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  • Same. I bought my house a year before the housing market went up. Paid 110,000, now my bank says it’s worth 250,000.

    Honestly, as cool as it is for me, that’s just not fair to everyone else. We barely made enough for the 110k loan, and this house is barely big enough for everyone. No fucking way could we have gotten 250k in any sort of loan.

    Also when I say barely I mean barely, the seller actually went down to 110 from 120 because that was the max we could get, and we knew him personally. So on top of the price spike, we actually couldn’t afford our house, if I hadn’t made friends with the guy previously.




  • Maybe the poster thought there was a countdown. Not this one though, so you’re absolutely right.

    It works better when both gunners care about innocents. Imagine the ranger couldn’t find hits hideout, a big enough place it wasn’t easy, and Texas red didn’t wanna shoot up the place he was living.

    The ranger might get a message saying a time and place, so they can meet without causing a bunch of damage or risking innocents.

    Of course, the moustache-twirling sort of villains wouldn’t work with that at all. Just can’t trust them. But there’s plenty of room for this to make sense sometimes.


  • Yes.

    I started doing that when I was walking back to my dorm in college. It was winter, night fell early, and I didn’t notice someone 10’ ahead of me heading the same way. They got freaked out by the guy following them.

    It turned out to be someone who also lived in my dorm, so I “followed” them most of the way home before I realized the issue and called out to them.

    We ended up talking for a bit, and I said I’m sorry for scaring them, but the biggest issue was I seemed to come out of nowhere, so when they freaked out they thought I was some creep like, waiting to jump someone.

    So yeah, I make noise, for others comfort. I don’t even think about it anymore, it’s just automatic.

    The person I followed wasn’t even a woman, he just thought I was gonna mug him, but if I can freak out a 6’2" guy I could freak out anyone by accident.






  • Completely agree.

    The only reason the relative had it at all was because of those old fears. As soon as I learned that they had it bundled with the computer (hate that. Malware’s gotta get in somewhere though I guess), I knew why it was being slow.

    I hold this up as an example because even their own troubleshooting website and a program dedicated to the purpose above and beyond the usual uninstaller couldn’t do it though. Avast doesn’t even know its own malware.

    Also this nonsense got me the chance to put mint on their computer, but the “switch to Linux” argument isn’t constructive in this particular spot. They didn’t end up sticking to it because a required-for-school piece of software for tests just doesn’t do Linux at all. Couldn’t get it to run in wine or even a virtual machine either, and they’re not great at the whole computer thing so I didn’t wanna be tech support for dual booting.


  • Here’s an example. I removed avast via the uninstaller on a relatives computer, it made it laggy as hell. I restart after as the uninstaller demands, but it was still there.

    Searching, I find this official support option. https://support.avast.com/en-us/article/10

    The official Avast Uninstall Tool, the tool to use when the included uninstaller didn’t work.

    The official uninstall tool didn’t work either. I ran it in safe mode, like it said. Didn’t work, either, but it removed some stuff, and finally let me delete some things manually. Ran it again in safe mode after that, finally seems to have removed everything.

    Anyway it’s a great example of if a company doesn’t know what they’re about, windows has no process to recover from that. Window’s process is identical to a Walmart employee saying. “I dunno, man, contact the manufacturer.” Genuinely, its usually enough, but when its not, there’s absolutely no recourse.




  • Possibly. I’m not a big crypto guy, but it’s my understanding that any kind of transaction has a chance of being repeated. If there were a bad actor, and that bad actor used a VPN to swap identities, he could narrow this down considerably and weaken encryption. My code is as dumb as it gets, willing to consider 1 as a valid encryption key, but smarter code would be a lot more efficient.

    On top of that, you wanted this minimum code to run on A’s computer. If you do not trust A, then you’ve given a potential bad actor a program that could be decompiled to unencrypt your keys.

    It sounds to me like in your current state, you need to trust A before you do this operation, and if you do, you can just share an unencrypted B.


  • If A can run this program at will and it determines the minimum value, it’s O(log(n)) to determine what B is, even with perfect encryption, by using arbitrary values of A.

    INT X = MAX INT PREV_X = 0 BOOL B_IS_MIN = True

    While (X != PREV_X){

    PREV_X = X B_IS_MIN = Encrypted_Min(X,B)

    If(B_IS_MIN), X = X/2 If(!B_IS_MIN), X = X*1.5

    }

    Unless I’ve made a typo, this psuedocode will step to B in log time, and will break the while loop once it’s found, even if the user has no way to know the value of B besides the minimum.



  • Encyclopedia is “general education”, referring to its broad scope. Wikipedia added wiki as a reference to the source, so the best one would be {source}pedia.

    Fedepedia isn’t awful but feels… bland, in my opinion.

    Something like consolidate is a good synonym for it, but consolipedia also doesn’t feel right to me, so if we’re not referring to the federated part, we’d have to refer to the decentralized part. Decentropedia is fairly decent, but I’m fond of Micropedia, because the root word is very common, and I feel it’s catchier than decentropedia. Either of those are good though.