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by standupstandup 9y ago
If conservatives are people who are dominated by physical fear, why are so many American soldiers conservatives?
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by standupstandup 9y ago
the EU's goals is to serve the collective best interests of all and every single member-state That's clearly not what it's trying to do right now. For one the UK is still a member state and still paying its dues, but the EU
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by standupstandup 9y ago
I think he means that there's a lot of debate when you peel back the covers on how much modern trade deals really impact economic growth. And quite a lot of evidence that they have surprisingly little impact. If you go read press relea
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by standupstandup 9y ago
A lot of people derive enormous comfort and security from the belief that there's a social class who can predict the future. In the past they were shamans and oracles reading goose entrails, nowadays they're analysts and economist
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by standupstandup 9y ago
More or less any numbers you see about the predicted economic impact of Brexit come from exactly the same sets of economists who have been proven 100% wrong so far about everything, so have no credibility. They predicted a massive recession
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Anti-immigration sentiment in the UK is to a large extent driven by lagging infrastructure. As just a single example the housebuilding industry has been consistently able to build fewer houses than there are people arriving by a large numbe
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by standupstandup 9y ago
So a hand that might have travelled but didn't 15 years ago and the fact that he likes hugging is proof of what, exactly? Only the insanity of our era. Don't research how the Queen of England met her husband or your head might exp
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by standupstandup 9y ago
I read both linked articles. Instead of asking me belittling questions why not describe Lasseter's crime, as it's not exactly obvious.
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Lasseter's crime is apparently hugging people. That's not a "bad actor". This is far beyond witchhunt territory. Damn I'm glad I don't work in Hollywood. The entire industry appears to be disappearing up its ow
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by standupstandup 9y ago
CPI is fairly useless anyway. It ignores where the huge money displacements are actually going: hint, not bread and circuses. The money the ECB is displacing is institutional investors money and causes inflation in things like housing, stoc
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by standupstandup 9y ago
It's only crypto that uses the term "market cap" to mean "outstanding crypto-tokens * price". That isn't what the term means in conventional finance. It's normally applied to shares.
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by standupstandup 9y ago
That's not clear at all. Do you think the Twitter founder's goal was literally written down somewhere as "manipulate users to engage with it"? Or for Facebook? None of these companies will agree with that assessment, so
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Surely all news publications filter? That's a large component of their bias, if not the largest: what information they choose to highlight and which to suppress. Note that the Intercept meets most of your criteria when it can, and Brei
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by standupstandup 9y ago
You can't really know what the impact is. You probably can't even come up with a crisp, uncontroversial definition of what "social media" actually is. Most people seem to use the term to mean Twitter, but Twitter is garb
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by standupstandup 9y ago
I'm not arguing that x86 will ever really be secure. However you handwaved a hypothetical "secure processor architecture". Realistically the way you do that is by making a very simple CPU, however, that would then be too slow
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by standupstandup 9y ago
SGX is designed to shield software against SMM exploits.
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by standupstandup 9y ago
If you'd like to learn about a CPU arch that is neither register nor stack based, watch the videos for the Mill and in particular the belt.
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by standupstandup 9y ago
It's Intel pushing that stuff forward, with SGX.
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by standupstandup 9y ago
I wouldn't worry about Trump. America didn't change overnight you know. Trump's success reflects long standing issues in American politics and the country working through them, but Germany is experiencing its own version of s
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by standupstandup 9y ago
I'd say east Switzerland is perhaps the best functioning German speaking place. They like paperwork but things are rarely broken in any way.
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by standupstandup 9y ago
That seems like a poorly disguised dig at Brexit. I'd hope that Germany of all countries understands the importance of sovereign democratic government and the harsh conditions people will endure to preserve it. In fact the behaviour of
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Thanks. I am curious how JIT compilation policies will affect this. Wasm is a new bytecode form that has no mature JIT compilers. I wonder how many safety properties the compilers will assume. For instance if the wasm VM only really tries t
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by standupstandup 9y ago
How does wasm stop stack smashes? I can see that if it's not a von Neumann machine i.e. code is in a different memory space to data, it'd be harder, but that doesn't seem really compatible with C/C++? Just in general if
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by standupstandup 9y ago
http://foo.bar.com/url?q=<base64 encoded stuff> wasm program parses q stack smash occurs ROP chain is used to gain code execution user cookie is stolen attacker now controls your account I don't know enough about
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Well, WebAssembly's primary near term contribution will be introducing the world of C++ exploits to web apps, which are already groaning under the load of XSS, XSRF, path traversal, SSRF etc attacks. Adding double frees, use after free
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Yes, I'd suggest starting there (I used to be an SRE). I don't know of any books that handle all those topics off hand. I was thinking more of secure coding for engineers, rather than system architecture in general.
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Digital currency trading firm Genesis Global Trading found bitcoin tends to recover dramatically from large drops. The last four times bitcoin has fallen more than 20 percent this year, it has gained an average 28 percent in the two weeks
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Pro-Clinton propaganda can't be government propaganda because Clinton isn't in government. It really only works if you use a definition of propaganda that includes material generated by allies of possible governments or former gov
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Which killer feature of VSC does IntelliJ lack?
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by standupstandup 9y ago
Tweets are news now? Really. Anyway. I run a largeish software team and we have a mix of very experienced devs along with some newer devs who definitely have holes in their skills. We run training in certain areas with the goal of upskillin

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