eriksank

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by eriksank 13y ago
You have made a devastating OPSEC mistake. You have disclosed that you have around 6 months left of money. You have probably also stored it in just one bank account. If some weird transactions end up siphoning off your balance, you will h
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by eriksank 13y ago
Everybody with enough financial net worth to make sure he does not just die but will be died . Strange transactions on your accounts, my friend. The balance is almost gone. Is that why you have had an accident?
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by eriksank 13y ago
Because they need to get hold of all information possible. They must know where you live. They must know what your net worth is. They must know in what bank and other accounts you are holding this net worth. They must know what other freela
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by eriksank 13y ago
There is simply too much money to be made in knowing where someone lives and in what bank accounts, 401k, and IRA accounts his net worth is stored. This person will not just die, my friend. This person will be died.
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by eriksank 13y ago
That is how they end up stealing your bitcoins too. All of these QUANTUM INSERT computers have now been targeted at getting hold of your wallet keys. Your money will be gone. Staying in the banking system will not help either. The sum of th
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by eriksank 13y ago
Anybody supplying contractors to the NSA. From the central banking database you know how much money they have in what bank account. From Facebook you know if they could be dead by now. The sum of all monetary holdings of any of these target
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by eriksank 13y ago
Since they know who you are, and since the central banking database knows how much money you have in what bank accounts, and since they know who your friends are, it is no problem to demographically calculate that you could reasonably get a
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by eriksank 13y ago
These rules look like they came from the low-intelligence paper belt. We do not write rules like that. They must simply be part of the tool. Otherwise, they do not count. What they now did, was to create an opportunity for someone who knows
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by eriksank 13y ago
In many ways, and definitely in more ways than one, India is a fantastic resource, with their talent and tremendous headcount. India is definitely not a "pirate" state. I believe to have read that the Indian Navy is even involved
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by eriksank 13y ago
India would have the talent and the headcount to be anything it wanted to be, if it were not for the one missing ingredient: the ability to leave people's freedom alone. Many of factories in China would now be in India. Larry Page is i
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by eriksank 13y ago
Balaji Srinivasan makes a lot of sense. The paper belt used to run the show. They are now losing that power and trying to claw it back with yet more paperwork. I am entirely favourable to the idea of curtailing, thwarting, and thoroughly un
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by eriksank 13y ago
Ok. So, they've managed to "save" that dinosaur from an instant death, delaying the inevitable to a next, future round of corporate heroics. What about all the smaller companies that had to dump their staff on the streets and
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by eriksank 13y ago
If you move from Stripe to another payment gateway, you will not lose all your users. Microsoft has monopoly access control to the other users, who are needed to make your skype extension useful to the user using your extension. That is why
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by eriksank 13y ago
... and then the journalist tries to find the "word count" feature which they need because most journalists have precise word count requirements, and it's not there, because it's in the "80% that nobody uses ... The
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by eriksank 13y ago
Before destroying jobs that people -- such as the cleaning lady -- may need to feed their families, can you try to back up your accusations with something more than racial remarks?
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by eriksank 13y ago
And start using ... ?
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by eriksank 13y ago
In my impression, the solution would be to create a marketplace website, in which employers and recruiters register/join, and which will automatically enforce the rules desired. From there, you can insist that all recruitment communica
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by eriksank 13y ago
"the rule of law, democracy, and free trade" All corruption begins with the corruption of language. The rule of law? The rule of whose law? Democracy? Does that mean the right to vote for politicians who will continuously invent n
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by eriksank 13y ago
"Liberals tend to believe that other countries cooperate with the United States because American ideals are attractive." In the ongoing debate between politically-controlled versus theocratically-controlled law, the majority of th
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by eriksank 13y ago
I have to object to the negative depiction of "theocratic country". The Law is essentially a list of forbidden behaviours, with optionally sanctions for engaging in them anyway. The idea that the only one who is allowed to extend
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by eriksank 13y ago
A statement about facts belongs to the natural sciences. A statement about numbers (or dually: sets) belongs to math. A statement about statements, belongs to philosophy. Since the scientific method requires testability against facts, while
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by eriksank 13y ago
In my opinion, if the set of beliefs is orthogonal and irrefutable, it is a set of axioms. Orthogonal: It is not possible to derive one belief from another or a combination of other beliefs. Irrefutable: Counterexamples have not been found
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by eriksank 13y ago
In my impression, all valuable contributions made by an engineer can be expressed by a set of commits to a set of files. I do not believe for a second that contributions that cannot expressed in that way would actually be valuable. Can you
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by eriksank 13y ago
If someone cannot write it, he will want to say it, and if he cannot even say it, he will want to come over to gesticulate.
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by eriksank 13y ago
Your boss may not understand what exactly you do, but he can surely see you come in, sit at your desk, and see you leave at the end of the day. How is someone who cannot program his way out of a paper bag otherwise going to manage things?
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by eriksank 13y ago
Libertarians and religious people come to the same conclusion by entirely different routes: Calling people to obedience to any other laws than the ones of the Creator, the original lawmaker, amounts to pronouncing a blasphemous heresy. Anyb
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by eriksank 13y ago
Jim Bell's theorem clearly demonstrates that the politicians have lost the monopoly on the use of force. At the same time, the politicians have never had any real or valid claim to legitimacy. Libertarians reject government claims to l
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by eriksank 13y ago
The currency of the Roman empire got debased (silver content of coins) until it became worthless. The combination of raising the debt ceiling and the practice of quantitative easing do exactly the same today. Eventually, even the imperial R
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by eriksank 13y ago
The existing, politically-controlled system of finance and corporations has numerous and powerful enemies, hellbent on bringing it down, in whatever way possible. Furthermore, even without enemies, it is patently clear that the fiat money s
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by eriksank 13y ago
There is no moral value whatsoever in playing by politically-controlled rules. To libertarians your statement sounds very anti-libertarian and to religious people, your statement sounds like a blasphemous heresy.

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