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Might be harder as operations are aware that people can sniff out a shill or sock puppet if they have five minutes and cared.

People will optimize to cut costs and not consider themselves thieves, but savvy business owners.

This is a false equivalence. There isn't one and only one State Taxi Company. There are hundreds if not thousands of successful private taxi companies in each state.

There's one Uber and maybe Lyft if you're lucky. In the grey-area taxi market, they might fit the definition of a monopoly. I wouldn't argue that though because I know nothing about that market and reading that sentence back makes me laugh.

Microsoft operated in a relatively free market and was the arguably the best software provider as they were the most popular and profitable one for quite some time. They were also deemed a monopoly.

It seems blindingly obvious what the grandparent's intent was in this context.

What is weird and tortured in this comparison?

What about the social implications

I agree completely that there should be free and easily accessible addiction treatment centers available to those who need it.

I just don't think buprenorphine is the solution.

It's easily abusable and worth relatively a lot on the black market.

You run into the same problem you did with methadone: you're on an opioid that has a 16-27 day half-life. You will be withdrawing heavily for much longer than you would if you cold turkeyed a street opioid.

You're replacing one opioid with another, one addiction with another. This is 100% anecdotal, but I only know people who have had months and years of abject misery trying to come off of buprenorphine.

For hardcore opioid addiction, it might make sense. But there are options like the Naltrexone injection that doesn't involve replacement therapy.

This is the most HN sentence available, but:

Sitting down and really learning the internals of a language, it's community and tools enough to construct a large project with competence was definitely significant in my recovery from addiction.

They'd have to rely on intuition or their understanding of how the world works. If it's the latter, it sounds like (an informal) science was used.

Profiting from either group is morally bankrupt.

You know substance abusers have a problem and are giving you money to further it.

You know bigots have an agenda and are giving you money to further it.

Are you a 5' 5" woman who was handed a gun to protect herself against someone likely to over power them?

Or are you someone who was personally offended by the generalization that they might be in the group of people, considered Normal Humans, who don't handle life-threatening situations like a person in the special forces?

You're right, I assumed that they were able to handle hearing words in a civilized manner.

Doesn't sound like they're capable of controlling themselves around a deadly weapon, or is that a bad assumption to make as well?

A good percentage of the time a weapon used by a homeowner during a home invasion is used against them.

Get out of the house and let the authorities deal with it. Your stuff isn't worth your life or your family's continued safety.

Remember that most burglars aren't as shocked or scared as you are during a burglary. It's a routine for them. Their attention is focused on what to do if someone in the house notices.

If you brandish a weapon you're dealing with someone who is more alert and aware of the situation than you are and has no intention of dying.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/having-a...

We can look at when, how and by whom the "think of the children" argument is trotted out to get your answer.

Someone bought the "hackers" narrative.

Judging by those with Aspergers I know, they are as close to that as you'll get.

It leads to dysfunctional behaviors because people don't want to earnestly told that their face is ugly when they first meet someone and every time after that.

Honesty can be brutal.

This also leads to another issue: when the data is centralized like this, those who oversee it can never be held to the level of accountability they hold others to.

Poe's law at work.

"Sorry, this page doesn't work with IE6. Click here to download Mozilla Firefox"

I'm sure there are professional grade outfits, but many illicit metal scrappers I know are desperate and might take anything they perceive to have value.

A tracking device is a tracking device. Burners tend to be anomalies when it comes to activation/deactivation locations/times, payment methods, contacts communicated with and the locations/times that they're used.

If they're smart they'd want to minimize the electronic trail they'd leave behind and ditch the phone completely.

I'd love to be the lucky person who fits the profile of being in the right place at the wrong time.

Apparently, it depends on if the banks hired any Greeks. If they did, then yes.

Apple isn't trying to use the weight of the monopoly it doesn't have in a market to try to monopolize another.

In America, it's the bottom line.

PyOtherSide exists and is maintained

https://github.com/thp/pyotherside

I agree, but in this case I don't think you understand the severity.

This community is a joke on every site that isn't HN. And yet, I post.

A VPN will allow you to tunnel all of your traffic over a secure connection.

In SSH, you can tunnel ports, but that only secures traffic at that port. You can use a SOCKS proxy, but that only secures traffic configured to go through it. You can use the -w option and use IP forwarding, but then you're running TCP/IP over the SSH protocol which is bad. This is the closest you'll get to emulating what a VPN provides.

A child labor analogy would have worked better IMO

> Today's decision pushes back the more important goals of social equality and cultural integration. These are arguably more important, as our interactions with marriage laws are a relatively minor part of our lives when compared to our interactions with people.

We've proven as a society that this won't happen without administrative action being taken from the top.

The legality has real consequences for people right this second, so waiting for the tide of change is absurd to ask of those that are affected.

Both fronts can be attacked simultaneously.

Though, I do agree there is a trend to pass a stopgap measure and to then pretend the problem is fixed.

Telegram is the company that ignores proven crypto standards, rolls their own crypto without any verification or audit, then offers a $200k bounty to "break" their crypto by requiring developers to work with an arm tied behind their back by reducing the types of attacks that could be made in the real world.

Seems MTProto is the same as its always been

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931457

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta...