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by kahnpro 9y ago
Most pilots do not make nearly that much money... entry level is often below $30k. Maybe you'll break 6 figures at a top-tier airline after a decade of experience.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
Pretty sure that's how most app conception begins. How can they gather as much user data as possible, or as many videos micropayments as possible. I think that most apps only exist so that some company can get a tracking device onto yo
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by kahnpro 9y ago
You're thinking of Men in Black. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody
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by kahnpro 9y ago
> The court system is the check against officers violating rights It's supposed to be, but in reality it certainly isn't. What happens when officers go to court? Oh wait, usually they don't. And when they do, they usually
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by kahnpro 9y ago
This is an incredibly naïve point of view. > Saying there will be vulnerabilities in the future is FUD. Saying there will be vulnerabilities is 99.99% likely to be true. All software written by humans is highly likely to have mistakes. R
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by kahnpro 9y ago
4th: brew them in a cup of tea.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
Seriously, try 1-2 weeks without coffee... you'll feel it.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
You're crazy if you think you can find an apartment for that price in London... For £600 you can get a small room in a flatshare. Maybe a tiny studio or nice room really far from the centre. But a decent apartment in a nice district? D
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by kahnpro 9y ago
If you are making concrete plans to commit a crime, it is often punished with the same sentence as if you had committed the crime. In Canada and the UK, for example, conspiracy to murder can be punished with life imprisonment.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
A purpose implies intent or some kind of forethought, which evolution works completely without. It's not a positive action (there is light so we need to develop eyes), but a passive result (there is light so the ones who happened to ha
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by kahnpro 9y ago
I think it's only useful if you know which serial numbers were stolen, for example if you give specific range of serial numbers as a ransom payment.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
I tried out Purescript for a project and didn't think it's ready for production... Generic encoding/decoding was painful, the lack of good dependency management was painful, too many things were either missing or immature. I
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by kahnpro 9y ago
Don't worry, they'll just do a fork and magic your money back. So much for avoiding the problems of central banking.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
This is a problem that everybody seems to skip over with cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies are being sold as eliminating trust and allow us to rely on the cold certainty of mathematics. Only trust hasn't been eliminated from the syste
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by kahnpro 9y ago
Pretty sure they don't serve the actual video from AWS. And now considering the competition from Amazon Prime, I doubt it will move there in the future.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
Because it allows people to circumvent the paywall and WSJ will complain to Google. And then because Google can take down whatever they want...
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by kahnpro 9y ago
KDE is a large project but in the scheme of things... nobody uses kde except a minority of enthusiasts.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
They don't need to block 100% of all sites for it to be effective. It's the same with the lock on your home, the password on your phone, the lack of a fence or wall along the length of the border. It's "good enough"
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by kahnpro 9y ago
It's incredibly foolish to think you're only trusting mathematics. All you've done is shift your trust to the authoring process of the Bitcoin clients and to the majority of the miners. Authoring and distributing the clients,
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by kahnpro 9y ago
You can, but there's a difference between how we hope things will turn out, and how people are actually behaving in the real world.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
If the business can't earn a profit at the market rate for the labour required to run the business, then maybe they shouldn't be in business any more? I mean lots businesses become viable if you only have to pay $1/hr.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
And specifically that San Fransico isn't Finland. I don't think the average developer in most of the US is getting $240k
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by kahnpro 9y ago
> Isn't prevention better than cure? Agreed. Technology moves way too fast, by the time we get a cure to the problem, businesses will have moved on to a new way to screw everyone. The problems we should prevent aren't exactly r
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by kahnpro 9y ago
You're kidding? Many people even in the US speak two or more languages. English and Spanish/Chinese/Arabic/who knows. And then Europe?
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by kahnpro 9y ago
Have you installed Windows 10 lately? It's all there in plain English.
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by kahnpro 9y ago
The little boat tipped over
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by kahnpro 9y ago
Paper votes are difficult to manipulate on a massive scale . You can stuff some ballot boxes and turn a polling station. But to do the same across the country to rig the election? At this point your country probably has worse problems and
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by kahnpro 9y ago
This is ultimately the problem. People forget that, for that money to have any value, you eventually have to interact with the rest of human society. As another commenter said, we've been dealing with this for centuries--black markets,
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by kahnpro 9y ago
But this is the fundamental question it's all about... the expectation that the other nodes will ignore you. Somehow "the other nodes" have reached consensus about what protocols or rules to follow, and this is where we end u
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by kahnpro 9y ago
It sounds like you fundamentally misunderstood what HTTPS certificates are for, because they absolutely do not reflect trustworthiness or "not a scam".

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