QAPereo

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by QAPereo 9y ago
Yes we see this comment rehashed on every crypto thread on HN, why? Because it still bears saying, especially given how many people are just looking for greater fools to hold their bag. Inevitably the replies include a barrage of whatabou
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Launch of the “Korea Computer Center”: An E-library of North Korean Software(38north.org)
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VTech strikes again(pentestpartners.com)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
why would I need evidence? Dang isn’t contesting the point, just the terminology. dang 1 hour ago [-] Apart from the cloak-and-dagger tone, this either says something obvious—that HN is moderated—or says nothing.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
You turned off flags, but now you’re doing something else yourself. You’re being honest, but not really telling the whole story. Your thumb is very much on the scale however, where existing community sentiment doesn’t do the job. Edit: I di
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by QAPereo 9y ago
From what I’ve observed, the idea is to work in hell (edit: obviously hyperbole) until enough money is made to work on your own. Needless to say that doesn’t seem to be the majority experience. The carrot is money and security and the dream
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I wonder if he had some kind of political connections that could have helped?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Some people probably can, but then in addition to being intelligent he’d have to be an incredibly talented and disciplined actor. Unlikely.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I had the same issue, and essentially developed a lingo to speak to those kinds of people. More contractions, dropped g’s, “fucking” used as an adjective. It’s been a couple of decades, and every time I switch to that, I feel like an utter
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Squandered talent, exceptional investment, buzzword, buzzword, partial-buzzword, connections. It’s a great place to be young and wealthy, with minimal affect and empathy.
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Building half a ‘Proxmark’ for $10(pentestpartners.com)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Fair point, I took your “one man alone” comment to mean something it didn’t necessarily imply. I’m sorry for any offense I’ve caused with that unwarranted assumption.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It takes far more energy to make new glass than to clean and reuse old glass. Even melting existing glass is valuable, as it lowers the melting point of the raw materials and therefore energy expenditure. Until glass manufacture uses solar
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Glass can only be recycled so many times and then it is worthless as you say. Value depends on the quality, color, and clarity of the glass. Given that cullet is necessary to make new glass, there is always a market for it. Best of all thou
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Individuals don’t really matter in the calculus of billions of people. The dominant trends are frankly old, and persistent.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
And glass. And steel. And precious metals. As for an honest society, do you have some historical reference point, or are you just aiming for utopia?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
It’s a feature, in the same way that the decentralized nature of white collar crime is a feature. The bug is in the people who naively believe that technology changes human nature, rather than empowering it. Those people need to be locked i
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by QAPereo 9y ago
This was recently on the front page, can’t find the link sorry.
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Magic Leap – How Rigged Was the Rolling Stone Demo?(kguttag.com)
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I wouldn’t sell NBC weapons short... at least not the B and N parts. Nukes are dangerous in the hands of nations, but my god you just wait until every asshole with a laptop and $10,000 worth of equipment can customize their own plague. We’r
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I doubt that they still believe that, as much as they are highly incentivized to claim that. Bitcoin is a disasterous enterprise as it continues to scale poorly. But hey, some people get rich (for a while) and others get to have a waking id
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by QAPereo 9y ago
What you can do as one man is precisely nothing, except to make yourself feel a bit better. Caring in the absence of organizing and acting, is that really caring? At the very least our priorities are made clear by our actions and not our at
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Care about budgets, and cut the waste such as losing wars and corrupt, broken nonsense like the F-35. Care about price controls in the health sector, and care about investing in infrastructure.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Frozen cubes? Never heard of them, but I can imagine how freshly frozen might be useful. Thanks for the good ideas! I’m going to make some myself and see how long they stay fresh... months I’d guess.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
People do not commit crimes expecting to be caught. If the death penalty is not a deterrent, how could you expect anything less to be?
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Yeah, but we’re not talking about total budget, not even the total military budget; that’s $7 trilllion just on two losing wars. You need to lose another decimal place, and remember that you also print your own money and can levy taxes.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
I think you’re taking my acknowledgement of reality to be an endorsement of it. You can’t hope to change anything if you’re living in a fantasy. The reality is that the government of “this here nation” can roll over you like you never exist
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Think of it this way... we’re going to end up spending about $7 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan having accomplished essentially nothing good. $64billion is a rounding error for our government.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
Do you at least acknowledge the reality of how laughable your “natural right” to resist would look against even a minute fraction of the state’s power?
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Compiled Stats for the Top JavaScript Projects of 2017(medium.freecodecamp.org)
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