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by wasx 8y ago
From reading the article it seems like their co-operation has largely been snitching on their friends in the DDOS community and a crypto-currency analysis app.
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by wasx 8y ago
The tool doesn't matter so much, if something is encrypted with, say, AES and a specific mode of operation with one tool, it can be decrypted with a separate tool given the same key and mode. Assuming the implementations of the encrypt
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by wasx 8y ago
I've had panic attacks my entire life.Fortunately they're few and fair between these days and I can for the most part calm myself down when I feel one oncoming (they're almost always triggered by some event fortunately, very
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by wasx 8y ago
Yeah autism occurs on a spectrum, from very low-functioning people who can barely verbalise or take care of themselves, to relatively high-functioning individuals who are capable of taking care of themselves, and given the right tools, even
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by wasx 8y ago
I don't know if I'm on the spectrum or not but I empathize a lot with the experiences of autistic people, most stories I read could almost verbatim be applied to myself. Including this womans experience (minus the stripping, but
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by wasx 8y ago
Check out Boatmurdered for a look at how a dwarven fortress spirals into amazing and beautiful chaos: https://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introducti... That version is very, very old however and doesn&#x2
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by wasx 8y ago
Wow. Is this seriously how far conversation on this site has descended?
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by wasx 8y ago
... which is exactly the problem. The issue is the tactic, not the company employing it. It’s just this company has a serious habit of employing those tactics, hence the distrust.
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by wasx 8y ago
The state exists in it's current form because we don't trust private enterprise to perform those functions, otherwise we would. So you're agreeing with me, although I could have phrased it better.
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by wasx 8y ago
Apart from Marx not one of those individuals has made any positive contribution to anarcho-communism, so I don't see your point. Tell me your thoughts on Revolutionary Catalonia, or the Free Territory of Ukraine? Or the EZLN in Chiapas
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by wasx 8y ago
In your other comment you made this point >What do you need to make a modern enterprise? You need tools and you need labor. Some people provide labor, and others provide the tools. Some people who can provide tools, don't necessaril
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by wasx 8y ago
>Its strikes me that these people don't know what capitalism is In my experience Anarchists are some of the most well read community of political activists around. May I suggest that you don't know what capitalism is and should
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by wasx 9y ago
Another next generation Electron-based editor? What generation are we at now?
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by wasx 9y ago
I would consider the actions of Xi Jingping to be reviving the communist ideology in China. Certain moreso than under Deng Xiaoping
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by wasx 9y ago
What choice do you have once every single provider is doing this? Seriously are we supposed to build our own car? Businesses only care about profits, so if one manufacturer sees other manufacturers doing this and making money, they will fo
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by wasx 9y ago
>The more forcefully and loudly people try to suppress certain ideas, the more they are afraid those ideas might be right. What bollocks, most "ideas" people are trying to surpress like white nationalism and sexism aren't
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by wasx 9y ago
Agreed. The wide spread of experts who come out and give first hand accounts of the event/product being discussed adds a tremendous amount of value to the discussion on the site. Discussion on this site is by no means perfect but it is
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by wasx 9y ago
>$10k is too much of a barrier for a hobby? Yes. A few hundred dollars is normally too much of a barrier into a hobby, let alone $10k. Your friends are obscenely wealthy
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by wasx 9y ago
> But if America’s access were further restricted, it would be a blow to the site, and to many of the “capitalists” that use it. The Verge are definitely misunderstanding Elbakyan when she says this: >"the capitalists have starte
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by wasx 9y ago
> I suspect we all had the feeling that we'd shaken a velvet-gloved hand on friendly terms and sensed that there was steel underneath. Could someone explain what Dennis means when he says this? I didn't really understand the ph
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by wasx 9y ago
Why's that?
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by wasx 9y ago
You're kidding yourself if you think at will employment is used to just "fire slouches no questions asked". It's a gun to your head held by your boss. One wrong step and you're on the street. It's ironic that &
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by wasx 9y ago
Well they haven't actually used their past actions, they've just said that they've been "failed". Seems like if you're on an anti-union bend you could give specifics rather than vague complaints?
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by wasx 9y ago
I'm an office worker and I am in a union. > today we have many government controls in place that protect workers You're joking right? You brought up America so I assume you're discussing America. How can you possibly, even
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by wasx 9y ago
A union, the act of unionisation is inherently political, of course they'll say vote for "x". You have different interests to your boss and your boss has different interests to you, of course you will vote and engage politica
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by wasx 9y ago
This is the second time CWA has been used as an argument against all unions in this comments section. Perhaps CWA is just a piss poor union?
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by wasx 9y ago
What new found wealth do you think people would have without workers pushing for their rights? Without collective action and group bargaining, we would still be working 16 hour days. Progress doesn't just happen it requires people pu
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by wasx 9y ago
The attitude towards unionisation on this site is sickening. I live in a country with a very strong union movement and the only reason I'm able to sit here typing this message is because my parents and grandparents unionised rather tha
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How Nike Avoids Paying Taxes in Australia(abc.net.au)
34 points by wasx 9y ago|18 comments
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by wasx 9y ago
They use fake hives mixed in with real hives in the fences, probably to prevent exactly that

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