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...and engineering departments. I don't see any reason to suspect a sizable effect difference between the engineering industries and the academic environment which matriculates them.
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And men would lose $1.2B. Why the gendered title? Why not "Waiters would lose $5.8B in earned tips"?
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Your sarcasm is noted, but YES, the world does need high-IQ, high-conscientiousness people breeding far more than it needs low-IQ, low-conscientiousness people breeding. Both of those traits are highly heritable, and both of those traits ar
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by daxorid 9y ago
While this is true, Tech Solidarity often gets a free exemption due to its strong support from tptacek and idlewords.
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Monero and ZCash are attempting to do exactly that. Yes, obviously nonrepudiable ledger schemes are natural allies with governments. But not all cryptocurrencies are the same.
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It's pretty standard fare when it comes to the career ambitions of prosecutors. One of the "better" cases is that of Stephen Watt, who was hit with such insane restitution and fines ($170MM) that he will never escape povert
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> Maybe a better analogy for this audience For this audience, try load averages. Your 1m load average will be significantly more volatile and unpredictable than your 15m load average.
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Are firearms now not permitted inside Vegas hotels? I always bring, at the very least, a 9mm pistol with me every time I travel. The buried lede, and unanswered question, is whether the legal status of firearms in hotels has suddenly chan
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by daxorid 9y ago
Yes, I see where it goes. Either premiums would rise on the basis of lifestyle, or supplementary health insurance companies would pick up the slack. Your choice to smoke, have unprotected sex, or BASE jump would come with additional costs,
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Same. I'm a little surprised that their focus on "compliance" doesn't cover things like de facto theft of your customer's money. Are there no financial regulations requiring the honoring of withdrawals within a cert
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There are plenty of people on HN who know what the parent is referring to, but simply can't comment with sentiments that belong to the class of "things you're not allowed to say". Dogwhistling is often less dangerous in
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The word "crypto" is a synonym of cryptography, not cryptocurrency. Ref: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crypto
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As it's XGiving, I lack time to respond in full, but again, compelled to reply to this: >> At least with national socialism you have a chance to get out. > Not if you're born the wrong way. This is demonstrably untrue. A
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The only principle I'm discussing here is that of consistency. We interfere fairly regularly in other sovereign states' elections, and then act shocked that a foreign power does it to us. We should either : 1. NOT conduct influen
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> stole others fingerprints IOCs don't really work that way. It's pretty unlikely that FireEye, et. al. would be fooled by copypasta binaries. But there is an interesting point related to this: US corporations are clearly going
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Advance apologies for getting a little off-topic, but compelled to reply in this case. I'm...not even sure how to respond to this historical misunderstanding, other than Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas
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> "Is the user saying they are a nazi" This would only be a fair standard if also applied to Communists. In terms of sheer historical body count, there is no rival. And then, if you did draw ideological lines in the sand, who
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by daxorid 9y ago
Many, likely most, people of prior generations held views that would shock today's worshippers of the Blank Slate Religion.
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> tends to be incredibly unresponsive Correction, there is no support. I have a bit of money permanently locked in a coinbase account because their support does not reply at all . At some point I will just have to convert it all to BTC
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> that you paid for I don't think it's necessary to pay when you can just threaten charges of treason (Melissa Mayer) or make an example out of the uncooperative (Joe Nacchio).
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The privacy afforded by anti-fingerprinting features is kind of useless as long as the browser remains a member of the UAF-vuln-of-the-week club.
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These are just public ones: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-6938... Filter by CVSS > 6, note the number of execs. Enjoy.
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Yes, but to clarify, I meant access by civilians, given the availability of cheap FLIR systems, stepper motor rigs, and OpenCV processing.
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Another option is that some of us really look forward to real-life sentry gun turrets; we actually want this future.
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> Fuck if I understand why people like JohnStrange, revelation and ryanlol are downvoted The Hacker News community largely gets its non-hacker news from CNN, the NYT, HuffPo, etc. As mainstream US media parrots whatever the FVEY IC tells
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This is not news. Anybody who goes to con, particularly telephreak and friends, has known about Crunch for a long time, now.
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The larger point is that TPTB tend to ban groups that want communists thrown from helicopters, but are absolutely fine with groups that want fascists thrown from helicopters. There's a fundamental imbalance in how the standard is appli
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Exfiltration is a problem. It's more difficult to exfil terabytes of individual citizen dossiers than ~2GB of malware, implants, tools, scripts, etc from classified and possibly even SCIF environments. Or it could be more prosaic than
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> unless you believe it is totally random Nassim Taleb has built an entire writing/speaking career on the premise that most success (particularly in the financial industry) is predicated on N events, where N is low enough to statist
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They're simulating 50; they're implementing 20.

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