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> I had a 1ghz, 256gb ram machine You had a 256gb ram machine???

Low wages is a problem that will fix itself. When there was a shortage of truck drivers, wages for truck drivers went up. That’s how a market economy works. If there aren’t enough …

When the constitution was written, less than 25% of the US population had the right to vote. Basically only White male property owners could vote. That was a very different politic…

rootkit.com I wonder what was in the forums.

By disproving it, probably.

The Second Demographic Transition theory holds that low fertility rates are a feature of developed economies, just as high fertility rates are a feature of agrarian economies. I do…

What’s wrong with Spring RTS?

I thought furin cleavage sites naturally occurred in coronaviruses? See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...

> immediate representation Should be “intermediate representation”

I would contest the claim that being an asshole is something that “happens to” a person, rather than something that the person chooses to do.

There would be no negative consequences for you if you failed to take an upskirt picture. But if a country falls behind in weapons technology, then its very existence is imperilled…

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If employers really were desperate for workers, wages would rise. But wages haven’t risen. The only reasonable conclusion is that there isn’t really a shortage of workers.

> As Kim explained to me, if you’re laying out in the freezing cold, drinking some alcohol may be the only way to warm up and get to sleep. Does alcohol actually warm you up? I tho…

Pathological lying is one of the indicators of psychopathy. Not quite the same thing as what you’re talking about but one can’t be too careful about those things.

That’s not my takeaway from the article. Schneier was mostly talking about how the war on terror has been a waste of money, because human actors will always find a way to circumven…

Given the cyber offensive capabilities of modern major nation states it’s unlikely to help much in protecting against deliberate attacks (see stuxnet). So I wonder what the true pu…

> Dragonfly is the invention of a guy named Dan Harkins. Dan Harkins took it upon himself to retrofit elliptic curves onto first-generation multiplicative-group PAKEs like SRP. We’…

Computer scientists are hardly "outsiders" to math problems. The famous computer scientists (Turing, Knuth, Dijkstra etc) were all mathematicians by training.

Genocide has always been a thing. The Romans wiped out god knows how many tribes. I'd say a 100% death rate for a particular tribe or nation is much bloodier than, say, 50%, wouldn…

>The proof of correctness of the algorithm revealed that the read or write of an entire number need not be atomic. The bakery algorithm is correct as long as reading a number retur…