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by EiZei 13y ago
So you are completely fine with scam charities and sending money to Al Qaeda?
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by EiZei 13y ago
They do but usually it's the fallback option which means the merchant is more liable and is supposed to check your ID as well.
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by EiZei 13y ago
"The survey-cum-test “The Talent Crisis in InfoSec” was was conducted by EC-Council, a global leader in InfoSec certifications and training." Company that sells infosec training services is saying there's a severe lack of sec
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by EiZei 13y ago
Don't get me wrong, Python is my favorite scripting language but this all seems incredibly complicated compared to say deploying a Java webapp.
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Finnish Tax Administration: Instructions on Bitcoin income tax(vero.fi)
46 points by EiZei 13y ago|31 comments
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by EiZei 13y ago
" that it's almost impossible to fire a bad teacher and therefore the personal incentive for individual teachers is less than it would be if teachers were paid based on outcomes rather than time in service" For what it's
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by EiZei 13y ago
The iPhone 5 battery is specced as 5.45 watts, even assuming 100% load all the time wouldn't this mean less than 50 kWh a year?
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by EiZei 13y ago
"I think the Europeans' smugness and looking down their noses at the "upstarts" in the colonies has gotten to you." That's kind of funny when you consider this graph: http://www.pewglobal.org/fi
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Github - Find more exploits, together
2 points by EiZei 13y ago|0 comments
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by EiZei 13y ago
By dialog do you mean getting accused of anti-semitism?
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by EiZei 13y ago
An astroturf campaign run by eBay's lobbyists and ultra right-wing think tanks. Sign me up already. Also, clicking the link seems to send a "letter" without my permission. Can't say that I agreed to this.
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by EiZei 14y ago
Having to pay more taxes because you can afford it is the same thing as getting sexually assaulted. This is a very reasonable comparison.
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by EiZei 14y ago
While I do think Germany's energy policy is colossally stupid it does bug me that this article cites a not-so-reputable institute: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Ene...
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by EiZei 14y ago
What about all the countries that have reasonable data plan pricing? In some African countries cellular data is actually quite often the only thing resembling broadband because wired endpoints are just way too expensive. I am not exaggerati
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by EiZei 14y ago
How about a blanket pardon for anyone ever convicted of consentual homosexual relationships?
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by EiZei 14y ago
"The metapaper also advertises itself as a healthy alternative, since it claims to reduce a person's exposure to electromagnetic waves. Scientists behind the product point to studies that say the overuse of wireless technology could cause h
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)(cia.gov)
182 points by EiZei 14y ago|67 comments
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by EiZei 14y ago
But then you couldn't put the words ten things in the title.
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by EiZei 14y ago
In my opinion the funny thing is that when it comes to drugs libertarians are trying to promote some kind of reasonable fact-based regulatory approach rather than the current moralist view which pretty much is all about punishing people jus
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by EiZei 14y ago
Nerds are always viewed as condescending towards "normal" people but imagine if somebody actually went and wrote on a technical subject aimed at a non-technical audience in this style.
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by EiZei 14y ago
Also from The Verge: "BT has 1,500 paid hotspots at Olympic sites, with prices starting from £5.99 ($9.28) for 90 minutes us"
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by EiZei 14y ago
Apple's own dogfood version of Google Maps will kill the car navigator market for some unspecified reason. Shouldn't you at least pretend to know why if you are calling it an analysis?
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by EiZei 14y ago
Seeing all the hyping for Israel's startup scene it might be informative to people who are unfortunate enough to have an ethnicity the state of Israel does not approve.
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by EiZei 14y ago
While I'm not saying it's false I'd treat any news article using Infowars (Alex Jones, NWO, Chemtrails etc.) as a source with certain scepticism.
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by EiZei 14y ago
Didn't know that Ron Paul supporters (I am not one of them) are leftist. Not sure if this belongs to HN though.
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by EiZei 15y ago
A little bit off-topic but does anyone else find odd that Javascript is still ranked below Perl of all things? You'd think between node.js and all the client-side craziness it would have a much stronger showing.
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by EiZei 15y ago
One of the remarkable things about this is that the campaign orchestrated by Something Awful users caused this happen in less than 4 hours. Even the CNN exposé took days.
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by EiZei 15y ago
Seeing that language platforms that perform way worse than Java are the currently the hot stuff I fail to see how a mere 20% performance penalty is the thing that is holding Java back.
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by EiZei 15y ago
Becoming a lawyer in the US is probably the least profitable thing you can do: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1497044##
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by EiZei 15y ago
If you are still in one of those AAA-rated countries it would seem so since Germany's getting negative interest for theirs apparently.

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