JohnStrangeII

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by JohnStrangeII 9y ago
You can frame it as you like, going from a corrupt one-party system to a corrupt dictatorship is never a good thing. Neither internally, nor for investments, nor for trade. As for Taiwan loosing their independence and getting occupied by Ch
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Not if you're only working on one document at a time. Being distracted by some other stuff on the side is not always a benefit and many editors are surprisingly hard to set up to center documents on the screen while blending out anythi
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Chez scheme is extremely fast.
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To be 'fair', this merely reflects a known major difference between the US and Europe. Just about any felony is associated with a maximum sentence that is roughly 10 times higher in the US than in Europe. The US justice system is
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Every current PC system can be broken, no matter which operating system it is running. Intelligence agencies use 0-day exploits and test the software they use against known antivirus software and intrusion detection systems. There are also
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You're wrong, I believe. The EU does not keep poor countries poor. They are poor because of structural weakness of their economy or because they are in a transition phase. As I've said, there will always be poorer and richer regio
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And what's the problem with that? People are entitled to their opinions, including journalists writing editorials. Besides, the whole EU critique is such an old hat. In the 80s and 90s there was overwhelming critique on the EU from the
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I have read dozens if not hundreds of EU-critical articles in the "mainstream media" during the last few decades. Maybe you should just read more, if you're missing EU critique. (Why people who already dislike the EU so badly
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It's a restriction without any reason other than decreasing security. (Unless they plan to store plaintext passwords, which should be prohibited by law.)
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VMS or Symbolics GENERA. Security by obscurity works.
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I don't understand why companies like Nvidia don't adopt to the market and offer cards that are specifically designed for miners. Wouldn't that be possible and make them potentially more useful than mere graphics cards?
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What we see right now is the beginning of the "intellectual property" lawsuit wave. Music producers, artists, and record labels have always known that pop music doesn't come out of thin air and is highly repetitive. For some
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Killing people does not take much time, terrorists are not out there killing people 24/7. It's more like once in a lifetime until they get shot by police.
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I agree that unfortunately the official definitions of terrorism are whacky and often colored by political or geostrategical evaluations, but there is one that works: Terrorists are persons who directly and intentionally target noncombatant