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by bumholio 8y ago
On the other hand, a positive 10 degree global increase will include regions where water freezes regularly. This will either completely change the climate of those regions, or would mean that temperature swings in the rest of the world will
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by bumholio 8y ago
"Thank you for the interest you have shown in me. With regard to the current home project you have assigned me to progress in the interviewing process, I cannot but feel it's somewhat excessive with regards to my time, while being
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by bumholio 8y ago
A more apt story would be "Who needs democracy when you have economic growth". It's strange how the exceptional economic circumstances of China are glossed over in such social analyses. China has had average 10% growth rates
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by bumholio 8y ago
I can understand Facebook and Instagram, they can make money by using strong network effects. It's essentially the same thing Microsoft did, monetize a common platform and exploit the lock in effect. But Slack largely lacks that. A sta
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by bumholio 8y ago
This is one of those recent tech success stories that just leave me scratching my head. I simply can't understand the value Slack is bringing and why would anyone pay for an absolutely metoo product. They are either deviously smart or
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by bumholio 8y ago
The stranger memorizing the license plate from a single announcement on the radio and then finding that car on the street to deliver news of a sick kid is a fantastic story. It's hard to imagine for someone brought up in the age of the
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by bumholio 8y ago
So he stayed for years in a below market house then received a nice wad of cash for the key. All courtesy of the US taxpayer who ended up on the hook for the massive Wall Street bankruptcies that made walking away from a $1 million dollar p
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by bumholio 8y ago
Redlining does not mean simply drawing red polygons on the map. To be guilty of redlining, Facebook must have known the ethnic/racial/religious composition of the excluded areas and it must have known that the advertisers were usi
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by bumholio 8y ago
>leaving flaming bags of dog poop on your front porch before ringing your doorbell and making a getaway by segway while cackling madly. yet, every day, i resist the overriding temptation If there were millions of dollars to be made in th
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by bumholio 8y ago
I'm typing this on a 5 year old netbook that had cost me $300 back then with 2GB, which I later upgraded to 4GB. It runs Windows 10 very smoothly, it's my living room TV computer for browsing, torrenting (up to 1080p) etc. At this
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by bumholio 8y ago
You know the answer to that: zero. In the court of public opinion, existing risks are internalized and heavily discounted while new risks are always perceived as gargantuan no matter how small. It's basic human psychology, it's wh
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by bumholio 8y ago
I am sure a widescale decriminalization of hard drugs south of the US border will be applauded in Washington. It would solve a large part of the drug crime problems in these countries, while raining down industrial quantities of pharmaceuti
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by bumholio 8y ago
I cannot but wonder if North Americans feel responsible in the least for what their voracious appetite for drugs is doing south of the US border. Mexico has become almost ungovernable, the drug trade being one of the main factors driving th
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by bumholio 8y ago
If 40% of the board is selected by the employees, I expect an intense political power struggle over compensation and automation, because continued employment and the paycheck are the paramount concerns of the employees, that by far trump an
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by bumholio 8y ago
I think you should carefully read your quote - it includes the word "Backpage" four times, as in the illegal source of funds that created the laundry opportunity . Breach of contract with payment processors is certainly NOT wire
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by bumholio 8y ago
> essentially deceiving payment processors to generate a profit. That's not an illegal act, unless you can cite relevant statutes being broken. It's a contract breach. Your whole analogy to Backpage breaks down without the init
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by bumholio 8y ago
Money laundry means disguising illicit gains as lawful gains to hide the fact that you are breaking the law. In the Backpage case, the law that were broken pertained to child prostitution. Moving legal money around, no matter how complex, i
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by bumholio 8y ago
The problem with this approach, and the related proposals like 3D Secure and Bitcoin, is precisely that it puts a low ceiling on what the site is allowed to charge to exactly what the customer is willing to spend on porn. The bread and butt
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by bumholio 8y ago
An easy way to beautify and decluter both AMP and non-AMP pages is the Firefox reader view mode (F9). It comes with readable, standard size fonts, predictable layout and no extraneous eyecandy.
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by bumholio 8y ago
Clipboard contents is a very sensitive data stream. People copy and paste all sorts of passwords, credit card data, command lines, confidential text etc. I once found the domain password of a coworker in the clipboard, simply because we wer
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by bumholio 8y ago
On the regresivity issue, the original discussion in this thread was why the tax is politically unpopular. And the answer is: because it's perceived as regressive by the voting public, and acts regressive within the driving segment. Yo
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by bumholio 8y ago
I stopped reading after: All your suggestion does is, it adds a layer or two where we hope the NSA doesn't compromise them in case you'd want to use that chain to install and validate Signal. You can't possibly think that c
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by bumholio 8y ago
Well, since we are talking about a common resource and public law that applies to everybody, the subjectivity of value is not really much help. A flat congestion tax is proposed, so I was clearly referring to the monetary value one places o
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by bumholio 8y ago
The downvotes on HN are really out of control, it's acceptable to "downvote if you disagree"; I guess I can accept that as a social convention - but not if the platform is configured to physically hide, flag and censor downvo
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by bumholio 8y ago
That will cost you your warranty. A needle in a mic is undetectable, quick and guaranteed safe - there is absolutely nothing that can break or short-circuit in a condenser mic, it's a two wire device read through the voltage drop on a
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by bumholio 8y ago
What is its use? Really, why would I ever need to have a crappy condenser mic on a development machine? Voip apps on the desktop belong to the 2000s, and if I ever actually need to use such things, I can plug a pair of mic/headphones.
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by bumholio 8y ago
Opsec in depth routine for a new laptop: - Start sound recording and physically identify the location of the mic. - Jam a needle into the condenser mic to short circuit the membrane - Confirm voice cannot be recorded anymore by making a tes
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by bumholio 8y ago
Sharing genes with other people has indeed been a source of headaches since the beginning of time (take, for example, the whole Garden of Eden fiasco). Luckily, the advantages of being inside the genetic group, like say inheritance, usually
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by bumholio 8y ago
Yes, they only publish the signed binaries produced from public sources according to a recipe anyone should be able to follow. https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
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by bumholio 8y ago
The line about F-Droid doing no automated scanning is particularly troubling. Since he can't possibly imply that a Signal compromise would be detected this way, Moxie is making a political argument against the way people are using F-Dr

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