smutticus

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by smutticus 11y ago
For a harbinger of what's to come, look into what's happening in Romania with their Rosia Montana gold mine. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-11/paulson-ba... http://www.min
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by smutticus 11y ago
It's not out yet, but you might want to check out "Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe", by Bamberger and Mulligan.
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by smutticus 11y ago
Seriously, as a Dutch/American dual citize I'm debating moving back to the NL simply for this reason. From what I can tell I would pay close to a quarter in NL for better insurance than in the USA. The US is a complete ripoff.
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by smutticus 11y ago
> the more extreme the weather anomaly, the less likely it is to be caused by human-induced (anthropogenic) global warming. I'm not an expert in this field by any measure. However, this assumption goes against everything I've r
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by smutticus 11y ago
There's still a very active community of Supcom Forged Alliance Forever players. If you want to watch some great gameplay check out Gyle's channel on Youtube.
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by smutticus 11y ago
Why does every article about Portland make it into some magical incredibly different place. Does water not run downhill in Portland, OR? I spend a fair amount of time in Portland and it's incredibly similar to most American cities. All
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by smutticus 11y ago
As an American who immigrated to The Netherlands I would like to know of this mythical country in the world with a working immigration system. AFAICT they're all rather broken. US immigration might be broken in different ways than some
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by smutticus 11y ago
We should recognize that the constitution still allows slavery as a punishment for crime. This is as much about slave labor, as it is about the prison industry receiving money from the public purse. 13th amendment "Neither slavery nor
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by smutticus 11y ago
I don't know why the EFF is praising ICANN for not becoming the Internet's trademark enforcer. Every new gTLD must deal with the Trademark Clearinghouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_Clearinghouse
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by smutticus 11y ago
You might just try contacting the biggest union near you and asking. They typically know plenty of labor lawyers. It can't hurt.
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by smutticus 11y ago
Having read "The Computer and the Brain" by von Neumann. I would argue some key aspects of the von Neuman architecture are a computer's ability to store a program in memory, and have it fetched to run on the CPU. Another impo
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by smutticus 11y ago
Any argument at this point will require a level of speculation that makes me uncomfortable. I'm against the TTIP on principle, simply because I cannot read it. That's the only information I need to be against it, nothing else is g
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by smutticus 11y ago
Good general overview of prison labor: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor... More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and construction. http:/&#x2
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by smutticus 11y ago
We can't engage in any nuanced conversation of the TPP because we don't know what's in it. Given that, I find no reason to be anything but completely against it.
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by smutticus 11y ago
They're not outliers. Go to almost any large American city and there is a poor area where most of the black people live, and a better off area where most of the white people live. That's America.
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by smutticus 11y ago
Is anyone else dissatisfied with the amount of information we get in many sec bug reports? Almost everytime I read a CVE or other vulnerability I find myself with more questions than answers. There's so little information given. Is tel
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by smutticus 11y ago
I'm reminded of the old 'competitors' to the Internet that existed in the early 1990's. Remember Prodigy, or AoL?
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by smutticus 11y ago
It really depends on what your bottleneck is. If your bottle neck is already CPU, then TLS is not that big of a deal. If, OTOH, your bottleneck is disk, then implementing TLS can create substantial overhead.
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by smutticus 11y ago
It's an ISP. Am I missing something?
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by smutticus 11y ago
Both the original and this retort forget to consider that different users have different needs. Security is never going to be a 'one size fits all' kind of arrangement. Different users will find differing levels of utility in Tor
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by smutticus 11y ago
This article is not that good, nor is the intended audience those unfamiliar with Foucault's work. Foucault wrote about many different things. Mostly he was interested in the evolution of power and politics through western civilization
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by smutticus 11y ago
1) SSL and TLS are basically the same thing. We just changed the name when we reached SSLv4. TLSv1 == SSLv4 2) TBL is concerned that changing the URI by appending an 's' to 'http' it breaks web links. He considers it a m
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by smutticus 11y ago
Let's all take a moment to lament the sorry state of man pages in Linux.
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by smutticus 11y ago
On the one hand it's nice that developers are using more libraries and writing less from scratch. On the other hand dependencies are out of control. The one thing that really bothers me is code that depends on a particular IDE. That sh
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by smutticus 11y ago
I find the simplicity of HN a real plus on mobile. It's much easier to read on my iPhone than many 'mobile friendly' websites.
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by smutticus 11y ago
To me it would just seem more intuitive to have time go from down-->up. These signs seem to do the exact opposite.
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by smutticus 11y ago
There are all kinds of predictions flying around on how the introduction of new gTLDs is going to effect the economics of older TLDs. No one knows what's going to happen.
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by smutticus 11y ago
And let's not forget the prison system, which is basically legalized slavery.
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by smutticus 11y ago
This history misses many important board games. If this topic interests you check out Tom Vasel's board gaming channel on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/user/thedicetower/search?query=best+... These guys se
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by smutticus 11y ago
I stand somewhat corrected. It looks like Vox Populi has created a class they're calling "Sunrise Premium Names" and will price discriminate even after the sunrise period ends. http://domainincite.com/18246-ha

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