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by hackuser 10y ago
Is a war on drugs a good response? Hyper-aggressive policing? Lock up even minor participants for decades? Consider why people thought that was a good response when drugs struck other communities.
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by hackuser 10y ago
The U.S. tried very harsh punishment to stop drug use, the War on Drugs. It resulted in massive increases in incarceration; millions of innocent lives ruined (along with their families' lives); massive costs to society for law enforcem
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by hackuser 10y ago
Unemployment has dropped quite a bit in the U.S. since the Great Recession, though how much that applies to affected areas is uncertain.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Those are interesting theories, but do you have any support for these statements? They don't match what I understand, the facts (taxpayer support for higher education has has been cut widely), and what research I've seen shows. ED
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by hackuser 10y ago
The U.S. is far wealthier than any nation ever, including the U.S. of the 1930s and 40s (it's not even comparable). Whether or not it's funded has is not due to affordability.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Useful, applicable factoid: The Institute for Advanced Study is also in Princeton, NJ, but is not affiliated with Princeton University.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Perhaps public schools should be funded with something more fair and reliable, such as income taxes. (I'd go for wealth taxes as more fair, but that's a long shot.)
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by hackuser 10y ago
> "Throw more money" at things shouldn't be an unquestionable truth. We did this with college loans and now college is unbelievably expensive I think that's not the cause. I've seen research showing that tuition
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by hackuser 10y ago
> it seems like there's just so much graft and waste. I hear this claim, but I've never seen evidence of it. How much graft and waste is there? In which department? Every large organization has some of it - name one that doesn&
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by hackuser 10y ago
> our budgets are already creaking under the load of our spending and entitlement programs Assuming you are talking about the U.S., AFAIK that is not true. The U.S. is the richest country in the history of the world, right now, and by a
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's also interesting to consider that the meaning of imagery can be very dependent on culture, and also the very diverse nature of Sci-hub's users. Choosing imagery for an audience like that could be a challenge.
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by hackuser 10y ago
This domain has been known for awhile and has been mentioned many times on HN: https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%22sci-hub.ac%22%20site%3Ayco... BTW, how does one distinguish a 'real' sci-hub domain from a spoo
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by hackuser 10y ago
I changed the title. The original was click-bait and not informative.
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US federal regulations, including user data security, widely recinded(nytimes.com)
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by hackuser 10y ago
Why is an exploit against a Tor user so valuable? Assuming the attackers can access the server, which for the FBI seems a reasonable assumption (they can seize the server, operate it as a honeypot, etc.), all they need is a browser vulnerab
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Re-evaluate whether the kind of privacy offered by tor is your number one priority A good point. Though in fairness, that's why I included Chrome over a VPN as an option. > The information stored on their computer is far more s
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by hackuser 10y ago
I've seen this advice before, but people need a better option: 1) Chrome over Tor? I've read that they don't integrate well (but I know very little about it). 2) Chrome to a (secure) VPN? How does a typical end user find a se
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I have a security review for a news room coming up, and I plan on sharing this blog post with them Isn't there something more professional and accurate available? I fear there is not.
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by hackuser 10y ago
EDIT: If this was crowd-funded (to help pay for the expert's time), I'd be happy to contribute. The reputation of this page emphasizes (epitomizes?) a need the public has: An authoritative, accurate, comprehensive, usable security
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by hackuser 10y ago
> The baseband on ... on modern Android phones ... is connected via a serial bus, as a peripheral Doesn't that depend on the manufacturer, or does Google somehow make that a requirement?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thanks; the public needs more of this.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Is the problem the FAA, or is it that safety is expensive?
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by hackuser 10y ago
I'll add to the other comments about the context in which they made this music, to give you a sense of where they were coming from. I read someplace, maybe even liner notes for one the Velvet Underground records, that they would fine a
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by hackuser 10y ago
> 10 minutes watching new users code in Rust will give you better ideas than 10 weeks thinking about the problem in your head. I'd add: Do you want to focus on new or experienced users? For example, when implementing systems that wi
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thanks. What does he say about it?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> If I declare myself to be an enemy of a given entity, I fully expect them to use every resource at their disposal to attempt to defeat me For dealing with individuals, I don't agree that it's ok to use every resource at their
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by hackuser 10y ago
> It almost starts to undermine the case against them when there are all these hit jobs coming out and it starts to seem that the media is biased or relishing their fall. Think of what this means: The more a business (or anyone) does wro
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by hackuser 10y ago
> They could be investigating a crime related to an Uber driver In fact, that's what they were investigating. Violating any law is a crime.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> It seems excessively cruel ... And does not benefit the public in any way, but in fact harms it.
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by hackuser 10y ago
We often start with the null hypothesis of artistic "exceptionalism, which imagines him [or her] as a freak of isolated genius", i.e., we assume that the credited creator worked alone. I think that's wrong and few serious hum

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