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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes. The original fascists were Italian and had hard-left policies, like very heavy state involvement in industry and communist-style dictatorship. This rebranding of "fascists" and "Nazis" as right wing has been going o
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by repolfx 7y ago
Very likely that they bought the exploit and did the rest themselves, so, their skill at phishing, exploiting and RATing won't be correlated.
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The Thatcher years were harsh That's not really fair is it? They started harsh because the country was a wreck when she was first elected. The miners went on strike because they were used to being able to topple governments by doing
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There's really only one interesting fact in this story for the HN crowd (who already know about tech salaries at the top), and it's this: Pay is basically doubling every year ... Last year, the company earned £102 million (admitt
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He said £300,000 not $300,000. That'd be about $364,000. I think you'll find such salaries for individual contributors are surprising everywhere except the Bay Area. Britain isn't special in this regard - this sort of story
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by repolfx 7y ago
I fully agree and I think you're making a much more nuanced argument now. I think HN's moderation has problems with certain topics that have mysteriously become high-voltage in certain social circles, like Damore/men's r
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't know, as you can tell I don't know much about explosives. But you wouldn't need to literally vaporise it, I guess, and I doubt it'd need a miniature nuke. In my defence, a quick search shows this story: https:&#
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by repolfx 7y ago
Maybe it's just slight conservatism. If all existing RTOS' have pre-emptible kernels and yours doesn't, perhaps you'd rather let the market decide you've built an RTOS rather than stating you have and risking an arg
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by repolfx 7y ago
It's a first principle - by definition it's unjustified logically. If it were to be justified, it wouldn't be a first principle, something else would! I'd think the merits of being alive would be unarguable but this is H
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by repolfx 7y ago
I didn't say it had to be explosive, but at any rate, you know anyone can buy fireworks right?
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I think the way it describes discussions here could be described as "dripping fear and contempt", slightly poetic though that wording is. Consider these quotes (I posted some above too): A recent comment thread ... yielded a resp
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A mature HN reader skilled in technology, is least likely to undergo an emotional/identity-driven flight of fancy about political issues pertaining to technology Heh, except for anything programming language related, what the best we
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by repolfx 7y ago
Well informed in what respect? Who should would be considered well informed? People who study politics professionally, so, journalists? I think the discussions here tend to be far more well informed than most political discussions, most o
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Thanks, that's super helpful.
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What sort of mistakes were easy to make?
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My understanding of seL4 is that the kernel never really needs to run a long operation because it does so very little. For instance filesystems would be a usermode process, along with nearly all drivers. Isn't that why the MCS stuff wo
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's why you don't hash it, you encrypt it. What they want to do here can be solved using something called channel binding. The problem is not that we can't do this securely, it's two separate but related problems: 1.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Is it possible to design a self-destruct sequence so powerful that the entire thing is fragmented to dust over a wide area?
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by repolfx 7y ago
The idea that words can control people's minds against their will is the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy stories, not reality. As observed in a reply, it's literally the Jedi Mind Trick. Where did you get the idea it's real?
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Very very few people sacrifice their own life for any kind of principle unless forced to. That's why those who do are often lionised! But anyway, do you have a better first principle? If you don't care about staying alive why get
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The number of firms that have started public, gone private, and then gone public again seems to indicate that private equity doesn't seem to be adding business value No? It seems like the opposite to me, surely. The company couldn&#x
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Yes, it can be done, but lots of people don't like that because it invariably concludes that some societies are better than others and the best ones are the western capitalist democracies. The most obvious first principle is that a bet
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So what happens when Germany gets a Chancellor that comes from a racial minority? We already know the answer: they will claim that attacks on them are racially motivated (regardless of the truth) and shut them down. Plenty of examples of th
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by repolfx 7y ago
So are you in favour of hunting down every copy of Mein Kampf and burning them? What about all the other things said by Hitler? What about Stalin? What about non-white supremacist manifestos? They do exist, you know. How much history would
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by repolfx 7y ago
The UK manufactures more stuff than ever before in its history. Do you realise that? The "decline" of British manufacturing is only a relative decline - other parts of the world grew their manufacturing base faster.
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That may well be the case, but May didn't have to ask for an extension to Article 50 or have a man as her Chancellor who was totally against no deal. She chose to do those things. And it was - to nobody's surprise - later revealed
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Sorry, I meant in politics/business leadership roles.
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The alternative view is that this is the first reasonable and moderate cabinet since the referendum. Consider that it's the first one which appears to be serious about actually doing what the government repeatedly said it would do, bot
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If that were true, the law would still privilege men. It doesn't - in most western countries it now radically privileges women, on the basis of gender. Men may be "dominant" numerically but the author of this blog post was
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No it isn't. Men's Rights Advocates are concerned with several very serious and very real topics: • Unequal treatment under law, especially in family and divorce law. • False accusations, especially of rape and the general unwilli

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