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by etherael 14y ago
"This guy was not funny" is a different criticism to "This guy engaged in straightfaced serious misogynistic commentary" is a different criticism to "This guy should not have been hired for this particular venue". The only thing I have a pr
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by etherael 14y ago
> PS we have very different definitions of 'self-deprecating'. It's self deprecating when you make ridiculously over the top statements about how awesome you are because it makes you look like an idiot. That old "I'm a pretty big deal a
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by etherael 14y ago
I know it's fashionable to have a knee jerk reaction and not actually check backstory etc, but just quietly. http://www.madschristensen-foredrag.dk/mc/Aktuelt-og-media This guy is clearly a comedian / over the top on purpose, to say that
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by etherael 14y ago
> the military essentially screens for them in order to make the most of the mounted 50 calibers Citation needed, not calling bullshit necessarily but I can't imagine selecting for pyschopaths in the military does wonders for unit cohes
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by etherael 14y ago
It was quite interesting to me how he rationalised his behaviour; Yes, it's a bad thing to do, but at the same time the world is full of bad actors, unscrupulous politicians and out of control corrupt financial institutions, so really I'm j
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by etherael 14y ago
hover over them.
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by etherael 14y ago
There aren't any benefits. Government is just a business model, when it comes right down to it that's what it reduces to. It doesn't magically have the ability to ignore the rules of economics or spend infinitely without consequence. Anythi
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by etherael 15y ago
The Toyota drama you refer to sounds interesting, any chance of a link?
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by etherael 15y ago
I am not so sure human is something one ought to aspire to be. There is a certain comfort in dealing with people who, when they criticise your ideas, you can be confident that they are doing so purely from a rational position. I believe it
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by etherael 15y ago
I think OP's point to this is that doing that would not be a good business move. I don't believe that in the canonical scenario simply telling the party in question that things are much more complicated than they can possibly imagine and ex
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by etherael 15y ago
It's funny you know, under ordinary circumstances I'd find that an offensive commentary, but I'm so accustomed to ranting tirades about how being a woman in tech is an open invitation to constant unremitting sexual harassment I perceived ju
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by etherael 15y ago
I am glad that this did not resolve to "because all men are pigs" for once, bravo poster.
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Exactly, so as I said originally, Prey is a much easier target than amazon. Also more people would be actively angry they couldn't read their books on an apple device than would be angry they couldn't use prey on their apple device.
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by etherael 15y ago
It's easier to pick on prey than it is to pick on amazon, large companies in general are bullies but apple especially, watching continuous slow motion train wrecks like this makes my stomach turn. But hey, that's the way the world goes I gu
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by etherael 15y ago
Attacks to expose your identity via tor already exist and there are accepted methods to avoid them, no default route etc so even if something you are running does manage to try to initiate a remote connection it will not get anywhere anyway
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by etherael 15y ago
CDG airport in France has awesome security. One time through there after having put my passport through a washing machine by accident, when I asked if this would be a problem they just laughed and said no, no, not at all, it's very clean. M
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by etherael 15y ago
I'd absolutely bet on it. Short of outlawing encryption such a thing is flat out impossible, even then it's questionable due to steganography. And both of these ignore the fact that, and I want to repeat this for emphasis; These People Are
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by etherael 15y ago
Yes, because those protocols will never be bought to trial. This is about targeting the lowest possible hanging fruit that your average joe random idiot can click a big blue button and pull down the last version of whatever schlock big cont
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by etherael 15y ago
It's also not dead wrong which is terribly unfortunate. (this is not to imply that it is dead right either, but ammunition for cynicism definitely isn't good in this instance)
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by etherael 15y ago
1 Maybe they don't want to submit to draconian licensing restrictions which have trended politically toward the ridiculous and punitive under the guise of increasing road safety all whilst seniors losing their sense of sight continue to get
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by etherael 15y ago
Maybe so, likely though this is what the erosion of existing power structures looks like first hand. I think we should just be thankful it is relatively peaceful compared to the natural order of such events historically speaking.
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by etherael 15y ago
Password managers. Not to be snarky or to minimise the impact of yet another critical security bug, but does anyone get the impression that instead of righteous fury the appropriate response to these situations is to assume insecurity and p
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by etherael 15y ago
Because if you want to actually oppose an idea, the least you can do is accurately represent it. There are far worse books than Rands; for example the majority of the holy books in existence currently venerated by the vast majority of the w
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by etherael 15y ago
I'm not sure he is misunderstanding anything so much as out and out misrepresenting the entire premise of the position; Selfishness, it contends, is good, altruism evil, empathy and compassion are irrational and destructive. The poor deserv
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by etherael 15y ago
Way to strawman a complex philosophy with a simplistic summary.
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Although in principle I agree, I have to say this is simply naive and ignorant to the way things are done in other circles. If you were to purchase say Oracle licenses this way, there is no way this model would work. You will not go to th
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by etherael 15y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/06/30/child-por... There does seem to be some evidence to indicate that this is actually the case. However I don't think it should even be granted that just because a a digital item has the pot
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BTC-Hospital Saves Me(bitcoinmedia.com)
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by etherael 15y ago
I don't understand this "the internet needs to be tamed" perspective that people approaching from this angle always come from. How does this make any sense at all? Is there something actually, demonstrably wrong with the current anarchic st
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by etherael 15y ago
Actually if you go with the concept of pointers to messages detailed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3615862 you enormously cut down on the size needed to store those messages (one message with a million recipients is just one me

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