greendragon

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by greendragon 10y ago
Works for the Tao Te Ching, and others. You lose something but not enough you can't see the genius if it's there. For Dylan I'd actually prefer to consider his lyrics without the music since sometimes I can't really unde
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by greendragon 10y ago
Time is also traded for entertainment. Parents that care about their children's education make the time even if they have to personally sacrifice something.
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by greendragon 10y ago
How are you defining a superpower such that Russia is not a member and maybe the USSR wasn't one?
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by greendragon 10y ago
Huh? I said otherwise smart people are losing their minds over this election, not that everyone is stupid. Your list underscores my overarching point though: there is incredible motivation from many parties and many parties with resources t
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by greendragon 10y ago
I don't even think a missile shield is necessarily bad, but it is a little troubling to see the attitude of taking offense that Russia just doesn't do what it's told. Forgetting Russia is a superpower too. Should other countr
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by greendragon 10y ago
You're right, Putin shouldn't stand by idly as America builds a missile shield around Russia to negate their ability to launch nukes... We already have a deterrent for war with Russia. Russia knows this, I think the US is forgetti
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by greendragon 10y ago
Dirt on Trump? The dude's 70 years old and fucking rich, there's no way there is enough dirt only known to Putin that could manipulate him. If there was such a quantity of dirt, it would have leaked beyond Putin, and we'd hav
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by greendragon 10y ago
Schaum's Outlines are also good if all you really need is a refresher, or to use concurrently with learning the material fresh.
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by greendragon 10y ago
2FA seems a modest improvement at best, especially when it boils down to a TOTP secret you can use anywhere. (I have a greasemonkey script that enters my required '2fa' token for me.) With a yubikey form factor it's much bett
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by greendragon 10y ago
Contract law has had a good run so far, I expect it to continue to have one unless we kill all the lawyers. Even then the concept of a written will is very old. Maybe I should rephrase my overarching point since it seems to be lost in the d
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by greendragon 10y ago
This has actually been done for decades with usenet. Every encrypted message winds up on a common list, and clients occasionally scan the list and see if they have a key to decrypt any new message. The metadata is then that you put a messag
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by greendragon 10y ago
Not really: https://web.archive.org/web/20140425185111/http://www.accele...
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by greendragon 10y ago
We don't even need to what-if: http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html All I'm saying is that these scenarios can be sufficiently covered by contracts with the institute you want to pre
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by greendragon 10y ago
Only if you're in a swing state.
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by greendragon 10y ago
HN may be an echo chamber. It is not an echo chamber around tptacek's opinions. A simple counterexample would be almost any law or proposed law (CISPA for instance) that the community gets all "omg this is the worst thing ever&quo
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by greendragon 10y ago
Because it's low-status and unfashionable.
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by greendragon 10y ago
Maybe you should work on making your contract law more trustworthy then, if you think corporations can just randomly decide to extort your family years later.
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by greendragon 10y ago
What exactly don't you like about ClojureScript? The tooling may be kind of weird (and I believe you're out of date) but once you're set up with figwheel and something like om/reagent/re-frame you start approaching
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by greendragon 10y ago
This isn't exactly true, since the human meaning of "enhance" is quite different from the evolutionary meaning. For example, iodine (an element, not even as big as a molecule) supplementation at the fetus and early childhood