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by mullen 9y ago
The good news is that you can blame someone else! PS> Joking, but not really.
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by mullen 9y ago
Off the top of my head, but I do remember a case in Texas where the son of the Judge was representing the Plaintiff. The judge refused to excuse himself from the case.
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by mullen 9y ago
I think we would found out by now that Whatsapp was not really encrypting messages. Plus, Moxie said they were using the Signal Protocol Lib for encrypting messages and I trust him 100x's more than any person who does not release infor
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by mullen 9y ago
Clinton did. She had a jobs retraining program that would have addressed people in industries that were in decline or going away. Ironically, the very people who would benefit from this program mostly vote for Trump and he is not going to d
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by mullen 9y ago
The majority of people want privacy in their messages and are not really concerned with their metadata. Whatsapp fills that role and much better than telegram.
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by mullen 9y ago
> For example: A dedicated m4.16xLarge EC2 instance in AWS is $3987/month. You could build that same server for $15,000 through Dell, lease it at $400/month (OpEx), and colo it with a 1GB/s connection for $150/month.
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by mullen 9y ago
> "if you are a real <hacker/programmer/developer/whatever> you must setup your own servers" Someone forgot to remind this guy that Developers suck at running servers. Been a heavy line Unix admin for 16 ye
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by mullen 9y ago
> The Republican congress might impeach the president if a huge scandal became impossible to deny. No way. Republicans would burn down this country rather than admit they have a bad president.
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by mullen 9y ago
> The onion service implementation reflected far from even journeyman competence. Oh ya, Ulbricht was not even close to journeyman competence. Falling victim to well know PHP issues, poor Apache security implementation and really poor Op
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by mullen 9y ago
Crowds scatter when a gun comes out. No one sticks around to find out if it is real, fake or the holder is actually going use it.
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by mullen 10y ago
Unsafe cars are also raise the death raise inside and outside of the car and raises health costs that are borne by all members of society. People should not be allowed to drive unsafe cars.
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by mullen 10y ago
> I think that actually number is more like 99.95% for a person with a .08. But it isn't the .08 drunk drivers killing people, it is the .16+ BAC drunk drivers killing people.
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by mullen 10y ago
> Trying to further social policy via taxation is about the least efficient way to do it. Works well for controlling a populations smoking and drinking.
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by mullen 10y ago
> 1) Campaigning is restricted to a short time period, perhaps 6 months. You can't do this without limiting Free Speech. > 2) Every candidate gets a (small) fixed budget, paid for by tax-payers. (This is already the practice in s
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by mullen 10y ago
CalFile morphed from Ready Return. The Tax Franchise Board created CalFile since they did not need permission to do it.
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by mullen 10y ago
Because health insurance is not about scarcity or moving goods across state lines. Setting up insurance is much more complex than that and I think that is why people get caught up in thinking that allowing insurance to be sold across state
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by mullen 10y ago
Oh ya, Illegal immigrants totally pay their medicals bills after going to the emergency room.
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by mullen 10y ago
There are several states where health insurance sells across state lines. It does not lower the price of health insurance.
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by mullen 10y ago
That is the one thing I really love about American culture; once you become a naturalized citizen, you are on Team America. Does not matter where you are from or what you look like, once you take that oath to the Constitution, you're i
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by mullen 10y ago
He has not done a single thing he said he would. He is all talk. This is just another issue that he will just talk and nothing will happen.
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by mullen 10y ago
us-east-2 is brand new and us-east-1 is the oldest region. Any time there is an issue, it is almost always us-east-1. If possible, I would migrate out of us-east-1.
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by mullen 10y ago
I think this is why there is no life on any of the planets. The star is just too young. However, the star could have a life span of 5 trillion years, it is safe to say that life could form on the planets and have plenty of time to develop.
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by mullen 10y ago
- Payments of some kind
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by mullen 10y ago
Don't use Wi-Fi. My lag was 300ms from my desktop to US-West-2 and then I used an ethernet cable and it dropped to 30ms.
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by mullen 10y ago
The main reason I can think of is, if you make an API that you think will handle 100/s but the product takes off and you end up with 1,000,000/s, you don't have to do anything.
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by mullen 10y ago
> 2nd, my family will have to live with the results of my earlier decision to not include mental health in my coverage. Decisions have consequences. The government shouldn't force me to pickup coverage just because they think it mig
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by mullen 10y ago
I also can't imagine that would be constitutional either.
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by mullen 10y ago
Obama could not have introduced Single Payer. There is just no political will in the US to do that. None. The medical industry is in one form or another is 1/6th of the US economy, you can't change that overnight.
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by mullen 10y ago
NFS used to default to UDP for the same reasons that games still would use UDP, it just needed the data as quickly as possible since it was blocking IO. Now a days, we don't need UDP for NFS because networks are a lot faster and the ad
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by mullen 10y ago
> Okay, then how are you going to "borrow and spend on public infrastructure"? Where is that money going to come from? Countries suffering from hyperinflation don't borrow and spend on public infrastructure. They run the p

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