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dmitrygr

13,816karma·4,955submissions·March 28, 2012
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I make things and I break things for fun.

me@dmitry.gr

https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/

Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple

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Not a realistic option in today's world, sorry. I can suggest some literature
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People keep saying this and it a profound misunderstanding of how the world works. Nobody likes USA. Nor is that required. It is irrelevant. International politics do not run on emotions. As long as U…
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They have families to feed. This might forever protect their families from any financial misfortune. Any sane person would do the same. I would.
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Simply put: The US has the ability to enforce or to cause enough pain to cause self-enforcement </realpolitik>
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4chan fighting for us all! Bravo.
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It would work until algorithms were adjusted to it, which would happen as soon as significant number of people started doing it. Colors are defeated by desaturating, which is no issue since most face …
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I understand that claim. I will not even argue against it. But, as you pointed out - there are two options only, so they must be evaluated against each other. Ds would need to go quite a bit further i…
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Would that not require them to ... support fiscally conservative actions, which would lose them a large part of their voting bloc?
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And we now again live in a time where such things are done and go un (or under) punished. This is why I expect more of that. I do not celebrate it, but I expect it.
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something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy This is exactly what lack of law-enforcement eventually leads normal people to do…
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Historically, eventually the people realize that the state is doing too little to protect them from crime. Usually, at that point in time, a posse is formed. Having images of repeatedly-encountered pe…
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> She was 15, that’s older than the age of consent in a lot of US states. What are you smoking? The lowest age of consent in any US state is 16
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As UK showed, leaving EU is hard and EU will fight you on it as well as seek to penalize you
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> The objective is to enable innovative companies to operate under a single, harmonised set of EU-wide rules, covering relevant aspects of corporate, insolvency, labour and tax law. A good idea in …
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Answers will be provided after adequate proof that you will not bring the voting record that made illinois what it is with you.
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Then by your logic, every society on earth failed, because there are no places where you can act belligerently towards law enforcement and expect it to end well.
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Maybe I am just dumb but I think I missed why this is cool. I found it incoherent and thus failed to enjoy it. I've heard the name "There Is No Antimemetics Division" before and it was …
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> We've had software upgrades on cars for years now. Those of us who cared enough and did not want them -- have not had them. it is very easy to replace an antenna with a 50 ohm resist…
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> I haven't done this myself, but my naive brain thinks it's probably a good idea. Many a disaster started this way
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This. IL and MA follow whatever CA does with a few year lag. Considerations of sanity never enter into the discussion.
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> I'm sure that's due to depressing subsidies Based on what data do you make such unsubstantiatable statements?
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Ding Ding Ding. We have the correct answer. And this was a predicted consequence of that profit cap.
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And yet again 50% of the work is working around IPv6 nonsense. I long for the day when we give up on it and try again (with proper DHCP and proper support for NAT)
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