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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I feel like you and others are being purposefully obtuse, to some degree. Can you seriously not distinguish between the tiny selection and low res quality of text faces, and the wide variety of highly specific and detailed set of reactions
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I don't think there's any comparison to be made. The term "fake news" was primarily popularized by a guy who was blatantly lying and who's grasp of the English language barely extends to 5 letter words and who doesn
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Or the staggering number of anti-GMO laws and business ad campaigns.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
What experience do you "cranky elders" have that makes this seem dangerous? What possible malicious intent can be applied to the knowledge that someone shares rent with their roommate, or the occasional bar tab settlement? There a
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
It's enabled by default. It isn't an "obsession", it was something the company threw in there and that users don't care enough about to disable. I'm sure usage of it would vanish almost instantly if something l
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
The thing with PayPal is that it always seemed primarily targeted towards customer-business interactions. Trivial payments between friends didn't seem like a high-priority usecase back in ~2012. I noticed the same issues as you when I
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
When I started using Venmo, PayPal was cumbersome to use (I don't even know if it had decent mobile app 6 years ago) and tended to have additional costs. Also the UI pummeled you with all sorts of random information and options, when a
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Guys, people aren't "exposing their finances" on Venmo. People don't use it to buy stuff, or pay off CC bills, or anything. Nor are the transaction amounts exposed. It's used for balancing payments/debts betwee
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>it's so successful because, despite there being lots of ways to pay back friends It was far and away the simplest and easiest way to quickly transfer money electronically, at least around ~6 years ago. The "big players" t
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
What if someone flushed a bunch of it down a toilet raw, for whatever reason? Same location for concentration as excrement, and honestly makes even more sense for disposal than actually throwing it into the sound directly.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>How it happened is only relevant to the engineers who build and maintain the thing. I, on the other hand, could not care less how it happened I'm sorry, this is just stupid. If you cannot see the distinction between a feature that
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Yeah, the American populace might not care, but the victims do care, and how upset they are made directly affects all other efforts in that area. Peacemaking and nationbuilding only gets more difficult the more people that have lost family
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>I am not sure why some people instantly assumes that the whole purpose of making drones more autonomous is to make them more precise: historically, the DoD/US military have made virtually zero efforts to even try to reduce civilian
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Ok... but even accounting for civilian casualties due to increased use of drones, civilian victims (and overall casualties) of US military operations has done nothing but drop as technology improves. This is just throwing in an unfounded qu
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I'm unclear as to what the moral difference is. It's more moral to kill someone if they can fight back? Then why are we giving our soldiers tanks? Guns? Fighter jets? Knives? Why not just send them in with their fists. This line o
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
You mean, like a gun?
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>Uber and Tesla self-driving cars kill drivers and pedestrians As opposed to the hundreds a day dying from conventional drivers? There are what, like 2 deaths attributable to self-driving cars so far? Some dystopia. IMO the real dystopia
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
There is an entire world of straight-up fabricated "journalism" disguised as reputable reporting which gets immense circulation on social media networks. It is very easy to not experience this sort of thing, using fairly basic but
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I feel like this is an incredibly childish and almost insulting reduction of a complicated and important feeling that the author is trying to come to terms with, and one that is likely very common, even if not universal. He spent pages expl
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>they are also engaged primarily in self-serving funny business Such as?
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Because it seemed like a legitimate misunderstanding rather than a complete unwillingness to even glance at the NSAs mandate.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
IIRC yes. I also think I heard that Israel was involved. Anyway, who did it wasn't my point, my point was that all governments are engaged in this level of competition. The NSA exists (and has such a monstrous budget) because it is in
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
They really aren't. 500 million sounds like a lot, but it is very unlikely any call by anyone in your family is caught in this net. As someone pointed out, with 250 million people owning phones in this country, as well as vast networks
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
It's funny watching what is essentially the equivalent of the Yankees getting criticized for not scoring enough touchdowns this season by people who are dead serious and consider this topic of grave concern. If these people aren't
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>We have not been made (substantially) safer. How do you know that? >Were property crimes up significantly prior to the installation of the ANPR readers? No. Are they down significantly after? No. I get that this comparison sounds sim
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>but what else is the NSA ostensibly carrying out all this domestic espionage for if not to preempt domestic terrorism Yeah... foreign terrorism only occurs when foreign entities stand at the border and throw things into our country. LMA
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>Then why so much domestic spying, the entire point of this conversation thread? Oh yeah, that makes sense. Let's only worry about what other nations are doing, until their agents and activities enter our country. Then we might as w
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Domestic mass shootings are no where even close to the NSA's mandate. Intelligence agencies DO NOT trumpet triumphs. The NSA is not the FBI. There's no arguments to be made here, there's just ignorance of incontrovertible and
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
What is the expectation here? The commenter has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. The arguments are being made are clearly without any understanding of how any intelligence agency operates, and absolute ignorance of the NSA&#x
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
This entire thread is proof that people will vehemently spout opinions on topics that they don't even have the slightest understanding of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency Try reading literal

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