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thinkMOAR··on Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far
"Does the price prove that bitcoin has not failed?"

Does the price of a painting determine it is a good painting? Afaik not.

thinkMOAR··on 50% of Millennials would give up their right to vote to get student loans erased
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/go-to-prison-and-get-you...

Afaik this is already possible, just commit a serious enough felony and make sure you go to a federal prison :) you won't be able to vote anymore, plus easy way to get rid of your student loan(s). I wouldn't advice it though.

thinkMOAR··on When devops makes a clock
The minutes of the hour aren't in sync with ntp though? Seems users of the clock will always be 1 minute late
thinkMOAR··on Chromium: FTP resources will be marked “Not Secure”
In my humble opinion, i find the label 'not encrypted' better fitting than 'not secure'.

[ edit after replies ]

Agreed, perhaps i unrightfully assumed people now what 'encrypted' means. Growing up with computers i don't know any better and sometimes forget or can't properly imagine what layman know and don't know.

thinkMOAR··on Equifax Argentinian portal secured with admin/admin
If you want something to get done, go do it (and hopefully many will follow). Do not hope others will do things or solve issues while you wait and see.
thinkMOAR··on Photographer wins 'monkey selfie' legal fight
On another site, somebody asked the question,

Can you then also sue peta when an animal then steals something of you? E.g. if the monkey would have ran away with the cam, theft.

thinkMOAR··on Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your device without a passcode
In theory i agree if you read up on what is shared about it.

In practice i have very strong doubts this is a fact. Specially since there is '5 eyes', '6 eyes', '9 eyes' and '14 eyes'. And any of the members are monitoring domestic terrorism, so i fail to see how they are not spying on their own citizens.

thinkMOAR··on Curl’s backdoor threat
Well at some point one can never know things for sure. BUT, not running it on the device you want to filter would be a good step. And default deny.

Security is a matter of layers, there is not one layer that fixes all.

thinkMOAR··on Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your device without a passcode
Pretty much agreed, though not living in a five eyes country doesn't mean any of those eyes aren't 'looking' at you. :)
thinkMOAR··on Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your device without a passcode
ah man.. i just needed to clean my monitor of coffee reading this. :)

Samsung, really? :D weeping angel rings a bell?

thinkMOAR··on Curl’s backdoor threat
As others write, this is not specific to curl and strict explicit egress filtering, the best (and imho only) safety, pain in the ass initially but avoid connections to any non whitelisted destination.
thinkMOAR··on Ask HN: Am I addicted to HackerNews?
I think you are confusing addiction with eagerness or interest to learn about things, your curiosity. At least that's the reason i typically visit HN, i don't have time to visit all the sourced pages that were once featured on HN because they had a nice article or other sort of information. But i do want to read about new things, explore, for this HN is a great source.

For social 'exploring'/learning or just simple entertainment 9gag.com is a nice website to spend your 'idle minutes' at, the minutes you want to spend on non technical things.

thinkMOAR··on IPv10
No, that not. monies are too important for many. But if they would consider such, hypothetical, i think it would be a great motivator for ipv6 adoption.
thinkMOAR··on Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China
I guess you don't live in the same country as me where it _always_ rains.

Also plenty of people have have water damaged phones, from using them in bath, dropping then in the toilet or simply forgot to take them out of their pockets before plunging into the ocean. That you don't know these people or don't do it yourself, doesn't mean there are few water damaged phones.

Also please read: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prEMEA42146116

thinkMOAR··on Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China
People prefer to have a headphone jack over water-resistance?

It is pretty save to assume it's no longer water-resistance as it was coming from the factory after the drilling?

thinkMOAR··on Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
It would make me very sad if this would be the case, that every newspaper is going to be running the same kind of software stack. It's then 1 step away from just having only 1 news paper in total.

Diversity, choice, innovation, etc up to different reporters reporting on the same story with their point of view, will all disappear if all newspapers are going to run the same software stack.

thinkMOAR··on IPv10
Efforts to get ipv6 rolled out faster and easier are imho good. Though, not sure if this actually helps.

