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by consonants 13y ago
This is a very common tactic in the grey-market internet realm. A dishonest proprietor raises "concerns" about the other's business on an open community forum, creates FUD. Then the other comes on with a new account, and ac
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by consonants 13y ago
Addict in recovery. I'm glad I was never pigeonholed into Suboxone treatment. Once you are addicted its no better getting off of than Methadone: a month of withdrawals vs what could have been three days. >This goes for Alcoholics to
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by consonants 13y ago
If this stayed on the frontpage we would be swimming in gold. Oh well, time to read them all and lose some faith in humanity
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by consonants 13y ago
Threads like this provide a moment to gaze into the abyss
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by consonants 13y ago
>New Zealand. Hahahaha. NZ bent over backwards to let the US decimate mega. Let's be honest, we have/had basically each of those countries be complicit in extraordinary rendition, extradition, or compliance with US IP-law. Wha
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by consonants 13y ago
Thanks. To add to your quote above, from the paper: > In Study 2, we extend our investigation by considering alternative explanations. In Study 1, it is possible that our con- trol condition decreased benevolence-based trust. In the cont
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by consonants 13y ago
I don't want to jump to conclusions as that is a glaringly obvious control and I find it hard to believe a researcher worth their salt would leave out such a control group. Does anyone have a link to the full paper? edit: grammar
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by consonants 13y ago
If Bitcoin is truly a covert operation led by the government to attract criminals, they would be funding this through a completely unrelated subsidiary who either provides grants to research institutions or contracts the work out. In either
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by consonants 13y ago
Contextual color-temp changing is nothing new at all. Putting a GUI wrapper on it and publishing for two dominant consumer platforms is real innovation I guess.
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by consonants 13y ago
All carriers are shit, T-Mobile is no exception.
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by consonants 13y ago
Funny that the scene for his analogy in the beginning ends with the image of talking heads bantering about a fluff piece, and then he follows with a fluff piece for programmers. The genius is in the mocking subtext.
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by consonants 13y ago
You've got to be shitting me: 'voting with their money' is not at all a valid point, nor would it ever trump that of an elected representative. Notice that Starbucks and Amazon are american lifestyle companies, of course ther
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by consonants 13y ago
That's a cool claim, do you have a source that isn't from mises.org? Tell me more about functioning markets and how they can only be prevented by government force.
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by consonants 13y ago
First I've heard of spiped/tarsnap, what makes it more secure?
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by consonants 13y ago
Ah, but the opportunities available for the poor to grab what they can will likely have them facing the rough side of well-financed and increasingly militarized police force. You can play by your own rules but the reality is that if you do
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by consonants 13y ago
Yup, it's been stated over and over by terrorist organizations that this is one of their intended goals. Thinking about where we were as a country around the time of the 1998 embassy bombings and where we are today would be jarring if
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by consonants 13y ago
Off-topic, but pertains to Docker images: Do people usually roll out their own images from source/based on verified binaries from the parent distribution's repositories or are base images provided by the community?
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by consonants 13y ago
No. Also, I believe they can garnish wages and repossess property to pay off loans if it looks like the client won't ever be able to pay the debt back. In carrying out its fiduciary duty the firm that issued the loan came to the conclu
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by consonants 13y ago
I will postulate that recent consumer hardware is almost guaranteed to have a backdoor for peripherals that grant privileged introspection into the system. For example, Stuxnet relied on creating a botnet to spread and then wait for a call
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by consonants 13y ago
Why is corporate espionage and sabotage by our guys something that is permissible? We push for free trade agreements to neuter foreign businesses' competitivity, and then we still put them under surveillance; how is this okay?
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by consonants 13y ago
The reasonable solution to the problem of terrorism is creating more terrorists.
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by consonants 13y ago
<tinfoilhat>I bet an exploit was found that through operating a certain number of clients Tor's anonymity or hidden services can be compromised</tinfoilhat>
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by consonants 13y ago
FBI did just this and pushed a special update to bug a member of a mob's dumbphone a relatively long time ago.
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by consonants 13y ago
If someone is using your service and is suspected to be committing a crime through it, as a provider you can be subpoenaed to be reasonably complicit in an investigation on said individual. That can involve keeping temporary logs, contact i
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by consonants 13y ago
I want to take a step away from the personal privacy violations here, and approach from an angle that (unfortunately) would motive those with money to lobby against this: your business secrets are out there being collected and reviewed by a
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by consonants 13y ago
Last I checked, you can at any time be requested by the US government to do exactly that: to keep logs or give them access. My point is that they are on the radar, it's a matter of when not if they get an order to start keeping logs or
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by consonants 13y ago
As long as they are in the US, or a nation that bends to our will, it is not a secure provider. It's been little over a year since the FBI seized their servers. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/may-f
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by consonants 13y ago
You will need a teaching degree and a degree in CS to be considered. Have that planned out now. Private tutoring in any subject will help immensely.
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Like a Wasting Disease, Society’s “Connective Tissue” is Being Eaten Away(neweconomicperspectives.org)
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by consonants 13y ago
>So if you yourself admit that you won't voluntarily donate money and help the poor unless you really have some extra, what moral right do you think you have to tell other people they should? He is acknowledging that the trend the o

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