RidingPegasus

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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
> "Engineers" Maybe the hint is right there in your comment. Nearly all the people deploying these nodes aren't engineers in the slightest despite having someone given them such a title.
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
Given the choice would you suggest a person from somewhere such as Venezuela keep their personal savings in Bitcoin or Venezuelan bolívars?
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
Where do people get these talking points from? Intelligence chiefs have testified in front of congress that Iran was following through with it's end of the deal. The US then unilaterally decided to tear up the treaty and put in economi
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
Should other countries cede sovereignty and do exactly what others dictate to them? The West needs be smarter about how to compete and deal with the global landscape rather than crying about it incessantly and childishly trying to divert b
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
I can never understand how people are complaining about this stuff. You willingly and knowingly sign a contract with the terms stated right there. Whose fault is that? The Chinese? If you signed a contract handing over your large profitable
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
Buzzfeednews does ok sometimes but I'd have to disagree with this. Even as a staunch privacy advocate facial recognition could do wonderful things to benefit society, is not the real problem overzealous governments and wideranging poli
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
> if a bit dry That's part of the problem. Journalists avoid a deep dive into the nitty gritty that might muddy the narrative. Of course economists discuss this and are more aware of it than any other group. But how stats are presen
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
Thanks, which page or figure on the Brookings pdf should I be looking at?
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
One-child policy is long gone though. A two-child policy exists perhaps for some. The article does an excellent job summing up the demographic hurdles they face. I personally think any country that can economically prosper without resorting
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
My own government in Australia has the official unemployment rate which is contradicted every time with independent analysis by a well-known multinational firm. Not fractions of a percent either, full percentage points difference. Argue abo
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
It's the same in Japan, homes aren't made to last, you're only expected to get a few decades out of them. My Japanese friends in Sydney always found it bemusing that I lived in a 100+ year old house. It was hard for them to f
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
> There's no underlying value to the property bubble Feels just like home :)
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
> given China's population growth Their population growth is lower than most of the West, some argue it even contracted last year. Why is everyone on this site so wildly misinformed about the largest country on Earth? Is this a US t
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
I'm talking about this figure. Asking for evidence to the contrary that it's not 6.3%. If so what do you think it is? 3%? 2%? Perhaps 6.1%? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/china-s-
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
I just like to thank the excellent responses here. They are food for thought and have reconsidered my view. It's a shame there's not more turnkey options for popular linux distros.
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
I'm well aware of the history, thanks for the link. We are in a comment section of an article on this latest print and I was responding to a comment which says it doesn't trust the official figures. Provided evidence to the contra
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
Would you like to provide some evidence to the contrary for that or just a general "It's probably not true"? You could say the same about Western government debt that's creatively accounted, unemployment rates which avoi
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
So nearly 40 years ago, many here weren't even born. Do you trust Bloomberg? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/china-s-l...
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
Always interested in why exactly systemd is bad? There's a lot of negative PR and not much evidence of why people shouldn't use it. Comes across as like the same recommendations of "don't use chrome, use this fork instea
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by RidingPegasus 7y ago
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/02/ipv6-security-m...
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
If you are so hungry you need to steal then you'd steal food, not exotic inedible animals. I hear the same argument about ivory poachers being poor people faced with no other choice but it's simply not true, the amount of money ga
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Is someone forcing you to buy the ticket? I'd be more concerned about flying particular airlines than the aircraft model.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
A researcher on twitter recently cracked widevine level 1 quite quickly according to himself. No proof of concept was offered but he seemed to be claiming it was fairly simple. Netflix uses level 3. The browser has to decrypt it somewhere a
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Was the trim wheel not visibly spinning out of their control? Simply because the symptoms are different should mean that stopping it via taking manual control is a recurring option.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
The previous flight before the disaster actually made an emergency distress call to return back but after disabling the automatic system decided to continue onwards and did so with no further problems in the flight. Pilots are given all thi
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
The "hills" category is the worst. Have come to the conclusion it really means any patch of grass.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
I ended up removing a chrome extension that randomises user-agents because of this. It dramatically cut down google captchas. Another thing that sets it off is virtual machine usage, I can be logged into chrome and gmail on the same residen
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
The effects of dust buildup on solar panels was largely unknown though. Many expected power to slowly dwindle away over a short period of time. Turns out the panels clean themselves with enough wind.
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
Yeah true, but the arguments for tls default ring a bit hollow, to me at least. Someone who really wants the defense-in-depth should probably be switching to onion sources anyway, I was impressed with how quick they were. As the article sa
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by RidingPegasus 8y ago
I watched this blow up on infosec twitter and it made no sense, APT has https or even Tor if you really insist on it. Takes 30 seconds to configure. Storm in a teacup.

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