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guard-of-terra··on The Holocaust’s Great Escape

    Легко закрывать глаза, легко выдыхать воздух,
    Всё то, что я хотела сказать - сказала, пока не поздно!
guard-of-terra··on The Holocaust’s Great Escape
If you lie about people long enough eventually you'll notice that they hate you.
guard-of-terra··on The Holocaust’s Great Escape
> violent series of pogroms

> undertaken by the Czarist government

This is a very serious claim right here. Any concrete data on "Czarist government" undertaking pogroms?

The whole discourse right here reeks of 60's university left's "commies good, czars bad". This is when commies could murder the same number of people, off-war, on their not the most busy day, as the "Czarist government" during the whole early XX century.

guard-of-terra··on Post-Olympic Abandonment
Olympics was about bringing the world together.

I would say it fails today, because now most troubled countries don't care about sport. But anyway, permanent location for Olympics will defeat that idea for good and will turn Olympics into a completely worthless consumerism fest.

Maybe just make them cheaper?

guard-of-terra··on Some Thoughts on the Cost Disease
There exist some SF set in Strong Heaven, but it's mostly written in Russian :)
guard-of-terra··on 'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Men are twice as stronger on certain operations - for example, grip by hand.

That's a lot of biological basis, which nevertheless is much less relevant today.

guard-of-terra··on Zerocoin implementation bug
How is it any different compared to software wallet?
guard-of-terra··on Zerocoin implementation bug
Your private keys have limited attack surface, especially if they're in cold storage.

However, your banking account has unlimited attack surface. It's on some remote information system that you do not control and never will. As I already said, I'm not a big believer in "legal recourse", it's as well to be used to take money from you as to return them back.

guard-of-terra··on Zerocoin implementation bug
Someone steals the control of your banking account, they take everything and there's no way of getting those money back.

Credit cards are peculiar in this regard.

guard-of-terra··on Zerocoin implementation bug
Law is code until well connected people need a bailout.
guard-of-terra··on Zerocoin implementation bug
In a centralized system, sometimes people can help you get your money back, but it is also possible that they'll help taking money away from you.

"Spirit of contract" is usually taking money from less well-connected and awarding it to more well-connected. Have zero faith in it in XXI century.

guard-of-terra··on Zerocoin implementation bug
> how superior centralized systems are

Tell us? Because around here, I saw a huge number of bank fraud basically unpunished. "Yes those guys duplicated your SIM and stole all your funds. Too bad for you since we're not going to even try to catch them."

Centralized systems might be efficient but the rule is, they don't care about you, so it's not your problems that they're going to solve. At least I can have some faith in the code, which is the final law.

guard-of-terra··on Show HN: PJON – Padded Jittering Operative Network
How fast is that? What's the latency for initiating communication and the roundtrip after the communication is initiated? Because it always irks me with bluetooth and wi-fi, why does it takes ages to connect? Why not 100 msec?

Is it Point-To-Point or Broadcast or both? Can you subscribe to a class of messages even if they aren't sent to you explicitly?

What's with auth and encryption? Something cryptographically sound?

Sorry for not diving into the docs because that's what I would like to see on that page. And please, no video.

guard-of-terra··on Goodbye, Eastern Europe
> It's a long-lasting grievance that could perhaps be eased by some diplomacy

> There is little practical incentive for either Latvia or Russia to soften first

Let me try to understand. Latvia calls some of its citizens "non-citizens" and somehow Russia (a different country) has the option of "softening first". By doing what exactly?

What are the issues that Russia should go soft on in order for Latvia to stop considering a fraction of its population "non-citizens"? And why it was an issue in the 90's where the Russia was famous "The Coma State"?

guard-of-terra··on Goodbye, Eastern Europe
You've just highlighted the sort of reward that you get for the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove the Soviet regime and freeing the world from Nuclear War fears and offsetting the Doomsday Clock by full 11 minutes.
guard-of-terra··on Goodbye, Eastern Europe
> and "occupants" (Russian speaking people)

Who you also consider "non-citizens"[1], but not in the sense that they're citizens of some other state, you just refuse part of country's population of some citizen rights (like voting) as if it was Apartheid all over again.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)

guard-of-terra··on Raising the American Weakling
I really liked throwing frisbee, unfortunately these days I have neither place nor company to do this.
guard-of-terra··on Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance
It seems that copy paste from book and the insertion of copyright violation banner were made in the same edit. Why on earth?
guard-of-terra··on Silicon Valley Is Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants
We're in XXI century, so I think it's trivial to make your company international if you ever have something to gain from it.

