iszomer

And the kicker is, the record of your "wash trades" is now stored on an immutable blockchain, a stark contrast to actual paper trails.

> 1. DRM realistically wasn't an issue due to pirates (remember naptster?)

IIRC, it did have a couple consequences like Apple embedding PII into music files..

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/06/should-apple-embed-you...

..or going even further back, the arrest of a hacker at a Defcon convention who broke the DRM from eBooks.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/07/17/130226/fallout-from-...

I can't specifically recall but I think there was a time a Stanford (?) researcher published a paper on SDMI (?) watermarks in music files as well.

Concerns with KYC, privacy, centralization? /shrug

Don't forget ascii and ansipr0n.

Could this be argued as Apple simply further "securing their supply chain" or locking out substitutions of aftermarket parts?

Antarctica, Amundsen/South Pole station, as a life test on mobility of productivity. Otherwise, back to Taiwan in the mountains.

"Have you noticed their stuff is sh-t and your sh-t is stuff?" -- George Carlin on Stuff

seatec astronomy

Documentaries

- Citizenfour 2014: Actual interview between Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden

- Voyage of Time: Life's Journey 2016: Voyager probes development and deployment

- Zero Days 2016: The background story and effects from Stuxnet

Films

- The Challenger Disaster 2013: Dramatization of Richard Feynman and his investigative work of this event

- Batteries Not Included 1987: When mechanical-based lifeforms descend into NYC to help an elderly couple

- Pi 1998: Fun film with lots of computers and wiring

- I Am Mother 2019: Post-apocalyptic robotic "rejuvenation" of the human race

- Gravity 2013: Fairly accurate dramatization of what space is really like

- Real Genius 1985: Silly film of college hackers before the 1995 film Hackers

- The Abyss 1989: Aliens under the sea, somewhat related to the 1998 film Sphere

- Innerspace 1987: Fun scifi version of Honey I Shrunk the Kids!

I do it while listening to a podcast.

Mind maps help. White boards are even better. In my early college years, I used my bedroom's closet mirror like a starving artist would.

What I don't understand is why The Atlantic is compelled to write up this piece of how to eat ramen from a Western perspective. Shouldn't this specific mandate be more applicable to those eating at a teppanyaki or hot pot restaurant instead?

Eating ramen is highly individualized and tends to not include miscellaneous side dishes.

Especially some banks that still use SMS as your 2FA.

The legitimacy process of peer review may also be called into question in reference to the recent joint works done by James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose. And they aren't even "right-wing" though the mainstream portrays them to be.

Isn't this more of question on redundancy, ie: "two is one and one is none"? RPi's aren't technically best known for general purpose usage.

It's only fitting to now call it The Meta Data company.

It can also be a culturally-adopted thing. From the 90's til now, wearing a mask was normalized to be necessary while navigating through cities like Taipei with dense smog and particulate matter. There's a reason why it's some times referred to as the moped capital of the world.

I guess when word got out that there was a potential spread of infection, Asians had no problem adapting mask wearing on other forms of mass transportation as well.

I guess depending on how people define it, Bitcoin would originally be the hedge against the traditional banking and monetary policy just as Ethereum would be considered a hedge against Bitcoin. Other major blockchain platforms like the upcoming Polkadot and Cardano would be hedges against Ethereum and Bitcoin -had it not been for- (hope I'm articulating this right) the philosophical rift of their founding members seeking to improve on their network without causing hard forks which coincidentally happened, both times.

"Bring out the gimp!" --Pulp Fiction

He was the former (executive) director of the ACLU.

For a good recap, watch JRE #1595 with Ira Glasser.

Don't forget the CCP lock down of local Wuhan travel with the exception of international flights. IIRC, early indicators of a possible outbreak existed long before the mass media picked up on the frenzy.

My parents who live in Taiwan were talking about it just as they were coming home from visiting me in the states around November 2019 and they were so concerned that they advanced me a box of medical grade masks by mid January, due to having lived through the hysteria with SARS-COV-1 in 2003.

No one took COVID19 seriously here while I commuted for work in NYC via MTA. At most, bottles of hand sanitizers did start appearing in the office late January but no one wore masks until the announcement for the "15 days to slow the spread" campaign.

Perturbator is especially good at bridging synthwave with [0] industrial. I used to listen to a lot of Antigen Shift, Muted Logic, Cenotype, Formalkaline and Scrap.edx prior discovering this subgenre. I suppose being influenced by the frequent DNA Lounge attendance mostly contributed to this lean.

Dance with the Dead [1] also does this particular well along with Turbo Knight [2][3].

[0] https://soundcloud.com/perturbator/perturbator-tactical-prec...

[1] https://soundcloud.com/dancewiththedead

[2] https://soundcloud.com/turboknight/mirrorverse

[3] https://soundcloud.com/turboknight/vosto-turbo-knight-haruki...

CNBC reporting, of all places..

ProjectM integrates well with PowerAmp on Android too. QNMP (Linux) also supports it but is not as intuitive to configure.

Used to be able to alphabetically sort your subscription but they removed that feature over whatever subscription is the most active. It is bizarre as hell.

What's potentially amusing is how GitHub might handle code revisions if they were possibly stored on a WORM medium. Several past companies[1] have attempted to engineer storage that might outlast us all and even Elon Musk snuck in one such repository[2] when he launched his Tesla Roadster into space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InPhase_Technologies

[2] https://medium.com/arch-mission-foundation/arch-mission-foun...

> We live in an age where things move very fast and we desperately need something better/faster than law courts to sort these things out.

"I hereby declare all cilantro lovers as heretics and therefore automagically sent to the gulags for re-education."

Umm, no.

> Whenever a movie says “based on a true story,” it’s likely to be fictionalizing large chunks of the story without sufficient validation, for dramatic, political, or other purposes. A lot of the theories in this TV series turn out to be bullshit.

Ironically, John Hanke went off to found Niantic as a startup within Google and launched it's first augmented reality game called Ingress on this fictionalized premise.

I think it's better to view both independent left and ring wing media sources for balance and/or clarity but remain vigilant on said "editorial bias".

There has also been a relatively small culture of dumpster diving (for food) because of it.