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by kbart 9y ago
Heh, it looks like Australia is the one of the confused[0]. But I'm sure I've seen more ambulances with Caduceus around Europe. 0. http://www.111emergency.co.nz/AMBULANCE/World-Aus/6x2.jpg
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, but it's much easier to choose/change VPN than ISP, because because VPN providers usually are not geographically bound as opposed to ISP where it's not uncommon to be stuck with single ISP available. Furthermore, if you
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by kbart 9y ago
If you are such a high-level target that these agencies went out of their way to setup honeypot for you, no VPN will save you anyway. But in realistic case, nobody is going to setup honeypots just to capture your porn search history.
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by kbart 9y ago
"How do you know you can trust this ISP any more than the one you're already using?" Simple. For example, you live in a country where ISP's are allowed to do whatever they want (or forced to do what government/let
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by kbart 9y ago
Replacing tech interviews (even as quirky as they are) with credentials and school rating is even worse as it weeds out the wast majority potentially prospect candidates that had no opportunity to attend top universities. Of course, graduat
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by kbart 9y ago
Well, you don't have to be asked directly to do that. I assume, you work in senior position, so read your role description and contract, for most senior positions I have seen "mentoring" and "team leading" is explic
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by kbart 9y ago
Oh, common on, every time freelancing topics comes up on HN there are at least few comments: "just do networking, it's so easy, and gigs just starts falling from the sky". No, this advice doesn't work well outside of tec
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by kbart 9y ago
Yeah, I was disappointed as well. This "zero day remote code execution" actually is not much more than good, old "important_document.pdf.exe" just slightly more obscure.
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by kbart 9y ago
There are restricted woods in France still full of unexploded explosives from WW1[0]. It's a huge problem more or less all around Europe. 0. https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/this-red-zone-i...
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by kbart 9y ago
"they could switch h their supply/production chains to mass produce whatever the want, short of blonde babies with blue eyes." I think they will soon be capable of that too[0]. 0. https://qz.com/1185488&#x2F
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by kbart 9y ago
In this scenario "IED" is a keyword. Drone is trivial compared to making a small IED capable of killing a person or damaging military equipment without blowing yourself up first. If one can do that, he's dangerous with or wit
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by kbart 9y ago
Ah, now it's clear, I thought maybe I missed something. Metal subculture is probably considered "boring" by mass media/fashion as it's nowhere as exotic as described in this article or others seen less often. Even i
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by kbart 9y ago
I never thought of it a separate sub-culture. Many metalheads (from thrashists to blackers) wear vests/jackets padded with favorite band logos, so it's just a small, not even mandatory part of metal sub-culture (which in turn has
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by kbart 9y ago
"Wanted criminals" in China's case might be someone who posted criticism of ruling party, mentioned Tiananmen Square protests, support Tibet independence, belongs to certain religious group etc. Of course, western countries a
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, but as I've mentioned, you need a 3rd party arbitrage/platform on every transaction to achieve that which counters the "portable" idea.
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by kbart 9y ago
Alarmist article. It's more like "best day in Beijing / worst day in London" conditions comparison. See the data, last year average air quality is 3 times worse in Beijing[0] than London[1]. 0. https://air.plu
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by kbart 9y ago
The fundamental problem of the rating systems is how to prevent one party or another (those who receive and those who write reviews) from abusing the system for their own advantage? The two obvious problems are: 1) fake reviews 2) blackmail
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by kbart 9y ago
Actually, based on my limited social circle, people from STEM get into Sanskrit much faster, because of its complex rules and similarity to programming (it's their words, I don't know Sanskrit, so can't confirm it). Learning
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by kbart 9y ago
No, it's not ok, because as the original author highlights, such frauds diminish genuinely working women in tech (as is the author). For the same reason we don't give medals to the sportsmen that are caught cheating.
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by kbart 9y ago
Holodomor even more, 2.4-12 million people have have died of starvation deliberately caused by Soviets. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
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by kbart 9y ago
This article does a really poor job explaining what memory leak is and barely even mentions JS specific pitfalls (what could be expected by reading a title).
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by kbart 9y ago
From a user perspective, I wouldn't trust a site that uses it's own payment processor, unless you are Amazon, Ebay etc. Double that if you ask for credit card details. Redirecting to a well-known payment processor (PayPal etc.) gu
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by kbart 9y ago
Performance and memory control -- these are the main reasons why people choose C/C++ nowadays and Rust tries to fit in as well. D, as stated in article, is more of Java competitor than C++, because it's slow and use GC.
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by kbart 9y ago
"make it clear, your intent is to waste as much of their time, energy and resources as possible." I'm sure they have many more means to waste your time, energy and resources, so I wouldn't recommend that, unless you
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by kbart 9y ago
Tangentially related, but I normally wear boots and I'm asked to take them off every time I fly inside EU. But that's the worst what can happen, have never been ordered to unlock my devices or asked personal questions.
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by kbart 9y ago
World Wide Web as a borderless, lawless place is only a long gone dream of cyber anarchists of early nineties.
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by kbart 9y ago
So why are you so nervous? Just ban all those 500 millions "provincial" users and feel free to ignore GPDR. It's nothing new that countries extend protection for their citizens and business entities well beyond its borders, f
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by kbart 9y ago
Well yes, but that's only a fine, I'm sure there are other legal means (i.e. voiding business license) for those who refuse to comply with a law continuously.
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by kbart 9y ago
Even for a giant like Qualcomm 1.2B fine is far from a slap on a wrist. Furthermore, it's the first fine, imagine if they try to continue such practice in EU, more and bigger fines would follow. So yes, EU is probably the only jurisdic
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by kbart 9y ago
So we will get even more "targeted ads" in our faces? No, thanks. I think ML/AI has a great potential (especially in medicine), but I just don't trust ad companies to use it for any good cause.

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