Perdition

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by Perdition 12y ago
>A part of me welcomes this. I am sick of the noise. Browsing the Amazon (Kindle) bookstore, I wish that 90% of the junk didn't even appear in my search results. >Rather read works by people who are creating for the sake of art,
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by Perdition 12y ago
But is there any actual evidence that the long shifts in residency actually improves future performance under those conditions? It seems to me that it is mostly based on tradition and gut feeling. Most of the issues with non-resident doctor
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by Perdition 12y ago
I'm fine with that. I just think people are throwing out the baby with the bathwater by declaring mechanical ignition switches to be the problem (when they have worked fine for decades in every other brand).
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by Perdition 12y ago
>Can you think of any reason why the car should not have operational power steering when it is in motion[1]? You can't have an electrical cut-out that doesn't cut-out certain components. The reason you need a complete electrica
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by Perdition 12y ago
The point is key switches as cut offs work fine when the component doesn't have major faults. Any other electrical control system could cause just as many issues if designed poorly. Imagine if GM was just as sloppy with a push-to-start
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by Perdition 12y ago
> for lots of corporations, spending a fortune on hardware (capex) is easier then spending anything on services (opex) Really? I have only encountered the opposite. CAPEX is normally okay when it fits within normal budget allocations, bu
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by Perdition 12y ago
>the problem seems to be that their muscles cannot support weight or balance. It does? Newborns can support their own weight when hanging. Most toddlers can support their own weight standing long before they develop the coordination requ
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by Perdition 12y ago
They were demolished for building code violations according to the article. A process that took many months and many meetings with a tribunal. The question is whether you believe this guy was a victim of political corruption, where city off
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by Perdition 12y ago
Which lends no credence to Dragos' story at all. Ultrasonic networking isn't a new idea, and malware in firmware has been around as long as rewritable firmware. The main issue always was Dragos' inability to isolate any suspi
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by Perdition 12y ago
Are you really going to replace a lawyer with 20 years of experience in their field with a fresh graduate?
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by Perdition 12y ago
If the NSA are targeting your systems they will use a backdoor'd version of Coreboot. And in this case the malware is lurking in the RAID cards expansion ROM, so you wouldn't even notice a change at boot anyway.
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by Perdition 12y ago
Those aren't blank checks though. The problem with the US system is that the government is backing loans with no regulation of what the universities charge, with the result that tuition costs have increased to the point where most midd
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by Perdition 12y ago
Sure, but market signalling in a profession which takes years of education and training can lead to the same issues. And this article shows that market signalling is largely not working in this case (because people do not approach education
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by Perdition 12y ago
The government already does tell you what you can and can't do for a living in regards to classical professions. You can't just hang up a shingle and call yourself a lawyer, an engineer, or a doctor (or other healthcare profession
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by Perdition 12y ago
Pretty much everyone who buys things on the Internet has a Paypal account. You may as well say that the inconvenience of opening a bank account is too much baggage for people to use Paypal, except pretty much everyone who wants to use Paypa
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by Perdition 12y ago
>Initially, you had to sign up with your credit card, fill out an annoying form and go through a few intimidating screens. No, you can click on a button and get a redirect to Paypal, where you then enter your Paypal password and hit &quo
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by Perdition 12y ago
She isn't from Saudi Arabia. Apart from having a few nutty leaders Iran is closer to countries like Turkey than it is to Saudi Arabia. Anyway, academia is generally one of the few "liberal" institutions in Islamic countries.
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by Perdition 12y ago
>If someone makes it through the airport screens and carries the virus into a city, the epidemiology could become overwhelming before we know an outbreak has begun. Could, but very unlikely to, as Ebola doesn't spread as easily as c
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by Perdition 12y ago
The kind of national agencies that have the capacity to make the hacker "have an accident" develop their own systems in-house. As far as I am aware the market for products like FINFISHER is ordinary LEO and crappy regimes in the m
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by Perdition 12y ago
No. There are tactical principles that are taught, and basic tactical approaches, but a "tactical playbook" would be completely unwieldy. The Soviet military used that system, including algorithms to determine which tactical appro
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by Perdition 12y ago
The weight and fitness standards would have kept more hackers out of the military than LGBT discrimination.
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by Perdition 12y ago
>It's a creativity-driven field that moves quickly, evolves hourly, and requires intellectual agility. That does describe what is expected of military members in combat operations, so it isn't like the military shouldn't b
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by Perdition 12y ago
In reality that system was not mechanically/electronically automated, it just enabled a team of officers in a bunker to give a general launch order without contact with the leadership. And the launch orders would still need to be manua
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by Perdition 12y ago
The problem isn't measurement, it is tying rewards to achieving certain measurements. People will do what you reward them for doing, even if that isn't what you actually wanted them to do. The real issue is that identifying the co
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by Perdition 12y ago
The issue is thinking average keys and locks are anything but a mild inconvenience. Spurned lovers/friends/coworkers could easily "borrow" a key and get it copied. They could also just get a screwdriver and a rubber mall
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by Perdition 12y ago
>the way that military whistleblowers are treated No different to how any other institutional whistleblowers are treated. >the fallout from military atrocities in Vietnam (invariably blame was heaped upon the soldiers on the ground an
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by Perdition 12y ago
A trademark is exactly what it sounds like, a mark that is used in trade. It has to be in specific markets, and you use it or you lose it. As this guy doesn't run a tech conference he has zero chance of defending that TM. A guy named J
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by Perdition 12y ago
Experience with reCaptcha. I can totally understand why those would frustrate non-technical users, but on a site like HN I would expect people to know how reCaptcha works. That said I think reCaptcha has been getting much harder recently du
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by Perdition 12y ago
Care more about others user-experience and safety (I primarily use ABP and NoScript to block malware attacks) than the fact that if advertising becomes less effective other methods to pay for websites will have to be developed, so I recomme
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by Perdition 12y ago
Why would the government migrate to an OS they are making weaker? If Linux was banned from use in critical systems that might lend credibility to that conspiracy theory, Linux being used in sensitive systems destroys any credibility that th

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