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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I'd like to see your tricks for dealing with 100,000 such sensors, one on every street corner. Misdirection and decoys. How much use are those sensors if they're all detecting you at the same time? If they become prevalent e
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by eiaoa 8y ago
What's your point? That economics is as simple as 1 + 1 = 2? That the typical economics works for laymen present a full understanding of all competing theories that have reasonable claims to some truth, controversies, and assumptions
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> how on earth does it benefit Russia to pay people to perform the actions that 4chan people do? I can't imagine posting edgy memes and attempting to "trigger the libs" is a national marketing/propaganda/outreach
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by eiaoa 8y ago
>> train people more. You hire them at lower qualifications, and educate them in house.. > ... they learn and then leave, because if you were able to pay them the market rate you would've not been training them in the first pl
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> That should read "Positive Economics 101", ie. the status quo-legitimising ideology economics students are spoon-fed as if it was some kind of car manual. Do you have any links to books or articles that go into this idea in m
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> (by drones, I mean land based drone attack tanks etc, with costs only 5-10% of the cost of the manned equivalents, air based drones, surface water drones as well as submarine drones) Don't you mean guided missiles and torpedoes? T
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It looks like it's because of your comment linking Russia and Assange, I don't think so, my guess is that it was due to one of the comments prior to the one you mentioned, or some activity that occurred on the same IP IBM
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> There's a simple solution here. You tell me what you think your property is worth. And I can force you to move out today for that price. This might still be a loss for the county tax assessors, but it will at least keep these stor
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> And as soon as you have a 'usual' route, or you use the app a lot, you get charged more!! It's so disgusting. > I tried to book a trip to the airport for my inlaws using both my account and my wife's account. She
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> A pile of USD can get you robbed and tossed in jail in Venezuela these days. If people know you have Bitcoin, they can just beat the wallet password out of you and throw you in jail just the same.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
Why? It sounds like this ID is mainly used to control the poor with little to no assets. A big pile of USD is probably as good if not better than a pile of bitcoin in this situation. It's much harder to track and control USD than bi
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> A few weeks ago we had a lecture from a lawyer on exactly this subject. Her main point was that GDPR gives people the right to request their data be deleted but it gives companies the right to refuse if it would cause unreasonable dama
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Eventually, no matter how virtuous a company claims to be, they'll sell the company to FAANG who I try to avoid as much as possible. When the true end goal of most startups is an exit payday to Google I can't trust them with
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by eiaoa 8y ago
>> [data] "will never be linked or associated with Google accounts, products or services" > was true at the time but surely what people care about is data flowing between the medical app and existing Google services? I
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Uncensored but not unbiased. Until 2013, Radio Free Asia and other Voice of America related broadcasts were banned in the US since it was considered propaganda. That's just wrong. For one, VOA/RFA/etc. aren't &quot
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by eiaoa 8y ago
They missed Amazon Basics.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Tuning into a shortwave broadcast is more anonymous than the Internet will ever be and easily accomplished with a cheap common, legal device... a radio. My sense is that analog methods are the best response to authoritarian regimes; an
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Another way to make censorship impossible: Ask all governmental, educational and technological websites to provide VPN services or links to other VPN services. If China wants to implement censorship, it has to ban all these websites th
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I'd argue that if you could halve the price by literally using slaves to manufacturer them, most people wouldn't care as long as those slaves were on the other side of the planet. But I'd say that's mainly because t
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Isn't the main point of the singularity that AI would be able to break free of such bonds due to its superior intelligence? At this point, the singularity is speculative fiction.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Doesn't seem practical. It might be useful as a learning-framework for MPI / Supercomputer programming... but it wouldn't be a tool that I'd use personally. I read somewhere that some real supercomputer systems pr
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Reminder that one chief editor of the People's daily commited suicide days ago, following several similar suicides. > A stressful job even to read propaganda afterall. Yeah, I've been told these news anchors are expected t
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration. I'm glad Americans have other, independent news sources. The problem with state-controlled m
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by eiaoa 8y ago
>> I'm a progressive, but there is no peace without being ready for war. I just hope we don't find out too late, and China has much better smart weaponry > Quick question: in this hypothetical where China presents an exis
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Size of the market, US and China have #1 and #2 economies. Start-ups in India seem to have similar problem as Europe, given multi-lingual nature of mass market. I've never done internationalization, but I'm surprised language
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Older top talent often has the resources to actually buy houses even in expensive areas, anyway. Maybe at the toppest-top, but it's a struggle for anyone with even a high normal-range income to buy a home in the Bay Area.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
I think it would be harder to keep every inch of cable in view of a camera than keep every camera in view of another. Jammers are trackable, but if you use them judiciously, I think they could be used to cover other attacks: activate jammer
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Is there a service that lets you associate your own tags with HN accounts? could be useful. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-friends/ https://chrome.google.com/webst
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Ubiquitous surveillance would presumably try to have every camera within view of at least one other camera, so sabotaging them is a good way to get tracked down and arrested. You don't have to attack the camera directly to sabotag
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Of course, Snowden was only able to review what he saw 5 years ago or more. Why you have any doubts that the NSA, with ample resources to track and control, would use techniques similar to what the Chinese do? Do we really need another

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