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by keanzu 7y ago
It isn't a lost cause. The lessons are: Security is high stakes Security is hard https://blog.codinghorror.com/youre-probably-storing-passwor...
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Oil is the lifeblood of the US economy. In times of economic recession, we often blame the government and get rid of them. We've clearly signaled with our voting patterns what we want and government has delivered on it - a reliable sup
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by keanzu 7y ago
> if you try to objectively make life better for the billions According to Hans Rosling the world has already changed dramatically for the better, you just didn't notice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w
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by keanzu 7y ago
> (cheap shot: not even on the same planet...) I shouldn't have laughed. I definitely shouldn't have upvoted. Apparently I am not a good person. :P
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> Did the public have a say in that? Have a say in it? Ha. The public CREATED it and drove it. Government are followers of public opinion, not leaders. There are politicians now who are building their identities and campaigns around gree
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by keanzu 7y ago
"It's not that he's never wrong. It's that how outlandish his statements are is not a good indicator of how likely he is to be wrong." -SuoDuanDao https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225597
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Text from that link: As Antarctica has never been permanently settled by humans, there has historically been little military activity in the Antarctic. Because the Antarctic Treaty, which came into effect on June 23, 1961, bans military act
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> You're literally talking about Musk like he's a god or something. There's absolutely the risk, probably already too late for some, of getting into hero worship of Musk. We should definitely steer away from that type of e
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> the military would be the first to occupy What's your reasoning here? The purpose of the military is to defend valuables from others. Deploying military to Mars is as likely as deploying military to the Antarctic. Scientists will
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The only thing that I can think of to make Mars a better option than Earth is if Earth is struck by some truly gigantic asteroid. But it would have to be big enough to seriously damage a 1,000 trillion metric ton ball (we'll take it as
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by keanzu 7y ago
The sum total of human activity in the last 100 years also eclipses the sum total of all human activity prior (300k years worth). Humanity didn't do a lot for a long time. But yes, Mars would be a mega project. Isaac Arthur does grea
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Rendering across Jupiter's radiation belts doesn't strike me as an example of understanding anything. Marketing. He understands that a great visual excites people, accuracy be damned. Never let the truth get in the way of a g
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by keanzu 7y ago
That rescue worker temporarily had a platform high enough to speak with Musk's typical level of reach and attempted to use it to pull back the curtain and reveal Musk's publicity hound ways. This is an existential threat to Musk&#
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We are both going to get killed with downvotes! > Hyperloop He's spreading FUD and trying to undermine any kind of mass transport which could negatively impact Tesla's car. > self-driving Not sure what the stupid part is her
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by keanzu 7y ago
There's no comparison here. Musk acquired his money through voluntary exchanges with buyers freely and willingly engaging in market transactions. The government uses coercive force to raise taxes, it is not voluntary. Tax money is publ
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by keanzu 7y ago
People are willing to buy a ~100K car sight unseen. Tesla has a near zero marketing budget. Musk is the marketing department. No other car, or truck, has generated anything close to the buzz Musk is able to consistently pull off.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> I don't see it as anything more than what JFK did. Tickling the never-ending exploration/expansion desires of humanity. I would agree. This is what fuels SpaceX. Aspiration. He's generated excitement and interest in spac
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by keanzu 7y ago
Perhaps it might have been possible in some long distant past to underestimate Elon Musk and write him off as a crazy person. That time is gone. If Musk appears to be doing something crazy you've not understood it. > It’s crazy, com
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Mars has an atmosphere It does, but not much, only 1% the volume of Earth's atmosphere and it is 95% CO2.
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Oh, yep I guess it is there. Yes, but it wasn't obvious to me. I only spotted it after careful reading AND knowing the data source was Spartacus. Anyone unfamiliar with that outlet probably wouldn't pick up on the connection.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Yes, he does. It is on the RHS on the "LGBT+ Travel Rankings of the world" page (linked in OP). "This ranking is based on 14 different paramters like civil rights, discrimation and persecution by Spartacus LGBT+ Travel."
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by keanzu 7y ago
If the score range were -3 to 3: -3 0% -2 17% -1 33% 0 50% 1 67% 2 83% 3 100% But I suspect the real range is 0, -1, -2 and would make more sense inverted. Canada 0%, France 50%, Saudi 100%. "The strength of the
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I checked 2017, 2018 and Canada held a consistent 1 score. I also found this in the 2017 document: "With regard to anti-discrimination laws up to 3 points can be awarded, making a distinction, for example, whether the principle of no
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> This ranking is based on 14 different paramters *parameters
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The source data [1] shows Saudi Arabia as -2 on a scale of 0 to -2 for locals hostile. They also note "Some of the most dangerous countries for LGBT travelers in 2019 include again Saudi Arabia, Iran, Somalia and the Chechen Republic i
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Equal Age of Consent: 67% What does this mean? Spartacus has a 1 or 0 (true/false?) in this column.
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by keanzu 7y ago
Putting together an effective legal defense in the face of myriad laws is a difficult task. The government agrees to not abuse its power of incarceration against the citizenry. Your right to freedom is what's at stake. If the governmen
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In countries without constitutional protections, sure. But in the US taking away people's inalienable rights, for example to free speech, is nearly impossible.
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Under the theory of positive and negative rights, a negative right is a right not to be subjected to an action of another person or group—a government, for example—usually in the form of abuse or coercion. As such, negative rights exist unl
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by keanzu 7y ago
The water is muddied somewhat by things like: The Sixth Amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the

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