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by hilop 10y ago
SSH is a waste of time?
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by hilop 10y ago
This exploit is in the wild today because the fix was blocked by an obsolete hardware platform? Sigh.
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by hilop 10y ago
It's not inarguable at all. There is a third option besides agrarian subsistence and modern industrial subsistence: global partnership an fair trade, instead of Westerners profiting from Eastern misery.
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by hilop 10y ago
Matt Iglesias is the quintessential illustration of why US voters are flocking to politic outsiders and saying the D and R are just two sides of the same bad coin.
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by hilop 10y ago
Aberfan was 1960s. Fukushima was 2000s Flint was 2010s It wasn't "ago", it is an ongoing battle. The greed and evil reappear whenever we get complacent.
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by hilop 10y ago
I am not seeing the "bonehead" part of it. Just banal evil.
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by hilop 10y ago
Halley modems and Halley's comet!
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by hilop 10y ago
Looking b ack at stuff like Zmodem, it's instructive to compare the computing culture then and now. Back then, everything was so cryptic . Documentation was hard to find printed books, code and config was extremely abbreviated ( som
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by hilop 10y ago
And yet one of the assumptions of the EMH is that there are people who beat the market (using pre-public information), which is why you can't. The EMH is just saying that 31/32 teams will not win the Super Bowl. Unless there'
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by hilop 10y ago
Sure for companies that are headed to bankruptcy. But what about companies that are overpriced and cover expenses but never pay a dividend?
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by hilop 10y ago
Alliances Bernstein wrote a Paper arguing that index fund investing is essentially communism -- letting some arbitrary authority control the economy.
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by hilop 10y ago
You say AI is stupid, OK, but you strangely assume NI is not
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by hilop 10y ago
Its amazing how people act like money and short-term metrics are all that the matters, and the the only purpose of money is to accaccumulate it as an end in itself, and that the public shouldn't communicate to applysocila pressure and
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by hilop 10y ago
You mean cost of living / purchasing power disparity, not exchange rate?
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by hilop 10y ago
What's the Gini coefficient on that GDP?
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by hilop 10y ago
At some point you are just choosing medicalized word to describe undesirable behavior.
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by hilop 10y ago
UK is pro intervention, but they also go too far seizing children from families. It's impossible to get right in every case.
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by hilop 10y ago
Once the snowball starts rolling, the later generations don't care much for the ridiculousness founding myths. It just becomes a traditional culture. Same for all religions, and heck, even nations
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by hilop 10y ago
She's paying for companionship. It's basically prostitution. If you don't approve, find someone to give her more comfort than her courtesan does.
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by hilop 10y ago
Why don't you or family scam her first, and then give the money back slowly? The thing about Nigerian 419 scammers is that , like most companies, the people you deal with are low wage call center employees, not the ringleaders who get
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by hilop 10y ago
You just use discrete scenarios, not continuous. Same concepts, easier math. same way you can do linear geometry without calculus.
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by hilop 10y ago
That's not true. It's a 66% shot. It has to be , because there only two options, and (we agree) one of them was 33%, so they other must 66%.
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by hilop 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number please improve the article :-)
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by hilop 10y ago
Well, the right wing stopped hating her for not baking cookies when she baked cookies. Then they started hating her for baking cookies.
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by hilop 10y ago
Unfortunately, in the modern Alt-right view, "freedom of speech" means "freedom of everyone agreeing with me and not talking back"
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by hilop 10y ago
He has said himself -- he says whatever pops into his head, and he's "clearly joking" about anything that is offensive or ridiculous.
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by hilop 10y ago
In your view, individual people exercising their personal social power is authoritatian ?
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by hilop 10y ago
Meanwhile, Adams doesn't believe that women on Twitter don't get threatened with rape and violence, and Trump motivates his supporters to coordinate and commit terror attacks on Muslim-looking Americans, e.g., http://ww
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by hilop 10y ago
It's a lot more fun living to enjoy the benfits others provide to me.
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by hilop 10y ago
You seem to be having a debate with your own fearful imagination.

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