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by _nedR 11y ago
Well, there is a lot of crosstalk here, so there might be bit of confusion. Earlier you were contrasting between religious fundamentalists and 'reasonable' actors : >"Fundamentalist" as in "religious fundamentali
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You missed the key point of the article you linked to: That IS is not really a group of religious fundamentalists (at least in the higher levels) - rather they are a bunch of Baathists including intelligence people, who are masquerading as
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by _nedR 11y ago
The correct question is : Which company belongs to him?
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I don't think this is a bad time to revisit an old chinese proverb : https://sivers.org/horses
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>The continuous start-stop wears out the engine faster, so it won't last as long as an identical model with the same engine that hasn't that feature. Yes, that too. Although I imagine it would wear out certain components of the
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by _nedR 11y ago
True. stop-start might have not been the best example in this case. But still, i would be quite apprehensive of buying a 10-year old european car that has stop-start built in - Much more than an equivalent toyota. Japanese are quite slow to
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by _nedR 11y ago
Honestly, everytime I hear about the latest new-and-shiny that car manufacturers try to put in new cars (such as stop-start, keyless ignition) I can't help but roll my eyes at the inevitable fail that this is going to bring. Sure these
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My personal opinion: Because there are very few if any leaky abstractions waiting to blow up in your face. True WYSIWYG.
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Wait, Wait. Hold a second. I am not sure I read that correctly. Are you telling me that until 2012, for every confidential hearing that American congressman could attend, every budget proposal or allocation they had to vote on, every bill
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by _nedR 11y ago
For windows there is a Sandboxie. http://www.sandboxie.com/ Sandboxie has gotten very good over the years. You can sandbox programs that even run with admin privileges. edit: Don't think sandboxie can load drivers.
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Maybe the need is not for God but for us?
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Typing this from a cheap Acer Aspire V5-471G (the cheapest make and model for given specs). Remember you get what you pay for. The laptop looks sleek, but build quality is very flimsy with issues like paint-peeling, scratches, and malfuncti
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Really? IMHO, I found the article quite level-headed and analytical and the author seemed to have actual knowledge of the situation at the ground level.
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>>There's an important qualifier: loser pays reasonable costs of prevailing party, I remember a comment a while back on HN or somewhere which suggested an approximate solution to this : the loser must pay the costs equal to its o
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by _nedR 11y ago
Is this in the realm of feasibility for modern crypto? And what about past/current transmissions using older crypto.
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That's what airport cabbies near where i live in India now do. The queue is really long (such that they may only get 1 or 2 rides the whole day), but now they take Uber/Olacab rides while waiting for their slot.
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>But the worst part was that every freaking time the cab driver would give me attitude for the short fare (ostensibly because they have to wait in that long line). Woah. I thought that only happened in India. Didn't know it was the
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by _nedR 11y ago
The key word here is innovation. Lot of the stuff you described (except perhaps debt securitization) is old and tested. To an outsider like me, it looks like a lot of financial innovation today (the kind that Wall Street does by hiring Ph
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>Financial innovation make our lives more predictable and less sensitive to chance. lol.
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I still found the exchange, informative/insightful and apropos.
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To borrow from a comment on another article, The question you ask is uncomfortably related to a bigger question "If you don’t really need competitive maneuverability, than why do we need a fighter at all?" It is a genuine question
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by _nedR 11y ago
You are overestimating the competitiveness of these markets. In many(perhaps most) parts of India, these operate as unions/ price cartels. The tuk-tuks in particularly ignore meter pricing, in most parts of India, and may resort to vi
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by _nedR 11y ago
I use Privacy Badger by EFF for blocking third-party cookies( https://www.eff.org/privacybadge ). It works incredibly well but does have a whitelist which includes lot of CDNs ( https://github.com/EFForg/p
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If you are on Windows, an additional layer of security might be to install Sandboxie ( http://sandboxie.com ) and run Firefox from within a dedicated sandbox. Additional brownie points for editing the file/folder access. (mak
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Indeed the second-highest voted comment is this : "Freelance taxi's? There must be taxi laws that requires special transportation permits to allow such activity. Taxi companies will not like this and will try to stop drop dime dr
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Oh God. This is sounds like the cruelest prank in the world. From the wikipedia article is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 " It requires no battery or other power source; its manufacturer claimed that it is
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Well, not just HN but i get the point. That does raise a lot of interesting questions. How did they get into the trade ? - This is usually where the primary exploitation happens. After that, it is not uncommon for women to stay within the i
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Oh, In that case, its that PR stunt thing :) Ok. I have read the letter. But my original point still stands. The only reason Apple bothered to do anything was because Taylor Swift said it. To come to your point. I don't completely buy
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>>human slavery does happen, but its not the default case. Which country are you talking about? I can imagine this being true in countries like the Netherlands, where state and police actively regulates and monitors it (instead of si
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I am pretty sure that the SVP was on a conference call with a dozen Record company SVPs, one of whom said "You wanna go nuclear on this! There you go, We sent a tweet through Taylor's account" edit : typos

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