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by hguant 8y ago
>Everything should be encrypted and authenticated through PKI when using any website that accepts login details. Yes, everything SHOULD be like this. I should be able to trust my neighbors and leave my doors unlocked as well, and I shoul
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by hguant 8y ago
It's funny that you say this, because one of my favourite Heinlein stories entirely revolves around the tricks you can pull with a super computer. In _Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, you see examples of deep fakes, real time statistical an
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by hguant 8y ago
>There's never been a disagreement about issue severity in the history of any development project, that's for sure. Right, but take a look at the groups doing the categorization. The team that rated the issue Category I was the
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by hguant 8y ago
This is a false equivalency, and your language seems to be intentionally politicized to provoke an emotional response rather than a rational one. It reeks of "whataboutism." You argument is comparing the actions of the US military
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by hguant 8y ago
This is a fallacious argument, akin to conservative talk show hosts dismissing the concerns of college students because they own iPhones. Just because you exist within a system does not invalidate your complaints about the system.
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by hguant 8y ago
Which is what happens (or, should happen) to citizens who are criminals and endanger their child's life for familial gain.
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by hguant 8y ago
>What makes an investment in 'this Bitcoin crap' any different from an investment in say Facebook shares or Snap shares? Aren't they just unnecessary digital crap too that nobody actually needs? There's a fundamental
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by hguant 8y ago
The East Coast of the US has the advantage an oceanic current cycling warm water from the Caribbean north, which does a lot of mediate the temperature. The Russian coast has no such current (as far as I'm aware).
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by hguant 9y ago
Python 3.6 has typing/type annotations. It's opt in but seems to work fairly sanely. https://medium.com/@ageitgey/learn-how-to-use-static-type-ch...
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by hguant 9y ago
>"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics." - Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps) noted in 1980 >"I am tempted to make a slightly exaggerated statement: that logistics is
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by hguant 9y ago
Unrelated to the substance of your comment, thank you for putting up those citation links.
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by hguant 9y ago
IANAL. Discriminating against someone because of their political activities is illegal in California. Whether simply holding and/or expressing views consistent with a political party counts as a 'political activity' or if the
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by hguant 9y ago
If there's any veracity to the lawsuit's claim that Google employees maintained blacklists of employees based on their political affiliations, or boo'd new hires on the basis of their skin tone, Google just handed Fox News an
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by hguant 9y ago
Which makes sense - when you're dealing with that much money, (and working in an environment where lying and sweeping things under the rug are viewed as valuable skills) it's irresponsible NOT to go and see what's going on wi
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by hguant 9y ago
>Why would they publish something like this? It's as if people in the world have agendas that allow them to handwave away things like facts. In all seriousness, it's an op-ed, so the NYT hasn't subjected it to their standa
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by hguant 9y ago
I mean, the fact that in the Prince, he encourages the Prince to create a Republic as it's the best way to maintain the strength of the city (aka a good prince needs to put the body politic over his own desires, even the desire for pow
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by hguant 9y ago
That's why the Cubans are there, to protect the Revolution. And make sure that money keeps flowing the Havana https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/05/ma... https://panam
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by hguant 9y ago
I don't see how this is news. Alan Moore has been decrying and hating on superheroes for the entirety of his career, for largely the same reasons throughout. This is great when it's communicated through his work - showing what com
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by hguant 9y ago
Because fire ants are invasive species made of spite.
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by hguant 9y ago
I fail to see the problem here. In a curriculum that takes the joy out of math and attempts to reduce the student's mind to a calculation machines, students employed a calculation machine. I understand the arguement that math is import
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by hguant 10y ago
Why bother with employees - just go give money to intel to do this. Intel as a system is designed to produce chips that work a certain way, and my understanding is that said system is rather good at what it does, dedicating the time and ene
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by hguant 10y ago
I believe this was pioneered by Toyota - any one on the floor could flag that there was a problem with production or an inefficiency on the floor, and work would stop until a lasting solution was found. EDIT - Wikipedia has more detail. App
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by hguant 10y ago
>citizens can't be blocked from re-entering at the border. Well, sort of. They have to let you in, but you can be held more or less indefinitely if you're suspected of committing a crime, or not complying with the border agent.
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Ask HN: How do you interview someone more senior than you?
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by hguant 10y ago
There are 5 of us?
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by hguant 10y ago
> The mobile phone had a direct impact in many ways, and almost immediately. The space program had indirect impact, and took years in most cases. I think this temporal disconnect happened for two reasons. First, the NASA was involved wit
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by hguant 10y ago
>The Apollo space program, which ended before most people were born (or thereabouts), affected our lives in a peripheral manner if at all. Tang, Velcro, and a big swinging "if we can put a man on the moon, we can put an ICBM on your
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by hguant 10y ago
Came here to recommend a modified chromebook. Excellent little computer - I got mine when I needed to go to Taiwan and didn't want to lug my monster of a laptop around a bunch of hostels.
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by hguant 10y ago
This article seems to mostly be about searching, manipulating words and lines, etc. If that's what you're looking for, vimtutor is a pretty good place to start. It should be available from the command line if you've installed
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by hguant 10y ago
Apologies for the late response. I agree with you that the macbook is more practical - but that's not the argument that Apple is making. Apple is trying to say that their devices are beautiful, innovative, and cutting edge, when that&#

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