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You want truth? Here it is, with citations.
Every US city with a significant black population already is just like a third-world shithole. When they overrun cities they leave behind nothing in their wake where once prosperous buildings stood.
You want racial reality? View the tables and graphs for yourself, with sources.
Even a (black) Nigerian writer named Chigozie Obioma straight out says "there are no successful black nations". Will you call him "racist" for telling the truth?
This can be down-modded. It can be name-called. It cannot be refuted. The very people who feel "offended" by this would be the first to engage in "white flight" should their own neighborhood be overrun by blacks and they experience the violent crime and fear first hand.
If they are this way "because of past racism" then by that measure the Jews and the Native Americans should also be topping the violent crime charts. They aren't. In fact the Jews are doing very well for themselves including in places like Germany.
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Every US city with a significant nígger population already is just like a third-world shithole. When they overrun cities they leave behind nothing in their wake where once prosperous buildings stood.
You want racial reality? View the tables and graphs for yourself, with sources.
Even a (black) Nigerian writer named Chigozie Obioma straight out says "there are no successful black nations". Will you call him "racist" for telling the truth?
This can be down-modded. It can be name-called. It cannot be refuted. The very people who feel "offended" by this would be the first to engage in "white flight" should their own neighborhood be overrun by blacks and they experience the violent crime and fear first hand.
If they are this way "because of past racism" then by that measure the Jews and the Native Americans should also be topping the violent crime charts. They aren't. In fact the Jews are doing very well for themselves including in places like Germany.
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Re:Paper ballots
The way things are going, American needs the UN to come in and observe the election. It won't be long until the general public no longer trusts the results.
Far from being "great again", the country is turning into a third world shit hole.
Every US city with a significant nígger population already is just like a third-world shithole. When they overrun cities they leave behind nothing in their wake where once prosperous buildings stood.
You want racial reality? View the tables and graphs for yourself, with sources.
Even a (black) Nigerian writer named Chigozie Obioma straight out says "there are no successful black nations". Will you call him "racist" for telling the truth?
This can be down-modded. It can be name-called. It cannot be refuted. The very people who feel "offended" by this would be the first to engage in "white flight" should their own neighborhood be overrun by blacks and they experience the violent crime and fear first hand.
If they are this way "because of past racism" then by that measure the Jews and the Native Americans should also be topping the violent crime charts. They aren't. In fact the Jews are doing very well for themselves including in places like Germany.
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Re:That's not "rebuilding".
http://obsolescenceguaranteed....
Not a tinkerer.
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Survive?
The world is heating up, we will survive.
Maybe, maybe not
https://arctic-news.blogspot.ch/2017/02/warning-of-mass-extinction-of-species-including-humans-within-one-decade.html
We've got methane releases in mid-winter this year
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/12/global-warming-stirs-the-methane-monster/By the way, how does an errant anonymous coward get tagged as "Insightful".
Of course climate changes - but it's changing so FUCKING fast that we're going to destroy our biosphere.Oh, well, it was nice here for a while, while it lasted
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and 2018 methane emissions are spiking early
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/12/global-warming-stirs-the-methane-monster/
In the arctic, "On average, it was 12.96C or 23.35F warmer during the period from October 1 to December 30, 2017 (red line), compared to the same days in 1981-2011."
The spikes first started up in late 2010.
The worst-case IPCC scenario projects a mean temperature rise that would take average global temperature beyond 20 degrees Celsius this century, an obviously catastrophic scenario. Yet, the IPCC scenarios fail to include the many feedbacks that accelerate temperature rises, such as large abrupt releases from methane hydrates. In fact, the IPCC miserably failed to warn about the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.https://geo-engineering.blogspot.ch/2012/02/how-much-time-is-there-left-to-act.html
It is perfectly clear from the graphs that the methane build up in the Arctic is mainly a result of increasing earthquake activity along the Gakkel Ridge caused by global warming induced worldwide expansion of the Earth’s crust due to the carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere which is enhanced by the heating up of the Arctic ocean due to the high global warming potential of the methane (Light 2011). This close relationship between the Gakkel Ridge earthquake activity, the destabilisation of the Arctic methane hydrates and the NASA GISS surface temperature anomalies has already been clearly demonstrated (Carana, 2011b; Light 2011).
If I was a medical doctor I would say that the patient has a terminal illness and is expected to die of an extreme fever between 2038 and 2050.
As this corresponds with my personal life expectancy, I'm only going to see the start of it.
All the current youth -
But...but...look what I invented!!!
It's round! It rolls! You could use it to transport things! I think I'll call it...the wheel.
Example: I just saw a presentation involving a new ORM framework today - same old idea, same crappy ORM efficiency, why am I supposed to be impressed? How many ORM frameworks do we need? They all do the same damned thing, and all of them do it badly. By the time you have the latest and greatest innovative framework working in your project (having had to mangle to your architecture to compensate for the horrible inefficiency), you could have achieved the same end - cleaner, faster, and with less code - by doing without the framework.
