hannibal5

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by hannibal5 13y ago
Precisely my point. This is localized catastrophe. For us, it has less effect than car accident happening to our neighbor. Because the people who died were poor, this accident adds net positive emotional entertainment value to the life of t
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by hannibal5 13y ago
To put things into context. 1.3 million people die and 50 million people are injured in car accidents every year. Nature disasters are just side show in human life at this point.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Apple has more subtle canary. Yours is totally obvious. The court will consider intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary and has no other function, the case is clear. Your canary ha
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by hannibal5 13y ago
The court will take into account intention. If it can be shown that the wording was intentionally selected to work as warrant canary, it can be seen as violation of gag order.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
1. You don't get it integrated with your applications like browser, email software, text editor or spreadsheet by default. This leads to network effect in reverse. if you are only person to use it within your circles, signing and enc
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Mikko is on fire :)
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Sweden has acquired much more wealth since 60's than before. Something like 600 times more.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
If you look at multiple indexes that rank countries by competitiveness, low corruption and infrastructure, Sweden and other Nordic countries are usually in top 10. If you think countries as companies, they would be like business parks. You
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by hannibal5 13y ago
This is solving the problem in the wrong place. The proper way for OS is to treat filenames as binary sequences like Linux does and have no problems. The problems that arise elsewhere should be solved elsewhere.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Still not profitable. It's good idea for Nokia to get out. MS has the money to burn.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Many. Here is multiple lists with sources: http://investorhome.com/predicted.htm
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by hannibal5 13y ago
There was long main article in the Economist about housing bubble few years before the bubble bursted. I remember reading it and being somewhat worried because arguments were convincing. I then forgot it because it was not in other news. It
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by hannibal5 13y ago
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell
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by hannibal5 13y ago
No shit sherlock. US has been in liquidity trap half a decade. There is need for inflation or it turns into decade.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
or rsync into zfs filesystem with snapshots.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Urban planning is an issue, but not the size of the country.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
They are technologically related but you can't address them in same ethical framework. For one thing, I think classical spying between governments is just good thing. Knowing what other sovereign actors do and think without filters rem
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by hannibal5 13y ago
There are several different things going on and people seem to mix them together. 1. Governments spying other governments and foreign companies. 2. Government mass surveillance of their citizens, and citizens of other countries if possible.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
His assistants, adjutant most certainly have.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Low self esteem is build in youth. He came from very weird family. Jack was ignored and his father favored Joe who was groomed to become the president.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
You have graph from last 3 months in the site and you claim that "We've been correct about 60% of the time." Getting it 10% better than coin toss in upwards trending market is not that hard.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
In this case they have only one Twitter account but they delete old posts and start over. Predicted market correct last 5 days in row https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6535057
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by hannibal5 13y ago
One way to put things in perspective is to compare against predictor that always chooses the most frequent label (higher in this case). dynofuz made 14 predictions, 13 correct (at least they claim so) and their predictor agrees with majorit
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by hannibal5 13y ago
I must wonder why don't Merkel use phones like CryptoPhone. http://www.cryptophone.de/en/background/cryptophone-technolo...
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by hannibal5 13y ago
JFK sex affairs would be typical cases of sexual narcissism to overcompensate for low self-esteem and an inability to experience true intimacy.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
But citizens are not forced to spy on their friends, like these companies are.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Common Lisp can be separated into core of 25 or so core operators and rest could be considered as library. I think CL is in a way more operating system like than most other Lisps and would make good base for operating system. You can load a
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Five Eyes countries (US, CA, UK, NZ, AU) have very deep intelligence cooperation and sharing agreements. I don't think NZ is particularly good choice for this reason.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
As far as I know, US citizens can't be ordered to violate laws when they operate in foreign countries. If they receive compliance letter requesting them to use foreign company with servers located in that country to break those laws, t
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by hannibal5 13y ago
For mobile applications Windows has been constantly behind Android and iOS. One part of Nokia's problems was that MS could not deliver drivers for new hardware. For example, Nokia could not move to high resolution screens because Wind

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