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by gspetr 8y ago
Just recently Musk offered help in the Tham Luang cave rescue.
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by gspetr 8y ago
My great grandma was jewish. I'm not white, I'm a minority in the country of my birth. Do you have any arguments or are these ad hominems[0] all you got? [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by gspetr 8y ago
This[0] paper argues that "OAuth 2.0 is intrinsically vulnerable to App impersonation attack due to its provision of multiple authorization flows and token types." [0] Application Impersonation: Problems of OAuth and API Design in
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by gspetr 8y ago
No, I respect you as an HN contributor and wouldn't offend your intelligence with that. Since comments are public I don't necessarily address the parent poster with them, I also speak to the broader reader/commenter base. I s
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No, I'm saying that certain regions have a mandatory representation "floor", i.e. you can't have < X students of region Y in college Z.
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> That's pretty funny. So, are you including Ancient Egypt for Africa or only later? Asians still have advanced countries, on par with the biggest and largest white majority countries, do they not? Modern Egypt is a backwards countr
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by gspetr 8y ago
Mass shootings are insignificant in the total amount of shootings. http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states 2016: 38,658 2015: 36,247 2014: 33,599 2013: 33,636 2012: 33,563 2011: 32,351 2010: 31,672
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by gspetr 8y ago
So what's stopping poor trailer park whites (at least a significant portion of which have been poor for generations) to become "contributors to society"? Why do you think illegal/undocumented migrants would do better tha
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by gspetr 8y ago
> guaranteed basic income (only for citizens) Unsustainable because their children are automatically citizens. You are merely postponing the problem for some 20 years at most.
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by gspetr 8y ago
The Soviet Union. For half a century it was more stable than the west and it's economic advances dwarfed that of it's predecessor, the Russian Empire. Scientific advances too, it was the first nation to send a man into outer space
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by gspetr 8y ago
The four cornerstones of gangsta rap music (seemingly the dominant subset of it) are: 1)Prostitutes (And pimps and promiscuous sex and STDs that go along with that) 2)Guns (And you can bet those aren't being used for self-defense again
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by gspetr 8y ago
A "devil's advocate" can refute that by either narrowing or broadening the scope to great individuals/civilizations. When was the last time you heard about african Nobel prize winners? Or african artists/composers?
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by gspetr 8y ago
But Jews aren't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_politi... 3/9 of the Supreme Court Justices are listed as Jewish. Not sure what your argument is. The definition of "smartness"
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by gspetr 8y ago
http://www.frfrogspad.com/fantasy.htm "The question that is frequently asked is Under what circumstances does the state or municipal entities have a constitutional duty to protect citizens from violence at the hands o
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by gspetr 8y ago
> I can't help but think that college admissions based solely on test scores (as done in India, Russia, maybe China?) Russian here, this is not entirely correct. Instead of race you have region and when that region is 80-90%+ single
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by gspetr 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals Very efficient, though technically MS acquihired Mark Russinovich. He still works on them even though he's Azure CTO.
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by gspetr 8y ago
Your site completely refuses to load with noscript. Are you sure the complexity needed for it warrants this?
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Ukrainian nukes were not theirs to begin with. NATO was as interested in keeping the nuclear club to a minimum as well as Russia.
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by gspetr 8y ago
I think that is stretching the definition of colonization too far. Using the same logic, Western countries tried to colonize Russia in 1919 and Nazi Germany colonized quite a bit of Europe during WWII.
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by gspetr 8y ago
Not true in Ethiopia's case, it was never a colony for any meaningful amount of time. It defies the "african countries are poor only due to the oppressive white colonialism" narrative. EDIT: As for Venezuela, 1 USD was ~6-7 V
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by gspetr 8y ago
What's interesting here is that the game's addons (or expansions) can "solve" a big problem in a vanilla-only game, i.e. >The bad news is that these trainers won't train skills above their governing attributes. R
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by gspetr 8y ago
What do you think Google is doing on Youtube? It already has considerable skin in the game. Even something seemingly innocuous like Google search's front page doodles are chosen and curated.
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by gspetr 9y ago
We can trade anecdotes on which games age well on which OSes all day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_League Released in 2004, you can't play on anything but Win XP because of Starforce DRM that didn't bo
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by gspetr 9y ago
> I'd be wanting to make your accounts department send me a few thousand quid to some random account. A few thousand? What's the rationale behind that number?
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by gspetr 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_private_non-go... See reference at the bottom: "Samsung is not to be confused with its publicly traded subsidiary Samsung Electronics"
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by gspetr 9y ago
It's already in the works. Google translate this: https://geektimes.ru/post/291709/
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by gspetr 9y ago
People have trash talked their way to millions of dollars in poker tournaments.[0] You can "regulate" this away as a tournament organizer/gamedev company if you wanted to (i.e. allowing allied team only chat or allowing playe
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by gspetr 9y ago
https://splinternews.com/black-twitter-has-a-flawless-clap-b... The closest thing my google-fu got me.
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> What more is there to ask? Taking care of insecure IoT devices would be a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946095
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by gspetr 9y ago
Upwork is pretty much the worst type of business, very shortsighted, focused only on extracting immediate value at seemingly any cost. Last year's 1175 point post "Why you should never use Upwork"[0] is still as relevant as e

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