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by carboncopy 10y ago
Having failed multiple interviews with Google and other companies mentioned in this post, it really drives home the huge difference between Haseeb's work ethic and mine. If I had put forth 10% of the effort he has expended this year t
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by carboncopy 10y ago
They're both representative forms of government with adversarial systems of law. Though CaptainZapp's reply was low-signal, snarky, and redundant with her/his down vote, it did inspire me to learn more about German law. It ap
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by carboncopy 10y ago
Given that the entities suppressing that freedom are powerful minorities, I think the statement still holds. "Everyone" is a colloquialism meaning "most reasonable people" in this case.
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by carboncopy 10y ago
That is absurd; prosecutions decline to pursue cases all the time. Look at the enormous change in U.S. police prosecutions in the last couple of years due to public pressure. I seriously doubt the amount of misconduct drastically increased
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by carboncopy 10y ago
I think it's good to discuss HN social norms when it's appropriate. Your comment added to the discussion.
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by carboncopy 10y ago
To be fair to Le Roux, he switched to the methamphetamine/cocaine trade after his holdings in Hong Kong were seized. It's possible I misinterpreted the article, but it appeared to me that he was trying to recover his previous wea
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by carboncopy 10y ago
There is logic but is certainly not uniformly applied!
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by carboncopy 10y ago
Do towers record past telemetry data? Assuming they do, the granularity of knowing that a particular tower handled a phone ping is comparatively useless. A guessed location (stored on the iPhone) based off of cell tower triangulation and
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by carboncopy 10y ago
That's incredibly expensive to build.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
I don't agree with whoever downvoted your post; it contributes to the discussion. > The NSA itself knows very well that if the gizmos they provide aren't usable What isn't usable about a desktop computer? According to the
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by carboncopy 11y ago
If you re-read that portion of the article, the State Department rep used that phrase to paraphrase the NSA's response. That was not the actual response; nobody who wants to keep their job communicates inter-agency like that.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
The Secretary of State has a full-featured security detail [1]. While on foreign missions, this includes a motorcade with armored vehicles (flown in by DSS beforehand), surveillance teams, and security augmentees from U.S. Embassies nearby
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Instead of linking, could you just say what you intend to say?
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Could you flesh your idea a bit more? I don't relish digging through that meandering blog post from a random author.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
No, I read it right. It's American public debt they hold. They don't have 1 trillion dollars in cash sitting in a vault. They are holding U.S. Treasury bonds. And again, I don't understand why having 1 trillion dollars in
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Those are strange metrics of success you chose: number of cars produced annually, amount of public debt held. I'd have gone with GDP, military strength, set of advantageous alliances, or some other measure of economic, military, or pol
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Since the prevalent opinion on HN appears to be against contracts of adhesion, a request for sources is an expected request when presenting the minority opinion. Rejecting the offered source with a "tl;dr" complaint is an invalid
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by carboncopy 11y ago
> We already covered this in the link above: the 5th Amendment covers passcodes, not fingerprints. No, it is you who is not understanding schrodinger's assertion. The secret knowledge of which finger unlocks it is in itself a passc
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by carboncopy 11y ago
The overlap between punch cards and other formats was decades. "During the 1960s, the punched card was gradually replaced as the primary means for data storage by magnetic tape, as better, more capable computers became available. ... [
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by carboncopy 11y ago
What are these "weird formats" that keep getting referenced here? LZH? ARC? PKZIP? WordPerfect? Filesystems formatted in FAT16? All of these formats are still very much readable. Some formats that are no longer usable in genera
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Agreed. The current system is controversial because there is a dichotomy between what entrenched residents and newcomers pay to that government. I assert it's a problem with a non-trivial solution.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
If you use profit/#employees, then you're double-counting. The employees' salaries are already taken out of profit. That's why it's not fully disingenuous to consider revenue instead. $500k of profit generated per
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by carboncopy 11y ago
This will have to be ratified by the Senate, DoC will not be in charge of policing this. This agreement was made at the request of senators. Under the U.S. Constitution, all foreign treaties must be ratified by the Senate. This will carry
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by carboncopy 11y ago
You have a significant misunderstanding of the mechanics of this treaty, FISA, and EO12333. This treaty: it must be ratified by Congress in order for it to be considered accepted by the EC. Under the U.S. Constitution, this means it would
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by carboncopy 11y ago
This is precisely what happened; CISA was an afterthought in his letter to Time . The crux of his argument is that he wanted to reduce the size of government by 15%. http://time.com/4154635/rand-paul-paul-ryan-omnibus
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by carboncopy 11y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks for responding.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Indeed, though your map is even lower resolution than the previous one. I can agree that neither map tells the whole story, and the GP's premise is strained at best.
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by carboncopy 11y ago
I suppose "Residents of LA, MN, NH, and NY must use alternate forms of ID to fly."?
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by carboncopy 11y ago
Most states? It's 4. The original proposal of a pan-North-American shared database and other genuinely suboptimal ideas were scrapped in the revision a decade ago. You're probably thinking of this original iteration when you des
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by carboncopy 11y ago
In the above map, those areas are not marked with the "unequal" color, can you share your source as a counterpoint? Edit: the arstechnica article states DC is the most unequal place in the U.S. It appears there is a disparity bet

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