letitleak

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by letitleak 10y ago
His moves certainly show that he doesn't care about anyone but himself and his power. When he arrested parts of the military during their coup practices he created this situation of violence. If he stepped down as more rational PMs did
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by letitleak 10y ago
> I don't get why people are still advocating Octave as a Matlab alternative. Because it is the closest thing to a drop in replacement, which is what you need when taking a class or following a tutorial based on MATLAB. Trying to us
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by letitleak 10y ago
intentionally bad programmers don't need the certification, just to pay the standard $25 play store fee. I think this program will help the quality of play store iff they can get a lot of people through without sacraficing content, suc
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by letitleak 10y ago
Warning the user that it may be illegal to take photos is reasonable, but making a device that acts on the theoretical authority of someone else against its own/possessor is not. Taking your example of polls, it may be illegal for me t
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by letitleak 10y ago
I'm not contesting any of those views, I am saying that the costs to the North were significant and the drain of resources caused by the poorer South continues to be significant. Using the civil war to justify another military action a
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by letitleak 10y ago
The biggest trick in US history was the South convincing the North that the reward for winning was keeping them. The North is stillpaying today.
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by letitleak 10y ago
I think his theory is inconsistent with the pro-brexit group being older, and the anti being younger.. But I think both the brexit group and Trump express the right wing disillusionment, which seem to be older people that thought they were
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by letitleak 10y ago
The British as non-EU can't get a better deal than the Swiss as a non EU Schengen area member.. I think the British will either lose more control of immigration from this vote or be pretty crippled by poor EU trade agreements leading t
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by letitleak 10y ago
Foreign Banks will refuse you service if they discover you are a US person with no intention/ability to comply. If they don't they face tax penalties on any US holding and possibly local penalties due to treaties with the US. *Ov
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by letitleak 10y ago
Charging for renunciation is the most ridiculous part. You are paying for a process that: is expensive only since they want to investigate you as a presumed criminal or tax dodger (the movie Brazil comes to mind) is a result of their non-co
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by letitleak 10y ago
If saying an employee acted without authorization and/or tampering with the papertrail will save a few million in fines then you better hope no one like that is on your board. But your stock options will be safe.. though you probably w
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by letitleak 10y ago
I see very little of this in tech and remain pissed at my peers over storage, printers, cpu mmus, mobile phone upgrades, software with no model to reason/guess about how it will implement an unfamiliar feature... I am often happier wit
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by letitleak 10y ago
I find this criticism and Eliot's of very little value without Orwell's choice of rebuttals. The format of 1984 is very different from A clock Work Orange, which is the closest thing I can think of to Asimov's request. 1984 w
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by letitleak 11y ago
There are research projects/papers on the topic with claims that are all based on Brier scores. I'd say Brier scores are inherently biased by choices in framing/asking questions, but at least measure everyone uniformly/f
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by letitleak 11y ago
One of the reasons I like crowd prediction is that it seems to be slowly leading to well distributed groups of people who are able to make educated guesses even with one or two conditionals. While governments have professional analysts, the
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by letitleak 11y ago
>take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way Hmm.. The non-poaching agreements were about refusing to offer jobs to reduce wages in an unfair or clandestine way. I hope companies use the term poaching more, it makes easier to start
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by letitleak 11y ago
I generally agree, but there is an important caveat that relates to human social thinking. It is legal to mail spam since the resource burden is on you, it is not legal to fax it since the burden is on the recipient. The US began with a the
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by letitleak 11y ago
I'd not heard from no permissions, but as with a website, I still prefer things with my signature correspond to things from me and are nice even if the rest is a cesspool. Given these problems, I would seriously hope that the ~8 app ma
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by letitleak 11y ago
Sorry to go OT[1], but is there a link to their general (encryption/integrity) policies? I was shocked they are sometimes delivering the android studio via http and providing only sha1 sums. If your IDE is compromised, then who knows w
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by letitleak 11y ago
The wording and implication of these questions have very different meaning to me today than they did in the 1980-1990s, I can only imagine the 1960s.. Now it is entirely clear to me that if a high profile speaker comes, it is not that they
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by letitleak 11y ago
I think this will be a very interesting question even if she ultimately wins as she's certainly had a tough time given her resources. Personally, I don't believe people are building direct immunity. I think they are updating their
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by letitleak 11y ago
I wasn't familiar with Charles Rangel until I read this article.. For anyone who suspects the US is engaged in a "Buy American" (or else) campaign to sell domestic evasion/financial services, the man who apparently wants
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by letitleak 11y ago
"The US Treasury worked tirelessly to address many of these problems, and most have been resolved. If there are still problems with the law, then I believe Congress should hold hearings to see how it can be improved." I bet they a
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by letitleak 11y ago
People in the US should be complaining to the FTC. In the very least, for phone's under warranty, Magnuson-Moss should apply if Apple isn't fixing these problems for free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuso
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by letitleak 11y ago
I don't really get your point. If someone is going to be apprehended on your soil that basically has to be by your nationals. Agents of another nation are not capable of placing or moving someone in custody they are just criminals enga
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by letitleak 11y ago
Given that those are the enablers, it would take pretty blue hats for me..