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by juskrey 5y ago
More thoughtful commenters (e.g. Taleb) actually noticed early that ISIS and wahhabism in general is a deeply rooted and quite old political movement, not all-of-a-sudden religious cult and madness. Partly because of this conflation the who
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by juskrey 5y ago
Did they compare to the similar group of people who did not get ads?
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by juskrey 5y ago
How much did shipping to Africa cost?
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by juskrey 5y ago
BitMessage was probably the most important experiment in all that blockchain insanity. Among other things, it showed that there are limits for maximum entropy for messaging. E.g. everyone should receive every message to plausibly deny commu
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by juskrey 5y ago
Oh well, all of my 20 years of software engineering are a tale of fighting in the dark before anything works and heavy precaution after, without having any remote evidence of nearly everything readily available.
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by juskrey 5y ago
There is of course a market of Apple devices stolen for parts, but majority of spare parts are coming from used donor devices, obtained at discount, I believe big shops may also buy new ones solely for parts
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by juskrey 5y ago
A piece of paper and glass for $10? I own $5 pocket microscope from aliexpress with good tube optics (as for $5), bright LED and easy one-hand operation, and it is excellent https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000574841522
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by juskrey 5y ago
The conclusion is BS. Real reason for filtering Russian and similar computers is "extrajudicial consultants" which are taking care with a problem when stepping on big company in exUSSR.
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by juskrey 5y ago
We are supposed to read the message for our own kids here: if the brawl starts, move out, not in. Not too racist, right?
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by juskrey 5y ago
Most countries treat organised crime episodes as severe aggravation - this is to deter participation in organized crime and avoid "you can't prove who did the actual stabbing" situations
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by juskrey 5y ago
No, narrators are not taking any book writing and publishing risks, authors do.
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by juskrey 5y ago
After testing for a while, moved to commercial Resilio Sync (they offer one-time payment lifetime licenses for personal/family use). More tightly integrated, much faster, lighter and polished app overall, has good iOS client.
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by juskrey 5y ago
23andMe also thanks for your data
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by juskrey 5y ago
I had no headaches for a straight year on strict low carb diet
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Probably for a reason of having web editor. I tried to like it, but doing Unity or Unreal editor like things in a browser is just exhausting.
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by juskrey 5y ago
Real troubles start when it is not your fault.
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by juskrey 5y ago
Thailand is fine until you get into trouble which requires authorities of any kind. It is what "3rd world" is all about.
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by juskrey 5y ago
To begin with, investment money were stolen from the largest Ukrainian bank via fake loans and investments. Hence the laundering. But instead of fake car wash sessions there were "for show" acquisitions: invest own money, quickly
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by juskrey 5y ago
The answer is malaria eradication efforts never stopped neither in US nor in Europe. It's just as routine as renewing asphalt roads or maintaining sewers
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by juskrey 6y ago
DDT is still used for malaria control where nothing else works. The statement that it's not harmful for humans is blatantly false. It's slow, accumulating and proliferates through generations, and that's not counting natural
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by juskrey 6y ago
Yeah, so basically that sly clause in contract makes no difference, the problem is you have to go that path yourself, wasting your time, or pay the lawyer, wasting money upfront. Pretty much how it works in any part of the world, unless y
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by juskrey 6y ago
This is given they will remain sealed forever for the rest of the world.
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by juskrey 6y ago
Exactly, no contract can override legislation which is applicable to contract jurisdiction. Environmental pollution and human poisoning are hardly allowed on consent basis.
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by juskrey 6y ago
My wild guess is someone brought it by sea
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by juskrey 6y ago
Songwriting is akin to salary: writer gets paid every time, non depending if the song was a complete failure, while all the risk, organization and marketing is on the pop star. So I guess the answer is no.
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by juskrey 6y ago
Exactly, Collins is as reverse-Taleb book, as it can go
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by juskrey 6y ago
Antifragile is about being exposed to proper type of the risk. If the risk can't kill you but can make you rich (also safe, healthy etc), take as much risk as you can.
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by juskrey 6y ago
Just take back the salary when the city is net negative from their "experiments"
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by juskrey 6y ago
Probably the same as many fancy copy protections turned off by patching single jnz/jz command
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by juskrey 6y ago
Resilio is quite the head or two above - very polished commercial product, actually, with basic free license. From the authors of original bittorent protocol and client.

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