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Other kids know facts that you don't because people care about different things.


This is aimed more at companies signing up rather than individuals, but a company called Security Innovation has a product that kind of gamify's (sp?) hacking vulnerable websites: https://www.securityinnovation.com/training/ (the cmd+ctrl training)

They have a couple of fake websites that have a bunch of vulnerabilities of varying difficulty and you get points for exploiting them.

I am not affiliated with them, but saw a demo once and thought it was cool.


Anybody know of a good website to that lists these sort of properties for sale? (Not just old missile bases, but other old government infrastructure)


https://circaoldhouses.com/churches-lighthouses-quirky-conve...

Circa has a site for quirky conversion listings


Thank you, this is awesome. This made me realize that I was really just interested in these types of homes, not just old gov't stuff.


Yeah there's a whole world of these weird listings. If you like this kind of stuff send me a direct message and I'll show you a cool one which is my own property which I just signed a contract for sale, a big old church


Well, some people say it daily to their friends so it probably depends on the person and the context.


It definitely depends on the context, along with thousands of other words in the dictionary.


Yeah, I can't even really hear the whole word in the linked video, to be honest, but that sounds like a "hard r" to me... scrolls the thread yeah she definitely didn't say "nigga."


So we should probably update and clarify that this is a word that can be used as a derogatory racist slur but it can also be used otherwise.


Who needs to update or clarify what? Even English dictionaries explain this.


Well cool_dude85 claims it is a racist slur, when the reality is that it can be a racist slur, which I would argue (and you seem to agree) is not the same thing.


That claim was a child comment to a specific usage of the word, which contained the context necessary for that commenter to come to that conclusion.


The context being the video in that linked article? Certainly wasn't enough context for me to make such a determination. I have no idea if she was using that word to talk about black people in general, her black friends, her white friends, herself, or something else entirely. Much less if it was being used in a derogatory manner.


That, objectively, is enough context to determine the usage given the usage notes for that word in both Websters and OSX built-in dictionaries.


I'm not sure I follow? Are you saying the context here is that she is white and that is therefore enough for it to automatically be derogatory racist usage? That sounds... racist.


That's a question that is sociological in nature, and far beyond the scope of the well-defined linguistic meaning of the word, which was what I was commenting on.


As noted by another commenter, they employ 500k people and execute on thousand of projects per year. Most of those projects are likely success stories to some degree.


Yeah and that's why they're happy.


Everything is over-engineered and at the same time duct taped and zip tied together.


I have this exact same question. I've found some conventions over the years that have been helpful, but haven't found anything comprehensive.

With regards to what the arrows indicate, I've done dotted line arrows are synchronous, with a solid arrowhead meaning request body and an outlined arrowhead being the response. Then used solid black line with a single solid arrowhead for an asynchronous request.


He's running his program on the testing machine, which would void the warranty.


Bitcoin is an alternative currency, really the only thing going up is the exchange rate.


I've not done a quantitative analysis, but it seems to have been more frequently ruled as some sort of asset or commodity https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+ruled

Exchange rate, also known as 'cost,' is a form of value.


But what makes something a currency? If in an alternate universe Bernie Madoff printed MadoffBucks and made agreements that you could use these as currency in some online stores and Pizza Hut, does that make it a real currency? Unfortunately I think the only way something becomes a currency is when a government calls it one.


It may not be a currency, depending how you choose to define that word, but it is certainly a fungible asset and a means of exchange. It acts both as a store of value and as method of transferring value from one party to another.


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