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Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)(cryptomuseum.com)
229 points by dictum 9y ago|18 comments
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by dictum 9y ago
He must be a relative of my late friend, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7387402
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Devguides: ES2015(devguides.io)
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by dictum 9y ago
> Then one insanely morning person joins and wants to leave at 3:30 every day. Suddenly all of his scheduling preferences were presumed valid Why wouldn't their preferences be presumed valid? It's as hard for the morning person
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by dictum 9y ago
> Why in the face of globalization (and now increased automation) the U.S. continues to have an effectively open-door policy to low-skill workers This implies that the U.S. is a victim, and not an active participant and benefiter of this
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by dictum 9y ago
It's also self-selecting: if you're good at navigating bureaucracy, you most likely won't be homeless.
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by dictum 9y ago
To wahsd (dead comment): I get your point, but you should ask if the people are poor because they vote Democrat, or they vote Democrat because they're poor (and see themselves better represented by the Democrat platform)? Maybe not eve
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by dictum 9y ago
> standing the competition I'm not sure what you meant by standing, but while competition may be a requirement for generating and amassing greater wealth, it's not a requirement to keep people from poverty.
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by dictum 9y ago
First step towards this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6272626#6272744
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> Respect, Integrity, Communication and Excellence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0
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by dictum 9y ago
> HMR works well Have you run into problems with hot reloading of stylesheets? Seems like the kind of problem that should be solved by now (for reference, LiveReload was doing CSS injection back in 2011, and maybe some other tool even ea
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Cryptocurrencies or cryptocoins.
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by dictum 9y ago
> Having a baby should be expensive (...) This is especially the case in the US where individuals are extremely high-impact on the environment in terms of natural resources consumed and pollution generated. So those who benefit the most
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by dictum 9y ago
> You, as not a woman, are not being included. This is very different from exclusion Correct me as my interpretation may be completely off, but are you using a definition of "exclusion" that takes into account wider social fact
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by dictum 9y ago
Related reading list: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expand... https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/d...
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by dictum 9y ago
> The best fix for this (yes a new UI/UX would be best but let's be realistic on how much time/energy they are willing to spend on this) would be a scary looking alert confirmation dialog of "Are you sure you want to
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Ants lead to a trail of risky investments (2008)(articles.latimes.com)
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I kinda hope it's the "harsh realm" interview ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak ) of this generation.
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> Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg Excuse me as I just came back from 2005, but nothing says "everyone's getting hilariously rich and you're not" like the poin
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by dictum 9y ago
It's a bet that cannot be settled: intelligence documents are only declassified long after the fact, and even then may be full of misdirections and information that requires internal knowledge to interpret. (It's also in the inter
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by dictum 9y ago
The contemporary equivalent, albeit one or a few steps up the abstraction ladder, is "how to get started with (javascript|frontend development)" guides — append "in 2018" for better SEO — which boil down to "use Rea
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by dictum 9y ago
As soon as I read the headline on the frontpage, I came here to search for a mention of flexbox. It's the only non-deprecated browser that only supports the first draft of the flexbox spec. There's no workaround for the lack of fl
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by dictum 9y ago
> "The Most Useless Types of White People" I honestly understand their tone (dislike, but understand — it's not mine to appreciate or not), but a worldview that classifies people by utility leads to some ugly places.
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by dictum 9y ago
Surely designers at a tech company (I guess) are knowledgeable of macro tech trends, so they've known cryptocurrencies for a while, but weren't interested in discussing it publicly?
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by dictum 9y ago
> It's anecdata, but if I ask my teen daughter, Facebook is for older people, and the kids are all using things that I've never even heard of. So not sure how you can really prove discrimination Aren't they looking for you
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by dictum 9y ago
This is the dream of the 21st century: machines selling to machines.
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by dictum 9y ago
Not the phenomenon itself — everyone should be free to pick a new career as circumstances and desires change — but of some interpretations of that phenomenon. I don't want to set up a straw man here, but a hypothetical analyst could lo
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by dictum 9y ago
> Doesn't that just boil down to "people who want to do x and have money can end up in a better spot than people who inherited x and have less money?" Is that not a valid criticism?
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Ever spent a significant amount of time with a child playing with a loud battery operated toy?
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by dictum 9y ago
> of course they can make their man of the year whoever the like now, including Trump and other controversial people Can't beat their historical picks, Hitler and Stalin (twice), both of which met the original goal of the award: ht

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