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Volpeon Why Chinese people will drive the next bull market in bitcoin

Why would you want these things if you were chinese?

Volpeon India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement

I wouldn't agree with this. the poor (generally) on their own: Have no chance. They can work endlessly, and their situation will not change. Kamaal seems to be blaming them for being 'victims'... But they literally have no chance on their own. They need others (poor and higher classes) to change the institutions that cause their helplessness.

Arguing they have only themselves to rely on, feels like a rationalisation to not help them.

Volpeon China's internet: A giant cage

> There's an PRC sanctioned sect of Christianity. Buddhist monks in Tibet need to be registered Communist party members.

You can, and a lot of people are buddhist in china without any interference from the state.

> It's questionable how much Marxism actually existed from the beginning. I don't think that Marx envisioned famines starving the poor in his "worker's paradise."

That's like saying "It's questionable how democractic USA is/was given they had slavery."

And to nitpick, they starved the rich as well ;-) (which is a bit more marxist)

Volpeon China's internet: A giant cage

In 2000 would you have said "The US could setup a prison just outside its borders so it could ignore the bill of rights, but it wouldn't - because that would be insane!?"

The US has been doing some pretty insane things... Yes they haven't Nuked half the planet, but that pretty far down the spectrum of 'insane'... Shutting down, or heavily censoring the internet is not...

You do recall what happened to wikileaks in the US, right? Some phone calls, and Amazon shuts their servers down....

Volpeon India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement

Your callousness and (what seems to be a) lack of empathy to those less fortunate is quite confronting to read.

Volpeon Lockheed Martin pays $10M for D-Wave's Quantum Computer

So does this mean Shor's Algorithm is going to kick in for real and ruin all our securityz?

Volpeon To Fight Gridlock, Los Angeles Synchronizes Every Red Light

Or have no traffic lights and the cars intersecting detect and adjust speed accordingly/create gaps/etc (would look/be scary but it'd work).

Volpeon Revamped Cyprus deal to close bank, force losses

Why can't they leave the EU?

Volpeon Poll: Do you meditate?

Why?

Volpeon Ex-Googlers Train Machine Army to Sift Out Crooks

Brute forcing "ALL" the credit card numbers is not hard... Limitiing the search space doesn't make it easier... it just saves a little bit of electricity.

Volpeon We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate

... None of that stuff requires github.

How about also have the code on bitbucket (if you want to use flashy web services). Chances of them going down at the same time seems remote.

Volpeon Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles

Manufacturing (I believe) (i.e moving production line)

Volpeon We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate

I'm sorry with the poor assumption... But you started this thread with "Github downtime is the reason we can't use git internally" <--- This illustrates either you don't understand git very well. OR you don't understand logic very well.... I was giving you the benefit of the doubt on the latter... :\

Volpeon We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate

> We'd lose our deployment, integration tests, continuous integration, ability to pull other team changes from the master and code review platform. That's a big chunk of our deb infrastructure.

You'd lose all that from using git? Why? Are you saying if you switched to git without switching any of your svn infastructure? We aren't talking about github downtime anymore are we...

> Size is mentioned as to be honest we moved a load of stuff to git in 2011as a test case and it couldn't handle it.

A repo I interact with daily is now pushing 54gb, it contains large test fixtures that have HD videos, and images in it. I've never had any issues. (It takes a while to copy it around...)

Volpeon We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate

I think your issue is, you don't understand DVCS very well.

Volpeon We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate

my git repo has remained up 100% of the time - even when github goes down, my repo continues working.

I'm available for consulting if you want this kind of uptime ;-D

Volpeon We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate

You know you can run git internally as well?

Using github as an excuse to stay with svn seems rather ill informed.

You wouldn't lose hours if github is down. You might lose your ability to deploy (if you are deploying from github) but you could setup any other remote you like, and deploy from that.

I'm not sure what the 'size' of your repo has to do with anything...

Volpeon Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen anywhere else

Which 'massive wealth' are you referring to?

Volpeon Dirt may explain why richest countries suffer diseases rarely seen anywhere else

Caveat: Working Hard in Australia - might be considered "Lazy and fat" in another country.

