Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Israel and Russia are considered 1st world countries. That implies a level of social progressivism and standards of living that 3rd world countries don't have. So when a country fails to live up to those standards they get criticism.
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by Amadou 13y ago
The problem with a smartphone is not so much that it contains a ton of info, but that it serves as an access point to a lot of personal info The current situation may very well change. It is entirely possible that much of that informatio
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think you'll find a bunch of stuff on the pirate bay. Off the top of my head I can think of these Scandinavian shows and movies that are all at least decent if not great: Trollhunter // The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (tr
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by Amadou 13y ago
Is SO_REUSEPORT really all that much better than a server process that hands off incoming connections to other independent processes via an AF_UNIX socket with sendmsg/recvmsg? If I understand SO_REUSEPORT right you let the kernel deci
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by Amadou 13y ago
You can be married and lonely; one of 6 kids and lonely; part of a team and lonely. Loneliness is a state of mind and is thus going to be a matter of temperament. The author of the essay felt lonely because he had less than the amount of
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think companies can sponsor community projects just the way Apache was sponsored. Apache provided value to its corporate sponsors. Free software that you run on your system, like your phone, doesn't put money in the pockets of any
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by Amadou 13y ago
Google doesn't need the paltry revenue from the NSA for their bottom line, Assange plays guilt by association, but doesn't address motives. I thought he addressed that right off the bat - they aren't seeking money from DC t
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by Amadou 13y ago
In that light, Mussolini's quote is as precise today as it was back in the day it was first said. It also appears to be a false attribution and is basically unsourced. It does have a certain glibness to it that makes it suspicious.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'dd hate to see a fork of it with ads and junk grow more popular than it. Last time I checked, the google play store interface only broadly discriminated between for-pay and free apps. I think adding other broad categories like &qu
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by Amadou 13y ago
if it is actually the case that they have had no revenue and no costs, then filing a 990 is dead simple. If they had no revenue are they even required to file at all? I know that for personal income if you do not owe any additional tax t
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by Amadou 13y ago
On the other hand, the true positive rate of the TSA is zero. Not one single person detained by the TSA has been charged, much less convicted, on terrorism charges.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is also about a lack of accountability. There is no penalty for going to town on the guy - for them its just a more exciting day on the job - for him it's a humiliating loss of personal autonomy.
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by Amadou 13y ago
If the TSA starts interfering with movement in a single state (like on the NYC subway system), we'll see pushback from the state and local governments. Nope, in fact NYC welcomed the Terrorists' Surrogate Army invasion of the su
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by Amadou 13y ago
Are you saying there was no (compensated) intermediary between Vayable and Forbes? Did they just spam every news site with a press release and hope for a bite?
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by Amadou 13y ago
We've been killing innocents abroad long before the NSA got involved. The NSA's domestic surveillance does not change that aspect of american life.
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by Amadou 13y ago
My impression is that they are trying to market themselves not as cost-savers but as providers of unique experiences. That takes all those other sites out of the running. A few years back I had a revelation when I read a study of satisfac
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'd like to know what it takes to get an advertorial like that in Forbes? What PR company did Vayable use, how much did they charge? What other forms of PR did they get out of the deal? How effective was it (may not be answerable i
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by Amadou 13y ago
RequestPolicy FTW - unlike those other plugins, it is a whitelisting system so nobody slips through just because they are new. It is also site-specific, so if you want to load up disqus from one site but not any others, you can. https:&#x
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by Amadou 13y ago
You are just now filling the full oppression that minorities have been suffering since this country's inception. We aren't even close to that. So far the NSA hasn't done anything like beat someone and leave them to die in
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by Amadou 13y ago
But ultimately, you really don't want to set a precedent of "well, if you leak something and you really believe in your heart that it was morally justified, then we won't send you to jail." The precedent would be, &quo
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by Amadou 13y ago
Since "root" in an SELinux configuration has just that one job, it is significantly easier to limit access to that privilege level to very specific cases which you can two-man or externally record ala the script command. Assuming,
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by Amadou 13y ago
And yet the reverse is true too. Over-innovating which I see as almost universally putting form ahead of function kills web enterprises dead too. I think craigslist is a great example of success going with the most minimal "innovation
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by Amadou 13y ago
One key part of the story is that the UK government basically accused Miranda (and Greenwald and Poitras) of aiding terrorists by intending to publish that classified information. That's a hairsbreath away from the charge of aiding th
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think this discussion is going to be a regurgitation of everything said in the original one. So here goes my part: Facebook's rules were only available in english - despite having a way to switch most of facebook to arabic, the guy
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by Amadou 13y ago
Only 15% of SUV owners ever go off-roading. http://4wheeldrive.about.com/od/offroad4x4atv4wd/a/offroadst... If you think about it, any 2-wheel drive SUV isn't even suitable for off-roading.
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This often grates on most engineers, who want bright lines and definite answers. FWIW, the thing that bugs me the most is that sometimes the bright lines are more important than the soft stuff like intent and sometimes they are not and th
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by Amadou 13y ago
Seems like the gullwing doors have the height issue to contend with, plus what are the chances you knock your 5-year old's chin on the way up? I drive a sporty 2-door SUV and what I've long hoped to find was a 2-door suv with slid
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by Amadou 13y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I saw a model S in person for the first time about a month ago and was struck by just how bland the car looked. It had a vibe that made me think of mazda and not miata or rx7 but whatever their sedans
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is also the same attitude that conservative christians have to criticism about some of their campaigning for things like opposition to gay marriage. They see that Jesus suffered at the hands of the Romans so they take all the criticism
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by Amadou 13y ago
In this day and age of blogging, everyone can be a journalist. Interesting fact - when the US constitution was written, the phrase "free exercise ... of the press" did not refer to news reporting, it referred to literal printing

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