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by hopler 8y ago
Convicted of what? Smells like scapegoating. "The investigation concluded that among the causes of the crash were poor maintenance, as well as the control system of the stabilizer not meeting basic aviation standards”
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by hopler 8y ago
When something happens 2 times, even a simplistic error analysis is going to show at least a 3x range in probably (2+/-1 incidents is 1 to 3)
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by hopler 8y ago
Is the same sensor used the same way in landing?
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by hopler 8y ago
Lawyers don't design planes. CEOs who intentionally lie about their planes' safety do. Without lawyers, those CEOs could go on killing people and never have any accountability.
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by hopler 8y ago
Yes, mail software needs to support it first. Gmail does, at least for hosted domains.
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by hopler 8y ago
Proof is good for you, as it protects you from friendly recipients from following instructions that hurt you from imposters. If you want to deny your own actual actions to an unfriendly recipient, refusing to sign your emails won't hel
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by hopler 8y ago
Authentication does prove identity, to their mail service, not to the recipient. But they are right in one sense: it's their mail provider's job to provide the signing infrastructure. But customers have to know they need it and de
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by hopler 8y ago
Not really. I get a steady stream of replies to me from ignorant users who reply to "Joe job" spam, as do everyone I know. It's the most common way someone thinks "I've been hacked" when they get the fallout fr
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by hopler 8y ago
Can iOS natively or iTunes stream music through those devices?
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by hopler 8y ago
The difference is that today colleges lie about having "need-blind" admissions. Among the Ivies only Brown openly admits that you can buy your way in.
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by hopler 8y ago
Oddly sexist example but OK.
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by hopler 8y ago
Aggregation Theory is brand name he made up to market his consulting services. He's not ignorant, he's selling. The business consulting and person health/self-help industries are full of this sort of thing.
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by hopler 8y ago
He's trying to draw a meaningless boundary between competitors being unable to access the market, and competitors being blocked by collusion.
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by hopler 8y ago
Because then they'd install a fake Netflix malware from getnetflix.com
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by hopler 8y ago
If there is a $100k incentive for framing someone for vote buying, people will do it.
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by hopler 8y ago
That means my real vote might not get counted, thanks to the random deadline.
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by hopler 8y ago
Screencaps are trivial to counterfeit. Every computer has a screen cap editor. Someone with a paper ballot can photograph their ballot with a phone of spycam, to prove their vote to a buyer.
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by hopler 8y ago
Electronic votes can be secured cryptographically. Votes can be counted per precinct instead of centrally, and then summed. The security factors of paper voting can be replicated electronically. "The authority might just lie about the
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by hopler 8y ago
I don't know what Estonia does, but there are ways to publish the votes in a secure way that prevents anyone from decrypting a single vote, but lets anyone verify their vote was correctly counted using their own secret key. httpp:&#x2
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by hopler 8y ago
Or just a two bit con artist
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by hopler 8y ago
This is the same as LinkedIn or Facebook slurping your address book.
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by hopler 8y ago
Does the entire org appear out of nowhere? No. MI5, CIA, Stasi, etc have been quite public about their existence.
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by hopler 8y ago
The only reason to keep secrets is if they aren't free. Otherwise the secret protects nothing. Freedom is broad and self contradictory. Complete freedom for more than one person is impossible.
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by hopler 8y ago
Only fake awards sell trophies. they give the award to everything and make money in trophy sales. See also SuperDoctors, Who's Who, and pay to publish journals with no peer reviews.
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by hopler 8y ago
Also, Java and C++, even if they are "only" used at a "few" companies that happen to have the hiring power of 1000 startups each.
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by hopler 8y ago
Viaweb used Lisp. Google used python, Java, and C++ Amazon used perl and C++ Facebook used PHP!
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by hopler 8y ago
Almost nobody buys books anymore.
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by hopler 8y ago
For major soft dev projects, Amazon deprecated Perl 12years ago when they moved to java for retail website development, and uses it for maintenance of too-big-to-fail legacy parts of the retail website.
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by hopler 8y ago
Developer maintence time is not the marginal cost/priced of software. Software has low marginal cost to the economics is all about scaling up sales, and your tech stack is mostly binary: the job is either possible or impossible. deve
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by hopler 8y ago
"major us city" is quite a weasel term. Manhattan? Queens? SF? San Jose? Phoenix? Austin?

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