Pick your topic: development methodologies, programming languages, frameworks, whatever: The whole IT branch seems to have institutional amnesia. Each new generation of programmers (i.e., every 5-10 years) rediscovers it all, plasters on new buzzwords, and pats themselves on the back for their cleverness.
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Re:extremely common fraud protection
google really throws a hissy fit when I send email from my home (on a vpn) using imap. mostly they grey list me and time me out. but this anti-vpn concept annoys me. I don't believe it rejects fraud.
It does reject fraud. I know this because I designed the system at Google that is rejecting your logins, back when I worked there. There's a blog post about the system here. Obviously location (actually: geographical coordinates) are not the only thing that is used, it's just a signal that's carefully blended with others.
The main reason location works as a useful anti-fraud signal is that the datasets that hackers are working off are very sparse. Normally only usernames and passwords. So they don't know where in the world you live, meaning that they have to guess. It's almost like a second password. And mostly their guess will be wrong, leading to an ID verification check.
Now if you use VPNs or Tor or whatever that actually move you around the world constantly, then you're in a tiny minority of people that this heuristic doesn't work for. That's not so great. But here's a tip - if you enable 2-step verification on your Google account and then give your IMAP client an "app specific password" you shouldn't see rejected logins anymore, as is documented in the Google support pages. If your IMAP client knows how to use OAuth to log in, that would also work, but most don't.
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Re:To be more precise, Amazon will collect on taxe
"and therefore corporate taxes are evil, and should be abolished, not raised." - if you do that then the people will have to pay more to make up the shortfall.
swillden's point is that it would be neutral. There is no shortfall, exactly. Tax reallocates resources that would have been used for other things, it's not like a mine that you actually dig gold out of.
Whilst governments might feel the need to raise personal tax rates if they no longer received corporation tax, as corporations are no longer being taxed that money will end up doing something else instead. It might lower prices, in which case paying more personal tax to government wouldn't change your standard of living. Or it might get paid out to shareholders, i.e. you or your pension fund. Or it might get re-invested into developing new products, which again would improve your standard of living to offset the fact that you have less money than before. Remember money is just a proxy, what ultimately matters is wealth not money. (or happyness)
At the moment personal taxes are high because not everyone pays their fair share of tax, that includes businesses and personal, if everyone did the right thing and paid what was owed, we'd all be taxed less.
A common misconception spread by propaganda in the press. Tax evasion rates in western societies are very low. Almost everyone already pays what they owe. The UK is not Greece - there's no blood to squeeze from that stone. The entire tax avoidance argument is that some people should owe more than the rules say they do.
Personal taxes in Anglo countries are high for a bunch of reasons, including but not limited to: extremely expensive and pointless foreign wars, increasing life expectancies that cause spiralling healthcare and pension costs as governements are loathe to adjust the retirement age, hangover from the banking bailouts, the general decline in labour force participation over time meaning more people on benefits, unaffordable tax cuts (USA), the massive interest payments on debt incurred by previous governments (UK), etc etc.
They are not high because immoral people are somehow dodging the tax man.
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Re:Can't help but laugh
>> Find job in IT tech without Microsoft knowledge / support required.
Done.
http://nofeeofw.blogspot.ch/20...
http://www.linuxinsider.com/st...
http://www.careerbuilder.com/j...Just google it.
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Re: Oy! It's like ready two different conversation
More info here, for example: http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.ch/2011/07/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous.html and http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524
Bitcoin is not "identity-obvious", but unless extra care is taken, there is a good change that users can be identified and the history of coins traced. An anonymous currency would make that impossible or extremely hard. It seems Bitcoin makes it relatively easy, at least in the current implementation.
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So do WiFi cards
See: http://haxit.blogspot.ch/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-cards.html
32 MB RAM, ~400 MHz 32-bit ARM, several gigabytes of flash storage, about $50 at Amazon.com.
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Re:Self signed certs
Common misconception - certificate authorities do not have private keys. Your private key never leaves your own computers. That's why the NSA would have to force companies to cough them up (or steal them).
Also, for normal SSL having the private key lets you passively eavesdrop and decrypt. For souped up SSL with forward secrecy it doesn't, it only lets you MITM the connections, which results in the server and client having a different view of things - that's detectable, whereas a leaked SSL key isn't.
Forward secret SSL is new, and not that easy to do. At the end of 2011 Google employees did the necessary upgrades to OpenSSL, but most other sites haven't deployed it (yet). Enabling forward secret SSL is the best and easiest step forward to beat the NSA/GCHQ right now, because if they HAVE obtained your private key, it forces them to start actively intercepting connections which is expensive and detectable.
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Re:Eat me, Euroskeptics!
I saw those comments, but unfortunately I don't think they're correct. According to this article, the -es ending in Old English was part of a whole big system of declensions, and initially limited to the singular strong masculine nouns. There's no indication that these endings derived from His-genitive constructions (cf. the OE possessive adjectives here). The Wikipedia article on the His genitive indicates that the belief that -es was a contraction of "his" was a mistaken folk etymology that briefly turned into a typographical convention. In other words, although Old English did have constructions like "X his/her/their Y" as a very occasional form, examples from modern English do not come from this practice, but are in almost all cases just a misinformed spelling of -'s.
