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by Mtinie 9y ago
Can you provide a source for your "90%" assertion, please?
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Do many people live in units where electricity is provide as a gratis benefit? That was never my experience in California, Washington, D.C., nor in Virginia.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Presumably licensing and legal coverage.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
The previous comment didn't allude to illegal recording of conversations without consent. The suggestion was to ensure there was a record of all interactions. If I'm a VC and I've scheduled a meeting at my office it is as sim
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by Mtinie 9y ago
That reversal is not instantaneous, and by no means is it a guarantee that you'll ever get the whole amount back when overdraft fees, third-party bounced check fees, and all of the other non-monetary impacts are taken into account. Dep
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by Mtinie 9y ago
A "simple search" in the days of TOR and anonymous accounts isn't so simple. Ergo, the second part of my comment about how well those "hidden" accounts can be uncovered.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
People won't include the social media accounts they don't want to call attention to. Net effect: Not safer as a whole, but we'll see how deep the social network surveillance actually goes and how good the pseudo-anonymous at
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by Mtinie 9y ago
No, he didn't sell the drugs...he facilitated the exchange of drugs (illicit and prescription) between other people. To me the difference between the two statements isn't one of simple semantics.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Even if there is no actual target? For example: Is the rational that if I earnestly believed I was planning on murdering someone who I thought existed, that it is the lead up and consideration that is the crime, rather than the actual attem
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by Mtinie 9y ago
The best AI competitors, today, still would get taken apart by the best human players. How many generations before that changes?
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Creosote? Railroad ties are coated in it and for a long time it was one of the main wood preservatives used. It's tar-based, nasty stuff and you'd definitely want to use gloves when working with it.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
You might be thinking of CCA (Chromated Copper Arsenate). It's still in use but harder to find vs. forumations that don't use arsenic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromated_copper_arsenate
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by Mtinie 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, and I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I just don't believe that those in power consider farther than the short term (say, three to ten years). The bill eventually comes due, but what cost does the p
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by Mtinie 9y ago
The vast masses of Chinese citizens are not those people. History isn't in agreement, and time after time, the peasants will starve before the bourgeoisie suffer to a point that they feel enough pain to revolt. It's economically c
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by Mtinie 9y ago
> ...when those resources disappear from the economy then many people will lose out. My initial reaction is "...and?" Not because I'm trying to be obstinate or lacking empathy, but because I'm trying to hard visualize
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Survivorship bias! :P Typical story: "Took magic mushroom, realized futility of my life's direction. Took life savings, bought 1600 bitcoins at $250/BTC. Invested all BTC in more magic mushrooms. Next step...contemplating wri
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by Mtinie 9y ago
It has been said many times before by commenters here on HN, and is worth repeating. Cloud-enabled listening devices already have saturated society and are nearly omnipresent. They have a form factor that fits in your pocket and also includ
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Can you expand on your comment? I don't follow your logic. Isn't Apple legally culpable if they knowingly act as a marketplace for stolen goods?
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by Mtinie 9y ago
This is a fine-edged and very delicate situation. That is why I encouraged the OP to seek legal guidance. The first step isn't to call in the government, but to gain access to advocates that can work with his/her family to separat
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by Mtinie 9y ago
s/"Rather than"/"In addition to" I agree with @edward_rolf's criticism of my original phrasing, the first sentence can be improved.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Did you forget the /sarcasm tag, because history shows otherwise. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you forgot that intent doesn't convey well through forum posts.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Rather than seeking counsel from HN, may I strongly recommend you find a practicing family and/or immigration lawyer if you really want to help? I commend your action of putting money away, but based on your description, your cousin ha
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by Mtinie 9y ago
"For your protection". I agree, the number of times per week that I somehow end up entering my Apple ID password is egregious. Couple that with the abysmal iCloud/Apple ID/iPhone number conflicts that inevitably show up
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Here's the list you will find ETERNALBLUE on: http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/p/nsas-tao-division-codewo...
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by Mtinie 9y ago
You may be aware of this by now, but there was no publisher. This is a short form dramatization of the events leading up to yesterday's Wanna Crypt attack. The "criticism" was Stross imagining how absurd the truth of the whol
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Thank you for the explanation!
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Here's a related HN discussion from earlier this year about a story published on nrk.no: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13309624
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by Mtinie 9y ago
Or, "less commonly discussed". Why would worms be less prevalent today when the density of targets has increased one-hundred fold? Many systems may be inoculated but there are lots and lots of non-patched machines in the World.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
No, that's the inelegant solution. Blackmail works far better with far less blowback.
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by Mtinie 9y ago
I agree with your thesis and would like to anecdotally expand on your second point. It's been my experience that people in the construction industries -- and I say this as someone who comes from a multi-generational family of builders

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