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by bdhe 10y ago
> Even though the H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa, it is one of the few temporary visa categories recognized as dual intent, meaning an H-1B holder can have legal immigration intent (apply for and obtain the green card) while still a h
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by bdhe 10y ago
> He can rest assured that the USA never saw France as no2 in anything, except maybe gastronomy. I think in your haste to put down France you misread the quote which in fact states what you say later on in your response. Here's the
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by bdhe 10y ago
> I just watched the People v. OJ Simpson. Here's a man who was clearly guilty of a heinous crime. Yet, his lawyers' job was not to pass moral judgment on him, but to represent him. It was their ethical obligation to try and ex
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by bdhe 10y ago
I agree that calling all lawyers unethical is a broad generalizing stroke that serves no purpose in garnering friends. I did think it might be interesting if you addressed this specific point: > Mossack Fonseca did not work in a vacuum—d
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by bdhe 10y ago
> There are also MILLIONS of people fucking off at work every day who do not deserve to have a job. GM had (has?) a clause in their union contract that did not allow them to fire people if their job was automated away. They had a buildin
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by bdhe 11y ago
I think a tragedy of the commons is a better description of the problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons ) than the Prisoner's dilemma ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison
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by bdhe 11y ago
And in a million years, don't mistake legal for ethical. Even more so when the people writing the rules for what's legal (the politicians) are the very ones playing this game.
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by bdhe 11y ago
Cut him some slack. According to his comment he's 16. He's viewing it from a high school lens. Whether or not being an "American" 20-something year old requires you to do what was mentioned above, some of his points are
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by bdhe 11y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A man not just ahead of his time, but humorous about it too. > The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios ha
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by bdhe 11y ago
> It sounds like they could have made a device that even a firmware update couldn't break, but they didn't. I really don't see how they can refuse. Your analogy is good. This is nearly impossible because the development li
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by bdhe 11y ago
> So this must there is some characteristic of the problems that we generate in practice that makes them "easy" but we don't have a good understanding of what this characteristic is. All we know, for now, is that we'v
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by bdhe 11y ago
> if you have a fact-based concern, we may be able to address it. I didn't quite enjoy this dismissive tone, so I'll be more pedantic than usual. The study you cited is interesting but it's not the end all of gun control d
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by bdhe 11y ago
> Have you ever tried your argument with s/guns/encryption/? This substitution is nonsensical. Fundamentally, encryption is a defensive tool. Where proponents of gun control (and I mean moderate folk, not just the let&#x27
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by bdhe 11y ago
> Of course not, even though you'd be hard-pressed to suggest that they were great fits for their programs since they dropped out after their first year. Bill Gates was just a semester shy of graduating and even published a paper in
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by bdhe 11y ago
> Obviously, you can’t remove the newspaper article, even if it is heavily editorialized. Wouldn't it be easier to have a law requiring that if the newspaper article is online, then they MUST have some sort of Editor's Note or
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by bdhe 11y ago
Possibly. The author does himself/herself a disservice knocking down some really low-hanging fruits and almost cult-like points. I stumbled across the original posting actually and thought it deserved a mild chuckle at best.
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by bdhe 11y ago
I think this happens in reddit sometimes when people pick out nuances in the comments. It's also lead to the meme of "I come to the comments to see why the headline is wrong." So yes, this effect can be mitigated, but I doubt
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by bdhe 11y ago
I think everyone should know of the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. To quote from Michael Crichton: > Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amn
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by bdhe 11y ago
You'll have to be more specific before we can speculate. What investments? What problems has the DoD had with Twitter? I'm curious to know more.
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by bdhe 11y ago
When Don Knuth wrote TeX, the engine underlying LaTeX, he made sure that typesetting was a top priority. This includes all sorts of novel spacing, hyphenation, and other algorithms. See some more examples here: http://en.wikipedi
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by bdhe 12y ago
This keeps coming up every so often, so here's a different discussion I'd like to get into. How do we measure something as ambiguous as productivity? And I contest some of the points raised: For companies where people are mostly l
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by bdhe 12y ago
However, if you're forced to pick a unique password just for Schwab, it's immune from the most common [citation needed] attack on passwords. Also, it makes the Schwab password useless for hacking other databases, making user pass
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by bdhe 12y ago
This essay was, as expected, quite controversial in the cryptographic community. This essay is a good place to start looking at opposing arguments (as are the rebuttals referred to at the end of the essay). http://in-theory.blogs
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by bdhe 12y ago
There are existing works on encryption-as-a-standard at both the IP and transport levels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpcrypt
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by bdhe 12y ago
Touche. Didn't think that my argument would sound like that, but it does.
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by bdhe 12y ago
But you have to be careful with this lest this incentivizes the creation of parallel-reconstruction-like fabrications of the source of evidence.
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by bdhe 12y ago
Because HTTP does not imply security, HTTPS does. Without proper certificates, these guarantees are diluted; hence the warnings.
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by bdhe 12y ago
This certificate industry has been such a racket. It's not even tacit that there are two completely separate issues that certificates and encryption solve. They get conflated and non technical users rightly get confused about which th
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by bdhe 12y ago
Both okay according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth
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by bdhe 12y ago
A lot of the time, the randomness used must be secret (for nonces etc.) but your solution is an interesting way to implement a CRS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_reference_string_model ) which is very useful in so

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