LordKano

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by LordKano 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Indian Civil Servants are among the sharpest in the world. In terms of effectiveness however , our bureaucracy is amongst the worst. Quite the paradox. What if it's a devious scheme to cripple India? Take the bes
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by LordKano 11y ago
6-7 years ago, a co-worker was doing some work on a server that we were phasing out. It wasn't being used for anything of critical importance, so a Jr level person was permitted to have root. He was actually my colleague and equal on t
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by LordKano 11y ago
Constitutionally, privacy is a pretty cut-and-dry concept. Private information isn't "information I don't want the government to have" it's "information I don't want anyone else to have." You are in
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by LordKano 11y ago
Telling a customer that they can't access their data on your service because they broke their laptop is going to make them very unhappy. Depending on your target market, that can be a selling point. Tell them early and tell them ofte
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by LordKano 11y ago
On the other hand, once you know Joe is sensitive to the S word, and you continue harassing Joe with a daily Soufflé, then you are an asshat. On the other-other hand if Joe is sensitive to the word Soufflé, maybe he shouldn't be hang
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by LordKano 11y ago
This is a big problem. If you think someone is stuck and you offer to help, you're being condescending or mansplaining but if you think that someone is just in their process and working something out so you leave them alone, you'r
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by LordKano 11y ago
They look at it with their modern sensibilities and judge accordingly. It seems that they think that Hitler was evil and everyone else got taken along for the ride. It's so much more complicated than that, especially for those peopl
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by LordKano 11y ago
My ancestry contains enslaved Africans, indentured servant Irish and Native Americans. The history of this country isn't some dry, academic matter for me. It's how I came to exist. This country isn't perfect. This country has
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by LordKano 11y ago
American soldiers have done terrible things. Know what's different? When they were running amok in My Lai, there were American civilians protesting against the war back at home. There were American civilians being shot by national guar
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by LordKano 11y ago
They didn't know of the effects the bomb would have on the hibakusha. In a total war scenario, civilians who are engaged in support activities for the war effort are valid targets. If the Germans or the Japanese could have, do you thin
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by LordKano 11y ago
My reaction is still mostly schadenfreude. If/when these people are caught, they should face the consequences of their actions but I'm not going to wrap paranoia over my own peccadillos in fake outrage over internet privacy. I&#x2
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by LordKano 11y ago
Exactly. It stands to reason that inner cities have the most problem with brain damage from lead poisoning. Inner cities often have high percentages (in the case of Baltimore a majority) of black people. If more black people live where more
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by LordKano 11y ago
I still agree with the GP's point. Unless there is some penalty to be paid by the officers for breaking the rules, the abuses will continue. If they start having to pay damages out of their personal assets or getting sent home without
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by LordKano 11y ago
If what you describe is accurate, I agree with you. It's just that what you describe sounds different than what most companies do. My employer has a three year vesting period too but they begin contributing on day 1. Until you reach yo
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by LordKano 11y ago
A couple of years ago, I went to an Amazon tech social gathering and rubbed elbows with some of their people. I wasn't looking for a job, the gathering was 5 minutes from where I work and I knew there would be free food. They were look
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by LordKano 11y ago
I have little to no sympathy for the people who are embarrassed by this release. They willingly signed up on a site that's intended use is for people to cheat on their spouses. Society doesn't take marriage as seriously as it used
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by LordKano 11y ago
I have only interacted(If you can even call it that) with Linus online and I too have found him to be abrasive. It was a completely non-technical discussion and Linus had a moment. I found it to be very off-putting. He doesn't project
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by LordKano 11y ago
Where WiFi jamming is technically also legal if it does not affect any external party. I'll concede the possibility that my understanding is incorrect but jamming is flat out illegal(for non-government entities). It's illegal to
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by LordKano 11y ago
I mean, what does 'designed for high-volume mobile transactions' even mean in the context of having Linux running on the hardware? Excellent question. Statements like this, grandiose but nonspecific, are intended for managers an
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by LordKano 11y ago
What they lack in financial means, they have in social connections. If 20% of upper and middle-class white America was subjected to the same kind of treatment by law enforcement as poor whites and minorities, there would be an uproar. The p
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by LordKano 11y ago
Precisely. Unless an officer's actions are both shockingly egregious and clearly documented, prosecutors usually won't do anything. After that cop is gone, the prosecutor still must work with his friend and colleagues to present c
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by LordKano 11y ago
The reality is that judges rarely face any penalty for setting bail too high and preventative detention is used for nonviolent crimes. Judges can even benefit from it. Elected judges can tout their "tough on crime" bona fides in
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by LordKano 11y ago
I have been pulled over for no reason so many times, I wish they had these cheap cams when I turned 16. I didn't get my first car until I was almost 19 but I agree. I wish there had been cheap cameras back then. I know a lot of peopl
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by LordKano 11y ago
The issue here is that individuals knowingly destroyed evidence with the intent to obstruct investigations. This issue is that they now have the tools to charge you with obstructing an investigation that hadn't even begun yet , when
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by LordKano 11y ago
My first thought was retrogaming. It would be really cool to be able to load all of the old games onto a new big hard drive and play them on a computer that doesn't require anything special to make the game playable. I'm sure ther
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by LordKano 11y ago
A pet theory of mine is that they get so much attention because the Japanese held onto feudalism far longer than the colonial powers. As such, the colonial representatives attached some romanticism to Japan and the Samurai. I think that&#
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by LordKano 11y ago
There's a peculiar phrasing of this statement. Would you happen to originally be from the Pittsburgh area? We're dealing with a similar phenomenon here. We have a lot of Colleges and Universities and big money is coming in and hea
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by LordKano 11y ago
I'm not sure when this section of the US Code became law but back in the 1990s, I was looking at some adult material and I followed a link to some .ru site that had material that was highly suspect. I made note of the domain, closed my
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by LordKano 11y ago
That's an affirmative defense to possession but not to the destruction of evidence. The man in this story wasn't otherwise implicated in the terrorist plot but they got him for deleting his internet cache because he was afraid of
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by LordKano 11y ago
It's worse than that. Deleting your browser history if they government says that you thought it might one day be relevant in an investigation can land you in prison. For example: You're downloading run of the mill adult-on-adult

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