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Here's a real historical inconsistency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_years_%28Jewish_calend... I dislike the framing of some inconsistencies as "conspiracy theory". Mistak…

The media had ruled and controlled the western world with propaganda for the whole 20th century, from newspapers in early 1900s to TVs in late 1900s. We had a very brief period of …

Why is this legal? Why is it legal for Google to completely demolish a business with no human review, no due process and no excuse at all? Why do we keep hearing this without a sin…

I don't know why Arabs intentionally burning tires is a thing, but in Israel, there's an issue of Arabic villages regularly burning tires. As long as you live near a village, you'r…

Is ransom payment even considered "stolen" in the usual sense? You have willingly paid that, nobody took that from you without permission. I wouldn't be surprised if ransom has it'…

Because it would make houses an unattractive investment. Once you get rid of the cheap leverage, housing will never compete with other investments. You always need to pay for like …

I think mortgages as a concept are bad, and do more harm than good to the people who need to take them. I think gradually banning mortgages, by increasing the minimum required perc…

Nothing screams "we have microsoft keys!" harder than the fact that the only vulnerabilities reported by the NSA is a cryptographic validation bug. If I had to guess exactly what k…

The most frequent misunderstanding of science, (and it applies to many other fields such as cyber security security, politics, etc.) is that an imperfect solution is worthless, tha…

So that's the only defining bit of personality? That you're a woman? What about your personality? Up-front / discrete? Introvert / extrovert? Mannered / rude? So many other traits?…

It's not about me thinking I'm successful, because I don't. It's about not giving envious people the positive feedback they desire so much from their corrupt behavior. It's about g…

I've gotten used to the reeking smell of envy all my life. I was always encouraged by everyone to 'still be nice to them', to try to appease them, etc. It never, ever, and will nev…

Don't you think it is racist to actually care about the race of the interviewer? Would you even think about that if there wasn't a non-stop conversation about racial differences? M…

I find it extremely ironic that those opposing discrimination and racism are now the ones to view people as just statistics. The whole reason why racism and sexism is bad is becaus…

You can avoid it. They didn't disable it, but implemented MSR which disables it. Don't configure this MSR to disable HLE and you're good.

They do not disable it. They only implement MSR which can allow you to disable it. If you want to stay with updated microcode and with HLE, just don't configure it as disabled.

If regimes like Iran manage to stay alive despite all the sanctions and international isolation, while having the power to meddle in other countries despite having such a dire situ…

I posted this on scott's blog, still awaiting moderation: "I’m trying to understand the chain of inference from Google’s leaked result of quantum supremacy to theoretical computer-…

Make no mistake: these aren't rebel, this is Iran, trying to force the world to buy oil from her by terrorizing the competition.

This is even better, not only does Israel spy, it also sends trolls to hacker news to make sure you scottlocklin don't reveal their evil plans. I bet u're really afraid the mossad …

Great comment, if anyone else needed any better confirmation that this scottlocklin dude is some anti-semite, there you have it. Expected nothing less from you.

Let me get this straight: Israel risks pissing the U.S by spying on them, which can lead to them cutting ties with Israel, in order to make sure that US does not cut its ties with …

Naive would be thinking you can conduct espionage without ever getting caught. Getting caught spying a huge risk, and unless you have an even bigger risk, why would you ever do tha…

No, I think the lesson was learned. Why would you risk such a backlash again?

Exactly, why would you ever risk that? Would hearing trump talk to whatever on the phone, worth the huge risk? You can talk to him yourself, why would you ever risk pissing the US …