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US-led strikes kill 35 civilians in east Syria(aljazeera.com)
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by 3131s 9y ago
The Stratfor leaks show the US government contracting out the development of astroturfing software.
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by 3131s 9y ago
A foreign government? Many governments place targeted propaganda on all sorts of platforms, the US primary among them. Both US political parties were no doubt doing astroturfing of their own this last election. And among US politicians, hav
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by 3131s 9y ago
The term deep state has been around for a long time. It is the group of non-elected people who exert considerable influence from behind the scenes, and that remain from administration to administration. But whatever you want to call it, it
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US signs 10 year, $350B arms deal with Saudi Arabia(nytimes.com)
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> But in the developing world, it's the normal way of doing business. You bribe a cop to get out of a ticket, you bribe an official to get your paperwork done faster. It actually has some nice side-effects like cops targeting only t
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by 3131s 9y ago
I should have titled it "The U.S. is waging a massive shadow war in Africa", which is actually not clickbait IMO. I think the current title is misleading, given that the article is more about the already sizable scale of US milita
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U.S. military is expanding special forces operations in Africa(news.vice.com)
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Exactly. > you're creating value and "bettering our species" just by doing something that someone is willing to pay you for ^^^ The thought process that lets HNers sleep at night.
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by 3131s 9y ago
If an ad-free, privacy-friendly social network actually managed to replace Facebook, that would be an enormous social good.
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Why can I never actually get sci hub to work? I've even downloaded the data dumps but never figured out how to use their search. Is there a keyword search? All of my searches return "no articles found".
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> As for cocaine - Ritalin is cocaine light really. Both increase dopamine, and reduce anxiety in low enough doses. As the other poster said, Ritalin is a jittery, cheap experience compared to the glorious bliss of cocaine. Cocaine boo
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> that you don't typically get out of legal trouble once you're in the authorities' clutches by "technical cleverness". Right, technical cleverness is the lawyer's job. If you get arrested on any serious c
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by 3131s 9y ago
You sound like you've been living under a rock for twenty years! Choose pretty much any Linux distribution and you'll get an excellent package manager that plugs into curated lists of software, AKA repositories.
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by 3131s 9y ago
The should do the census and register Americans to vote in the same process.
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What if in their neighborhood there are new restaurants with cheap, plant-based foods too? And if packaged food with refined sugars (cereals) and unhealthy oils got more expensive at the same time? Humans can change their diets. It would he
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by 3131s 9y ago
Thanks, I had heard that somewhere but stand corrected.
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Please reread, for many purposes! I love Wikipedia. The Wiki markup is extremely complicated and being user created, it is also inconsistent and error prone. I believe the MediaWiki parser itself is something like a single 5000 line PHP f
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by 3131s 9y ago
Wikipedia used to do HTML dumps but stopped a long time ago, unfortunately.
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For each article there is some metadata, but the entire text of an article is just a blob inside one XML element. For anyone who has not worked with the Wikipedia data dumps extensively before, trust us that it is not easily machine-reada
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by 3131s 9y ago
No, not at all. Years back Wikipedia released HTML dumps of the entire site, which was closer to providing the actual content of Wikipedia as structured data, but that was discontinued.
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I don't use Facebook that much, but I definitely used to associate a notification with something important, like being tagged in a status / photo or invited to an event. Since a year or two ago for me as well, it's usually us
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I have dealt with cops on a lot of occasions, some of the major ones being a fortunately non-fatal OD of two of my friends, getting my door kicked in, and one arrest for sneaking into a building. I also am a white guy from an upper-middle c
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by 3131s 9y ago
Is that necessarily true? With a scheme like key escrow, is there a sure-fire way to detect a hacker as opposed to an authorized user accessing data? At the very least it seems that if the NSA itself or some other agency were hacked (again)
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And we should worry about our politician's security too. What if they are blackmailed while in power? That creates a terrible national security situation. This line of argument would hopefully resonate with the constituencies of the po
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Given how much Democrats and Republicans detest each other's candidates, you'd think it would have sunken in by now that relinquishing basic rights and allowing the government to create powerful apparatuses prone to abuse is never
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I agree that this effectively counters the lock and door analogy, and that it's better to avoid these analogies all together when making the case for strong encryption. Another line of argument is to emphasize the extent that our digit
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Thanks. I should clarify to that "Shock and Awe" is another name for the "Rapid Dominance" doctrine mentioned in that quote, in case anyone didn't catch that.
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Almost definitely because that's the number of records inspected directly by a human, not the number that are stored, or the number that are inspected by algorithms.
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1988... http://www.duncancampbell.org/menu/journalism/newstatesman/n...

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