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For a harbinger of what's to come, look into what's happening in Romania with their Rosia Montana gold mine. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-11/paulson-ba... http://…

It's not out yet, but you might want to check out "Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe", by Bamberger and Mulligan.

Seriously, as a Dutch/American dual citize I'm debating moving back to the NL simply for this reason. From what I can tell I would pay close to a quarter in NL for better insurance…

> the more extreme the weather anomaly, the less likely it is to be caused by human-induced (anthropogenic) global warming. I'm not an expert in this field by any measure. However,…

There's still a very active community of Supcom Forged Alliance Forever players. If you want to watch some great gameplay check out Gyle's channel on Youtube.

Why does every article about Portland make it into some magical incredibly different place. Does water not run downhill in Portland, OR? I spend a fair amount of time in Portland a…

As an American who immigrated to The Netherlands I would like to know of this mythical country in the world with a working immigration system. AFAICT they're all rather broken. US …

We should recognize that the constitution still allows slavery as a punishment for crime. This is as much about slave labor, as it is about the prison industry receiving money from…

I don't know why the EFF is praising ICANN for not becoming the Internet's trademark enforcer. Every new gTLD must deal with the Trademark Clearinghouse. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

You might just try contacting the biggest union near you and asking. They typically know plenty of labor lawyers. It can't hurt.

Having read "The Computer and the Brain" by von Neumann. I would argue some key aspects of the von Neuman architecture are a computer's ability to store a program in memory, and ha…

Any argument at this point will require a level of speculation that makes me uncomfortable. I'm against the TTIP on principle, simply because I cannot read it. That's the only info…

Good general overview of prison labor: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor... More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and constru…

We can't engage in any nuanced conversation of the TPP because we don't know what's in it. Given that, I find no reason to be anything but completely against it.

They're not outliers. Go to almost any large American city and there is a poor area where most of the black people live, and a better off area where most of the white people live. …

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the amount of information we get in many sec bug reports? Almost everytime I read a CVE or other vulnerability I find myself with more questions th…

I'm reminded of the old 'competitors' to the Internet that existed in the early 1990's. Remember Prodigy, or AoL?

It really depends on what your bottleneck is. If your bottle neck is already CPU, then TLS is not that big of a deal. If, OTOH, your bottleneck is disk, then implementing TLS can c…

It's an ISP. Am I missing something?

Both the original and this retort forget to consider that different users have different needs. Security is never going to be a 'one size fits all' kind of arrangement. Different u…

This article is not that good, nor is the intended audience those unfamiliar with Foucault's work. Foucault wrote about many different things. Mostly he was interested in the evolu…

1) SSL and TLS are basically the same thing. We just changed the name when we reached SSLv4. TLSv1 == SSLv4 2) TBL is concerned that changing the URI by appending an 's' to 'http' …

Let's all take a moment to lament the sorry state of man pages in Linux.

On the one hand it's nice that developers are using more libraries and writing less from scratch. On the other hand dependencies are out of control. The one thing that really bothe…

I find the simplicity of HN a real plus on mobile. It's much easier to read on my iPhone than many 'mobile friendly' websites.