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China Bans Americans Working for WSJ, NYT, WaPo(wsj.com)
298 points by big_chungus 7y ago|171 comments
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by big_chungus 7y ago
It's also possible that the communists pressured Cook to re-open to send that message. It wouldn't be the first time Apple has caved to the CCP. To answer your earlier comment, even if the cases dropped, are you arguing that we i
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by big_chungus 7y ago
China also has a wider set of options to violate the liberties of her citizens. That does come in handy some times, but we've decided we don't do that here. Japan is very, very different culturally, so it's quite hard to co
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by big_chungus 7y ago
That is certainly true. Though were I really concerned, I could assign my firewall the entire block, filter traffic, and filter traffic on a given address to a given device. That aside, I trust myself to configure a deny rule and just let
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I can only wish that I had this, but if I did, I'd absolutely keep it. I'd love to give every device on a home network a publicly-routable address. No more port forwarding, no more NAT garbage. On the other hand, I know a guy w
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22464246
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Jack Welch has died(cnbc.com)
40 points by big_chungus 7y ago|4 comments
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Sorry, non-aggression principle. Basically, no using force against someone else until he does it first. You're right that we do have to have some government to uphold basic duties. However, those duties are pure public goods and sho
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Well sure, stealing from others is a violation of the NAP. That's part of the "keeping the peace" duty I mentioned in my above position that the state should keep the peace, uphold property rights, and enforce contracts.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
It has been since we went off the gold standard, yes. However, the government has already been taxing for this service in the form of inflation (which, incidentally, is one of the more regressive taxes one could devise). All we have to do
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> radical libertarianism Calling something "radical" is a tried-and-true technique to attempt to discredit it without arguing the point. What I described isn't that far from the federal government in early America. > T
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Just checked the price on CBC from any lab test now, $50. That's still pricey for most people, especially for a half-dozen similar tests per month. Walmart has historically proven very good at forcing prices down through economies of
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Unfortunately, governments do indeed steal stuff all the time. That's why it needs to be as hyper-local as possible and why citizens should own military-grade arms. I think our arguments are jousting without clashing, so to speak, be
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> I'm aware libertarians believe it's the principle of the thing, dammit, but I'm truly weary of arguments which boil down to "Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax is philosophically indistinguishable from a call for na
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Jon Skeet Facts(meta.stackexchange.com)
1 points by big_chungus 7y ago|0 comments
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by big_chungus 7y ago
That's much easier with a first name because they aren't typically passed down. Some families do to an extent, but not like last names.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Why re-solder the chip? It seems as though it would be easier to recover data by just yanking the drive, especially since full-disk encryption was quite rare fifteen years ago. Failing that, couldn't you have used a SPI flasher with
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Batman is apparently heavily inspired by the philosophy of Nietzche. The quote is probably a more polished version of this one from Beyond Good and Evil: "He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monst
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Some things can take a while to clone. On the top end, repos like blink, webkit, and gecko can take half an hour or more.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> At the same time you shouldn't assume experts, the media, etc. are somehow mass conspiring against your health/safety. Assessments are probably reasonable to follow. True, but it's also not their job to work for my perso
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I've used linked lists a little more because I mostly do C rather than C++. Sometimes I end up using it as a quick-and-dirty vector when I don't want to bother writing something or using a library, though I typically use some kin
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I'd second the point on different cultures doing it differently. One of my profs once said he had a book written by two mathematicians, one German and another Italian. It was fairly evident who had worked on which part. He also ment
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Who made you the spokesman for every non-white in America? You're no more qualified to speak on their behalf than amylene. You certainly have no justification for writing off his arguments with "You are white, right?" Tha
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> And some people, like myself, would rather not have such somewhat intrusive operations become the new norm. 100% agree. People can do what they want to their own bodies, but I think it's a foolish idea. I can't offer you an
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I'll try to respond, even though "lol" and linking an article isn't much to argue with. I'm not worth that much money, though I do fine and have plenty of time to change that. I didn't have the SAT services or
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I typically go with just "postgres" for phonetic pronunciation. Not sure how else it would be done; "postgres sequel?"
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I think there's a case for disputing the official pronunciation because it's based off an "official" pronunciation of SQL. I've heard it ess-queue-elle and sequel, but personally side with sequel. It was originall
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by big_chungus 7y ago
I think many people don't realize that we've so inflated our currency that you can be worth $2 million and still be upper middle class. Doubly true if you choose to deal with the extortionate taxes of California.
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by big_chungus 7y ago
Would you please clarify your meaning? I seem to be missing a lot of context. Race to the bottom of what? Selling tools to do what? People who won't conform to what?
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by big_chungus 7y ago
> The other fun trick was finding someone who had left xhost+ open and while a boss was at their desk, popping open NSFW pictures on their screen in an xv window. Did this ever end up actually getting someone in trouble? I've worke

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