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by enko 13y ago
To the person who replied quoting the Economist about democracy in Japan, then deleted their comment - thanks for the link. Well yes, on a superficial level, I suppose democracy is kind of healthy in Japan. It sort of misses the point thoug
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by enko 13y ago
If you look around a bit you'll find a lot of people who are rather bearish on democracy as practised in the first world west - professional politicians with no real world experience, being voted in by the cynical, uninformed masses, p
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by enko 13y ago
> why do they always happen to always be inaccurate on the bad side these days? Well, an obvious factor is that there is a huge incentive to under-estimate for anyone with an interest in the project's green light. The cheaper a proj
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by enko 13y ago
Ironic that I couldn't quite get my point across, after complaining about misuse of language! This point has been belaboured far more than it deserves, but for the record I had in mind both the cynical management with their ludicrous,
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by enko 13y ago
It seems pretty obvious to me that some variant on the vacuum maglev train is the long-term solution to travel on Earth. It's the only way, really, to get past the air problem. I doubt we'll ever see mass supersonic transport - a
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by enko 13y ago
Good research, thanks. Had no idea it was that old! I am actually heartened to see it appears to be a politician's fad. Hopefully in 20 years time it will be about as potent as "radical". Nonetheless, that doesn't put a
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by enko 13y ago
Don't understand what point you're trying to make.
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by enko 13y ago
This is an informal comment forum, so I prefer to structure my sentences as I would informal speech. That means comma splicing and lots of it. What would you have written? I wasn't shitting on people who work at Subway, I was shitting
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah well until it's in Oxford it doesn't exist. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yolo
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by enko 13y ago
Yeah, brought to you by the same type of people responsible for http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literally Since the early 20th century, literally has been widely used as an intensifier meaning “in effect, virt
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by enko 13y ago
> It’s the optics that matter. Oh really? Refraction and reflection of light, the study of same - that's what matters is it? Of course not. You mean appearances matter. Name-dropping some physics-sounding word does not make you so
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by enko 13y ago
It's not a very good phrase, since "greatest" means whatever the speaker wants it to mean. You could plausibly say that about almost any country - everyone has something they're "the greatest" at. To be fair, t
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by enko 13y ago
It's just all so bloody transparent. Russia gave Snowden asylum so we hate them now. Obama will still come to the party but he's not going to talk to the birthday boy. You suck Russia! Nerrr! We're best friends with Sweden no
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by enko 13y ago
I think you'll find that the presence of effective, competent governance is pretty strongly correlated with the availability of both food and jobs. You missed my point, anyway, which is that your comfortable notions of a safe, orderly
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by enko 13y ago
I agree. Russia's perhaps the only country the USA would have serious reservations about going into. Maybe if it was some unknown defector or something .. but Snowden? My god, I can't even imagine what would happen. China would pr
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by enko 13y ago
Let's toss in "no jobs" and "no food" to add a little pizzazz to your thought experiment.
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by enko 13y ago
I was astonished to see a graphic in the youtube buffering article indicating that dropbox handles over 1% of the internet's upload traffic: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/sand
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by enko 13y ago
As opposed to building this thing, filling it (perfectly) with ultra-high-power resonant soundwaves of the precise characteristics, and flinging in shuttles and hoping nothing goes wrong? I don't know, the evacuated maglev is sort of s
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by enko 13y ago
Ah, I see. That's an interesting idea. Sounds impractical - if you're going to do all that engineering work, might as well just get rid of the air in the first place - but cool concept.
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by enko 13y ago
It does on HN : P Well, the acoustic idea wouldn't solve drag at all. The craft would still have to move through air.
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by enko 13y ago
Like most titles that end with a question mark - "no". Why would you use some kind of acoustic wave system over tried and true maglev?
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by enko 13y ago
A CEO is carrying 5 phones on his belt so he can save a few pennies using same-carrier free calling? What, does he have those 5 numbers also printed on his business card?
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by enko 13y ago
Some very doubtful assertions here. > FBI cracked 512-bit disk encryption in a recent case Very hard to believe that they brute-forced 512-bit AES. More likely they guessed, or otherwise located, the key, or found some implementation fla
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by enko 13y ago
Looks pretty good to me! http://www.aircanada.com/en/travelinfo/onboard/comfort_intex...
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by enko 13y ago
> I scored a non-stop Air Canada flight in Executive First, from Sydney to Vancouver for only $1,200 Excuse the french, but how the fuck did you do that? If I could travel SYD-YVR first class for $1200 I'd probably go every couple o
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by enko 13y ago
s_q_b, you are hellbanned. I can't reply directly. I don't really believe the NSA can effortlessly break TLS at will. That just seems too far fetched. What kind of alien supertechnology do people suppose they have? I prefer Occam&
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by enko 13y ago
> needs to have a travel document in order to claim asylum > they simply have to arrive and claim asylum In order to arrive, he needs the travel document.
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by enko 13y ago
Sorry. I am evidently not explaining myself well. I am saying that people seem to be putting a lot of trust into HTTPS to shield them from NSA monitoring. If I was the NSA, and could just tap whatever I wanted, I'd obviously set up my
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by enko 13y ago
> you're in the company's network Yes, of course. What's incorrect? I'm just saying that if you have unlimited ability to make secret tapping demands from whoever you want, you might as well make it easy for yourself
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by enko 13y ago
Hm, I think the HTTPS thing is overblown for sites that are hosted in the US. Almost no large sites do HTTPS termination on the actual app servers; it would be the simplest thing in the world to put the collection device behind the HTTPS en

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