Gargoyle

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by Gargoyle 10y ago
So going back to my question, you think wikileaks should be shut down?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
No, I'm not missing the selective withholding. And no one has shown any change to released information. Not once.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
None of their releases have been discredited. Focusing on personalities is a mistake.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
In what way are the wikileaks releases -- Not Assange, not their Twitter, but wikileaks releases -- not trustworthy? Are any of the releases discredited?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Ideally, at least half for fun, yes.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
So you'd be fine with Wikileaks being shut down at this point?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Wait, who are the fascists again?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Deleting them now is just stupid panic. They've been found, they've been archived, they've been reported. The only thing deleting them does is make him look guilty as hell even if he's done nothing wrong at all.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Removing her address isn't a big deal. However the part about the 60 day retention policy and the user being able to choose which emails are saved past that policy might well lead to valid questions about the decision process on what w
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Or at least know how to feed their own egos with self-serving "insights".
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I've always thought Feynman did poorly on some test in high school for whatever reason and then used that score for the rest of his life as a good story. Feynman was all about the good stories.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
One of the key things that made Snow Crash so appealing was that participants in the world also contributed the code that made it work. It was sort of semi-open source, I guess. I wonder if there's a way to make that practically work i
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
"ITT is barred from awarding raises, paying bonuses or making severance payments to its executives or paying dividends without the department’s approval." Wow. How do we make that happen for TBTF financial companies?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I tend to agree. About 90% of the critical comments on startups are things that occur to people within literally the first few minutes of thinking about them. If that long. Those comments are at best valueless, and perhaps even of negative
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
So, to be clear, you think the basic mechanic of geography based gaming (there must be a better name for it) is a fad and it's already fading? I strongly disagree. In my opinion what we just saw was the initial burst of public enjoymen
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Everyone in this thread is referencing Dollar Shave Club. Can someone give a good summary of why that company made it to a big exit? What strategic moves did they make that made them succeed where countless others fail? Software doesn&#x
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I can't help but notice this article puts a lot of focus on actual revenue and margins of these companies and almost none on user number growth. At least compared to the relative focus of years past. Is that a choice of the writer, or
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
"Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure." I really like that there's an ad just under that sentence to subscribe to N
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I've been a member for a very, very long time under various names. I quit from time to time because I get tired of middlebrow dismissal comments.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Comments like this make me want to delete my HN browser bookmark. The spirit of it is on nearly every story posted here and it's so very tiring. Note the original comment has been stealth edited. It originally said the scientists were
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
And then there's stuff like Artforum, which has to be over half ads, but the ads are at least as important to the readers as the content. They tell you where the buzz is, or at least where gallery owners want it to be. In a market that
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
The poor staging and lighting are responsible for most of what people are reacting negatively to in terms of body language and appearance. Terrible location for an interview for a number of reasons. They do seem intensely earnest, but both
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
If you add more than a couple minutes of delay, it's no longer an effective deterrent. Not an ideal situation, but it's where things stand.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
But it'd be great to have an "ignore user" function for those few who just google their skepticism.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Time and labor are resources that get used up too. You're paying for the creator's time and labor. Taking the product of that time and labor without compensation is theft.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
How do these games prevent location spoofing? Or do they?
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Depends how big the lot is and where precisely it is.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
Try driving your ICE car without a permit and the government will come down on you.
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
My bet the last couple years has been Google eventually becomes nationalized as it gets to be "too big."
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by Gargoyle 10y ago
I was a hardcore Ethereum fanboy, but this fork completely turned me off.

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