Isn't that what you do?

If you have deals with many strangers do you not expect to get your hands dirty in some way?

I definitely don't store my SSH keys on stranger computers. I however used passwords on my relatives or customers devices on numerous occasions. Don't pretend you never did, I'm not going to believe you.

Sure, I've used other machines in the past. I prefer not to though in most circumstances and assume that any account / password that I use on said machine is compromised from then on.

This was something I changed when I realized that a tax related government agency's machine I was using about 10 years ago man in the middled SSL connections to my online banking. Who knows what was logged and what the retention on that was? I don't have time or the inclination to ensure every relative's / customer's devices are secure, so I use my own or go without.

This reply seems a little unhinged in comparison to the preceding comment.

The preceding comment suggested that using a website without understanding authentication is like buying a car that has no airbags. That's unhinged. You know those "IQ tests" where they go "the foot is to the leg like the hand is to the..." type analogies? This person would fail hard.

I disagree that this is implied by his comment.

The Windows version of Transmission-qt does not allow one to completely disable seeding. Little bellwethers go a long way in identifying poor applications.

Be careful who you tell this to. Or be prepared to vehemently defend yourself from charges of incompetence at the next important political decision you face.

Propaganda based on the intellect can and does happen more routinely than is healthy in any society.

Sorry if this is a downer. I have your best interests in mind.

Thanks for the laugh! I appreciate your concern for my future political decisions.

Called hypnagogic auditory hallucinations - these are common period (Feynmann discusses how to acquire them in his autobiography) but especially common if you have temporal lobe epilepsy. Note that most cases of epilepsy are never diagnosed because most seizures are nocturnal, and focal, not necessarily the tonic/clonic seizures movies have made us familiar with.

The Wikipedia article seems very biased in their favor.

I'd say that's because Wikipedia largely exists due to them.

You guys can be real dicks to people who express slightly alternate opinions.

I have a serious question: why can't bridges be rebuilt instantaneously, similar to a reset in the diplomatic sphere? If it is within the best interest of all parties involved, it can and should happen... Westphalia comes to mind.

We should keep in mind that fates don't have to be sealed, that redemption is always possible. After all, the goal is peace.

I like the party idea.

Sure, but it would take nothing short of a revolution to do so. Like, the entire party elite, who have countenanced the slide from Gingrich to W to Palin to Bachmann to Trump would have to go, or have some sort of Saul-to-Paul conversion event. It's really difficult to imagine. Since the 60s (and especially since the 80s),the GOP has been the party of the racist. And it continues to dig itself deeper into that hole (see http://www.vox.com/2016/8/28/12682876/maine-lepage-racist-sh..., for example).

I don't think there's anything wrong with refutations of pop-science. Thanks for posting.

> It's just the audience that HN draws.

The content of this thread seems to contradict this claim.