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by fab13n 10y ago
Actually, I believe the description I gave of myself to match that of most of the left-leaning, >30yo HN commenters:-)
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by fab13n 10y ago
I'm an upper-middle class, over-educated professional expert, and I'm strongly liberal for selfish reasons: mostly, I want to live in a climate of social peace, and would prefer to be surrounded by people who foster a mood of soli
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by fab13n 10y ago
No, parallel construction. That's what law enforcement does when it has illegally gathered proofs: knowing what they're looking for, they figure out another way to "find" it again, but this time through legal and seeming
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by fab13n 10y ago
I rather see it in the following terms: some profits are up for grab, who's best positioned to take them? I don't live in the US so I might have an inaccurate perception of everyone's leverage. However, truckers seem rather d
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by fab13n 10y ago
The comparison was only between illegal guns and illegal SIM cards. Very few people have untraceable SIM cards, nor consider that they need one. Whether they're right to belive they don't need one, that's an interesting but d
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by fab13n 10y ago
No, but I think most of those who make an habit of registering SIM cards on behalf of others will be known pretty fast. Once you know a SIM card is suspect, because it's been registered by a known addict and trafficker, you can put a w
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by fab13n 10y ago
Yet empirically, only a tiny, tiny fraction of crimes committed in France are committed with AK-47s. Most likely, non-exclusive explanations: * you underestimate the difficulty of acquiring such a weapon without being caught nor robbed; * y
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by fab13n 10y ago
I'm not arguing that it's a very dangerous slope for public liberties. I believe the checks and balances against executive branches are increasingly broken in most western democracies, and that robust online privacy pushes in the
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by fab13n 10y ago
But then, the simple fact that you're using a SIM card bought from a known SIM-trafficking criminal makes you worthy of interest. The phone being instrumental in a first crime, it'll be easy to get a wire warrant and listen for th
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by fab13n 10y ago
This is true most of the time, but it might be that the electric car projects were handled as skunkworks. That's often the only way, for a very established incumbent, to protect substantial innovation attempts from corporate managers.
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by fab13n 11y ago
> given its artificial constraints. Given the lethality of air pollution in Beijing, I'm not sure it's fair to call "artificial" those emission-limiting constraints. Otherwise, you'll also have to call "arti
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by fab13n 11y ago
> I think they know the risk is too high Yes indeed, let's not forget that nobody cares about this particular phone! FBI has got archives until 6 weeks ago, they should have had full access, hadn't they fucked up (or sabotaged?
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by fab13n 11y ago
> I'm sure I'd have tried audio over vibration After vision, audition is your main way to perceive the world around you; you probably don't want to interfere with that sense. My guess is, if you consider proposing such a d
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by fab13n 11y ago
Fortunately for the future, this kind of attack can be thwarted through key stretching (making each attempt intrinsically long to perform, by making it computationally expensive). I expect to see an optional, configurable key stretching set
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by fab13n 11y ago
They specify that the FW will be locked to the unique device's ID, so it won't be usable on any other one. But once it's established that it can be required from Apple, Apple has to comply, and Apple effectively does comply,
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by fab13n 11y ago
> hunger, poverty, education and incurable diseases? Those are threats to individual human beings, not to mankind as a whole. A Great Plague or a (non-nuclear) world war here and there can wipe 1/3 of humanity, but for the species a
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by fab13n 11y ago
OCaml has most of the "good and easy parts" of Haskell, without the ones that prevent you from using your old habits: * no lazy evaluation => your usual sense of what's executed when isn't challenged * imperative feat
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by fab13n 11y ago
I hope the replacement will be programmer-friendly. I still remap my French keyboards in QWERTY because I never got accustomed to hunt for programming characters on AZERTY keyboards. I don't know how useful it would be to get programme
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by fab13n 11y ago
> they're also indicating that there's clearly nobody enforcing ownership or accountability for reported issues. Based on gossips about how it allegedly is like to work for Elon Musk, it might be that people are even more scare
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by fab13n 11y ago
Yet helping crackpots (along with every other motivated people) find each other is unavoidably part of what the Internet does. I believe the good coming out of it outweighs the bad, but you're definitely not the only one being afraid.
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by fab13n 11y ago
It would also make sense in developed countries: shitting in water makes it much more complicated to treat afterwards, and greatly increases the ecological footprint of that processing. Moreover, it makes failures to properly treat much mor
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by fab13n 11y ago
that's just more fiber. Besides, in many of the countries targeted by this, people wash with water, rather than sweeping with paper.
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by fab13n 11y ago
> The headline makes it seem like some grave injustice occurred Because you expect most news about US cops to report abusive behaviors. Whether the problem is with you, with US cops or with news can be debated, but that's clearly th
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by fab13n 11y ago
> you assume [conservative] people are necessarily 90 IQ rednecks. I don't; I assume that the "90 IQ redneck" subset of conservative voters are the ones worth trying to seduce, according to GOP candidates. Because that&#x2
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by fab13n 11y ago
> a world-class brain surgeon can believe that the pyramids were constructed to store grain Carson is a world-class surgeon trying to convince whatever subset of the Republicans (a) can decide the outcome of the primary and (b) aren&#x27
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by fab13n 11y ago
Can you provide a source? I'd be surprised if, for instance, seducing someone and getting laid by pretending to be substantially wealthier than you are was considered rape. Even pretending that you aren't a convicted felon when yo
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by fab13n 11y ago
> It's pointless to hang on technicalities though I don't think you'd consider it a mere technicality, if someone called it "murder", or "extortion", or "battery", although all of those are cr
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by fab13n 11y ago
By calling everything and anything rape, one debases the word's meaning, and the claims of actual rape victims. Words have meaning, and rape is forcing someone to have sex with you when they don't want to have sex with you. She wa
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by fab13n 11y ago
As an expat, it's harder than in a country where you master unspoken social rules. I know this from experience. I believe your best bet is to meet other people lost in translation, and especially expats. Ideally not all from your nativ
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by fab13n 11y ago
I'm afraid she'd still have to face speculations that she got the job by sleeping with her predecessor :-( EDIT: of course I don't find it fair! I'm just afraid that the same misogynist reflexes, which erased her from YC

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