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hueving
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>We have massive social and financial structures to subsidize students, because we recognize that activity has a great deal of future value to individuals, nations, and the world at large Based on capitalism though. We incentize it becau
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hueving
8y ago
>But most of the difficulty between tribes arose as a result of white influence, starting with the Spanish and continuing onward. This is just an assumption because there was no written history of tribes before the "white influence&
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hueving
8y ago
>Yes you are right, there were MULTIPLE soveriegn tribes that did that. No, there were none that have done that. There is no civilization that has lasted thousands of years, let alone some tribe. >Interesting assumption there chap.
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hueving
8y ago
And what about the tribes that those tribes forced out? This notion that everything was peaceful without territory wars before "colonizers" is a joke. There is no single tribe that has carefully tended the land for thousands of ye
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hueving
8y ago
>Year after year the Googlegeist survey finds that one of the things Googlers most enjoy about working at Google is their fellow employees Hiring has very little to do with that. Perf review, feedback mechanisms, and work environment are
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hueving
8y ago
>but I don’t recall anything else infecting PLC’s and using ambient temperature sensors to define behavior. That is just one techno. aspect I found original. The target was interesting and the attack subtle, but attacks on industrial con
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hueving
8y ago
There are not thousands of articles saying that it was a technological breakthrough. Most sophisticated doesn't mean a new technique was used, etc. > presumably disgruntled anonymous user I don't think you understand what I
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hueving
8y ago
> You can create this utopian society by distributing capital in a way that all individuals have their basic needs provided This is currently not even close to possible based on our current technology level. In order for everyone to have
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8y ago
But it wasn't advanced technologically though. Any blackhat with a stash of 0 days and instructions from the right plc engineer could have put together the payload to do this. When it comes to seeing through walls, these are new techni
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I am completely aware of how it worked and you seem to have ignored what I said. The organizational effort to collect the 0 days, target the right centrifuges, etc is what was impressive but there was nothing new technological there. Putti
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hueving
8y ago
>Moreover, Stuxnet was so advanced for the time that its existence stunned the world. Not technically advanced. It was using a collection of 0-day exploits to get into a PC via a USB drive. Any basic hacker could accomplish that with exi
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hueving
8y ago
>The system is _highly_ prejudiced towards suppressing false positives. This is the right decision, This is textbook Google propaganda that has been repeated at least since I last worked there 5ish years ago. It's bullshit though be
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hueving
8y ago
Ah, but you are woefully naive if you think some interviewers don't slip in who enjoy having people struggle with problems so they can stroke their own ego. There are also the ones that have seen the quality of engineers significantly
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hueving
8y ago
Like? You can't really know that you wouldn't have open source, p2p versions of the things you use today that you assume can only exist because of advertising.
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hueving
8y ago
It's only like 5 minutes of your time (if that), unless you have difficulties following basic account sign up processes on a website.
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hueving
8y ago
>is telling about the employee culture at Google. How so? They have risked nothing by participating because Google isn't a high school where you break a rule by going outside.
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hueving
8y ago
>ethically and sustainably farmed There is no such meat in the beef or chicken industry. There are sustainable methods to raise and provide enough meat for the demand and there are ethical methods (e.g. cage free, free range) that are ab
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8y ago
No, people making personal efforts like that has the opposite effect. It makes them think they are doing something that matters so they don't put any effort into pushing for the drastic changes required to fix the problem. People makin
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hueving
8y ago
No, if it's one person leveling an accusation and there is no corroborating evidence (either physical or more witnesses), it's not enough. Otherwise it would be within anyone's power to have people fired or put away for rape
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8y ago
The problem is that it can turn out men are more aggressive when it comes to getting counter offers which has a much larger impact than anything else. If that's the case then what do you propose, ban people from negotiating and lose ev
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hueving
8y ago
Then that's not the same problem at all and it needs to be addressed as such.
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I'm not sure you understand how many entities are trying to get into your computer to track you/steal data/mine bitcoin/etc. These are active attacks against your computer every day if you are a regular user clicking vir
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hueving
8y ago
No, they don't always work. We have bullet proof vests but it's still not safe to put one on and have someone start shooting you.
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hueving
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Food is cheap enough we throw away a ton of it and energy could scale significantly further quite easily if there weren't an anti-science political barrier to nuclear.
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>We can't all live in the country, that's not sustainable either. Why is this viewed as such a given that you state it without any evidence? Once people stop commuting for jobs, it's very feasible for everyone to spread ou
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hueving
8y ago
Ad hoc, secret regulatory actions might be allowed, but it's a surfire way to breed corruption since unfair enforcement becomes extremely difficult to detect.
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hueving
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No, it does not excuse the behavior of the banks. The point is that the regulatory behavior was bad, not that it wasn't punishing a real crime. It would have been significantly better if they announced publicly that JPM was going to ha
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hueving
8y ago
Yes, people do have responsibility for their own finances. We blame people for mindlessly speculating in cryptocurrencies, there is no reason to not do the same when they take on an adjustable rate mortgage that takes 3/4 of the family
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hueving
8y ago
Care to explain how historically low interest is bad for governments in debt? Because that is completely the opposite of how it actually works for lenders (high interest destroys them).
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>The average user cares much more about being able to annotate webpages You grossly overestimate what the average user wants to do. The average user doesn't even know the difference between browsers, rarely (if ever) uses bookmarks,
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