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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Well, they don't need if they're willing to simply kill prisoners.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Well, to be fair, Russia does actually have to deal with them from time to time unlike the US who nearly never does.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
How many really odd deaths of people who had information the NSA wouldn't like getting out before we consider the possibility?
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
If you "know" that then you're wrong. Success isn't a guarantee even if you work hard. Ask Nikola Tesla.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
np, sorry I was too lazy to post any links but I think I gave enough info to find it on the internet.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
What a disgusting post. "Pay your dues just like I did". Just because you chose to be exploited with the hope that you'll some day get compensated for it doesn't mean the model is right. And your quip about where the
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Except there are plenty of places that expect 50+ hours/week and pay 20% less than market at least . Likewise, I'm sure there are jobs that pay market or better and get close to 40 hour weeks. The market doesn't work as eff
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I can never remember. I thought it was North Korea but lately I heard it was somewhere in Africa. I only know the US is one of two places and the other isn't part of the developed world so it's not the best company to be keeping
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>We know that people behave better when they're accountable for what they do and say, and worse when they're not. What you're saying here is that people conform to social norms better when they can be "held accountabl
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
So if I want to edit some open source project, I would be forced to dick around with vim if the person who made the project wrote it in that? Are you trying to go forwards or backwards?
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
And actually Sun approached Viacom to license Smalltalk at much less than what they were currently charging. Viacom wouldn't budge so Sun invested in "Oak" that they were already playing with in house.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I want a specific format to our proprietary systems. In C# I can just say "date.Format("dd.MM.YYYY")" or what ever I want.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
How do you know Wireshark isn't compromised? Further, MS does phone home all the time to check for updates and so on. If something extra was hidden in there would we know?
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Actually people in Europe do care and I would expect something to happen as a result. I don't expect MS to go out of business, but it wouldn't surprise me if they lost certain key projects over the next decade.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Keep in mind this was in Germany and it doesn't read like native English. I.e. you're almost certainly reading a translation.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Ok, I appreciate this information (and I'm trying to follow the discussion but I didn't see you talking of Ken's work). But I'm still curious; even though you can write the disassembler by hand, how can you be sure that
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
The FBI still uses the polygraph? I would hope the FBI would be looking for the kind of people that know a polygraph is near worthless.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
How does this deal with [1]? Also, how do you know that your disassembler isn't compromised? [1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/184874/is-ken...
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>Yeah, I know: it's not Javascript that's broken, it's the DOM. No, JavaScript itself is a ridiculous language. Every time I have to deal with it I grit my teeth. Right now I'm dealing with dates. Luckily JS has a
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>Either something is okay, in which case it's okay to do with a machine, or it's not Actually, if you follow someone around everywhere they go, even in public, unless they've famous and you're a paparazzi you're
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Why on earth do you live in France? It sounds like you don't believe in anything that makes France France. And health care is most definitely more expensive in Switzerland than France. It's privatized but there are strict regula
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>Because the more profit Google and Amazon make, the more value they produce for society as in more work, better technology, better life etc. Yea, because trickle down economics works fantastic: http://www.nytimes.com/200
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
The problem is that Hollande is very left wing, yet France already had one of the best income equality ratios in the western world. It might have been better if France got someone very conservative like Obama and the US got someone from the
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
You're correct. If you're married and file joint I think that number is $130k. So if a dual income family makes $180 that means paying tax, a portion of which was made by someone who isn't and was never American. Even the M
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>So if the foreign country has a higher tax rate, you will never pay US tax. If I live and work completely in a foreign country why would I ever pay US income tax under any circumstances at all? The US is one of two countries on this
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Right back at you: a lot of smart people have realized what you propose is not very likely. What are the changes that they are all wrong? What are the chances it is just you who is wrong?
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
They want to be called agent, but "pimp" or "head hunter" is closer to what they do. The parallel with a Hollywood/sports agent doesn't really exist, and to be fair we wouldn't realistically want to pay e
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Wait a minute. When you said $800/day I assumed you must be talking contracting [1]. Freelancing would be more like $300/HOUR, not $800/day. That would be an utterly insane rate for consulting. [1] Consulting would be more
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Various groups may have decided that, and may even be right in some cases but there are plenty of valid reasons to bring up the Nazis for base line comparisons.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
No one is locking them out of protesting in general. Just our protest.

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