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by furyg3 13y ago
For me, it's a question of defaults. I'm ok with ISPs having a 'child-protect' feature on your internet connection as a benefit. I'm less ok with the government working to develop the filters. I'm not really
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by furyg3 13y ago
I'm not sure that Obama will waste political capital on this. If there were a decision to excuse his actions, it would be a pardon at the end of his term...
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by furyg3 13y ago
I'm not prescribing what the duration should be, surely there is some middle ground between zero and a year. Where I am currently living (NL) it is a few months (three I believe), happily paid for by the taxpayers. Where I lived bef
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by furyg3 13y ago
It's amazing to me how little we must know about Uranus and Neptune...
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by furyg3 13y ago
So you support firing someone who is pregnant? There are costs for using humans to do your work. Sometimes they get sick, sometimes they get pregnant, sometimes they have a super-productive day and sometimes they don't.
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by furyg3 13y ago
I don't really understand why any organization which has even a remote possibility of a conflict of interest would accept money from a spy organization.
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by furyg3 13y ago
Which leaves: The United States†, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and Liberia. † It appears as though CA, NJ, WA (DC?) have some paid compensation for all workers. Still, it seems pretty paltry compared with nearly everywhere else in the wo
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by furyg3 13y ago
Store (Vodafone, Airtel, whatever): Think about the normal level of mobile telco bureaucracy in Europe or the US, and then multiply that times Indian bureaucracy. Nobody in the store really cares if your SIM works, they just want the day t
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by furyg3 13y ago
For European HNers (or travelers) I plea for you to use the night trains, keep them alive. One example: Between Amsterdam & Bern - Skybus flies for €86 (1.5 hours) and the CityNightLine train is €80 for a bed (11.5 hours). Other routes
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by furyg3 13y ago
False testimony is against the law.
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by furyg3 13y ago
Yes, the end goal and final judgement of success is to have your fix/change implemented in the best way for the price you are willing to pay for it... of course. I'm just saying that in my experience good work actually looks and
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by furyg3 13y ago
I feel that the situation proposed in the article is a completely false dichotomy. It's a myth that a good team sits in a meeting room for 4 days and codes a perfect product in one swoop on Friday. At the same time, paying someone in
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by furyg3 13y ago
Is this only a soundcloud thing or is this available somewhere as an (offline) podcast? Soundcloud link: http://l.economist.com/204894&t=v1g49i1qmlsq6a25ld8r6j8u40
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by furyg3 13y ago
100% spot-on. The Declaration of Independence says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty a
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by furyg3 13y ago
You're totally right, but eliminating risk costs time/effort/money. So pay him. You've already seen his CV, talked to references, interviewed him, done a technical interview, what more do you want? If you need a painte
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by furyg3 13y ago
It gets better, they not only printed it out but also scanned it! http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/ Cryptography software was subject to export-control at the time... so they printed it out, and scan
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by furyg3 13y ago
Of course you also have generation costs, though (The solar panels, the UPS).
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by furyg3 13y ago
Yes, but the problem in this case is that the housing developer used one master key for all of the houses in the neighborhood. And now he is being asked to give over the master key to the police, so that they can search the house. Will the
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by furyg3 13y ago
There are many, many more alternatives. Finding them starts with society saying "I am not ok with this, we must stop it, how can we do that?" From there we get creative. We pay more to implement better working conditions, we pro
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by furyg3 13y ago
Yep, I would never give money to a kickstarter project with anything but a credit card. A donation to a new project requires a lot of trust. I know that when I donate I may not see anything from my donation (depending on the project), but
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by furyg3 13y ago
There must be ground rules for the game of capitalism. Market's are awesome at balancing things like price/quality/features. Most consumers can do that, and if they can't, well... caveat emptor. But if the quality is s
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by furyg3 13y ago
70 hours a week is just crazy. Working 14 hour days for even a week sprint is a really awful week, and represents serious bad planning, bad management, or a massive resource shortage. Expecting that kind of workload on a sustained basis i
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by furyg3 13y ago
There are already many driverless subways in existence (especially at airports). Many driven subways (BART in SF) are actually driverless, with a driver there just to close the doors and in case of emergencies. http://en.wikiped
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by furyg3 13y ago
But he doesn't need pirated media for, say MacOS on his MacBook Air, or Linux machines. Seeing as though he's a security researcher, I'm guessing he is capable of md5ing his FreeBSD ISOs...
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by furyg3 13y ago
I think the key is that this was probably under warranty for her. The 4S, for many people, is more than a year old. Most people expect that their new phone will be built to last more than one year, but understand that if something breaks a
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by furyg3 13y ago
This bug is very annoying. Two people in my close circle of friends/family have this issue, which makes me think a) it's pretty common and b) it was catchable in QC. I spent 2 hours this week trying to upgrade, back-up, restore,
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by furyg3 13y ago
I'm not so sure. I think these guys are all in it together ("Hey, could you spy on our citizens and let us know if there are any terrorists? We're not allowed to do it"). In a democracy, I'd rather that the actual
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by furyg3 13y ago
Yes I've also heard about people 'renouncing' their American nationality to foreign governments, not informing the US, keeping their passport, and not having any issues. I've also heard about people exaggerating facts t
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by furyg3 13y ago
The sushi bar is a decent analogy. I use dreamhost as a sort of project sandbox, and for that it works pretty well. If you need a place to do a one-click install of wordpress or some other project, or just a shell to bypass some firewall,
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by furyg3 13y ago
As a non-accountant, what's the permanent solution to these types of race-to-the-bottom tax-shelter problems? I mean, other than all countries everywhere agreeing on taxes? Increased sales tax paid where the consumer is located?

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