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by zdkl 9y ago
No judgement, I've been in the same place. What you describe sounds like the consequence of installing a lot of packages. Arch "prefers" when you strip it down to what you need , if only because that way you don't need
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by zdkl 9y ago
Yeah but that's the point of Arch: teaching new blood to RTFM when it's patchday. You can trivially fubar an arch install by updating your base install+user additions if you're not in the loop with the releases of whatever yo
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by zdkl 9y ago
Really? First time I hear of it being subpar. Fwiw, I've never had an issue with yaourt that wasn't pebkac
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by zdkl 9y ago
In my opinion, the selling point is that arch requires you to take interest into how it works and some level of understanding of the major parts. To get a working arch install you'll be taken through The Install Guide that summarises
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by zdkl 9y ago
I'm slowly shifting from your opinion to a general distrust of user configured browsers for providing a UI to "sensitive"(authed, billing) APIs.
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by zdkl 9y ago
Your (2) opens a networked game to malicious clients manipulating the AI inputs. I'd suggest digging through old EVE:online devblogs and presentations. They describe server architecture and design points, as well as the process of tuni
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by zdkl 9y ago
Feels like everyone, my original parent commenter for instance
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by zdkl 9y ago
I don't get why there's so much hate on the speculators. They're the (only) reason early adopters earned a reward for their risk. Plus it's not like you have to play their game: if you think there's a bubble just ca
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by zdkl 9y ago
You mean by the private contractors they hire.
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by zdkl 9y ago
The CIA has been known to tamper with electronics, so between that and pre-backdoored hardware (IME) it's fairly likely that a determined opponent has one or more means to passively wait for a payload in a hard to detect manner. From t
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by zdkl 9y ago
That's the beauty of such methods. Anytime an avenue for compromise seems "noisy", I'd be willing to bet someone smart organised and well funded has investigated using it for hi-value penetration.
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by zdkl 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Got any links/further reading related to this mess?
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by zdkl 9y ago
True but for this argument, I'd say the specific location of the backdoor isn't the relevant part.
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by zdkl 9y ago
Nitpick to your nitpick: Real tinfoilers have been warning about this since the 80's
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by zdkl 9y ago
And then the intel ME debacle became widely known and, as usual, the tinfoil hatted among us got to say "told you"
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by zdkl 9y ago
Yeah litecoin doesn't get mentionned nearly enough but this sort of thing is it's raison d'être! Btc has grown to fill the large tx space but there are trustworthy coins designed for smaller, cheaper interpersonal txs. Don&#x
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by zdkl 9y ago
-iene suffix denotes the presence of a particular kind of electronic bond within the molecule, with different properties to typical electron bonds.
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by zdkl 9y ago
You're technically correct, but I fail to see how being exposed to the fluctuations on a fraction of disposable income is a bad thing.
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by zdkl 9y ago
Honestly exchanges are a shit show. There used to be a small scene where people traded directly via forums/voice comms but like all good things that's over because of bad actors. The main issue IMO isn't settlement speed but
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by zdkl 9y ago
Ah the equally frustrating corollary to "works on my machine"
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by zdkl 9y ago
Local jury of peers, taking into account community needs and individual factors? Like if we want to go full hippy and consider the global situation on this, the reasonable argument here is that children are owed f-all after education and in
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by zdkl 9y ago
We have extremely influential labor unions, the public sector is a leading job provider (even a majority employer in some areas), healthcare and a lot of infrastructure is nationalised, huge welfare programs, free public education for all..
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by zdkl 9y ago
What value do facebook developers create directly? They have crafted a network of complementary services for which I don't deny their craftsmanship, but would you argue the developers are the core business instead of the interaction be
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by zdkl 9y ago
> At least 90% of the value created by Google, Facebook and Apple was created in California. I'm trying not to be snarky but I need to say wtf. FB & google don't make money from IP, they make money as service providers, con
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by zdkl 9y ago
you must've picked the worst possible example. You built an empire and you deserve recognition for that achievement, but what precisely did your child achieve? Did you earn the right to determine ex nihilo who should benefit from you
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by zdkl 9y ago
I'm sure the maths work out at an individual level, but have you considered the effect on pricing being a debit-first society would have? Most merchants/payment processors include a premium for handling the edge cases that arise f
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by zdkl 9y ago
Yes that argument makes sense for rational actors, but I believe some privte organisations are simply too well adapted to the sane model for it to be effectively usable to mitigate their bad actions. I'd argue corporations specifically
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by zdkl 9y ago
No, the intent of the law is absolutely unmistakeable especially in tax-related domains. Bad-faith actors don't deserve the statutory crevices through which they divert their accounting. Fix the moral compass of their boards and office
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by zdkl 9y ago
Keep in mind we're the last effectively communist country in the world, I'm not surprised in the least to see corporate taxes up there with the "banana republics" gp was talking about. "Social" money has to com
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by zdkl 9y ago
Rejoice is indeed a bit strong, but definitely at least Schadenfreude for the foot-bullet aimed at their trust & reputation centered industries.

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