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by straight_talk 13y ago
Totalitarian states (e.g. USSR, East Germany, North Korea) are extremely effective at dealing with small crime. Growing in a small town in East Germany we didn't have a key for our house small door. There were literally zero people to
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Yeap. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The Singapore elite already has enormous, ever increasing power. Everything is done to destroy all opposition. You must be very naive to think that once a small group achieves a c
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Did North Korea ever had legal slavery, massacred it's indigenous population or used weapons of mass destruction on foreign cities?
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Why exactly do you feel obliged to defend those wanna-be tyrants?
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by straight_talk 13y ago
By doing business in Singapore you're funding this very evil regime.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
For 99.999% of the US population the totalitarian monitoring won't have any direct consequences in the near future. The real problem IMHO is that it makes impossible to create any kind of opposition to the current political-financial-m
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Democracy, liberty, privacy need at least a few percent of the population to invest a substantial amount of effort. If those few percent are missing the totalitarian state is unavoidable.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
And the same way as individual freedoms and democracy ...
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Keep dreaming ...
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by straight_talk 13y ago
You can't do anything. The complete system is corrupted to the bone. If you are a successful company someday somebody with very deep pockets or a huge bank credit will show and buy you up. A few days later the encryption will start to disap
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by straight_talk 13y ago
It obviously stands for global fascist totalitarian government.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
US politicians are not cheap at all, those sums are just the tip of the iceberg ...
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Maximum damage to the environment in case of a disaster for a 1MW reactor with a lot of waste fuel stored on the site is rendering the Northern Hemisphere (where almost all such reactors are) inhabitable.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Yeah, for a few million years. What a great excuse ...
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Really? Tell that to the tens of thousand of USSR 18-20 yo soldiers, that were called biorobots during the cleanup. 100% of them either died or ended with very serious cases of cancer and kids with malformation. IMHO one has to be literally
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by straight_talk 14y ago
A friend of mine is running an ASP.NET MVC/Mono/MongoDB ecommerce site on micro with around a quarter million of annual sales. The site is very very fast.
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by straight_talk 14y ago
Really? The developers I know in London earn 500 to 650 pounds per day, which after corporate tax and say 3 weeks of vacation is still at least $140K per year.
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by straight_talk 14y ago
Make an estimate when you start a task. If it takes you 10x the time you probably are.
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by straight_talk 14y ago
Yeah, I've worked with quite a few ppl like this. Usually they are very smart, read programming books, blogs HN, etc. and interview very well. The problem seems to be motivation, as the author pointed they face a problem and don't have the