Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
I've often wondered if this is a vulnerability in all kinds of services. Try to log in to some website with the wrong password and you're probably giving them your Facebook password by accident.
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by Hondor 10y ago
"top 3,000 earners pay more tax than bottom 9 million" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11233... There's also the basic observation that many big companies that provide va
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by Hondor 10y ago
Not only rich people but poor people who are really in a hurry. If you're suddenly about to be late for work, it's probably better to pay surge pricing than get fired. Of course it's not entirely fair since a rich person can
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by Hondor 10y ago
If prices don't come down, especially due to higher demand, and the car isn't profitable then the battery factory will be instead. Sounds like they win either way.
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by Hondor 10y ago
The types of mistakes a human and a car are prone to making are different. Neither one has to be a superset of the other. For example, cars are probably better at going round corners at a safe speed while humans can easily misjudge and end
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by Hondor 10y ago
They're not really "unblurring" the images. They had to have a database of 10s-100s of candidate faces to match against. If you know that the blurred person is one of 400 people you've already got photos of, there are pr
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by Hondor 10y ago
A lot of comments about how expensive cars are. Do Americans really have to borrow money to buy cars? Where I come from, the used car market is huge. They're about the price of a laptop or a couple of smartphones. Even young people can
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by Hondor 10y ago
Promoting ways to protect ourselves from global warming instead of preventing dilutes the popular rhetoric of "reduce emissions now or we're doomed!" If there's enough publicity given to your kind of idea, then people mi
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by Hondor 10y ago
I'm not an American and have never been there. I come from a small country and I would happily see that country gobbled up by one of its more successful neighbors so we can share the economic advantages they have. Ultimately that means
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by Hondor 10y ago
The reverse worked out great for California. I think the US government does a better job of looking after it's people than the Mexican one. So no, I'd rather it go the other way. But I might be wrong since it's not easy to se
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by Hondor 10y ago
All those people have decades to see it coming too. They too can start changing their dependence on it if they really think it'll affect them. Of course most people don't think ahead nearly that far and won't actually look fo
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by Hondor 10y ago
I don't think he's being metaphysical. Much of what we now call China was other countries a couple of hundred years ago. Is the little core that we call ancient China the true China or are all the newly added provinces just as rea
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by Hondor 10y ago
People don't care about immigrants working like slaves because that's what they'll be doing in their own country anyway.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Technology replacing jobs doesn't directly benefit outsiders. Foreign labor replacing local labor feels unfair because foreigners are outside of the local people's psychological tribe. That explains why people are happy to have ch
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by Hondor 10y ago
It turns out it's even worse than that. Plutonium and other "non-natural" elements have been found naturally occurring on Earth [1]. All sorts are supposed to have existed historically at the Oklo natural nuclear reactor too
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by Hondor 10y ago
Why any concern about private land being flooded? Landowners who are worries about it can sell it now, before anyone else has cottoned on or if they want to take a risk, they can keep it. It's an individual decision for each land owner
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by Hondor 10y ago
Why worry about obsoleting tons of headphones when this (and every new phone) obsoletes a whole phone? Isn't that a much greater cost?
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by Hondor 10y ago
Can you give a concrete example? Something that I can't do now with all these super rich people around that I could have done when they weren't so much richer than me. If I'm competing with them to buy a Picasso, sure, they&#
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by Hondor 10y ago
“No illegal pornography, a zero tolerance policy for promoting terrorism or violence, and users are not allowed to post other’s confidential information without their consent.” Oh, so not free speech afterall. Also it's obviously going
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by Hondor 10y ago
What harm is there in the richest people being richer? If they hoard their money, they're temporarily increasing the value of everyone else's. If they spend it, they're trickling it back down to the poor.
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's depressing to me that no talk about .Net Core even bothers to mention desktop apps. Winforms and co aren't even on the radar. I guess I'm stuck in the past.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Half the time the copyright will belong to the abusive ex partner who photographed them. You don't own your own image.
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by Hondor 10y ago
The idea the some people "cannot consent" is disproven by the fact that some countries allow underage people to have consensual sex with each other but not with overage people. Somehow they can consent sometimes but not other time
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by Hondor 10y ago
This attitude is why it's so hard to have a sensible conversation about child porn. Change the subject to torture, murder, genocide or any number of far worse things and people won't get so emotionally wound up. There's somet
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by Hondor 10y ago
That's been the argument against porn in general, and against strip clubs and against prostitution. Without good science behind it, it's just more made-up political rationalizing. You could equally argue the opposite that having a
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by Hondor 10y ago
Those women are personally identified so they can suffer real world embarrassment from people they know. Children in child porn are probably far more anonymous and untraceable as adults just from their images. I think the idea of being impr
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by Hondor 10y ago
The author adds an opinion that it could be a fad. ctrl-F for "mindfulness". "gym for the brain"? Like those brain training games that were shown to be ineffective? Analogies aren't science.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Many would call paleo and mindfulness fads too. A good way to check is if the government has something to say about it. They move so slowly and are so cautious in their advice that it's hard for them to pick up short lived fads. They a
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by Hondor 10y ago
The article identifies the risk that printed money will disappear, replaced with a few large credit card companies and banks so the government can monitor everyone's use of money. Since we're clearly already heading in that direct
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by Hondor 10y ago
Or for treating livestock, chest pains and flu symptoms in America. Don't forget you'd need the government on side and America's doesn't have a good track record of cooperating with the rest of the world for the global g

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