straight_talk

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by straight_talk 13y ago
>> Unfortunately, desktop Firefox does not have multi-process architecture yet. I personally hate Chrome for creating a process per tab. It adds a little bit of security, but it makes harder to manage the processes in a system.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Chrome is very fast on my 4.8Ghz Windows PC with literally hundreds of tabs open sometimes. Almost as fast as Waterfox. If it slows with a few tabs my guess would be the OS is swapping Chrome processes memory to the swap file (or files). FW
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Try Cntr + Shift + Esc next time ;-)
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by straight_talk 13y ago
IMHO GDP, dollars, etc. have nothing to do with this problem. Currently there is a huge overproduction of food, clothes, shoes, etc. for the US citizen. All that huge ads industry is only there to force people to eat more, throw out their p
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Very interesting thoughts. IMHO the basic income will have the opposite effect. A business may currently be able to find a loo cleaning employee for $X/h, but with a basic income that rate will go to say $5X/h.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Getting a bank (i.e. money printing) license is probably the hardest thing to do in the developed world. The guys/families who got them must be the best adopted to the complexities of the modern society.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
> Those leeches are the least of our worries. How about long turn demographics? There are racial and religious minorities, that have 12+ children in an average family. A basic income may help them grow even faster, leading to inevitable
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by straight_talk 13y ago
> Marx then goes on to argue, that the capitalist class can more easily leverage its interests, and therefore the workers need class conscious to counter this leverage. Do you have any objective arguments against this statement?
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Yeah, right. And all the technical books on design patterns, functional programming, algorithms, etc. are out there just to teach programmers how to type faster ...
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by straight_talk 13y ago
“All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing...”
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by straight_talk 13y ago
>> that's something else entirely, completely separate to what I'm discussing. Aha I see. The NSA and Stasi are collecting vast amounts of data on everybody living in their countries. Data that was and will be abused to ruin
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Isn't it obvious that the official task of a totalitarian agency can be different from the actual job it's doing??
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Different missions? Both have exactly the same mission - keep the current elite in power at any cost.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
I personally use a commercial ad blocker - AdMuncher. Blocks more ads than ABP and I know I'm the customer, not Google. Only supports Windows unfortunately, but on Linux I run an XP VM and proxy through it.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
NSA is much worse than the Stasi, because there is no free world out there.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
The F# compiler does that.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Because we live in the information age, when information is the ultimate power. Those ad networks can get to know you as well as the NSA ...
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by straight_talk 13y ago
A human would never make "glaring design flaws".
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Seriously? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting
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by straight_talk 13y ago
>> I simply don't understand why you would want to browse the web without JS enabled Security, performance, JS ads ... >> Every single common-use browser on the Internet supports Javascript My company provides a web based a
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Total surveillance has nothing to do with the security of the average citizen and all to do with keeping and extending the current elite powers. We're slowly transforming from a democracy to a totalitarian state.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Excellent arguments. Total surveillance is one of the many tools, that the political elite uses to prevent the majority from changing the system.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Of course it is, if for some weird reason you think that assembly = R&D ...
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by straight_talk 13y ago
No, you're right. It's so much better to have old, ugly military guys take all the important decision, spy on, detain and torture people they don't like, without any courts. This is why North Korea is the engine of the world
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by straight_talk 13y ago
I guess the HN admins have read that chapter very carefully. Anybody who dares to express an opinion against the elite here is immediately hell banned.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Yeah, schedule the worst stuff at times with fewest senators available. Same way the Federal Reserve Act was passed a century ago on December 22, 1913.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Go to hotmail.com, click sigh out, try this link again.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
Nice sounding statement, but power does corrupt. Quite a few experiments proofing it.
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by straight_talk 13y ago
The biggest implication - it makes opposition impossible. In a few years there will be nobody to defend the average person rights. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
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by straight_talk 13y ago
And a few millions to die from the lack of infrastructure, emergency care, pollution with depleted (to a small degree) uranium.

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