Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
Is it really law though, or just an option? Don't give your password and don't enter.
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by Hondor 10y ago
My comment was about things staying the way they were, not only immigration. China is unrecognizably different now because of growth. What if you didn't like high rise apartments spoiling your ocean view? Sorry, it's changed. What
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by Hondor 10y ago
Locals don't have to learn immigrants' languages. They also don't have to integrate with them. But they can. If you value integrating and sharing a language, then you personally should go to the trouble of doing that, not co
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by Hondor 10y ago
Is it migrants that refuse to learn the local language, or locals who refuse to learn the migrants' languages? I don't see that either group is in a position to demand what the other group learns or how they conduct their private
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by Hondor 10y ago
Stealing back your car can certainly cause problems if done privately by the owner. But here it's the product itself that already came with a bricking mechanism built in and activated it itself. The buyer trusted the seller not to prov
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by Hondor 10y ago
They company surely did lose something. Customers who wanted to buy their product ended up buying an illegal competitor's product instead. There might even be some customers who go back and buy a genuine phone now that they can't
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by Hondor 10y ago
If you bought a car that turned out to be stolen, you might wake up one day to find it's gone because the police recovered it for the owner. It's similar here - buyers looking for a bargain that might be illegal are part of the pr
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by Hondor 10y ago
> ... has access to your browsing history, your search history, your entire internet history ... That's a bit over the top. They'll only have access to data that you already knew lots of people have access to anyway. Not HTTPS
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by Hondor 10y ago
Perhaps if a bike is unused for a long time, or repeatedly gets returned immediately after borrowing it, they assume it's broken and pull it out for servicing. Not having docks, they wouldn't need to put the replacement bikes back
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by Hondor 10y ago
It does't matter how poor the poorest people are. They'll always be extremely poor. The important change is that their numbers are falling. If your job is to work with the poorest people, you won't see the ones who never beca
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by Hondor 10y ago
That's sort of backwards. Over the past 30 years, poverty has fallen massively, democracy has spread to more people, child mortality has fallen, literacy and education have risen [1], and rate of war deaths has fallen [2]. Maybe the di
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by Hondor 10y ago
There's not much to trust anyway. If you're using it for geoblocking, you probably don't care that some company knows you're watching some movie. HTTPS websites are still safe if the app isn't somehow hacking the br
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by Hondor 10y ago
It might not be because they're republicans. It might be because their constituents are the beneficiaries of the local coal industry. The politicians are just doing what their voters want. They're puppets of the people who live th
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's not forbidden, it just has a ~10% tariff (fine). $10 per MWh compared to the current price of $120 per MWh. If solar or wind ends up actually cheaper than coal, it'll probably be by more than that 10% so it'll still be e
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by Hondor 10y ago
Interestingly, instead of a random password, it was leet-speak for "Ford the epic honky".
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by Hondor 10y ago
This is actually a good example. The password clearly isn't protecting anything. It's a tutorial on how to make a password field! Nobody is going to put a valuable password in there.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Perhaps it's testable the Sherlock Holmes way of eliminating everything else and being stuck with that as the only answer you can think of. Not a very convincing test of course, but better than saying "we can't think of any p
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by Hondor 10y ago
I agree. Furthermore, now that people are accustomed to not dieing all the time, even with no new technology, we would probably tolerate more serious measures to maintain this safety. Even if it came to draconian quarantine and hygene laws,
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by Hondor 10y ago
News is made to scare people, so however frightening it sounds, it's probably not going to be that bad. There's probably no value in taking any action besides going to work as usual and providing value to society in the way you&#x
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by Hondor 10y ago
> If, just as a thought experiment, it was possible to treat a disease quickly with a cheap drug or intervention, for example a cheap herbal drug that is available patent-free and for mere cents per liter, there would be no business in i
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by Hondor 10y ago
The idea that rich people got rich because they screwed other people over is quite common but also a made up generalization. It's an excuse that people who worry about their own socioeconomic status make to feel better about themselves
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by Hondor 10y ago
That's what money is for. So you can buy things you want. To do that you also have to give away your money to the person who used to own those things, so they win too. The reason he got so much money is because he gave a lot of other p
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by Hondor 10y ago
Something I learnt from the Martin Shkreli drug price increase story is that if you're going to defend someone who's being abused, first see if they even exist. Even then, see if their culture and laws make this an actual horrible
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by Hondor 10y ago
Imagine back in 2000 if someone told you that in 2017 you would be able to pay 20 pounds for software that lets you upload photos to the internet (additional fees may apply) - and not only that, you can also crop and resize them and set a t
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by Hondor 10y ago
It's hard to believe that if it was really going to take over the world, it would have mattered at all how it was launched, what the initial design of it looked like, who got a meeting the "king of Singapore", etc. Those soun
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by Hondor 10y ago
Democratic governments exist to serve the people who vote for them. I'd say they have succeeded in increasing property values for property owners who voted for them. Every single house in SF is owned by someone, and that someone benefi
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by Hondor 10y ago
The half life of U-235 is hundreds of millions of years, and U-238 even longer. So it's not decaying fast enough to be dangerous.
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by Hondor 10y ago
How far could it float away? Any chance of crashing into South America?
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by Hondor 10y ago
> hopefully that is spent in the US, instead of hoarded for a princely return to India. Did you notice the anti-equality implications of what you said there? It's roughly equivalent to: "I hope that when poor people get rich,
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by Hondor 10y ago
More trivia - LOTR SGI machines went to the railway afterwards and were used by the engineers for making CAD models of wagons and things.

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