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My thoughts exactly. I was hoping they would reveal a list of sites and traditional photos of the.


I tried to shorten this URL but the hashy part is required: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/secret-sites-s...


He wants to keep his money, not pay a 21 year annuity. As a wealthy guy the worst thing you can do is get married.


Kids certainly give us purpose and meaning! :)


Au contraire, once you have beaten the long odds of going from 0 to 7.5M on what amounts to a lottery ticket, then beating the 50:50 odds of divorce seems a piece of cake.

More generally OP should feel like a god right now, what's the point of having 7.5M if succulent brain juices aren't flowing like the Mississipi river to signal that the world is yours?

He should be feeling confident about doing stuff way riskier than 50:50


If you have a FedEx Office anywhere near you, you could ask to have the package delivered there and held. I know they did that a few years ago.


Maybe some submarines are cutting some deep sea cables? In actuality it's probably massive backbone upgrades that are classified, the NSA has to obtain real-time data from somewhere.


Why would the NSA be doing such low-level (literal wiretapping) work anymore? Useful traffic is almost always encrypted.


Knowing whom is communicating with whom is pretty useful to know, even if you can't decrypt the data.


Clearly this means they've broken public-key cryptography.


Flaws could be discovered in modern communication such that they can decrypt it in 30 years time. How good is 30-year-old crypto today?


They have a #ailored #ccess #perations department. Look it up.


You sure are playing it safe there.


They log who talk to who


Is this a joke about the Russian communications sub fire?


Didn't Twitch use elemental machines for transcoding?


No. Elemental is more of a high end encoding system for quality. Twitch is more about bulk cheap transcodes of good quality. Think about it. MLB has maybe 18 concurrent events. Twitch is running minimum in the 10k range.


No we never had Elementals. In the early days there was no way we could afford them. In the later days I don't think we would want them as we needed to scale so many transcode jobs that it was easier to have a large farm of dumb machines to organise jobs across.

There may have been an element machine at one point that was used for testing/playing but I really don't think so, and know there wasn't one between 2010 and 2017.


Transcoding was a relatively late addition to the whole system— for a long time we only passed through the original video bits unchanged and tried to advise broadcasters about picking compromise settings.

By the time we decided transcoding was necessary, we had enough in-house video engineering knowledge to build our own system integrated with everything else.


We had transcoding as early as 2011. As that is when I made my first commits to the video jobs codebase, specifically to the transcoding jobs. It was quite late when we had the resources ($$$) to provide widespread availability of transcodes to the community.


Yeah; my perspective on “late” is probably pretty skewed, since I left as the rebranding was still being developed. I think the favorite new name when I left was something like Xarth; Twitch was a much better choice.


The Aurora project and TR3-B were successful. There's no chance we don't have a few of them in Dreamland or off the intercontinental self where we simply use them for reconnaissance. Just look at the old F-16 pilot footage from 2007, it was a controlled leak to see how the government would react to such technology, just like the disclosure of Area 51 (Bob Lazar) after satellite imagery was beginning to become popular.


IDK, part of me feels like there's too high of a chance of Aurora being confused for a ICBM reentry. And similarly, the same interceptor missiles used for hypersonic payloads like that would be effective against it. And the countries that don't have nukes and anti-nuke infrastructure, we just fly drones over with relative impunity. So I legitimately don't see the niche where they make more sense than something else that's public.

That being said, the Space Shuttle didn't really make sense on it's face either and we built it, so I could def be wrong.


I agree with you on all points, but they are already disclosing the late 80s technology to the general public with the SR-72. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_SR-72) Allegedly, Ben Rich of Skunk Works after he retired in 1991 gave a presentation at UCLA chronicling his career and hinted at the Aurora and that "we now have the technology to send ET home" so we probably have some new type of propulsion system that makes planes interstellar. This is all speculation though.

What's really fascinating is the x-37b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 we have an autonomous space craft in orbit for years, yet I never head anything about it. It's part DARPA project so, it's probably some sort reconnaissance experiment.

I could go on and on, I just find this all fascinating.


That makes planes interstellar.

I’m sorry, what?

As in can fly to proxima centuri?


I haven't tried the CBD carts in over a year, but I've used the Honey Vape cartridges in the past, non-cbd and they have a Trident strain that I was thinking about ordering.(Dream Market) I have some ACDC flower that I currently use that has essentially no THCA, which contains he psycho active effects, and high CBD content. I couldn't recommend it enough. I have psoriasis and a lot of arthritis from years of lifting heavy weights and contact sports.

It's remarkable how this isn't legal in all 50 states already, but within the next 5 years, I have a feeling it will go national.


I could definitely envision a Philadelphia location. Comcast is building a new skyscraper as we speak with a ten year tax abatement. The local city government would easily grant them the same deal.


I posted http://moviemagnet.co (movie torrent search engine) awhile back, it was removed from Google search results and still receive a steady 2k+ visitors a day.


Nice it will be in between the Kardashian fit booty and what to do when he cheats stories. Snapchat is a wasteland.


It might not be your kind of thing, but a lot of people get value out of Snapchat. There's no reason to shove your nose at it like you are doing here.


People use Snapchat for many reasons, sponsored stories are just one of many.


Its definitely not for substantial news.


You can watch snapchat stories from the NYTimes, The Economist, WSJ, in addition to a whole bunch of other sophisticated serious media organizations. Often times the articles they publish on their stories, are just more interactive versions of the articles they published on their website with the text being the same.

The thing is, tabloids are just more popular than sophisticated news. People are more interested in buzzfeed or mashable or people magazine than they are with politics.


By your definition of substantial.

We can try to argue about the definition of "substantial" if you want, but in the end, the fact is that I can find you ten thousand young teens that don't give a fuck about politics and do give many fucks about a Kardashian booty transplant.


I think its pretty clear and universal what "news of substance" means in the context of news journalism. In fact most newspapers have a separate section for entertainment for this reason.

Your comment and diction seem be the very definition of "insubstantial."


>Your comment and diction seem be the very definition of "insubstantial."

At least I never resorted to personal attack.


I didn't attack you personally, I commented on the content of your comment.


Getting deeper into this is a waste of both of our times, but for the record, the reason I felt it was a personal attack was challenging my "diction" seems to challenge my very ability to string together words. I took it as being told "you talk like a dumb dumb and therefore your argument holds no weight."

If that's not what you meant, well, that's fine, maybe I'm being over sensitive, but that is how your words were received.


True, but it's in Snap's interest that they use it in ways they can capitalize on.


Yes, and I read a very invigorating explication of Spinoza on Facebook this morning.


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