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by fictioncircle 10y ago
It is also a system with some very dangerous externalities that should not be ignored simply because you dislike admitting all philosophies have blemishes. Capitalism, alone, requires all participants to be omnscient in regards to present a
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Refusing life saving assistance except in return for payment is part of the pattern of Capitalism. You cannot ignore externalities inherent to a system and claim yourself absolved of the consequences.
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A warrant is a form of nation state attack from a security perspective. They have also previously used DKIM keys in a way that makes them close to worthless. The NSA had some exploit strategy in place according to Snowden. Etc. Sometimes be
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It doesn't collect emails routed within the LAN/VPN. You can secure same domain email address communication to prevent such mitm.
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by fictioncircle 10y ago
> A linode vm's cost is not measured in its price tag but in how much effort it takes to maintain. Updates, security advisories, hypervisor crashes, crashes under sudden unexpected load, crashes because you're on vacation and y
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> This is a very common argument against juries, and I think it's one of the most powerful. Of course if you start to fill a jury with people competent in the area being judged, you run different risks, such as bias within the fiel
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Probably the best/cheapest solution is: A) Get a Linode VM, put elastic search on it and have it load the text. Probably $20/month with that little text, tops. B) Use something like KeyCDN to cache everything for long periods of t
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The "Plan B" is to have a local Gitlab instance and use the mirror feature to mirror it to Gitlab.com and/or vice versa. You should always have 2+ production nodes in case one goes down.
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> The progressive income tax was created by people who are bad at math. What they're trying to create is the effective tax rate curve that you intrinsically get when you combine a flat tax with a UBI. You can make it as progressive
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If Snowden basically handed it all over to Russia because the US revoked his passport while he was in a Russian airport, the US is the ultimate cause of the event by their choice of timing.
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> "On June 10, 2013, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, described Mr. Snowden’s theft of documents as “an act of treason.” A former member of President Obama’s cabinet went even furthe
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His argument was liberals were pro-government and by implication Conservatives wouldn't do that. That is all I was responding to and the fact you don't get that is confusing at this point. I've tried to put it to you that way
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> It also doesn't work when anyone can freely migrate between the states. You can't have large social assistance programs and high taxes in one state and the opposite in an adjacent state and not expect an unsustainable influx
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Yes, that is a route that is most likely to create a long term solution to the 2 party system. I just don't see it being implemented (or honestly) any genuine advocates for it. It is one of those issues the GOP drops whenever they cont
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Yeah it is much better of a system. https://www.politicalcompass.org/images/bothaxes.gif https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
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> It's hilarious that you think progressive extremists are pure and good, meanwhile the evil "Conservatives" pervert America with their traditional family unit, working-class values, and newly elected president. > Here
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> I went through several version of this response full of profanity, but I'll trim it down to be appropriate. Absolutely not, and it's really harmful to think this. Hillary Clinton was a full supporter of the active military i
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> Uh, that's not the silver lining from my POV. The silver lining is that liberals will realize that maybe limited government is a good thing, because they can't always rely on their person being in power. Conservatives are th
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> If so, why do you hate it so much? It's an amazing idea - on Comcast owned CPE create a network-wide wifi network before you hand off to the customer. It affects that customer's traffic in absolutely no what whatsoever any mo
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> Any lock that can't be opened from the inside should be illegal as a fire hazard. I'm just pointing out the flaw in that statement taken literally. In theory, in the event of a failure, the guards should still be able to open
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The best option is to give a friend you trust cash. They, in turn can donate by proxy and that is basically how Citizens United works so it should be safe enough. There isn't really a good way to do it on your own unfortunately.
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> Trump is allowed to waive any of the restrictions. That is an important exception. The fact it exists basically means this is a fig leaf he might rescind on his last day in office.
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Yes, for pretty much any commercial/residential area. That said, there should be exclusions to such rules for prisons or other areas that are designed to contain people. Some areas need secure doors.
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> People have a right to their beliefs, even if their beliefs are stupid. If not, than what kind of country are we? When the person's actions are directly and publicly detrimental to the business interests, the investor/backer&