks not about laws themselves but overzealous unreasonable enforcement, that is a result of lobbying

Myrthon I've made a Massive Multiplayer Planetary game in 2 weeks

Would be nice to specify how much units to send to another planet, or at least don't send more than the other planet can accept...

Myrthon V initiative – Building tomorrow’s secure digital democracy

I think the main issues to overcome will be making sure that only registered users vote, and only once per voting event.

This could be achieved by distributing an undivisible votecoin to each registered voter upon presenting their proof of registration or eligibility.

But then there's a weak point of someone giving/receiving more than one votecoin (bribe, threat, blackmail, etc)

Even if there are checks and balances with number of votes vs number of registered voters, there's again the weak point of human element of data entry.

Myrthon Google is Breaking the Internet

Ok, how about not fully random sources and targets, but ones that somehow involved in DMCA lobbying and enforcement. That would remove the "innocent" from equation.

Myrthon Google is Breaking the Internet

The sending itself wouldn't be hurting anyone. The responding parties would have to make a decision to hurt innocents or not, and maybe actually forced to do some due diligence, that is expected of them. And maybe voice out that current requirements make this hard or impossible for them.

Myrthon Google is Breaking the Internet

Someone needs to send a couple of millions DMCA takedown requests from random sources to random targets, to make this problem visible.

Myrthon Google is Breaking the Internet

* Paginated content with different filters or sorting? Almost the same content on multiple pages

* Product with a category name in url, or without, or under multiple categories

Both are very useful for humans, but have to be massaged with canonical urls to please Google machines