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MerManMaid
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Comment #47796605
This is incorrect in that the term was not neutral before WW2 nor was Nazi Germany Eugenics really unique. Taking these claims one at a time: >the term was value neutral. By the la…
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Comment #46048685
>I thought there was a name for this(cant find it) Ne supra crepidam? "not beyond the shoe" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_supra_crepidam
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Comment #43731643
The 22nd amendment and age. (for me anyway) https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-22/ Not saying he won't try to circumvent it (definitely wouldn't be shocked) b…
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Comment #43054301
>An IPv6 router with a stateful firewall blocking incoming connections could have just the same issues with timeouts, I'd imagine. You'd be surprised... PCP (Port Control Protocol)…
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Comment #42551049
He steered us to join the war which did end the depression. Whether it be the new deal or non-isolationist policy, his direction led us out of the great depression which started be…
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Comment #42111812
It was bad engineering full stop. Yes the root cause might stem from management but good engineering would not have the doors flying off... thus bad engineering. Regardless of ever…
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Comment #41908018
In smaller countries like Germany increasing the class size makes sense but countries like the US, it just doesn't scale. Just to give a better sense, my quick google-fu (so take i…
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Comment #41761830
Just some quick fact checks: >is father was a somewhat wealthy engineer. At the time Errol & Maye were divorcing they had 2 homes, 5 cars, a yacht, and a plane. Most people don't o…
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Comment #41760704
In the context of this thread, IEEE aren't the ones who can improve such things. WiFi 6E and WiFi 7 both make considerable improvements on connect time but at the end of the day, t…
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Comment #41670734
What's the effective difference between exiting now and if it does achieve in your words "nearly infinite value" to him personally? Either way he is set for life, truly being one o…
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Comment #41630389
IPv4 as well as IPv6 was designed with endpoint to endpoint communication in mind so when NAT was conceived (originally intended to be a stop-gap while we moved to IPv6) we also ha…
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Comment #41536078
Or you know... kids and/or elderly who lack the knowhow?
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Comment #41526627
Germany does not mandate that TOR end-node providers are expected to log their users. Saying that not logging someone who went through your end-node is intentionally hindering the …
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Comment #41491138
>If IPv6 were made today, it would be tunneled inside an HTTP connection. All the new apps would adopt it, the legacy apps would be abandoned or have shims made, and the whole thin…
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Comment #41132459
PLCs are explicitly considered high value targets as they control large swaths of a nation-states critical infrastructure as well as connect to high value end-points in air-gapped …
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Comment #41104189
>I do NOT miss that point. The point is, new protocol should not be very different from previous one, unless its really necessary. >>The only flaw is too small address space. >>>Wi…
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Comment #41098200
>What IPng team should do, is just take IPv4, extended it to 64bit, call it IPv6 and we are done. This is literally what they did, except they made it 128 bit rather than 64. The t…
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Comment #40870065
In short, the problem with using Nazi's as a comparison is the strong emotional reactions people are prone to experience. (Justifiably so to be clear) When a person invokes the Naz…
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Comment #40438230
>there's always going to be competition for the best. Agreed but surely we could come up with a form of competition more fair than something which heavily favors the wealthy and/or…
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Comment #40437892
Love where your head is at, but assuming we're talking about the united states, we literally just have enough money and resources to subsidize every kid who wants to attend college…
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Comment #40437757
I actually agree with the spirit of what you're saying but I feel compelled to point out that Alexander actually wasn't a king for very long. The median reign for hellenistic ruler…
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Comment #40436138
Absolutely, I just think our time is better spent examining the source of the problem.
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Comment #40436071
>It’s just you. The ineffectiveness is the point. This service is a joke, it’s surely illegal. Everyone knows it’s a “failing” system, you can’t scale free customer service forever…
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Comment #40435503
Perhaps its just me, but I feel like a lot of users are missing the forest for the trees here. Services such as these only pop up when legitimate solutions prove ineffective at add…