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by feklar 10y ago
There was plenty of relevant info in those leaks, such as Obama's 2008 cabinet being chosen by a Citibank executive https://newrepublic.com/article/137798/important-wikileaks-r...
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by feklar 10y ago
My Filipino friends also all ran to the exchange today to stock up on low PHP since Trump presidency means no pressure on Duterte and rise of their peso.
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by feklar 10y ago
Also odd considering Trump spent the entire nomination campaign shilling his deal making abilities, and how he would lead by consensus instead of executive orders. I don't see how YC denying Peter Thiel is anything more than political
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by feklar 10y ago
As soon as you start getting x > Sepa transfers banks will drop you quickly, or sooner if anything goes wrong like a fraud xfer comes in, and you aren't a huge account worth the bank's trouble.
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by feklar 10y ago
Many shelters also have rules that nobody can adhere to like curfew hours or being forced to stand in line everyday to get a spot first come first served. Often you can't book more than one night at a time so you have to spend a signif
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by feklar 10y ago
For all these reasons: http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/case-for-ml.html Many school courses use ML/OCaml as well in their classes and as you do the course they explain why OCaml/ML is best suited for what&#x27
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by feklar 10y ago
This is what I first think of when a government makes up excuses to block a foreign service, they are just trying to promote their own local services like Baidu/Sina Weibo in China.
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by feklar 10y ago
They each have websites with their platform up in full. Most discussion you will find will be each side spinning the other side's platform or outright lying about it. Just read it yourself and decide
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by feklar 10y ago
An amnesty for cash repatriation is what Trump is currently shilling as part of his job creation platform since corps like Apple have billions overseas https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/tim-co
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by feklar 10y ago
Don't governments already do this by giving universities large research grants? http://research.fas.harvard.edu/funding-sources#federal We could triple the grants, but that money has to come from somewhere and every co
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by feklar 10y ago
Offtopic but there was another post here recommending that people do just that, be very visible and public so when the layoffs happen you aren't the person laid off even if you're just doing the same work as everybody else you app
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by feklar 10y ago
This also explained it well, predicting contracts would be full of problems http://vessenes.com/ethereum-contracts-are-going-to-be-candy...
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by feklar 10y ago
Which points were missed >campaign ties to the Kremlin http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-clinton-foundation-state-and... >speeches in Moscow that benefit the Kremlin https://www.quora.com/Who-paid-B
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by feklar 10y ago
Sabu disagrees, claims the methods and tools are widely shared on the same criminal forums http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/450298715/DNC-hack...
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by feklar 10y ago
The Putin/Trump friendship is largely invented by the media. For example when Putin supposedly called Trump 'brilliant' he used a Russian term that means 'bright colorful personality' not intelligent. Our media know
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by feklar 10y ago
Indeed just having one region legalize skyrockets trafficking. Prices also go down, so prostitution becomes less attractive to locals as a way to make money which means foreigners in poor countries have to be imported, which leads to traffi
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by feklar 10y ago
Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr are full of escort ads, so is 'fetlife' which is basically a prositution social media site for people in that scene. Then there's all the porn sites with escorts uploading videos of themselves l
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by feklar 10y ago
Police seem to only want to manage the war on drugs not defeat it, as was explained to me by a friend who's a cop and became totally disillusioned, just counting out his days until retirement. This means working with one criminal group
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by feklar 10y ago
There's a lot of existing document-oriented databases like RethinkDB such as MongoDB, CouchDB, RavenDB, ect and they all have the same network bandwidth problem for geo-replication http://acmsocc.github.io/2015/pos
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by feklar 10y ago
Mason Curry also wrote a book about artists and their schedules http://masoncurrey.com/
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by feklar 10y ago
Soldiers of fortune do go home afterwards and wait around for another job these days (unfortunately a short wait) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/14/south-africas-...
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by feklar 10y ago
Guccifer 2.0 could also just be who he claims to be, which is an ethnic Romanian hacker living in Moldova who launches attacks through Russian servers because he/she knows any kind of US state dept req for evidence from that server wil
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by feklar 10y ago
http://www.dcldc.org/ >The DCLDC will advance its important mission through pro bono attorney referrals to those who cannot afford legal services and the submission of amicus briefs on key issues.
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by feklar 10y ago
Who owns Open Whisper Systems? I know Twitter bought WhisperSys, and with it Textsecure and Redphone though unsure who currently owns Open WhisperSys and it's products Signal (I assume Twitter does). Twitter is also rumoured for sale w
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by feklar 10y ago
Paper conclusion says the cost of running Vuvuzela is pretty high per month, so you would need a benevolent millionaire to make it happen. As for signal what every prosecutor wants is metadata to show the court that user A was in communicat
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by feklar 10y ago
The same, by not saying anything to police who question you on the street it can be 'obstruction' if you don't ask for a lawyer first before being silent, unless you are arrested and your right to be silent is given to you. A
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by feklar 10y ago
First I would recommend Cal Newport's blog about using time wisely. http://calnewport.com/blog/2008/11/25/case-study-how-i-got-t... Plenty more great info in the archive: http://calnewpor
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by feklar 10y ago
You may be interested in this, it's a Jun 2016 paper on the current state of "NewSQL" and describes most of the dbms out there including NoSQL. http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2016/papers/pavlo
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by feklar 10y ago
Microsoft quote in this article advocating H-1Bs is interesting, as they spent $90M USD to open a research center in Canada in order to avoid H-1Bs. When asked why they didn't expand their Redmond base for the new research center and m
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by feklar 10y ago
They briefly allowed some industry people to look at a few of the documents, like Bruce Schneier who said he wished he could have had more time instead of being placed in front of a live OS with a few dozen pdfs the Guardian wanted him to r

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