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by dylangs1030 13y ago
That was a good movie.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Can we get a citation on this that looks more like a neutral third party?
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Chill out. He didn't try to insult you, he said it's somewhere else for those things to go. He didn't claim it's actually unimportant, and frankly, Hacker News wasn't intended for this kind of discussion - the gui
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Orange is the New Black is awesome. Highly recommend.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Haha, you can do that already. Disable that feature that restores your phone after x number of failed passcode attempts, and keep inputting wrong passcodes until it's locked for x hours. I don't think it has an upper bound but I c
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
You guys are having a phenomenally good discussion. This thread is fantastic and what I love to come to Hacker News and see. Right on, maximum A+. Just wanted to squeeze that in edgewise.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
In case you're unaware of what Spamhaus is, its severity as a DDOS, and the ongoing investigation into its operations, read here: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/spamhaus-ddos-grows-...
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Spamhaus DDOS Suspect Arrested(informationweek.com)
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it's unfair to judge someone's ability based on where they used to work. This friend of mine was laid off in New York and received his severance; based on what I know about him
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I understand what you mean, but I'm not opposed to extreme skepticism. It's alternative explanations that seem contrived that I'm opposed to. There is a difference between extreme skepticism in the face of one story, and post
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
What makes you think the majority of Google employees had any idea this was going on? We have the testimony of several Google employees who comment here on Hacker News that there was no indication any of this was happening. Then there'
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Wow. I can't make out half of that either, and I'm a native English speaker too. Thanks for this, that was fun.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
You're misinterpreting Rayiner's point, and debating this in the wrong way. You're speaking from an ethical perspective, but Rayiner is not. He's making a point about logical sphere of influence - it's not cold and
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
> In absolute terms there is undoubtedly more extreme poverty in India than the US. Why that is so is not as simple as the country's broken social institutions, we're still talking about the world's largest democracy here.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Regarding your example about 100k and 20k 401k vs taxable 120k, it's probably not fiscally responsible to choose the latter except for certain fringe cases. Without going into the deep financials, it's much easier to live below yo
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I know it seems that way, but that's actually reddit and r/programming. Based on sheer numbers, I think most engineers don't frequent Hacker News. I was just at dinner with an ex-Zynga game dev last night who had never even h
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
No, they aren't, not after the Guardian backtracked on "direct access." It was independently reported elsewhere as well. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of...
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
How do you know it's just PR theater, and that these companies aren't just trying to legitimately defend their reputation? You dismiss the entire story and claim that it's so obvious, but how can any of us know that right now
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Yep...we have no proof of Google or Microsoft being complicit in NSA surveillance. Despite that, news like this is going to be analyzed in whatever light suits the reader's bias. People are going to argue and say that this is just a fa
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Yep. Single click purchases shouldn't be utilized as much on mobile devices. The state of mobile apps is such that it's already not intensive to get to a checkout page where you buy something; it's not like Amazon where you m
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Can you elaborate on this? Why did the practice of preferring bank withdrawals prevent you from just choosing a card...or paying some other way?
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Politely, I know you think you're helping people by maintaining awareness of the NSA, but a passing mention of Lavabit on a PayPal thread doesn't warrant a a tangent about the NSA and privacy. It seems kind of obsessive. Sometimes
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
My girlfriend works in Broadway. I wish she knew enough about the recent foreign accents thing to find this as funny as I do. Well done.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Regarding your 3), I think Python would be really good for this. Then they could graduate to C and lisp. Also, I strongly agree with your 6). A small, monochrome screen was very painful to look at on my TI-83 when I was in school. I hated i
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Hacker News patriotism is out of place here. There's nothing in the guidelines about what constitutes legitimate top comments. Hacker News uses a democratic system, where those who choose to vote dictate what the most visible comment i
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
> Next, they performed a lactate threshold test. They said the test would take 15 minutes, tops. Finally, after an hour, they stopped the test. They said they'd never seen anything like this before." I'm not a biologist,
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
There's really an island where people speak 18th century English? I find that really hard to believe. Do you know what it's called? How well do they integrate with modern English speakers when they leave the island?
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
I actually love grep. I'm not sure why, but it's taken such a hold in my brain that I intuitively associate searching for something specific with the word "grep." I agree with man. It makes sense technically because of &
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
People would dislike cops (even) more, slow down while driving, and municipalities would suddenly have an increase in revenue.
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by dylangs1030 13y ago
Short of a one-time pad, there's no such thing as truly secure, only theoretically secure according to time and processing constraints. I'm not trying to be pedantic, I'm just saying, it's not mathematically impossible t

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