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by HSO 11y ago
At the risk of being a moralizing bore, may I remind everybody that "Germany", "Greece" etc. are not people, and that people are not countries? I am surprised by the national coloring, however faint, of some comments her
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by HSO 11y ago
Honest question: Is it just me or did articles related to suicide appear more frequently than usual lately here, and in the general media? Or is it this bias where I just pay more attention lately and the frequency never really changed, plu
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by HSO 11y ago
> Recently I had to decide whether to buy books on politics for kindle. I didn't like the fact that it tracks everything I buy, what sentences I highlight, the notes I keep... I bet my libertarian books would make my score very low
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by HSO 12y ago
And to my delight, the article was written by Julia Angwin whose book [1] J. Angwin. Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Times Books, 2014. I recently finished and recommend. It&
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Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans(intl.pnas.org)
2 points by HSO 12y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 12y ago
absolutely --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274902
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How to see into the future(ft.com)
8 points by HSO 12y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 12y ago
> I, unfortunately, can't come up with many good, non-tinfoil rebuttals. You could make a "what's good for the goose is good for the gander" argument based on analogy: A reveals B to be the rapist of C, hence A is t
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by HSO 12y ago
> maybe a utopian civilization would consider thoughts of evil, thoughts of crime and intentions to harm others as a justifiably punishable event. Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not but you're certainly not desc
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by HSO 12y ago
US-EU trade is not the issue, it is already huge and it will grow without TTIP. Read what the TTIP is actually about. Implying that being against TTIP, virulently or not, is equivalent or even comparable to being nationalist or mercantilist
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by HSO 12y ago
Perhaps you'd care to get your facts before you buy into Washington rhetoric then, you grown-up… How big is US-EU trade at the moment? In absolute and relative terms (ie compared to other links)? And how high exactly are the tariff bar
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by HSO 12y ago
Excuse me, but this is not about "free trade" per se. Trade between Europe and America already is to a large extent free. Why do you think it has the volume it already has today? So free trade rhetoric is misplaced here. What TTIP
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by HSO 12y ago
TTIP is anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and corrupt. In other words, in the best traditions of post-Bush America. Please don't export this shit to Europe.
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by HSO 12y ago
I think there is an important difference between situations where the truth is objective (and can and will be measured accurately and fairly when the payoff is determined) and situations where the truth is "made", for lack of a be
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by HSO 12y ago
And if you don't… "Beginning July 21, the magazine’s new and archived articles will be free to everyone, a move it hopes will attract more readers. […] The three months during which articles will be free, a promotion that will mos
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by HSO 12y ago
Very nice quote. Thank you. For those who know French and want to read the original: p. 35, http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/RetS.pd...
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by HSO 12y ago
This is a good point, one that I myself make in this type of situations. But… there is a difference in that democratically elected government officials or administrations are, at least in theory, obliged and answerable to the electorate.
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by HSO 12y ago
Sure, in the UK. I don't even count them in Europe anymore. ;-) Try Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Sweden, France,…
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by HSO 12y ago
Or… you could just emigrate to (one of the better-functioning parts of) Europe. Public universities with no or low fees, some of them excellent to world-class, no worries about SWAT raids, greater privacy protections, healthier food, etc. e
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Who Needs a Boss?(nytimes.com)
116 points by HSO 13y ago|81 comments
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by HSO 13y ago
> (Note: this may not apply if you are not white) …chilling
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by HSO 13y ago
my first link on bing: http://www.prweb.com/releases/class-action-lawsuit/google-ns...
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by HSO 13y ago
> the first hit on google for "google nsa lawsuit" [emphasis mine] ...and for you ! [filter bubble anyone?!]
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by HSO 13y ago
> [2] If you think the US is the only one doing this, or if the world should just hold hands and sing Kumbaya: get a clue. 1) Governments spying on governments, sure. On foreign businesses even, sure, if they're big or important e
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by HSO 13y ago
You think trained submission to authority is scary? How about being trained for constantly being monitored and brain washed? […] as much as the program offers freedom and continuity, it also comes with a substantial monitoring component. T
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by HSO 13y ago
This is brilliant. Instead of that less than half-assed interview Charlie Rose did with Obama, we should have had those students go at it.
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by HSO 13y ago
The part where they try to hide behind "we are just doing our jobs" and "it's the politicians who generate the requirements" reminded me of SS members or concentration camp guards who later also claimed we just did
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by HSO 13y ago
> But I also don't see the logic in banning Americans wholesale. Let me quote myself from above, perhaps it becomes clearer in isolation: "The point is: The US electorate and businesses are either pro surveilling the whole wo
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by HSO 13y ago
I honestly don't have any knowledge about the Middle East to comment on this, but I think I do remember that there was a tiny difference w.r.t. your Pearl Harbor reference: First, those locked up were US citizens (of Japanese descent);
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by HSO 13y ago
I meant the USG when I said "fascists". It would be obviously stupid to call every American citizen a fascist but the USG fits the term, I have to say, quite well. To think that I would have donated to the Obama campaign in 2008 h

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