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by ta76567656 8y ago
I rather enjoy never having gotten smallpox or polio.
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by ta76567656 9y ago
There are very many people to whom it is not obvious that this only means electricity. Probably more than half the people that will see this headline, whether on HN or elsewhere. Think of all the environmental activists with no physics ba
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by ta76567656 9y ago
tresorit requires typing your password into a webpage to update account info (including your payment method, so its unavoidable) its encrypted in javascript, but some security experts frown on javascript crypto: https://www.nccgr
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by ta76567656 9y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/07/truth-...
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by ta76567656 9y ago
Not really, the only thing you can't do with a green card is vote and citizenship is automatic (modulo paperwork) after five years. That, and you can get deported for a serious crime. But the status is naturally time limited. The sec
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by ta76567656 9y ago
1. Enron? WorldCom? The entire real estate bubble collapse that blindsided the country, including the SEC and other regulators? 2. Madoff was caught because his scheme fell apart, not due to any SEC or other government action.
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by ta76567656 9y ago
What about Madoff though? In 1999, financial analyst Harry Markopolos had informed the SEC that he believed it was legally and mathematically impossible to achieve the gains Madoff claimed to deliver. According to Markopolos, it took him f
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by ta76567656 9y ago
But it turns out that we don't really care I care - it's annoying to have to check whether there's a typo in te URL every time I want to trust a website using SSL.
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by ta76567656 9y ago
What do you mean randoms without regard to skills or means? You need either a family based justification (spouse or parent, mainly) or labor certification to apply for a green card. It's not a government defined point system, but an em
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by ta76567656 9y ago
I really wish someone would make a normal-size keyboard with all those extra modifier keys. Yes! The closest I've been able to find is the Razer Anansi, though I'm still not completely satisfied with the layout and I don't
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by ta76567656 9y ago
When I first heard that Beethoven part you're referring to, I literally got up to check what CD I had in the player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCgwYl-W4ts&t=14m22s
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by ta76567656 9y ago
I disagree, unless RedHat certified that the software they're selling is of safety-critical quality. If the oil pipeline company used, let's say, nuts and bolts that didn't meet safety requirements without checking that the
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by ta76567656 9y ago
Not all GUIDs are random, and not all random GUIDs are cryptographically random: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
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by ta76567656 9y ago
Or to classical organists, one of the few classical specialties that has preserved improvisation as a major part of their skillset. (In the times that classical music was composed, musicians were encouraged/expected to be able to impr
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by ta76567656 9y ago
That's what the phrase "scare quotes" means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
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by ta76567656 9y ago
Can't remember the article, but I'm paraphrasing http://thelastpsychiatrist.com
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by ta76567656 9y ago
Stealing from my favorite retired blogger: "I can make you sad forever just by whispering a few words into your ear." The brain may be "just chemicals" but it's an incredibly complex system of them, to the point whe