It seems like the possessive apostrophe did arise from early printers' feeling that some letters (whether part of -es or, as some thought, "his") were being omitted. Once established as a convention, I guess the apostrophe-final form was then applied to plurals and other words that already ended with an S-sound, just for consistency. It's worth pointing out that among other Germanic languages, only Dutch (to my knowledge) uses the possessive apostrophe. The others just add an S. -
Article contains some factual errors
The article says: In the U.S., the economic recovery that started in June 2009 has been called the third straight "jobless recovery." But that's a misnomer. The jobs came back after the first two. Most recessions since World War II were followed by a surge in new jobs as consumers started spending again and companies hired to meet the new demand. In the months after recessions ended in 1991 and 2001, there was no familiar snap-back, but all the jobs had returned in less than three years.
That is not the case. The ratio of working age men who actually work has steadily fallen since the 50s (in the USA). After each recession it plunged and then recovered
Anyway, whilst I'm sympathetic to the general topic and find the idea fascinating, the article has a lot of other questionable statements in it. Like this one: Even the most commonplace technologies — take, say, email — are making it tough for workers to get jobs. That's obviously wrong. Email and the net allow people to find employers around the world whereas before they might have been limited to their local area. Heck, I hired a commission artist just two days ago, I initiated contact via email.
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Re:Wow, 3% = doom?
From TFA: "1,082,370 U.S. citizens employed in the life sciences, such as biology and genetics, as well as physical and social sciences. Of these, approximately 31,000"
Wow, those are some massive cuts. An entire whopping 3% of the people may lose their jobs!
People just don't get it. The US government does not need to cut its budget by 3%. It needs to cut its budget by 50% or more. Many programs and federal departments need eliminated entirely. It's not even about the $16 Trillion debt. If the government ran honest accounts, it's about the $200 Trillion debt.
Don't worry, citizens of America. That's only some $650,000 per person that the government has borrowed on behalf of each and every one of you. No problem, right?
Not all, but many of those 1,082,370 US citizens invested about a decade in their education before entering these fields. (I am a physical scientist and for me it took 12 years of education before I could enter the work force.) When you put pressure on people willing to devote that much effort into education just to prepare for a job, you will create a brain drain. So much of the remarkable leaps in science and technology in the US during the 20th Century were the result of reverse brain drain where, for example, soviet countries weren't willing to invest in science, driving their best and brightest to the US. Also, in this case "lose their jobs" does not mean the same thing as it would to, for example, a software engineer. When Apple cuts back its work force, people lose their jobs at Apple, and then find employment elsewhere. When you gut research funding, people lose their jobs, period. They are then forced to compete in other fields where they are 1) over-qualified (on paper), 2) competing with people much younger (the decade of education), 3) paid less, and 4) wasting the decade of education that was in all likelihood partially funded by taxpayer dollars to begin with. And, over time, the result will be fewer new technologies, less innovation, and less economic activity that would otherwise have been derived from said technologies and innovation. The ROI of government research dollars over time beats anything Wall St can cook up. For an obvious example, look at what the space program did for plastics, composites, and other "space age materials." The materials in Tiger Woods' driver got their start with government investments in research 50+ years ago.
The US government absolutely does not need to cut its budget by 50% or more, that assertion is unadulterated lunacy. First of all, it would induce a total economic collapse from which the country would never recover. Think of the downstream job losses just from the defense contractors that would go out of business. Second, the government needs to reduce the difference between revenue and spending, which can happen by increasing revenues (in the form of increased economic activity or higher taxes/fees/tariffs/etc) and/or by cutting spending. Also, "borrowing on behalf of each and every one you" is an intellectually dishonest over-simplification of what sovereign debt actually means in the post gold-standard era. The economy is debt-driven; without fractional reserve lending and other debt-creation processes there would be no capital with which to drive the economic engine. The discussion should be over what is a healthy ratio of debt to economic activity.
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Wow, 3% = doom?
From TFA: "1,082,370 U.S. citizens employed in the life sciences, such as biology and genetics, as well as physical and social sciences. Of these, approximately 31,000"
Wow, those are some massive cuts. An entire whopping 3% of the people may lose their jobs!
People just don't get it. The US government does not need to cut its budget by 3%. It needs to cut its budget by 50% or more. Many programs and federal departments need eliminated entirely. It's not even about the $16 Trillion debt. If the government ran honest accounts, it's about the $200 Trillion debt.
Don't worry, citizens of America. That's only some $650,000 per person that the government has borrowed on behalf of each and every one of you. No problem, right?
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Re:Neural Network for Machine Learning on Coursera
Actually, Google has already launched neural network based speech recognition. The cat demo was for fun, the underlying technology is already applied to real problems though. I can tell you now based on practical experience as a user that the accuracy boost from it has been amazing. The dictation feature in Android went from being "amusing toy" to "actually useful" almost overnight.
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Re:Fucking Slackers!
actually they did some flash fuzzing already