pakled_engineer

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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Machines making decisions due to our own man made complexity, wonder when this will become the norm for all facets of government, until the machines create their own massive complexity making it even more difficult for humans thus we end up
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
A steady influx of cocaine, which became too expensive when said shady agencies stopped what they were doing and local dealers decided to boil the expensive coke into crack so it became more affordable to addicts. Now there was a $5 per poi
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Because of the damage addiction does to communities. When these laws were passed it was people in those affected communities demanding them. People forget there were huge community marches in the 80s/90s crack epidemics with locals dem
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Here activists called legalization the new prohibition because of all the regulations like no dispensaries within a X distance from each other, a school, church ect so drove them out or cemented monopolies for the existing dispensaries whic
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Problem is those $700k condos are being bid up to $800k, and often sold so fast there's no time to go back to your bank and request an additional $100k mortgage. The Chinese buyers have cash to make the sale immediately. The newer buil
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
There's a NK defector where I live who runs a restaurant, who's family spent some time in a NK prison when he defected (he bribed their way out) and claims there is financial incentive for defectors to come up with the most sensat
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
I did books recommended from here, and lots of math stackexchange searching/questions. I started with Basic Mathematics by Lang, Eccles book on Mathematical Reasoning, A Course of Pure Mathematics by Hardy combined with the lecture not
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
According to this older HN posted article the way to slow down HFT strategies is get rid of the subpenny rule, such as pricing securities in increments of $0.0001 https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_b
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Many years ago I worked for a stint at ebay and I was definitely considered a pariah for not flaring out my desk with juvenile toys. I did that in Grade 9 with my locker
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
I've read the letters, Hitchens books on Orwell, listened to his lectures on Orwell, read Orwell's essays, and his books. The message is to me, that resistance is hopelessly futile once totalitarianism is firmly entrenched and the
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
1984 is definitely influenced from the state propaganda Orwell saw coming out the Soviet Union such as the book character Emmanuel Goldstein who is quite obviously Trotsky, and the state rewriting history by editing Goldstein out of party p
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
The taxes are also high https://simpletax.ca/calculator Select BC and enter in the typical income for an experienced developer in Vancouver which is 75k. Your take home salary is $59,000 plus you aren't offered any opt
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
I might be reading your posts incorrectly but you appear as highly ideological and combative as said Republicans you know who sound 'crazy'. This is the problem with politics, everybody has their ideology and anybody with differen
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
When they demolish and sell in Vancouver its given to the lowest contractor bid so will fall a part in a few years. Common to see huge cracks in new house walls, uneven garage doors that can't close and loose tile work galore. Glued to
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Vancouver, Canada when bars were forced to shut down at 2am, resulted in thousands of drunks pouring into the streets all at once and mass brawling with each other. Laws were changed to allow 4am last call and legal after hours, and the gig
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Like the actual police reports I guess http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-... I realize this is a highly politically charged issue and Assange is a hero to most people (and me) b
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
This was the complaint of the two girls in Sweden
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
The complaints in Sweden were originally due to him refusing to use a condom which would explain the 4 kids from 4 different women. There is somewhere truth in these allegations that Assange plays games with birth control without obtaining
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
I have a daily schedule/ritual to keep productive, after a week it just became the norm https://books.google.ca/books/about/Daily_Rituals.html?id=-t...
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
As an aside a good example of this politically evasive precision in speaking was Clinton's famous "I did not inhale" line when confronted if he had ever used marijuana. His answer was true, he's allergic to smoke and was
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
I recall he took pretty much everything there was to take, including the active operations db, and only released a small fraction of documents to Poitras/Greenwald. Those 2 drives full of docs were hastily dumped inside the HK airport
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
I did a ridiculous amount of LSD made by Nicholas Sand in the 90s and never had a bad trip. I did it in the worst possible settings due to idiocy of youth and all is good. Don't take too much if you've never done it, and stay away
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Some additional advice for anybody doing so regardless of where they live or the market they service: - Contract a legitimate 3rd party ID verification service like bitstamp does. You get API access where the entire verification process can
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Their biggest issue (besides being a centralized service thus easy targeting) was not encrypting internal communications and allowing comments to accompany transfers which were typically "For 200 dumps of CCs" or something similar
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Roger Penrose writes about how fractions are incorrectly taught in school in the preface of "Road to Reality" always the pie visual is used as an approximation which later confuses students.
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
For now we can strip DRM, what if all near future readers have a TPM-like hardware key that can't be copied or sniffed that must be present to decrypt the text.
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
Unless Amazon cooperates with the regime in the future to censor the ebook too, most publishers won't but a major distributor like Amazon might if doing so allows them a large government contract with said regimes, or entrance to the m
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
I also like the "airgap" benefits of books vs proprietary readers, nobody can log into a book and ninja edit for future political reasons or delete them for copyright reasons.
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
He crowdfunded some of the legal fees https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/gregory-alan-elliott-... Unsure if it's even worth incurring more lawyer fees pursuing the loss of employment as the women will likely h
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by pakled_engineer 11y ago
You have to get a new address every 30 days from their website or pay $1/mth https://tvunblock.com/donate/

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