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by wildgift 13y ago
That seems very different. That's more like exciting, risky behavior mixed in with a deathwish.
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by wildgift 13y ago
They were or are called "Chameleon" lenses.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I think that immigrants face more barriers. Some of these startup folks, I think, probably faced some barriers into entering the elite societies in the US. For example, if you attend college at any of the top 20 colleges in the country, y
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by wildgift 13y ago
There is a lot of political support for "amnesty" or legalizing those who came over illegally. They want to give them citizenship eventually. As the reform law looms, and people really think hard about what it means to keep milli
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by wildgift 13y ago
I like how they picked Arianna Huffington as one of the immigrants. She came from well-to-do family, studied in England. By the 70s, she was already some kind of elite person in London, came over here, married a wealthy politician, became
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by wildgift 13y ago
That says very little. There are such a wide range of immigrants: young immigrants, older immigrants, poor immigrants, wealthy immigrants, undocumented immigrants, documented with a green card. If someone relatively wealthy immigrates her
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by wildgift 13y ago
That's funny. I was thinking of exactly the same thing. Another thing to do is limit how much email is kept, so old mail is automatically purged.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Here's an idea: public mail pools. The entire email message is encrypted and randomly routed to one of many addresses. Each customer downloads all the messages from all the addresses in the pool. You try to decrypt each message, and
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by wildgift 13y ago
What about 1) requiring STARTTLS, 2) encrypting incoming mail that isn't already encrypted, using the customer's public key. The message then cannot be decrypted by anyone but the customer. (The customer experience is that all t
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by wildgift 13y ago
I'm guessing that the government wants Lavabit's private keys. Maybe they already sniffed the traffic and now need keys to decrypt it. What do you all think?
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by wildgift 13y ago
This now gives an edge to all the big internet companies that offer messaging services that aren't based on email.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Gangs use graffiti to mark territory and presence. They don't necessarily steal it. The person writing it is designated to write it. Overall, they don't use much paint and probably don't care about paint quality. Artistic
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by wildgift 13y ago
The graffiti culture and gang culture are mostly separate and not related.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Because committing crimes is work. Given the choice, it's generally more lucrative for the average person to simply find work.
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by wildgift 13y ago
How can he even say 99.9%? To even invest in these IPOs you need to have not only savings, but have your insurance in order. There are millions without HEALTH INSURANCE, and many without auto insurance. They need subsidized house and fir
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by wildgift 13y ago
I just looked at the IRS site. The total of social security and medicare taxes paid is 15.3%. Half is paid by the employee as a deduction from their wages. Half is paid as payroll tax by the employer. The self employed pay the full 15.3
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by wildgift 13y ago
You have to tax not just income but wealth. And even if it'll work for only a short while, that's OK. It increases the amount of money available to regular people. Suppose that it turns out that there's no need to wage a w
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by wildgift 13y ago
Another way to get at the money is to raise taxes on the top 4%.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I don't think we know enough about schizophrenia or LSD to say they are the same thing. Most of the lsd-eaters I've talked with have talked about a visual effect called "tracers", but the handful of schizophrenics I&#x27
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by wildgift 13y ago
That's hyperbolic. If 100 people took LSD, some would be negatively affected, some would have life-changing experiences, and most would just experience some profundity and hallucinations. I think even for them it would be life-changi
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by wildgift 13y ago
Maybe it's not PRISM that's doing deep packet inspection.
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by wildgift 13y ago
wouldn't it be better to just say that there's a specific type of vulnerability, and then explain how long it has been? ultimately, it's up to customers and end users to decide if they can tolerate a security hole being open
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by wildgift 13y ago
I was going to say something like that, but less eloquently. I handle a small network, and deploy Windows and Office mainly because most people know it, easing the training burden on me. This isn't a software company here. If it were, obvi
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by wildgift 13y ago
If you were a school district, you could probably afford to hire a person, part time, to make sure the software worked.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I believe TAL is from Public Radio Intl. but you can also just donate to TAL. I slip them a little bit every couple years. You can also buy the app.
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by wildgift 13y ago
So raise the wages on those necessary jobs.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Could you clarify? What are basic skilled services?
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by wildgift 13y ago
Uhhhh. No kidding. It's cash that created the prosperity in the 1st world. It wasn't really wages but labor unions that could force wages to rise and conditions to ease up so that people had more free time that really did it. It rebalan
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by wildgift 13y ago
Creationism also has little place in church. Most denominations of Christianity reject the literal story of Genesis, and do accept evolution. They're just a little quiet about it because there are masses of people out there who do believe
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by wildgift 13y ago
What's with that headline. The real story seems to be that they are out of control of their environment. It's been heavily invaded by modern society, which is extracting natural resources. As people are harmed by modernity, they can't fi

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