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by stavrianos 11y ago
If you build a system that can rip off limbs, and then downmod the forces applied until it doesn't do that anymore, you can get realism and ratings both. Step 1 is optional.
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by stavrianos 11y ago
At the very least, there'd be a wave of unsolicited messages on android phones that don't auto-download attachments.
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by stavrianos 11y ago
This is consistent with it being a typo. Typo's just in the forum post now.
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by stavrianos 11y ago
Opposing personal experience - I've been scraping my bank data (scotia) for about a year now, haven't had any serious problems (there seems to be some kind of signin counter that thresholds and then forces secret questions to be r
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by stavrianos 11y ago
Is run-of-the-mill B&E a felony? What're the relative gravities?
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by stavrianos 11y ago
That fourth one is the killer. Regardless of its truth or falsehood, it gives everyone an out because none of the interesting consequences of the first three have to happen. Perhaps the proper move would have been to surveil the malware wit
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Which you may be deliberately manipulated into.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Or both.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
What evidence of browser fingerprinting would you expect to see?
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by stavrianos 12y ago
If nothing else, you can feed the cash into transactions that would otherwise not have been. All your groceries are now paid with bitcoin cash, and the difference can be applied to buying more bitcoins. There's a ceiling there, but unl
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Sure, the assertion is fallacious. Pointing that out doesn't actually change anything, though. You can't force intimacy (and sharing otherwise private/sensitive information can definitely qualify if you feel that way) where i
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by stavrianos 12y ago
I inferred a "for IBM" on the back of that sentence. Obviously, shitty for those laid off.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Is there any particular reason we haven't included the "incompetent, erroneously concluded that NK is not responsible, and is lying about it" quadrant? It's always nice to fill out the last box of the square.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Why do we need the screens? If window weight is a problem, why not just remove them and be done.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
See, my first thought about this was that it was an impulse control thing- people fail at saving money because somehow it always gets spent, and this solves that problem. Except, you're exactly right- the stuff that the money gets spen
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Did you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Abedini ? Because that's someone else.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
A simple upvote does not express my approval of this comment strongly enough.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
> More likely people don't tell as convincing lies when they're drunk. This is literally in the first sentence.
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Show HN: GhettoMint – simple, local financial tracker(github.com)
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by stavrianos 12y ago
My own anecdata suggests that while there may be a lot of back-and-forth, it's very free-form, rather than strictly codified and formalized. I assumed this was what was meant.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Instead of commit messages, commit line-annotations.
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by stavrianos 12y ago
Exactly this. If employers only have claim to ideas you have during work hours, you can claim to have thought to directly-work-related-idea-X outside that window (ie, in the shower), and therefore be justified in selling it to their competi
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by stavrianos 13y ago
I think there are differing expectations of privacy. I don't think there's anything strange or even untoward about employers tracking internet activity on their machines and their networks. It would not surprise me to be sacked fo
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by stavrianos 13y ago
That... sounds like it might actually work.
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by stavrianos 13y ago
Propaganda tricks work , though. It follows that in order to be an effective leaker, one must be more or less impervious to muck-raking. Which is neither fair nor sane, but strikes me as plausible.
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by stavrianos 13y ago
Monetary compensation for something like that is hard, though. There's no societal standard on the value of a person's day, and it opens the possibility of abuse on the other end (professional interview-taker). In practice, there
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by stavrianos 13y ago
It's a cultural battle. Subconscious mindshare is the name of the game. Whether people are or a can be convinced at a conscious level is more or less irrelevant- the impulses that go before rational thought are what count.
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by stavrianos 13y ago
Reading paragraphs 2 & 3, the I thought that it was stated explicitly, though it seems to be simply implied. He was looking through stacks of scans from serial killers and alzheimers patients and family members, and found one that was &
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by stavrianos 13y ago
Gotta point out, the whole cool thing about this is that he initially diagnosed himself using concrete patterns in brain scans. So, maybe the term "psychopath" is vague and handwavey, but there're real brain patterns which co
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by stavrianos 13y ago
Isn't the purpose of the law to shape society into what we collectively think it should be like? Under this reading, the mechanics of how you choose what to punish don't really matter, so long as the result is closer to what you w

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