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reactor4··on A 400-year story of progress – How America became the world’s biggest economy
A large part of it but it's ww1 that really sealed the deal: http://online.wsj.com/ww1/wall-street
reactor4··on Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
I seem to remember Brandon Webb's book "the red circle" where he relates FBI agents were attached to seal teams to do forensics in theater after operations.
reactor4··on The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (2013)
The full quote doesn't reverse the meaning at all.
reactor4··on Why I Was Fired by Google

  Upper management tried to placate this surge of outrage by 
  shaming me and misrepresenting my document, but they 
  couldn’t really do otherwise: The mob would have set upon 
  anyone who openly agreed with me or even tolerated my views.
reactor4··on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions
because the last couple of years suck when you're dying from the things caused by smoking.
reactor4··on Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community
The DoJ has a 93% conviction rate because they pressure any target into a plea bargain so they don't have to pursue strong cases.
reactor4··on Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal software developer
of course not but if the plaintiff have to rely on force to fulfill the warrant then the warrant is voided because it oversteps the limits. (https://www.canlii.org/fr/qc/qcca/doc/2002/2002canlii41255/2... (paragraph 109))
reactor4··on Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal software developer
The limits and the penalties for overstepping are getting clearer: http://www.thecourt.ca/anton-piller-orders-and-privileged-do...
reactor4··on Canadian cable companies interrogate, search Montréal software developer
I found something interesting at paragraph 109 of citation #21 (https://www.canlii.org/fr/qc/qcca/doc/2002/2002canlii41255/2...)

Je crois bon de préciser ici que les personnes à qui l'ordonnance a été signifiée auraient pu refuser de fournir les informations demandées. Devant un tel refus, Groupe AST (1993) inc. n'aurait pu insister davantage, mais aurait dû plutôt utiliser la procédure d'outrage au tribunal pour faire valoir ses droits. Il n'y a pas de preuve au dossier indiquant que Groupe AST (1993) inc. aurait obtenu les informations par la force, après un premier refus. Si tel avait été le cas, il y aurait eu lieu d'annuler l'existence de l'ordonnance Anton Piller, vu que ses limites auraient été dépassées. En l'absence de preuve à ce sujet, je considère qu'i n'y a pas lieu pour notre Cour d'intervenir à cet égard.

It means that the defendant would be under contempt of the court if he refused to answer questions or let them get what they wanted under the warrant. But, if he refused, and that the plaintiff "uses force" to fulfill the warrant then the limits of the Anton Piller would be overstepped and it would be voided.

From what I understand, under Quebec civil law the maximum sentence for contempt of court is up to 5000$ and up to a year.

reactor4··on Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ to do the sane thing”
Linus giving his opinion on userland is a far cry from bikeshedding though...
reactor4··on Localizing “Papers, Please” (2014)
but it is
reactor4··on Your own company? You can do it (2011)
Regarding your last question: because the government gets to say how much its willing to pay for any procedure. It's the government that has leverage on what the price will be in a single payer system.
reactor4··on In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (2012)
Also, Dan Carlin's Hardcore history podcast #59.
reactor4··on New Surface Pro
Lenovo has laptops with 64g ECC.
reactor4··on ‘Reined-In’ N.S.A. Still Collected 151M Phone Records in 2016
oh but it does actively harm through self-censorship and more directly to those who gets in the crosshairs a posteriori because of their activism, dissension or business activities.

Regarding your second paragraph, parallel construction comes to mind.

reactor4··on Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)
Some i3s support ECC: 7th gen: http://ark.intel.com/products/97125/Intel-Core-i3-7101TE-Pro... 6th gen: http://ark.intel.com/products/90731/Intel-Core-i3-6300-Proce...
reactor4··on The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy
use your imagination
reactor4··on A bigger problem than ISIS: The Mosul Dam is failing
You've got to be kidding me. I started reading "The Forever War" (the space war book) based on some comments I read on here and I assure you that there wasn't any warning about the space war book.
reactor4··on Beautiful Pages of a Late Medieval Monk's Sketchbook
is that a dinosaur?
reactor4··on How to Crash Systemd in One Command
Your point is covered in the article.

"If you think systemd doesn't need privilege separation because it only parses messages from local users, keep in mind that in the Internet era, local attacks tend to acquire remote vectors. Consider Shellshock, or the presentation at this year's systemd conference which is titled "Talking to systemd from a Web Browser.""

reactor4··on PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux
oh man I agree with you so much. You can't do anything data intensive with powershell, it is too slow.
reactor4··on Why North Korea is a safe haven for birds
The thing is that if you shoot them when they're on the ground, say with a .22 caliber, then they will move because they'll know they're not safe. You will fill a freezer in one go and that will be it for this year, they'll move on their migratory path.

And plenty of hunters miss them on their landing approach, it's not so easy for people who shoot one or twice a year when they go on their hunting trip.

reactor4··on A Stark Nuclear Warning
According to "Trinity and beyond", the gun-type bomb wasn't tested prior to hiroshima. They were confident it would work.

It's the fusion type bomb, which is much more complex, that was tested in the Trinity test and then used on Nagasaki.

reactor4··on A Stark Nuclear Warning
Ranger Able was 1kt.
reactor4··on Was the Blair Witch Project the last great horror film?
I suggest Sinister: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1922777/?ref_=nv_sr_1
reactor4··on Systemd v227
200 lines of code into 10 lines of configs
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