I am not a fan of using hardware/mac addresses in ip addresses, in my opinion its a big security/privacy issue. Tracking, hardware details leaking etc.

And somehow i think ipv10 will make the migration for some parties even less of a priority or less urge to 'finish' it. I think if they really want to 'promote' and accelerate IPv6 rollout... Facebook and Instagram should have ipv6 days only. E.g. one day in the week or month, you can only connect with facebook/instagram over ipv6; then you'll see how fast endusers will want to be on ipv6 (and once all endusers are dual stacked.. parties can slowly start disabling ipv4 all together). And then i assume the ipv4 only parties will make a bit of a hurry getting their ipv6 in order.

thinkMOAR··on Rosetta Stone for Unix (2014)
Great overview! Very handy, however very poor layout in my opinion, I have to note that. Could really use some css
thinkMOAR··on Show HN: Make Medium Readable Again
(in my humble opinion) they should just as much look at the content they publish as how they publish it. The amount of clickbait quality articles on medium is sky rocket high.
thinkMOAR··on Keylogging on IPhone and Android Using Gyroscope Data and Machine Learning
Neat, though i'd call it key-estimation rather then logging, as i consider logging a very accurate, 1:1 log of what actually happened, this could have some errors in it, not making it less 'dangerous', lack of better word.

But for now i'll have to randomly rotate my device at each input... And or get one of those keyboards that shuffles the letters around the keyboard at each input.

thinkMOAR··on Ask HN: How can I make my LinkedIn better?
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1q6u1z/my_great_aunt_m...

no you can make jewellery out of it?

thinkMOAR··on Ask HN: How can I make my LinkedIn better?
better photo indeed, almost looks like a police mugshot. No offence intended.
thinkMOAR··on Debian reproducibility statistics
Why do you consider this a joke site?

And just because you are easily confused, everybody should stick to .com only?

thinkMOAR··on 1 in 3 Americans Have $0 Saved for Retirement (2016)
Yes, which allows people to buy even more crap food. Though that doesn't answer my curiosity if financial planning and 'food' planning have some sort of relation.
thinkMOAR··on Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way
"If Firefox is dedicated to preserving privacy, then no Opt-in data feature should be added. "

I really don't understand this of the user, while previous sentence he writes:

"but I will say that I believe Opt-in is pro-privacy, while Opt-out is anti-privacy."

thinkMOAR··on Google's Anti-Bullying AI Mistakes Civility for Decency
Got a link?
thinkMOAR··on Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
Dont lie. In any way. Nothing is more upsetting then (the longer the worse) your manager/boss who has been lying to you.
thinkMOAR··on Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
Dear CloudFlare, Hi mr prince i know you read this.

Could you please apply the same policy to malicious sites that are you are proxying which you never bother to take down because of 'insert poor reasons here'? I think thats worse then to see or read an opinion i don't agree with, regardless of how explicit that opinion is or how badly i disagree. People should be able to say what they want where they want and not only when the largest part of the population/media agrees.

The limit lies at VIOLENCE. There never is a reason to enforce or show your opinion through means of violence. Ever.

thinkMOAR··on Dr Bronwyn Tarr: How to live a happy life
So you read the title on HN and decided to post this comment which basically has no relation with the actual article?

Though to address your comment:

Keep in mind, some are happy to be the working class, know what they have to do between 9-5 because somebody told them to do that.

Some enjoy being a student, think their student years are the best years of their life. Why is that not worth a loan?

Some people could be happy exploiting others, some actually like it when they get exploited. (there are freaky people ont his planet; don't judge).

Some people are happy when others care for them, others are happy when they can care for others.

Happiness one can only decide for themselves; and the grass is always greener at the house next-door....

thinkMOAR··on Kaspersky Lab Has Been Working with Russian Intelligence
I had this plan, but somebody recently ruined that by explaining the life of a farmer is also filled with software, copyrights (on software/firmwares etc), DRM etc etc

Farmer life isn't very much different from a it techy in a 'technology disappointing' kind of way.

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