enkid

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   by enkid 10y ago

   I don't know how common or uncommon it is. I know in my situation growing up in the US it was uncommon. I was simply arguing over the statement made in the comment, that if something has a name, it is common.
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   by enkid 10y ago

   A lot of rare things have names.
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   by enkid 10y ago

   It monitors your credit score for unusual lending to stop fraud. Normally, they also include insurance to cover any fraudulent activity associated with your identity.
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   by enkid 10y ago

   Asking the public to catch venomous spiders so they can produce anti-venom seems potentially counter productive.
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   by enkid 10y ago

   You're coming dangerously close to arguing for the clean Wehrmact myth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Wehrmacht
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   by enkid 10y ago

   This is absolutely true. For example, the US gov depends on 128 bit equivalent crypto to stop quantum factoring attacks for the foreseeable future.
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   by enkid 10y ago

   "Conquer and extract tribute" wasn't really the Empires M.O. at all, that was more a republic thing. The empire's expansion was really slow once it, you know, became an Empire and stopped after Trajan.