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by ballard 13y ago
IANAL, legal or otherwise: US perspective: A frmr roommate and his family came here illegally but then later hired immigration attys that somehow acquired citizenship for the whole family. Not sure how that happened: one could speculate at
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California Supreme Court grants law license to undocumented citizen(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|1 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
When cars are driving on the vertical sides of buildings, then maybe that might be impressive
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by ballard 13y ago
Yeah, because it's in every easy undergrad stats textbook. The problem with asking trick questions in an interview is that, although they may make the interviewer look smart, they are orthogonal to the ability to do the job. It's
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by ballard 13y ago
That term failure is ambiguous to some: suppose "failure" means one try didn't work, "defeat" means gave up, never trying again and causes a loss of confidence. Also neat: Failure Games http://lifehacker.
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by ballard 13y ago
Great discovery. Surprised no tinfoil had been mentioned about being a possible NSA "diode."
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by ballard 13y ago
Encrypt and tamper-protect laptops and smartphones. The news from CCC shows the tip of the iceberg of capabilities including injection-molding hidden radios, JTAG, i2c and hd firmware. I would also desolder and epoxy over any ports that are
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by ballard 13y ago
First thing to start with is getting public financing of campaigns because that's the source of influence aka corruption... the money. It's the biggest problem, by far.
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by ballard 13y ago
If you were to install some packages on a system, would you install unsigned ones that are allowed to modify every other package, altering how other programs work, without confirmation? That's effectively the state of browser security
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by ballard 13y ago
News, apart from investigative journalism, is mostly gossip with a patina of occasional respectability. But by news being essentially gossip, it's something there's plenty of, like artistic talent, so there's not much money i
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by ballard 13y ago
Unless you're Telegram.
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by ballard 13y ago
Monkey see, monkey do. Discussing any behavior, especially in the media, makes it more likely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide (Werther effect) The interesting bit (from the book IIRC) is that the copiers
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Swedish man survived in snowed-in car for two months(theguardian.com)
3 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
The last bit is the key point. There is zero accountability: it's asking the fox to guard the hen house. Mumbling words soon forgotten that can't be said with a straight face. In short: it's a real accountability gap by the
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by ballard 13y ago
The government's monopoly on legal violence delegated to police and military (which are starting to blur together) + ubiquitous spying capabilities only bounded by technology limits, finding clearance-passable bodies to wade through mo
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by ballard 13y ago
Their price of admission is eternal resistance limited to defense.
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by ballard 13y ago
Sure, Your Honor, and what about JSOC assassinating American citizens. Why even bother with warrants or legal process the rest of the time? Throw it all away. Just let the executive branch do whatever the fuck they like (contrary to the
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by ballard 13y ago
C fixed Fortran 66 as well as assembly being too low level (very manual memory allocations).
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by ballard 13y ago
The modern extension is urban gypsying; inflatable air mattress and a laptop. Also, for the adventurous: vehicle life (van, bus, boat, plane, etc) &| squatting. That is until some folks that choose to have kids.
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by ballard 13y ago
Editing titles seems like another level. What other levels are there?
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Gerda Taro: the first female war photographer to die on assignment in WWII(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Brain size is correlated to intelligence in humans by 0.35. Cooking food is an adaptive behavior that reduces disease and alters nutrition. It was the gradual exploitation of nature for the domestication of monocultural, industrial agricul
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by ballard 13y ago
Semantic checking seems far off, but would be an impressive accomplishment: "Invisible pink bananas sleep furiously."
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by ballard 13y ago
20% of deaths are due to arsenic (As) poisoning. Begs the question: what's are the source(s) of As?
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Viable water filter for immense Bangladeshi arsenic poisoning disaster(theguardian.com)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|2 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Still, it's an unstable arrangement that moves toward an equilibrium of more freedom, commerce... and food.
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by ballard 13y ago
Regardless, gotta love how Dennis Rodman looks the other way and doesn't give a shit about people.
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by ballard 13y ago
Amen. Reality isn't as meritocratic or simplistic as the parent commenter believes. Authorities don't always care and sometimes enjoy tormenting people. Also, dependence upon authorities is tantamount to learned helplessness. H
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by ballard 13y ago
NWA said it best: "Fuck the police." But look at the date... End-of-the-month quota-filling dragnet likely.
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by ballard 13y ago
IANAL but I know plenty: US jurisprudence has a primary flaw when comes to privacy: individuals have no rights to most of their own data. Once it is "out there," it's available to be bought and sold without much limitation.

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