> can not work offsite

Can you elaborate what's officially permitted and what is not? Because wikipedia is unclear on the subject and refers to legalese that I have no hope of understanding.

guard-of-terra··on Raising the American Weakling
I thoroughly hate the idea of exercise. It's when you are pretending that you're accomplishing something that requires physical load, while in reality doing nothing. This whole busy work is so mind-bogglingly boring.

I would rather trek for five hours than one hour of "exercise". However, I have no idea what to do with my arms. Not much useful applications to muscular strength in modern world.

It's a disgrace that workout is not automated yet, and there's no signs to it. Make some box or some pill that will keep my body in the shape without me noticing. We solved transportation, why can't we do something here?

guard-of-terra··on Silicon Valley Is Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants
My co-workers raised a note that H1B no longer relevant so much for the purpose described in headline.

It's much easier to bring workers on L visa - they have even less opportunity to skip jobs or aruge for a raise than H1B holders, and there's no lottery and no limits. Just bring as much people on L as possible.

As far as I know, Microsoft did this with Canada long ago. They hire you and relocate to Canada, then after a year they make L visa for you and toss over the border to Redmond.

guard-of-terra··on Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing
Umm, CA 101 southeastward from San Jose? You can build a lot of apartment complexes 9 stores high on both sides of Caltrain, add more stations and trains, and here you go. You can also try building on inland hills. Look at Singapore or Haifa for an example how it can look like.
guard-of-terra··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
Why is it revenge if passed as a law?

Indeed, recent years by Putin, Erdogan and Obama show that you can pass a lot of things as a law and everybody has to comply. To any kind of insane dung!

Unfortunately, not. Because in my culture, the commonplace handling of problems is not solving them but just piling up and then dying when they topple over.

guard-of-terra··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
How would you ever persuade people to respect principles underlying the law when you fail to punish people who are the law?

Modern justice is all like this:

We know this guy perpetrated, but it was some time ago and he's well connected and it's awkward for us so we're going to "hate his sin" but without any effect on his well-being. But you, dear listeners, please behave.

Ah, on unrelated note, we jailed a poor person for 10 years for a fraction of damage because it was politically convenient.

guard-of-terra··on Falling Home Prices Could Be a Good Thing
That's the sort of capital banks will happily lend to you.
guard-of-terra··on Areas near Sacramento evacuated as Oroville spillway collapse feared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhzKVdSnPmg

Live coverage.

They say situation is better now that drain is sufficient.

guard-of-terra··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
I don't know about such a fiction but I guess that would be it.

If we are persistent and unforgetting, this might become a reality one day. We should find "such people" in every generation and make sure they don't have a chance to do such mistakes to pay for them later, but on the question of payment we should be adamant.

The trick here is to not be conflict-averse and not be a slave of own wallet but to care about justice even after the years.

guard-of-terra··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
You see, 35 years ago you signed this order on d'tention over hard drive 'ncryption?

That's unconst'tutional, you know. Here we've got the relevant law. So now we have to w'draw a 35 years worth of pay that you received aft'wards. That's the law that say that, too. We'll start by taking your house 'way.

Also we our records show you gave $100k to your daughter 15 years ago. I'm 'fraid we have to put a debt on her for that sum, with 'nterest. Here's the rel'vant court order.

guard-of-terra··on Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives
The people who do this now will become old and helpless to, and it is our purpose to forget nothing and make sure their final years are thoroughly ruined.
guard-of-terra··on The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps
Никогда ещё Штирлиц[1] не был так близок к провалу.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz

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