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by 3131s 10y ago
So your argument is essentially, "we created those agencies for that purpose, therefore it's ok what they're doing". You don't see how that doesn't actually follow? > Spying on foreign powers Foreign gover
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by 3131s 10y ago
I am only giving feedback. I shouldn't have taken that shot at Jobs I guess, or maybe people are taking my comment as distracting from this celebration of Bob Taylor's life. Sorry about that, not my intention.
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by 3131s 10y ago
I seriously doubt that's why HN posters flagged this article.
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Wikileaks posted this excerpt from an NYT article, saying that these strikes hit a network of tunnels originally funded by the CIA for the mujahedeen. The Tora Bora tunnels are in the same region as the recent airstrike, but I haven't
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Tavis Ormandy comments on Linux NULL pointer dereference bug(twitter.com)
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by 3131s 10y ago
The database-like approach to filtering data in lists and associate arrays is done nicely, especially being able use boolean expressions and operators in the same syntax as a list index. The '%' is a count operator, and the '
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by 3131s 10y ago
This diet will work of course, as it is just a variant of the "eat less" diet. My own heuristic is to not eat after dinner, which typically lowers the window of eating to maybe 10 hours a day for me. I eat as much as I can (tendin
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by 3131s 10y ago
I'd like to convince you too. But maybe I wasn't clear about what I really meant. I don't actually hope that, that was more of a joke. My opinion is that the arms industry, US military, and US intelligence agencies are out of
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by 3131s 10y ago
Governments should definitely pay content creators to make open-source curricula for schools and universities. I agree with Stallman that proprietary learning materials are antithetical to the spirit of learning itself. Part of the process
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by 3131s 10y ago
The US media would be chanting for war even more so than now if Hillary had won, and people might go along with it easier too. This has been my only hope for a while, that through his idiocy Trump will put the spotlight on these wars /
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by 3131s 10y ago
Right, I would have never voted for her, and not saying that she would have been any better with Sanders, but I think it's very likely she would have won.
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by 3131s 10y ago
> If Hillary Clinton didn't have such high unfavorables it wouldn't have been a contest. If Bernie hadn't siphoned off some of her support it wouldn't have been a contest. How about if Hillary simply picked Bernie a
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by 3131s 10y ago
I remember gym class containing not nearly enough movement. Every week was learning some new game and it took half the time each day to explain rules. I worked in an elementary school a few year ago though and it's gotten worse. About
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by 3131s 10y ago
> of course there's a cast of busybodies crowding her room, especially during a photo/camera op But why is there a photo op in the first place?
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by 3131s 10y ago
This is nothing new though, Obama committed extensive bombing in Syria too. Obama's initial reason for involvement was alleged chemical weapons. I don't see how this qualifies as direct action while everything else we've been
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by 3131s 10y ago
Sort of. HN has moved in that direction more in the last few years when it became unmistakably obvious that Obama, on the most important issues, continued an ugly legacy that the US has made for itself over the past 60 years.
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by 3131s 10y ago
It's obvious that elements of US government in both parties have been captured by the business of war, for a long time now. I could argue until I'm blue in the face about this, but now I'm mostly just tired. These people are
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by 3131s 10y ago
I remember hearing that too. If the algorithm works that way, it would be easy to manipulate. Start a flame war and watch the subject of your choosing receive only limited coverage and commentary (e.g. a competitor's product, bad news
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by 3131s 10y ago
It's not a nitpick at all. Without legalization there is no tax money from sales of recreational drugs, and the black market still exists to collect that profit instead. Decriminalization also does not fix problems like contamination o
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by 3131s 10y ago
> That is your loss. There is no loss. Everything a smart phone can do, a laptop can do better. All a smart phone does is keep people bound to their online lives in an unhealthy way -- constantly beeping at you, notifying you of pointl
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by 3131s 10y ago
So poor cities are all filled with dumb people? At least we're not overflowing with massive pretension. I'll stay here and leave SF for the rest of you geniuses.
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by 3131s 10y ago
Just to clarify, drugs are not legal in Portugal. There is decriminalization on small amounts, but not full legalization. However, Portugal's experiment is a resounding success and I'd expect even greater benefits from legalizatio
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by 3131s 10y ago
The Nixon aide who allegedly said that quote died before it was published, so there is some reason to be uncertain about its veracity. It wasn't published until long, long after it was apparently said. I find it completely plausible an
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by 3131s 10y ago
Yes, comparing Mother Jones to Infowars is not fair. Mother Jones has some high quality investigative journalists like Shane Bauer. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/cca-private-pris... Infowars is
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by 3131s 10y ago
I hear the words "magic" and "magical" used in the Python community to mean that a particular module or framework does not expose its inner workings and does a lot of work behind the scenes that is not transparent to the
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Cambodia Appeals to Trump to Forgive War-Era Debt(nytimes.com)
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by 3131s 10y ago
I do think it is a useful exercise though to go through your entities and see if these various "components" or attributes of one entity make sense with another entity. Like, if you have a RTS with some resources and units, which o
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by 3131s 10y ago
It's a pretty common thing to witness unfortunately in poorer countries with bad road conditions and lots of motorbikes. I have seen firsthand a few terrible accidents in which multiple people died in horrific ways. I also saw a thief
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by 3131s 10y ago
> Plenty of words have multiple meanings in normal and formal English. There are some stats from Wordnet on polysemy in English. Obviously this depends on the granularity of a set of senses in a dictionary, but regardless English has m
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by 3131s 10y ago
Are you saying that "are comprised of" is not grammatically correct in its context in the article? Why?

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