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by drcube 13y ago
I'm not talking about social security, I'm talking about pensions. To which a 401k or IRA is infinitely preferable. But SS has the same problem as pensions: there's nothing to stop future politicians from eliminating it at an
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by drcube 13y ago
Pensions are a foolish idea and I seriously hope no one under the age of 50 takes a job with a pension, expecting it to actually materialize. But the workers of the past didn't have our benefit of hindsight, and we should do what we ca
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by drcube 13y ago
Drones are unmanned planes. They're not time machines or matter annihilators or teleporters. What makes these devices so scary to certain people?
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by drcube 13y ago
It's not about $300. It's about everybody else from now on who will discover getting $300 from Ignitiondeck is as easy as threatening some bad reviews. Think of the bad PR as an investment. These people will hopefully move on to e
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by drcube 13y ago
> At some point you have to trust someone, and I doubt with all the eyes on windows, both within and without, that any extant backdoor would have remained hidden until now. Right, but A) I like to choose who I trust. Get a second opinion
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by drcube 13y ago
Okay, who? And why should I trust them? How do I know they didn't sign an NDA promising to keep any security vulnerabilities secret?
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by drcube 13y ago
At least with FOSS, I get to choose the third party I trust to verify my software's security. And I don't have to take it on faith, I can get a second opinion, or audit the parts I care most about myself.
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by drcube 13y ago
So the NSA can see Windows source code, but Windows users can't? And users are supposed to feel secure about this? Why?
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by drcube 13y ago
I think it's A) a callback to the "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" book/concept. And B) trying to overcome the macho, ego mentality that they feel is driving professionals to sleep less.
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by drcube 13y ago
If the site doesn't work, you can enable scripts one by one until it does. Usually you just have to allow scripts from the domain you're visiting, and you can prevent most abuses that use third party scripts that way. Occasionally
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by drcube 13y ago
Advertising is basically all manipulation and lies. If it isn't, we just call it "information". Look at what they call "underwriting" on nonprofit independent or public radio stations. "This production is broug
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by drcube 13y ago
It's rude to link to an ugly site when you could link to a better, more readable one. It's rude to lie and manipulate people for money, when you could easily avoid doing so. Advertising should not be encouraged, ever. When you hav
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by drcube 13y ago
If you don't want people to view something on the public web, don't post it there. This page design is infinitely better than the other one, also linked on the HN front page. Seems like you get a choice. Hooray for freedom!
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by drcube 13y ago
They certainly do if it's your first job out of college. Once you've got work experience, you're right, no one cares about your GPA.
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by drcube 13y ago
Not only that, but bullets aren't magic body vaporizers. If you shoot the guy in the right hand, he can still shoot you back with his left. Firing center mass has the best chance at stopping the threat, both because it's the large
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by drcube 13y ago
No. Police aren't Annie Oakley. Chances are, they wounded the suspect while trying to kill. In a life or death situation (which is the only time it is acceptable to shoot a person), nobody has time to make trick shots. If the target de
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by drcube 13y ago
But certainly, CD-ROMs (or today's equivalent: Khan Academy and MOOCs) can take the place of no teacher? There is free education to be had today that wasn't available in 1995. It's not better than the face-to-face educati
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by drcube 13y ago
> Honestly, does it really matter if someone reads the articles that you submit or not? Why submit it if you think otherwise?
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by drcube 13y ago
This is how it works on most message boards. I wouldn't be opposed to it being the MO for this site too. I figure the OP ought to be able to frame their submission however they want. The main problem is you'd get a lot more duplic
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by drcube 13y ago
My old Motorola Backflip, for one. Apparently AT&T removed the "unknown sources" setting from their phones prior to 2011[1]. I think my girlfriend's Samsung Exhilarate from a year or two ago is locked out of installing ap
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by drcube 13y ago
Fair enough. I've seen phones that disable the setting for allowing sideloaded apps. But fortunately it's not as prevalent as I thought.
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by drcube 13y ago
I swear that's just what PHB said on last week's Dilbert.
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by drcube 13y ago
Means testing is a lot of bureaucracy for less effectiveness. Giving everyone a basic income eliminates those issues.
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by drcube 13y ago
Well the banks might have to change their tune when >50% of their clients are using Tor. In fact, when security and anonymity are commonplace, most websites will have to reexamine their policies.
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by drcube 13y ago
Can you sideload anything on Windows or Apple phones? No. And on most carrier locked Android phones, you have to find an exploit to root your device before they let you sideload apps. So my point, that you are less free today with modern sm
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by drcube 13y ago
You can install what you want -- maybe, if your carrier lets you or you find an exploit to root your non-Nexus phone -- on Android only. That's not the case with iPhones or Windows phones. And yes, this is worse (read: less freedom) th
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by drcube 13y ago
It doesn't void my warranty. Nor millions of others'.
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by drcube 13y ago
The freedom to install the software of your choosing? The freedom to actually own your own computer? Seriously?
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by drcube 13y ago
No. If you have a contract to get paid for work, it really doesn't matter whether you "own" the end product in any meaningful way. You should get paid according to the terms of the contract, even if it was just a verbal contr
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by drcube 13y ago
This has nothing to do with that. If you publish something in public for all the world to see, don't expect random strangers to just hand you money for the privilege of seeing it. But if someone tells you they will pay you for your wor

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