JoeSmithson

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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "They actually hired people to sit around watching the coffee get made, so they caught the fraud." There's (was at least, not sure if it's still going) an undercover unit in HMRC (the UK IRS) who's job it was t
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
These two quotes refer to different things. The first refers to PRISM, which gives the US a privileged position as it involves companies bound by US law, however, all participating companies denied it involved direct access to their data. S
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Has anything significant left?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
What part of the Snowden revelations showed that the US government has "direct access" to Facebook and Google data?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I'm a detective
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
You seem to have missed that the financial sector has not left London
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
How well would someone excellent at programming perform at that task if they didn't know how to bake a cake? They would fail immediately because they wouldn't know what to describe, even if they knew exactly how to describe anythi
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
But if building software gets easy enough, maybe there won't be any requirements gathering because it will be directly built by practitioners.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Why wouldn't raising the minimum wage have the same effect?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> Ok, and if they raise wages, they'll need to raise prices. No, not necessarily. In fact if they were able raise prices, surely they would have done so already? What they would actually do is either go without a janitor, or go with
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I have only skim read the linked documents but what aspect specifically do you feel is being under-reported?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Why is this downvoted? The article is so light on details it's difficult to read. Can someone provide a substantiation of the headline in concrete technical terms?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I think they just got drowned out as it grew. Libertarianism is a very niche political position outside of the "opinionated hacker" crowd. I'd be very surprised if the actual gross metrics for /r/Libertarian have de
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "That's a problem with how welfare is structured, that can be fixed with changing welfare." That's what UBI is...? UBI is changing welfare to not be means-tested. > "Why would you think it wouldn't?&quo
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
For one, it removes pathological situations where people are disincentivised to work because it would mean they lose means-tested support. The great unknown is whether it also disincentivises work itself in a way that would be a negative ov
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I chose to ignore that part because it was impossible to come up with a good faith interpretation of it. I've executed "no knock" search warrants (we would say "forced entry" or "MOE" in the UK) and caught
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
How would 4ms be noticeably laggy?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "actual police work" What is "actual police work" in this context? Searching a suspect's home after obtaining a warrant isn't "actual police work"?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
IS was/is a quasi nation state! What do these people think it runs off of carrier pigeons and smoke signals?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
It needs further justification because it's contradicted by the evidence cited to support it. "Terrorists don't use digital communications[0] [0] Example of a terrorist identified and killed via surveillance of their digital
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> Do you know many terrorists who use digital communication to back your claim? Yes. In fact I don't know of a single terrorist who doesn't use digital communication of some kind. I'm slightly confused because you seem to
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> Actual terrorists(like 9/11 type, well funded) know better than to even touch anything digital for comms Shit like this is said all the time on HN with absolutely nothing to substantiate it.
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Judges comments are included in this short documentary https://youtu.be/vveLaA-z3-o (from 21:26)
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Originally you were presenting an opposition which is based on a theoretical objection held _by women themselves_, one which you've now confirmed you've never actually seen. If you're going to advocate on people's behalf
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Have a lot of female programmers told you about the unfair advantages they feel they have in the field?
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Is this established? What I've heard is that while it bears no relation to the actual job, it does correlate with real world performance at that job. I've only heard this anecdotally, but it is their best hiring indicator which
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Are you able to say what part of the public sector you have worked with? I am interested in this area, I am sure it is a potential gold mine for productivity (and land mine!).
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
I mean, do those people who download and compile code not then generally... run it...? Perhaps I'm missing something but the issue here seems to be whether you trust the source, not whether syscalls are made at compile time or run time
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
> "every busybody agency going through people's data like food standards in the UK" The fact that you believe this suggests to me that you have mainly acquired your opinions through highly biased and sensational sources. P
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by JoeSmithson 6y ago
Do you have any experience in investigating online child sexual offences? I am just wondering what basis you are making claims like "the EARN IT act puts children directly in danger".

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