Chriky

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by Chriky 9y ago
Do you think the Hour Record is measured in km or km/h?
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by Chriky 9y ago
GDP is the amount of value created by the economy in a year, and it is measured in USD so there is no unit error. A better comparison would he the Hour Record in Cycling (how far can you cycle in an hour). It's determined by speed, obv
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by Chriky 9y ago
Buying drugs, money laundering, and ransomware
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by Chriky 9y ago
I don't think this is accurate, I have an android phone and I had to download a lot of these manually
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by Chriky 9y ago
I mean, it is clearly "less" isn't it? This continuum fallacy stuff really just makes privacy advocates look like kooks. You have to use the language other people use if you want to convince them, and normal people do not dra
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by Chriky 9y ago
> Just because Cameron quit office and a few other politicians said once or twice that we shouldn't leave doesn't make it a "campaign". I'm sorry, this is just blatantly false. You simply must not have been in th
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by Chriky 9y ago
The legal challenges and confusion relate mainly to the distinction between "targeting" a person's communications (i.e. the actual content of their emails and phone calls), and the bulk collection of "metadata". 5-E
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by Chriky 9y ago
I know that's what you think, but you got it backwards. Countries are completely allowed to spy on their own citizens (in accordance with their own laws). They are also allowed to spy on foreigners (in accordance with their own laws, w
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by Chriky 9y ago
The UK government, along with all major political parties, campaigned AGAINST leaving the EU. I know HN loves its skin deep political analysis but this really is weak.
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by Chriky 9y ago
People seem to misunderstand 5-EYES. The whole point of the agreement is to NOT spy on each other's citizens. Only UK can spy on Brits, on US can spy on Americans etc. This is probably the single most misunderstood point in the whole s
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by Chriky 9y ago
This explanation makes no sense, what you are describing is MORE money entering the system.
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by Chriky 9y ago
...for some definitions of "many"
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by Chriky 9y ago
Is there a name for this kind of smug, couple-of-sentences, incorrect, dismissal of proper research? It seems to have infected a lot of the sites I visit, and is always liked or voted to the top. I guess people just love feeling superior.