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Proof of Pollution based mining is just one reason why the anarcho-crypto-libertarianism of a decade ago has produced an abomination not the utopia its founders dreamed of.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The Upwork Skills Index ranks the site's 20 fastest-growing skills every quarter, revealing new and emerging skills while, the site says, providing real-time validation of current trends in the labor market and tech industry. Is 'proprietary CMS tools' on the list?
Asking for a friend.
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Researchers stuff the world’s current fiber capacity into a single link. Feel free to install in my house
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'Memristor' chips can store information as different resistance levels I'm sure graphics cards' power consumption will rise to use those savings
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This article demonstrates the abilities of a PVS-Studio static analyzer in detecting bugs and security weaknesses in code of the Android operating system. I wonder what it would detect if run on itself?
Yes, an advert for PVS Studio, but I still thought its results were interesting.
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They have done a lot of these analyses on Open Source projects, publishing and sharing the results with the teams involved. I can find no fault with that approach.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Popular news aggregation and discussion site Reddit was hacked in mid-June, the company disclosed today, exposing some users’ current email addresses and a database containing older accounts. Now the hackers will know that I'm on the World News subreddit. I'm so embarrassed.
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When it comes to digital privacy, there are plenty of organisations making money out of using your data – Google and Facebook are just two examples. But what if you were the one making the money? I promise to pay the clicker of this link 1x10^-33 cents, payable per century
Rounded down to the nearest dollar
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The one doing the work is the one being paid.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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18-year-old Ewin Tang has proven that classical computers can solve the “recommendation problem” nearly as fast as quantum computers. The result eliminates one of the best examples of quantum speedup. The quantum computers will still have the "great in 5-10 years" feature
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Kudos for the kid.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The quantum computers will still have the "great in 5-10 years" feature
But only if you replace the switching power supply with a cold fusion one.
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Mozilla is introducing dweb, or decentralized web, in order to solve some of the issues the traditional, centralized web is facing. I saw de page on de web
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A new report suggests just one individual is responsible for the SamSam attacks. I think I need to lose my morals to meet my career goals
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The Chinese version of Google will censor websites like the BBC and Wikipedia. Evil level: {redacted}
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Despite a lone report claiming that online piracy is the primary source of malware, spam still reigns supreme as today's main infection vector and the go-to tool of online criminals, according to a report published yesterday by Finnish cyber-security firm F-Secure. No bonus points if you can guess at least three of them
Although I was surprised to see .7z on the list, but I guess this is since all the script files have been blocked by Outlook
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A few years ago, I crafted a bootable floppy disk and a retro game which fit in a tweet. Since then, Twitter doubled the length of tweets, so I decided to handcraft a bootable CD. The bootable disk runs a slightly improved version of tron. I'll just be boggling in the corner
Real developers just tweet their programs?
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'Kissing up to the boss' at work may help boost employees' careers but it also depletes the employees' self-control resources, leaving them more susceptible to behaving badly in the workplace, a new study has found. Whodathunkit?
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The newly promoted ass-kissers can then afford a more expensive shrink to deal with any guilt ?
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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In light of this, I think you need to swear at Chris every day.
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Way ahead of you. 
TTFN - Kent
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Bug bounty programs aren't just for computing devices and apps -- HP is launching a "first of its kind" bug bounty initiative to boost the security of printers. It's like printing money!
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The software maker first unveiled the app back at the company’s Build developer conference in May, and it’s designed to mirror content from a phone to a PC. Turn your powerful, expensive desktop into a dumb terminal for your phone!
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I briefly hoped that this was about Windows Phones. I should have known better.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Yeah, that boat seems to have sunk (again). It's "Android First" for now, it seems. 
TTFN - Kent
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