Tech-Noir

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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> The "legal in the EU" part distracts from the true injustice of this kind of activity being criminalized. It also creates unnecessary confusion since it implies an American was jailed in Europe for something that's le
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
My mistake. The "quote" was originally a reponse from me, based on what you said. Corrected.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
How do I check Bloomberg's title change history? Are you saying within the 5 minutes you posted they changed it? > please make sure your facts are correct. Likewise. Edit: removed the word "own" from "please make sure
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Mueller Accuses Russians of Aiding Trump, Assailing Clinton U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced an indictment of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities, accusing them of interfering in the 2016 pr
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> [Google executive Scott Spencer] said that less than 1% of the web’s most visited sites—under 1,000 of them—are currently out of compliance with the rules So it's an ad blocker that doesn't block over 99% of ads?
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
As with many small nitpicks, very interesting. Do I understand correctly that "girl" is a similar thing, where it might naturally be expected to be female, so die Maedchen, but is actually das (neuter) due to the -chen? And&#x
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Besides, who remembers the British concentration camps? Everyone, because it's the answer to the question "who invented the concentration camp". Unfortunately it's the incorrect answer, because nobody remembers the
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Or if you believe the superior power will not respond militarily, as in the Falklands in 1982. Unfortunately for the junta , they weren't the only unpopular right-wing government who saw warfare and jingoism as a handy distraction fro
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
For privacy's sake I won't link to the story, which is not hard to find since the Channel Tunnel doesn't get closed that often, particularly over bomb scares, and I will delete/edit this post if the poster wants, but wow
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> names don't matter and if you see someone with that name it doesn't even slightly mean that they are the same person you met last week If this is your belief why have you stuck to a specific name, to the point of signing up t
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
I don't know how accurate any of this is, or how supercomputers or Bitcoin have changed in the past half decade, or how seriously such comparisons can or should be taken, but: The suspects had tried to use one of Russia's
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
If my comments are derogatory, what are comments like this? "Mark Zuckerberg just walked into Funny or Die and laid off all my friends." "Facebook has completely destroyed independent digital comedy and we need to fucking tal
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
He's not saying memes are the future of comedy, he's complaining that people are making jokes for free: > the whole point of [Pitch] is to pay people for jokes because I hated seeing people just giving work away for free Perhap
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Unlike others here, I don't sympathise with this at all, so this may be unpopular with some people. The complaint however seems to be: "we wanted Facebook to serve our interests, but Facebook wanted to serve their own interests fo
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Idea for a Black Mirror episode (from the past): In the future, people of the internet are unable to write about new technology without resorting to increasingly tiresome, lazy and spurious references to a popular British Twilight Zone rema
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
It's an argument for not overreacting about it.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
The tech is just a special effect, and I find it weird that so many people go straight to the most fucked up use case, or even imagine new possibilities (deep aging? Jesus) or even (elsewhere) start arguing for more laws because of it. Mean
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> I read some where there was going to be a TLD for porn (.xxx I think). There were ideas about that for years, maybe even in the late 1990s, and eventually about 5-10 years ago it was set up. Ironically, many in the "porn industry&
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Richard Dawkins, the famous evolutionary biologist who coined the word “meme” in his classic 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, seemed bent on disowning the Internet variety, calling it a “hijacking” of the original term. I'd hardly cal
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Why bother with money at all?
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
The headline (and subheadline) of this article is actually: "Trump’s Shadow Hangs Over NATO" "A year since Trump entered office, European allies are relieved the alliance is still standing, but U.S. leadership remains in doub
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
I don't know where that's famous (I've never heard it before) but I think the name Bolshevik simply derives from an internal party vote which Lenin's faction won (against what became known as the Mensheviks (minority
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> In the UK programming was taught on BBC Micros in pretty much every school from the age of 5-6 years old as part of the school curriculum. I'm sorry, that may have been your experience, but that statement is simply not true. In th
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
I don't think this is a particularly big deal, and certainly less serious than other publicly known events in the 1960s (and 1980s) that almost started WWIII, however... > But note that the documents do not describe the mental stat
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
They meant smartphone as opposed to the classic Nokia-style 'dumbphone'.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> having an uncontested documented case is a bigger win over a denial I agree. The mistake is crediting that to CK ("at least he...") when in the wake of an article as damning as the one in the NYT, in the current climate where
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Judge [Louis CK’s] apology/non apology anyway you like, at least he ended it decisively, instead of propagating it for enternity by sowing doubt. What are you talking about? It was "ended" by the NYT publishing, in this
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Both campaigns were guilty of misinformation but the most blatant outrage was the UK government itself spending £9 ($12) million of the British people's money producing and delivering one-sided pro-EU propaganda to every address in the
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
What point or argument are you making here? Old and terminally ill people shouldn't have a vote?
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Most referenda are run on the basis that a super-majority is required for any significant constitutional change. What percentage was required in the Scottish independence referendum? What percentage was required in the EU/EC exi

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