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by woodman 8y ago
> In fact when I went looking just now I found a bunch of listicles about retail startups that failed. Their contribution to losses in the dotcom bubble were measured in the millions. Telecom, last mile service providers and B2B losses
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by woodman 8y ago
> But I can't wrap my head around what "diversity of thought" means, in any meaningful way. For that to be true, you'd have to be unaware of the fact that people can process data and reason through complex problems di
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by woodman 8y ago
First: the dotcom bubble burst five years after it began, and the technological advancements didn't see "mass adoption" - because they were not consumer facing. I get the feeling that you're thinking that pets.com was t
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by woodman 8y ago
> As the years have passed, I'm a bit less sure about the motivations however. If you've got evidence, or even a coherent rationale, that would cast doubt on his motives - I'd love to hear it. No, fleeing to the only coun
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by woodman 8y ago
> Isn't he residing in Russia now? The only country that has demonstrated the ability to resist pressure to extradite people wanted by the US? Yes. > ...could his knowledge of our systems and processes somehow have helped Russia
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by woodman 8y ago
Ha, I haven't thought about Binney in a while. Well he certainly focused on the issue of the surveillance apparatus failing to perform a useful function to US citizens, unfortunately Binney's narrative had relatively few datapoin
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by woodman 8y ago
Most of the people I served with share my conviction. It likely has less to do with geography and more to do with experience and culture. I fought in Fallujah as a Marine infantry machinegunner, and did a bunch of S2 work as well. You kn
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by woodman 8y ago
> ...and the service members of our military also fight for your right to do so as well, while keeping classified info private. Combat vet reporting in: you have my permission to view the rest of the Snowden documents. While secrecy doe
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by woodman 8y ago
> ...they thought it untraceable back when it first came out I'm guessing you haven't read the white paper where this was directly addressed - by the creator. Page 6 of a 9 page document: https://bitcoin.org/bi
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by woodman 8y ago
Ground stations and aerostats.
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by woodman 8y ago
> I've seen live demonstrations in the mid 1980s (as in, a system protecting borders), and I bet the state of the art has advanced since then. Yup, long stare SAR hooked up to a DVR was a thing over 10 years ago - it could cover a l
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by woodman 9y ago
It really doesn't matter, because the rationale you provided was essentially: it is wrong because I don't like it. To keep with your utilitarian line of thinking, a position against cannibalism based on disease transmission would
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by woodman 9y ago
If IQ measured the depth of emotional understanding, then yes. You don't have to like it, just find another reason to argue against eating people - there are plenty.
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by woodman 9y ago
Such a move would instantly make bitcoin worthless - it would be more profitable for the attackers to put the computing power to mining. The only kind of party that would pose such a risk would not be interested in direct profitability: st
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by woodman 9y ago
To mend hairs, literacy isn't the point - it is the fact that those who can't read (or name a policy) are ruled by those who can... they are disenfranchised. So let us shortcut all the bolt on solutions for ensuring a 100% inform
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by woodman 9y ago
Lol, this is so incredible. You've essentially suggested the reintroduction of a voter literacy test... now consider the context of that suggestion.
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by woodman 9y ago
> Nitpick: The children would have to move very quickly to get there during the time of flight of the shell (a few seconds). Double nitpick: 155mm artillery rarely has a time of flight of a "few seconds" - as they usually call
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by woodman 9y ago
Having been in the military when DADT was the rule of the day, I can tell you that it was applied a little differently than your characterization. Yes, locker room talk happened among the junior enlisted (E1-E3), yes the straight guys coul
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by woodman 9y ago
Her complaints about the office politics make up the bulk of the text - I experienced much the same as a man. Her complaints about woman specific issues, like accidentally having an affair or being upset about not being able to take off 4
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by woodman 9y ago
> ...diversify your political isn't silly at all. It is, as most political differences are rooted in mutually exclusive ideas. If you are advocating for simply being open to considering alternative positions and measuring them agai
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by woodman 9y ago
> ... initially drawn to btc as a speculative vehicle? Or is it a matter of principle to hold forever? I got involved with btc when it was in the single digits, the crowd was very different then - cryptoanarchists. So your call to &quot
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by woodman 9y ago
> Which Snowden leak showed that the NSA was being used to aid piracy investigations? I'm not aware of any assistance rendered to piracy investigations, but there is ample evidence of them sharing intel for the purpose of domestic l
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by woodman 9y ago
That sounds like a solution looking for a problem. Anybody who was sprayed, even after they washed the orange crap off their face, is given away by the bloodshot eyes/red face/running nose and pungent smell. Also, I wonder how e
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by woodman 9y ago
I've never seen a leaded telescoping baton, but you might want to reconsider the fixation on weight - because strike damage depends a lot more on the angle and targeted zone. If the cops are getting anything like the military in train
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by woodman 9y ago
When is the last time you saw something like that carried around that wasn't a rerun of "Cops" recorded in '89? Today you see telescoping steel tubes that certainly couldn't break down a door and could only break b
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by woodman 9y ago
No kidding, this is exactly what pepperspray was invented for. Before I was even allowed to touch the stuff in the military I had to read a short history of it and a load of technical facts, oh and then get sprayed in the face before runni
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by woodman 9y ago
You've misunderstood my point, which is that distant iris data collection from non-cooperative subjects is so easy now that vendors are selling solutions pretty cheaply. So using it for security, without additional checks in place, is
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by woodman 9y ago
> ...if someone takes an IR high resolution, close photo of your iris they can defeat your security... There are commercial security products that regularly perform "IR high resolution" iris scans from several meters away and r
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by woodman 10y ago
Source? By all accounts, at the time, he didn't have the data at that point. I hope you can do better than "He is a liar!", because given what he did and why he did it - the benefit of the doubt is deserved. http:/&#x2
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by woodman 10y ago
Isn't there a lot of work that goes into post processing the data? It wouldn't matter if you just want an awesome background image, but using the data for some kind of actual work... there is a lot of calibration to be done. I w

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