40 hour work weeks is hardly "Working extremely hard"

Volpeon Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system

I'm curious why you are conflating individual freedom with economic growth? China (and in the inverse, india) are the best examples of why you are wrong.

i.e Why is China's growth so far outstripping India's given India has more freedom?

Volpeon Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system

> The big fears of the (non-activist) population are that someone will physically take them or their children to a dark hole, and that someone they know will inform on them so that happens.

I think you vastly underestimate the rule of law in china. This doesn't happen. Nor are general people afraid of it happening. Where are you getting this impression from?

> It seems to me that the chinese state is in a bind similar to that faced by Deng xiaoping - this thing the West does (Capitalism or Internet) is enabling them to charge so economically ahead it is an existential threat not to follow. But if we do follow the party risks losing control.

That was not the bind Deng Xiaoping faced. He took over china right after the cultural revolution which occurred right after the "Great leap forward". He had a floundering nation that he needed to jump start. State controlled capitalism is the answer to that problem, and fits well with the Socialism narrative (i.e building capital, is the first stage before sharing it).

> Deng did take the risk and the loss of control seemed to be offset - however this time the rifts in the party are deeper, the gulf between rich and poor wider.

This again misrepresents the facts. The gap between the Rich and poor, is wider, yes, but the poor are much richer now. The rifts in the party seem MUCH smaller now. China is no where near a "Cultural Revolution" now... that's how bad the rifts were then.

East Germany is NOTHING like modern China, it might have been similar around the cultural revolution, but the Stasi style informing/kidnapping/interrogating was uniquely east germany.

Volpeon Chinese solar producer Suntech declares bankruptcy

Citation? Or is this just racial slur?

Volpeon Ex-Googlers Train Machine Army to Sift Out Crooks

https://siftscience.com/docs/rest-api

There is no requirement in their api to supply CC details... so no requirement to be PCI.

So it would be weird if they did mention PCI...

The first 6 and the last 4 is not enough to make a valid CC... And if you are still guessing the last details then it's the same as just guessing the full number. (just you'll get their quicker)

Volpeon Australia Post's free Amazon locker-style service

Except MUCH more reliable.

Volpeon Two Months of Soylent

Are $1-$2/day wages common in the US?

That $150/month cost is a cost incurred in the US. It would be a different cost to source the ingredients in every country.

Volpeon Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer Faces Jail

Didn't he try to extort money out of them after spidering all the information?

Volpeon Bills seek end to farm animal abuse videos

There are lots of ways to express how we should treat eachother (and animals), other than "Rights".

Being able to think outside of the existing paradigm of rights based thinking is not something that is "wrong" it is actually more 'considered' than knee jerk assertions.

Volpeon Startup Australia

How is your statement related to your question?

Volpeon Startup Australia

Tasmania is used for a testcase because it is a great 'micro-version' of Australia. So potential issues that arise can be dealt with at a scale of 500,000 rather than 20,000,000.

> Burnie in the middle of Tasmania going to encourage the creation of technology startups when its users are going to be technologically uneducated in the first place? What will most likely happen is all that bandwidth (paid by taxpayers) will most likely be used for Torrenting music, warez, movies and porn.

I'll paraphrase your words: Poor/socio-economically disadvantaged people don't deserve nice things, because they are too poor to understand them. Politicians are short sighted for ignoring the rich middle class.

You're view point is exactly WHY the NBN should be rolled out.

Volpeon Startup Australia

I think you are building a narrative to suit your own argument. Industry (telstra, optus, iinet, etc) NEVER planned a nationwide network of fiber (even before NBN was announced) let alone a Fiber-to-the-Home solution.

Australia has 20 million people spread across one of the largest countries in the world, there is not enough market (i.e critical mass) for private firms to build this kind of infrastructure, it is called market failure, it is EXACTLY when government should intervene.

>I'm still not convinced. How is ability of users being able to send each other high-resolution images, HD video etc. going to be worth $50bn+ to economy?

Why was electricity so important just to spread nighttime lighting!? Why'd we even bother!? You don't know that all we will use data for is HD video/image.

Also I think you underestimate how much caching occurs, speeding up local network with speed up "the internet" as ISPs cache a lot.