MichaelGG

And not just downvoted but flagged... Anyways yeah, I tried Ubuntu out and the Amazon icon is there and isn't easily removed. Plus Unbuntu has auto-on telemetry or crash reporting as far as I understand.

Under what circumstances is false flagging your own citizens warranted?

This isn't a contingency like a plan to nuke Canada if they are on the edge of becoming communists.

Still zero motive. FBI takes over a week to decipher a note that is trajectory calculations. Most mags unloaded. 23 rifles, most unused.

And he was wealthy enough to buy proper machine guns. If he really wanted to go all out, why not use the right tools? Why buy a California legal gimped rifle?

"Crazy" is not an excuse for glaring plot holes.

That doesn't even make sense to call money laundering, even under the ridiculous expansive views of the non-crime that people refer to as money laundering these days.

No, the Vegas shooting is strange enough to feed things by itself. The only hotel witness disappears for a to bit then does a weird interview on Ellen? If you pitched this as a TV episode it'd be rejected as too implausible. But that's probably true for lots of real stories.

Along with the US's best ally targeting British and American civilians: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

One wonders what the actual rate of successful false flags are. Was the USS Liberty a failed false flag of opportunity?

I agree with you but HN is better off without these kinds of comments. Better to have people downvote and move on or just leave a short corrective note.

Nah they'll just use those laws to steal your money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5292750.stm

But AIPAC isn't forced to do so, despite even engaging in espionage[1] and literally boasting about how they've corrupted and influenced top politicians[2]. So everyone should take this foreign agent registration stuff as more political theater.

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

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs...

Because Tether can set the rules since they run the system? Perhaps they will use this as an excuse to claim everyone is tainted and force another haircut?

This also illustrates the absurdity of so called "money laundering". Just moving money around between private parties is somehow a serious crime. Hint: It's not. Money laundering is just a cheat code for prosecutors to get easy points when they can't actually find real wrongdoing.

The funny part is that Tethers came into being after Bitfinex was hacked, right, as a way to help them out? Sometimes we say after someone or a company makes a mistake they're less likely to do so again. In this case, "oops"?

Amazon kicked this off, delisting Chromecast and Apple TVs, and lying about it.

F#. Back in 2006 I first stumbled upon it and was amazed. It had so much potential. Everything C# did, and more, better. I was sure we'd see 20% of MS devs moving to it.

I underestimated the momentum of MS, the power of embarrassment of hiring a high-profile figure to be shown up by a researcher, the incredible anti-FP and even anti-generics...resentment(?) that MS kept towards them. Plus the insane comments from actual developers that literally did not understand the basics of C# ("C is a subset of C#" and "var is dynamic typing" <- comments from a public high-profile MS hire).

I've basically given up hope on programming becoming better over time. A lot of apps are boring grunt work anyway, so the edge in using better tools can be beaten just by throwing a lot of sub-par people at it.

On the plus side, for people looking to strike it rich in "tech", knowing tech isn't really a prerequisite. Persistence and the 'hacker' spirit, even if it means you spend all night writing something in PHP that would literally be one line if you know what you were doing, hey, that's what leads to big exits.

Interesting. I found Twitter to be vastly better than other social media companies. Far better documentation (though weird complicated auth where I get 4 pieces of info for some reason). Far more stable and understandable. Twitter returns a ton of data in each response so there's no need to go making multiple requests.

Compare to FB which is just a nightmare of trying to guess and figure things out. It's so bad. If it reflects their underlying model at all, their main codebase must be very difficult to work on.

Charging is a welcome improvement over the previous situation: Deal with Gnip or other data brokers. They're "Enterprise". Get no information, have to deal with a long sales cycle and sales team, have to wade through tons of BS to figure out what you need. It sucks.

Yeah working on FreeSWITCH, upgrading to VS2015 and we encountered an issue with a long series of else branches. Ended up having to split and nest for the code to compile.

Really? California lawmakers that literally invent terms write anti gun laws. Hell in Canada we had people flip through a magazine and cross out scary guns. There's even non existent guns banned by name.

The only NRA response I found echos what I first thought. Gun pointed at you? Don't move a single bit unless exactly directed. I figured that out in real-time, because I'm not going to trust some stressed out cop to stay chill. Particularly more if I appeared to be part of the highest crime demographic. It's still unfortunate and the cop should have had more training perhaps. But I guess I'm falling for propaganda.

What? You sure it doesn't come from the steady erosion of gun rights? Calls from all sorts of shifty politicians to restrict things, even when it makes no sense. Like after the LV shooting, when there is still no explanation available, just lies, yet people still use it to justify taking away more rights?

I used to think the NRA was nuts, then I saw that there's no negotiating with the other side. Gun owners only stand to lose, and have consistently had their rights destroyed. If they didn't have a persecution complex, they wouldn't be paying attention.

By that logic, kids have been taught that adults are out to kidnap, kill, and otherwise cause mayhem and the only way to stop them is fearless children, preferably one that talks to animals.

I regularly find stuff on Netflix that is only subtitled in a language not spoken in the movie. It's very frustrating. Combined with Netflix's increasingly shitty catalog and I'm sure I should cancel.

I remember watching Dumbo (with the Lambert The Sheepish Lion Pre-Show) off a broken cassette repeatedly. I have a very distinct memory of somehow hoping this time things would turn out differently. Like thinking OK, the mother elephant could just trample the guys this time. Nowadays I do not enjoy watching things a second time until I've really forgotten them, and only then if I'm introducing someone new to something great.

Probably because so many communications are moving to encrypted by default, HTTPS everywhere and WhatsApp for instance (as Brazil has found out). If the big players decide to switch to E2E then governments would need to get them to change their products. Better to head them off before it is too late.

That's totally flawed reasoning. The people, if they had their own governance, would not have .IO for Indian Ocean Territories. They'd have some other not anywhere as cool ccTLD. .IO is something the British Government created, not the locals.

You may have a point about the space but don't resort to insults like the last sentence. I think you also have a lot to prove when saying Ethereum has failed v Bitcoin.

Solidity is garbage. There is a ton of space for improvement between Solidity and even a solid programming language, let alone a formally verified system.

Exactly. I honestly do not understand how people think Apple is evading US taxes on overseas sales. Seems like any real way of taxing them on it will be a bad solution and advantage foreign companies.

A lower repatriation rate seems like a good idea to get money back into the US for local spending as well as collecting a bit in taxes.

Huawei and Samsung seem to be operating in the US just fine.

Sort of. Some places have very limited coverage on LBC. I've gone through my old ads ($50 BTC!) and in Guatemala it is still sparse. There's a bit of money pitching it on Facebook groups and grabbing a 5-10%+ markup nickle and diming it.

From personal experience, close by people are far more likely to hack you than strangers. Systems should reflect this. For instance, WhatsApp Web shows a prominent notification. Signal does not. So one investigative technique is to get someone's phone for a minute, connect Signal to the desktop client, then rather silently have access to their account.

When it comes to unlocking phones, I'm far more worried about family, romantic partners, friends' kids playing pranks or trying to get a bit of cash than I am about some organized crime gang or CBP faking my face or fingerprint.

Especially because as of a year ago, Hyper V still had terrible, terrible, time support. Kernel logs are filled with spam about the clock being jumped. Time sync constantly drifts seconds all over.

Compared to our Linux VMs on GCP, which get millisecond sync and stay that way because NTP actually works on whatever platform they use.

It's shocking that Windows still has no proper NTP support and people are OK with their clocks being so off. Makes logging and debugging certain issues a bigger pain.

That sounds very interesting! If you were working with their government, why did you need to smuggle them in?