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961.
by hkt 5y ago
I'm just about old enough to remember when the no fly list was for (suspected) terrorists. Does it have a life prior to the 00s or is this a measure for containing terrorism an example of something introduced and then generalised?
962.
by hkt 5y ago
Came here to say this. Credit unions are a thing, and it is increasingly easy to offer debit cards (via aggregators) through them. There's even open source software to help: https://www.fineract.dev/
963.
by hkt 5y ago
Or in other words,one of the fundamental properties of money is actually being able to spend it.
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by hkt 5y ago
I deleted my FB account and the only thing that I went back for was my residents association. I still have no FB friends - which is fun because I can see the algorithm trying to work out who I know. Eerily, it correctly identified my partn
965.
by hkt 5y ago
I wonder if there's a generalisable statement in there - say, that all communication media will eventually become so swamped in noise that the signal is lost almost entirely? Maybe too pessimistic.
966.
by hkt 5y ago
Could this be used with Tor, I wonder? GNS over TCP would make it possible and friendly names would be a welcome addition to tor.
967.
by hkt 5y ago
https://www.facebook.com/journalismproject/programs/third-pa... tl;dr there's a system that brings third parties and pays them for this. They're not actually Facebook employees but are generally expected
968.
by hkt 5y ago
I've been using Debian for 20 years and Arch for 5. Lately I've been trying to reconcile the traditional skills I have with more kubernetes oriented things. I've got a vague plan to write a helm plugin to talk to systemd and
969.
by hkt 5y ago
Seconded. I've never done leetcode but have gone through some hiring processes which set challenges that were totally irrelevant to my role. One place asked me to write a simple SPA in angular with a three day (!) time limit. I'm
970.
by hkt 5y ago
Fantastic piece of software. I wish there was an android version so I could sync between my desktop and phone, but it is still brilliant.
971.
by hkt 5y ago
True, bonds should be a safer investmemt. But the fact is, investors are doing stupid things and the markets just aren't rational. They never were.
972.
by hkt 5y ago
A stealth measure to encourage cooperation among researchers!
973.
by hkt 5y ago
A prime example of "what can be measured can be managed". Grim news for science.
974.
by hkt 5y ago
Well, China has eradicated extreme poverty by means of communism. So that appears to be an option too. I'd be interested to see a relatively detached, objective analysis on the speed and extent to which poverty is alleviated by differe
975.
by hkt 5y ago
GDP per capita includes public spending, but (I'm guessing here) may not include a weighting for what people value. So America's epic military budget counts towards that figure, but the comparison with (eg) universal healthcare el
976.
by hkt 5y ago
Most crashes are caused by misallocated capital in the markets, and state intervention on a massive scale is usually the answer. The state isn't an amazing tool, but it is the best one we have. It can bring about universal healthcare a
977.
by hkt 5y ago
PPP is designed precisely to allow fair comparisons. The article refers to it as "international dollars". It is important to note it did not refer to USD anywhere: it is talking about $30PPP per day, which in real currency is a wi
978.
by hkt 5y ago
I'd imagine not - a javascript frontend is still hitting an API, after all. A dynamically generated, static frontend (eg, HTML and some CSS) is something that can be trivially cached, too.
979.
by hkt 5y ago
If memory serves, the story goes that the soviets trained their dogs with soviet tanks - so when they released the dogs into battle, they turned around and ran for their own tanks. Possibly apocryphal, but quite funny.
980.
by hkt 5y ago
Exactly! It is quite refreshing to not have to battle past first line to find someone with the understanding to help. No shibboleth required. Cheaper hosting, too.
981.
by hkt 5y ago
Because you can then reallocate the funding from the solution that doesn't work (militarised police, mass incarceration) to solutions that do. The police don't prevent people from firing thirty random shots into a house, but decen
982.
by hkt 5y ago
Personally I like Mythic Beasts and use their raspberry pi servers and VPSes. Much less terrifying pricing and the support is good too.
983.
by hkt 5y ago
Gun control and restorative justice approaches seem to be the trick. From the outside it appears a militarised police apparatus isn't working for the US and would be a great target for substantial budget cuts.
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by hkt 5y ago
I can see I've given some offence and would like to reiterate that's not my intention. I'd continue asking questions as I remain fairly curious, but will pick another time and place. Thank you for responding, and again, apolo
985.
by hkt 5y ago
> I personally believe birth rates are falling not because of easy birth control, but because the Earth is already extremely over populated and resources are increasingly scarce per capita. People don't really make personal choices
986.
by hkt 5y ago
Do you have any international sources on this? I'm a little sceptical of the partisan angle of those posts and note they're essentially from a rival Israeli political outlook. I'm open to the idea that B'Tselem are unrel
987.
by hkt 5y ago
RE the apartheid point, this isn't western liberals, it is Israeli human rights organisations: https://www.btselem.org/apartheid
988.
by hkt 5y ago
They're definitely inconsistent.
989.
by hkt 5y ago
This actually sounds like a campaign for the client side content detection thing Apple cooked up recently. But still grim.
990.
by hkt 5y ago
In all likelihood, yes: they are from a faction of the Labour party that was routinely surveilled by police throughout the 20th century (and more recently, in all likelihood). The election manifesto for Labour in 1983 contained pledges to a

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