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by akjj 13y ago
This list is quite confused and several of the examples are not false flag operations. As Wikipedia's definition says, it has to be carried out with the purpose of pinning blame on another group and tarnishing their reputation. > Al
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by akjj 13y ago
His proceedings have nothing to do with obscure laws or costumes. He is accused of raping two women. Sweden is a democratic country with established rule of law, unlike China.
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by akjj 13y ago
This is a very reductionist view of worth. Your model implicitly values people's non-working time at zero, which is true as far as GDP is concerned, but is pretty clearly false as far as how actual human beings chose to live. If fewer
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by akjj 13y ago
TCP packets have a sequence number and if the sequence number is less than the receiving computer is expecting, the kernel will discard the packet. In fact, since so many people are behind DHCP, the discarding is probably going to happen at
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by akjj 13y ago
Presumably they don't have the capability to filter or modify packets passing through the exchange. So when they see target's computer opening a connection, they have to generate a reply faster that reaches the computer before Lin
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by akjj 13y ago
How so? Treaties only take effect once they've been ratified by Congress. How are treaties less democratically legitimate than any other legislative act of Congress?
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by akjj 13y ago
There's a lot of cost in the mechanics of the truck and the fuel which make full-sized trucks more economical. Not to mention the convenience of not having to load and unload lots of small deliveries. I would be very surprised if self-
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by akjj 13y ago
No passenger has ever died on the Japanese Shinkansen, but a train was derailed during an earthquake. The safety of high-speed trains, both in Japan and elsewhere, also relies on safety during a derailment by keeping the train rigid and hav
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by akjj 13y ago
> It is illegal in the US but who cares about the rest of the world? I think it's entirely justifiable to give the NSA more latitude abroad than domestically. To turn reverse the scenario, as an American, I would far rather have the
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by akjj 13y ago
> What if the code contains a security issue that is exploitable, but only in remote cases and the maintainers do not want to accept changes to the code for whatever reason? Surely, Mozilla will release an update which disables the plugi
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by akjj 13y ago
I think you misunderstand why the "soft" sections of the newspaper exist. Real estate, automobile, and lifestyle sections are all very profitable in terms of what they can charge advertisers, and I would guess technology and busin
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by akjj 13y ago
Clearly, a PRNG is a subtle concept and it's common for abstracts to not be completely precise. In context, it's clear to me that by "uniform" they mean "a random process which generates numbers independently from a
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by akjj 13y ago
> Inflation (a jargon word that basically means printing money) transfers money from savers to debtors. No. Inflation is a decrease in the value of money relative to the goods and services in the economy. As with all things, the price of
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by akjj 13y ago
Thanks for the video. I ended up watching the whole thing. My interpretation is a little different than yours: I think George is saying that there's no point in having a key longer that 56 bits given that the goal is 56 bits of securit
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by akjj 13y ago
Unlike most commenters, I think Greenwald is giving very evasive answers to perfectly legitimate questions. Any operational details about the NSA could plausibly be useful those who are trying to evade surveillance. To me the correct answer
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by akjj 13y ago
There are two separate issues: what is legal and what is possible. The downloadable copies you're referring to are certainly available, but downloading them is illegal. For many people, that makes a difference. The post I replied to sp
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by akjj 13y ago
> What would change for you, if Netflix will change the terms from renting to buying? I don't subscribe to Netflix, but in my opinion if Netflix allowed downloading, what many people would do is make a list of movies they wanted to
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by akjj 13y ago
> It was generally thought that government would not keep security vulnerabilities hidden Was that what people thought? Were there vulnerability reports in open-source software that were coming from the NSA or thought to be coming from t
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by akjj 13y ago
In the short to medium term, Netflix, etc. will just fallback on delivering streams through Silverlight of Flash. That's what they do know and those plugins will keep working. There's precedent for this in the way that many websit
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by akjj 13y ago
The existing plugins are heavy and don't integrate well with other web technologies. In addition, the NPAPI interface is not standardized (I believe). Thus, the point is to narrow down the scope of plugins from everything that Flash an
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by akjj 13y ago
This was a follow-up to an earlier change which also delayed image decompressing. In the description of that change the author wrote: "Andrew McCreight wrote a comment that I can’t find now, but basically he said that on one of his mac
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by akjj 13y ago
In case you are not aware, the author's father committed suicide: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=1282 I have no particular point here, but I just feel that any discussion of your comment should take place wit
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by akjj 13y ago
Even without an employer match, the 401k has the advantage that interest is not taxed. This makes a big difference over the course of a career.
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by akjj 13y ago
> "the legal duty to maximize shareholder value" Agree. Companies have numerous stakeholders. As is implicit in the link you give, there is no legal obligation for executives or other employees to maximize shareholder value (fo
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by akjj 13y ago
The thing is that the speed of travel determines how quickly you can curve and that's built in to the right of way. The major limitation on the speeds on the current northeast corridor is the curvature of tracks which were built for sl
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by akjj 13y ago
> (remarking that the proposed system may involve 12% higher lateral accelerations than HSR, and instantly dismissing it as a "barf ride") You're comparing apples to oranges here. If I understand the OP correctly, the 4.37
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by akjj 13y ago
> TL;DR: Cut track weight by half, car weight by half, and total support weight by half and you get 0.125 which is suspiciously close to 0.10, the number that the article author had such a problem with. In the comments to his blog post,
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by akjj 13y ago
> This is obvious from the kind of nitpicking that goes on (no references! 4.37 m/s^2 is the maximum motion sickness possible because an accredited expert proposed it; I've never seen 4.9 m/s^2, but it's surely a barf
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by akjj 13y ago
Bridge to solar, wind, and maybe other renewables.
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by akjj 13y ago
Where you're born has a large and statistically significant impact on where you grow up.

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