harshreality

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by harshreality 15y ago
I doubt that even the complete record of your online activities would be found by a court to be copyrightable. While it might represent a lot of effort, the fact that the record exists is ancillary to the reason you keep adding to that rec
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by harshreality 15y ago
I do not agree that a military, ex-military, border agent, or other law-enforcement agent's inherent personality can be separated from his personality "on the job". All sorts of executive-branch military or law enforcement posts seem to enc
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by harshreality 15y ago
I'm an American, I've lived several major cities (so I'm not blinded by a specific localized culture), and calling people "guy" as a generic pronoun doesn't strike me as a universal Americanism. Where it is used, it's just as a greeting: "
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by harshreality 15y ago
The Stanford Prison Experiment seems to contradict your claim that normal people can't/won't be conditioned to develop hostility in "us vs them" scenarios.
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by harshreality 15y ago
Only tftp is widely supported by embedded ROMs, for netboot or for loading a new firmware for embedded devices with broken OS images. It's not a matter of getting TCP running. You'd need a basic http transfer client, too. Not many network
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by harshreality 15y ago
They would also tack on extra charges for interfering with a police investigation by attempting to destroy evidence, and/or the court would find you in contempt.
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by harshreality 15y ago
You may not be able to control them, but you can influence who YC startups do business with. You screen founders heavily based on perceived intelligence, and probably based somewhat on perceived ethics as well. You probably have some se
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by harshreality 15y ago
You pay a doctor to give you advice. The doctor says take these pills on schedule for X days [1]. You ignore X. Why did you bother going to the doctor in the first place if you weren't going to follow her advice? The only people who shou
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by harshreality 15y ago
It doesn't have to be well explained. Instructions for antibiotic prescriptions from a licensed doctor/pharmacy tells you to take the full course of antibiotics and not quit part way through. I wonder what other prescription instructions h
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by harshreality 15y ago
The idea touches on positive and negative rights[1]. Real world examples have shades of both, yet the principle remains: sometimes you want someone (particularly the government) to do something; other times you want them to not get involve
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by harshreality 15y ago
"they encrypt" can mean several different things. It's understandable that a naive ordinary internet user may get confused about the differences between "We use SSL" vs "We use client-side encryption and never see your passphrase" vs "we p
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by harshreality 15y ago
There are also a fair number of soho [wireless] routers with telnet enabled by default. I guess that's partly due to memory footprint, or assumed memory footprint (dropbear being fairly small), by the manufacturers, and partly due to window