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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
This project seems interesting but largely impractical until a truly independent FOSS app store exists with a wide selection + security track record as good as Google Play or iTunes. I don't see how it gets there with such a narrow har
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
1) Well, I think Amazon doesn't really care and this shows its lack of care. 2) I'm only pleased if it works. I suspect in this environment it is going to flop and is largely for PR.
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Correct. I'm just restating it because I find it amazing given what that implies for grey market and white collar crime. It is basically a public admission that the Government is completely ineffective with anything vaguely resembling
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Remember folks, the Government you get in the future is unwritten and unknowable. Sure, I don't think Obama is going to throw me in jail and I have nothing to hide now...but that doesn't mean in 20 years there won't be some N
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> How about "An arrogant way of living?" Haha. Yeah, it is amazing how much his arrogance and pride seemed to play into his behavior. He could have exited this whole situation in Brazil [Retiring] a wealthy man and would have b
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> “He got greedy,” Jody continued. “He probably could have closed up shop in 2006 or 2007, been a rich millionaire, and never have been investigated at all.” This does seem to be a common thread with highly skilled and intelligent crimin
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> This would just paper over the fact that the US tax code is an abomination of deductions and credits. It would not simplify any of the magic math; it would just make most people think they are getting the right credits. > It would p
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
It is important to unit test the boundary conditions.
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> This is also why I am of afraid of a self driving cars and other such life critical software. There are going to be weird edge cases, what prevents you from reaching them? Yes. However, the current failure rate of human drivers being i
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> The intelligence isn't a well defined thing running on a computer, but it has super human capability and is not necessarily well attached to human motivations I'd say an attachment to money is one of the most human capitalist
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> So yeah, when the entire industry comes to the government and says "unless you bail us out right now our entire industry will collapse, but you're definitely going to save us because we're too big to fail," then yes
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
Fwiw, I agree the banks and credit agency share the vast majority of the blame. I'd agree that share is likely around 90%. I'm sorry that wasn't clearer. I was just discussing the art of self deception depends heavily on a ke
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by fweespee_ch 10y ago
> That was the moment that I realized that some of these people live in a reality distortion zone where it really wasn't their fault. To be fair, the public isn't 100% blameless as a large number of people made poor choices to
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
DO is slightly more reliable and uses substantially more powerful processors so on a low contention host, you can get better performance. The catch with these are shared Avoton CPUs. So their "large" 9.99 plan is likely 4 VPS on a
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
I'm just going to nuke this post since the consensus seems to be its offensive somehow. :P
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
Just realize these are basically: https://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc 1x Intel® C2750 (Avoton) with 8 cores. Avoton cores are very weak compared to other cloud providers.
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
A D-1587 setup like this won't cost you ~$1k in hardware. It might save you $200 a year in electricity costs, but if it costs me +$2k, well, yeah. I'm not going to run this setup 10 years.
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
It isn't encrypted unless both parties have the app.
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
> 2) Anybody who would go through the trouble of very noisily pulling all the scattered public data together I guess I consider that Anybody but fair enough.
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
Getting news coverage for the lulz.
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/are-fingerprints-from-a-c... > Yes. You may be eligible for a motion to seal or expunge and in that case they would be sealed or destroyed. Otherwise, they are public record. http
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A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe(qz.com)
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
> “I want to emphasise that the database in our website is accessible to the public,” Comelec spokesperson James Jimene said, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reports. “There is no sensitive information there. We will be using a different w
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
I don't use them for sockpuppetry. I just like changing accounts every so often. I was just pointing out a direction someone could go.
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
Good to know, thanks. :)
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
> Network encryption: built-in TLS support encrypts database connections > RethinkDB 2.3 includes TLS support, contributed by Josh Hawn. Josh integrated OpenSSL, enabling encryption on the wire for both the client driver protocol and
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
> Questions or suggestions? Let's discuss and refine this together. The upvote/commentary is likely going to be highly problematic: A) I'm pretty sure Dang can't list all 9 accounts I've used on HN over the past
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
> Tell me again why well-off American programmers continue living in that country without the most basic of human rights? 1) If we all abandon ship, who will be left to argue that this is wrong? 2) A number of countries in Europe lack su
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
> In Gartenlaub’s case, the government made sealed filings, so neither the defense nor the public was able to see them. Based on the secret filings, the judge held that the government had shown probable cause that the house to be searche
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by fweespee_ch 11y ago
> I've never understood this idea. The US government is dangerous to anyone located in the US. The Russian government is not. It will never matter to you if the Russian government has your data; it can matter a lot if the US does. I

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