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by cmdkeen 12y ago
After Hoover died it became clear the level of actual corruption and control he had over Presidential elections, and how the FBI had been suborned to serve his personal and political beliefs. So there was a secret police period, except it w
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
"Nobody loses" - of course they do. Apple protect users from themselves by making it hard to install dodgy software on their phones. For ever alleged power user who wants to do something different there are probably 100 users for
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Good luck if you're not a car salesman. It's a reputation issue, why should I trust you that there isn't a problem with the car, why are you selling it? That "risk of it being a lemon" factor is what causes a new ca
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Historically it replaced suing the other party in a failed engagement for "breach of contract". The idea being that a woman who had a failed engagement was less able to find a good match. The engagement ring essentially acted as a
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's intriguing that the same issue crops up in the financial industry with product fees. Fund managers with high fees are not the best but people mistakenly apply the "I must be getting what I pay for" concept, not appreciat
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Financial issues ruin marriages, moreso even than infidelity. "Richer or poorer" is the bit of the vow that might seem easy when you're young, in love and likely to get richer, but if a financial crisis destroys your social c
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It also masks the problem in the retrospective - in my view the most important part of scrum. Developers put down positives for going above and beyond rather than being forced to admit, and therefore analyse, that the team failed. I've
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Well known != well solved. It's the difference between "we need to build a web application to do X" and "we're going to redefine how people do X". Secondly have you seen Salesforce? The COTS solution isn't
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Winston Churchill suffered from depression he called his "black dog". He wrote to avoid it, and his prolific output, and indeed alcoholism, should be viewed through that prism.
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In this program? Because that drone didn't fire a Hellfire, a human in a helicopter did. Hours were spent observing a suspicious target, far longer than would have happened in any previous conflict, and observed by people who are not &
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
But who was supposed to say no? The SF officer on the ground who did not have line of sight but was being told they had positive ID on military age males, weapons and no children? Or the helicopter pilots who were given a target, and who do
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Indeed for web development tools like MiniProfiler give you access to the queries in the page along with execution time and duplicate query detection. We use it on Oracle with the Devart provider and it's pretty snappy even with the so
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
One of the things I like about EntityFramework is that you write LINQ, which odds are these days every C# dev should be familiar with. So, standby a few gotchas (which SQL has as well), the code you write to query an in memory collection is
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
You effectively had that during the latter Hoover years with the FBI. That the headquarters is still named after him is an indictment of the US approach to political corruption.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Sad. There should definitely be a challenge involving table functions all the way down - combined with a Call of Cthulhu esque sanity system...
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Armando Iannucci said he stopped writing The Thick Of It because too many of his mad plot lines were coming true and he was afraid to predict even madder things.
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Spare a thought for the people at the BBFC in the UK who in addition to having to watch every feature film to rate it also have to watch all the pornography videos to rate and check for legality. I attended a university debate once between
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
That's not what he means. US businesses selling to European consumer customers should be charging VAT and sending it to the relevant government. For small ones it doesn't matter because they're in the US and so beyond the rea
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
The UK estimates that between a third and a half of all acquisitive crime in the UK is committed by class A drug users. You're assuming that in the case of legalisation there wouldn't be sin taxes, which given alcohol and cigarett
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
You don't have to be in favour of the current war on drugs to be in favour of heroin being illegal - and this is key selling heroin being illegal. Even Portugal, held up as the example of decriminalization only decriminalized possessio
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
There are a few interesting takeaways: - Pain perscriptions as a gateway to more hardcore drug use that destroys life, it doesn't sound like this individual had any "liberty" to make choices once he had become hooked on paink
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Where do you obtain the raw product from? This dealer was buying $6000 bricks of heroin, so the only people being cut out were the middlemen just above the street dealers. The cartels are absolutely still the people being funded by this act
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It would be entirely possible for Twitter to create various community driven feedback mechanisms, they just don't want to. Plenty of online communities have various moderation systems, including HN that hugely reduce the potential for
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind. As with so many things it is merely a new twist on an old problem.
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This is where you need to separate the data from the encryption, and where external hardware based authentication becomes useful. If you have a hardware authentication you can destroy the device without losing data, and depending on the eas
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
It's also on you to tell that story convincingly. Because realistically would you write down the pass key in only one place? That's all of your data after all. Your livelihood if you're a developer etc. You may get asked what
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Full disk encryption isn't an "I'm so clever" excuse - take Ulbricht for instance even if he had shut down his computer before being arrested FDE wouldn't be help from someone asking his password. If you've bee
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
We Brits also call a cell phone a "mobile phone" which describes perfectly what it is.
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Yes but the discussion was about whether you could assume a DPRK computer science grad would go into military (or associated work). Using military spending as a % of GDP as a rough yardstick does suggest that the number of DPRK citizens inv
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by cmdkeen 12y ago
Given it spends around a third of its GDP on military activities, and is a thoroughly planned economy it seems a relatively straightforward inference to make.

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