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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency Try having even the tiniest bit of an idea what you are talking about.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Like, they are so ignorant that they don't even have the trivially basic information contained in the first paragraph of their wikipedia page. It's moronic.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>Realistically the NSA hasn’t been successful in reducing terrorist threats; in fact, the correlation is negative. What are you basing this on?
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I mean, it wasn't acquired by a for-profit publishing house or media company (e.g. a music label, Netflix, Amazon, etc.), it's NPR. They aren't for-profit, and they generally have pretty solid products (or at least content) i
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I mean that there is usually very limited tolerance for repeat cheating, in the small amount of experience I have. You might not get expelled at first offense (unless you are leading a cheating ring of some sort, something that happened at
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
But usually only for first offenses (which in my experience still automatically fail that class).
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I wasn't talking about emotion or opinion or feeling, I'm talking about emphasis and phrasing. English is often very ambiguous as spoken, without calling out emphasis, and I don't think there is any practical way to enforce p
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
I'm leery of even audio recordings, but too much information and nuance can be contained in tone and phrasing that it is probably necessary. Also, it is significantly harder to manipulate audio records.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
Or that the captain could use some more urgency and sharpness in responding to the situation, rather than sounding somewhat checked out and slow. Still a pretty petty point.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
If that's the case, then they are absolute morons.
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
"If you simply told a different story, it would be a different length."
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>Judging from some of the comments here, software engineers working in Amazon must either be stupid or irrational to continue working there, given the market for software engineers. Hacker News hates big companies, Amazon being evil is i
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by BookmarkSaver 8y ago
>I think it’s cynical but certainly within the realm of possible. Just about anything is "within the realm of possible". Without even a shred of actual positive evidence, this is just obnoxious flat-earth level conspiracy bulls
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
But how is it ok or reasonable to say "you are allowed to see this, but we're going to make laws to make it arbitrarily hard to do". Either it's removing public information (censorship), or it's this bizarre stop-ga
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
You are blatantly embedding a false premise here; that the goal is or should be world peace. That is an absolutely inane stance to take. How about instead of the obviously unattainable and unrealistic goal of "world peace", we jus
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
>What you're trying to tell me is that it's not valid for someone to consider US culture as it pertains to guns as a reason for wanting to live there or not, because I'm statistically unlikely to be involved in gun crime.
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
>It's an incredibly reasonable and rational feeling to have and I don't believe it's fair to the parent to completely dismiss his concerns that way How? It is literally not even close to something to worry about unless, as
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
You have to filter out accidents, suicides, and targeted crimes. A non-suicidal, non-gunowner who isn't involved in a criminal enterprise has next to no chance of dying by gunshot. >American soldiers were typically safer in war zone
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
Yes, but 30x a tiny number is still tiny. That isn't a reasonable way to determine "danger", it's a statistical fallacy. Like, the difference in traffic deaths between the US and UK is 10.6 to 2.9 per capita, which is un
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
Well, GM has required direct government assistance in the recent past in order to stay solvent. Google is rolling in liquid assets. GM exists in a very competitive industry with major competitors at or above their capacity, while Google has
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
Because most people live their whole lives without encountering this. There are over 300 million people here, a few hundred die per year in mass shootings (which includes targeted ones, and I doubt you'd be a target). They are a proble
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
Except that isn't necessarily true. Wasn't one of the first major extinction events caused by over-oxygenation of the environment?
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
> Instead they keep producing tons of supernatural/superhero series. No, that's just the stuff that is most popular and visible, just like in almost every other venue of the film industry. Dig slightly deeper, just like in actu
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
Well a decent part of the most recent furor is that it affects people the do care. The Cambridge Analytica data was scraped from customers that had enabled it, but extended into their own friend networks, including those that had not chos
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
... That doesn't prove what you are saying. "sucked out the whole of the social graph" is a non-technical statement that doesn't have an explicit meaning, nor is it specified what user data they were scraping.
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
>The quiz was pretty easy middle school math that would take 15 minutes to complete. Racist, discriminatory, or whatever you might think this would be, I cannot imagine being any type of manager in any type of corporation and wanting to
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
>My solution would be to have mandatory systems to check the driver for alcohol or drugs I mean, I don't even know where to begin. First, good luck getting the 200 million drivers that don't ever have this problem to agree to d
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
Even if you know "how to spell" it is easy to not notice when you've misspelled something. Also, there isn't really such a thing as just "knowing how to spell", it's an open-ended skill. And some people ju
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
Yeah, but I don't think most ordinary people are just looking for excuses to murder people. Somewhere along the way, these "ordinary people" were convinced that innocent men, women, and children were enough of a threat to sla
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by BookmarkSaver 9y ago
"But is what’s happening actually new? And is what’s happening as significant as the news makes it out to be?" I mean, you should be able to answer those questions, otherwise you've put yourself into a tautilogical little bub

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