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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
# articles related to it prior vs. after Snowden, after Snowden would be an order of magnitude more per capita.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
When related to the NSA/CIA collecting nearly every once of data a citizen dispense online? No, that wasn't standard procedure.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
No he isn't, the trade deals which allowed near slave labor in SE Asia and exploiting for natural resources in Africa (by foreign actors) is from the same economic doctrine that allows sweatshops in Mexico (NAFTA) and will be the same
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
He should be in jail for the rest of his life (look at Chelsea Manning's sentence, if we are going to be consistent), but he was given a slap on the wrist: CIA directory trading secrets to his mistress? It sounds like a movie script, b
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Leaking classified material was sacrilege in Washington... Until someone of privilege (HRC) did it... Now the the obvious hypocrisy has been exposed, we can stop pretending there were intractable operational risks created be Edward Snowden
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Source code for those interested: https://github.com/corbett/QuantumComputing
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Can't this claim be applied to any globalization labor issue? Part of the EU is open borders, why stop with the EU member-state borders?
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Holmes is the product @ Theranos. It's evidently clear their blood testing machine doesn't actually work. If you look at the positive (old) media coverage of Theranos, the lion-share of it revolved around her dropping out of Stanf
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
You can rephrase: > ...the EU to get to something resembling the states, as: EU member nations need to have their sovereignty diminished. That's extremely hard to swallow if you're the one losing rights/protections to a fo
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
It's really not far-fetched though. If you described the NSA's PRISM program before the Snowden leaks, you were branded a conspiracy theorist. If you claimed the big tech cos were complacent in surveillance on American citizens (h
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Economic is a social science, it's subject to people's opinions and interpretations. There are economists today (at the PhD level) who will look you in the eye and tell you recessions don't exist. Not mainstream, but not also
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
The pessimism around Snapchat in this thread is reminiscent of the negativity surrounding Facebook. Advertising is moving to social media, Snapchat is currently the best platform for targeting the demographic advertisers value the most (you
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
A bank failure doesn't have to happen overnight (Lehman), it can happen over a protracted period of time, in which there will be no systemic risk to the global banking establishment. In 2007, every bank was playing dirty w/Credit
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Companies reject candidates (and thus waste their time) for extremely arbitrary reasons. I'd suspect you're being down-voted by those who feel they've suffered such.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
The sky is falling much?
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
They had in cornered in a parking garage, and the "siege" had lasted for hours @ that point, most civilians had probably cleared the area.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
This was my experience for new grad roles. The "we're grading the person, not the answer" is normally bullshit.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Perhaps some company introspection would make more sense than investing in an unproven, (currently) hard to monetize CS problem.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
1. U.S. Natl. Debt: $18.8 Trillion [1] 2. ~ 20 states face some form a fiscal problem/crisis [2] 3. I assume he's talking about the alternative means of measuring unemployment? The worst case scenario that is accepted by mainstrea
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Go get some political connections and/or $$ in order to join the next tier of our justice system.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
This isn't a new phenomenon, when there were 3-4 major network outlets did the masses get "all the news" or was is pre-filtered by monied interests? It was most certainly the latter, the platform has simply changed. This is s
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
The snippet: "...in times of great economic inequality..." ^Is intentionally sensationalized, the notion being that economic inequality in our society is generally viewed as a negative. Consider the following: "...in times of
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Not all solutions are best when it's one size fits all. What may cause homelessness in one area may not be the root cause in another. Also people local to the community have a vested interest in fixing it vs. bureaucrat who will be tre
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
I personally agree, I don't think we should give a rat ass what a regime like SA thinks. Part of the point of the GX/UN/WTO/<insert bureaucratic partnership organization here> is to slowly co-opt authoritarian regi
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
The article does say: "Overall, these findings show that even in times of great economic inequality, inequality in health outcomes is not inevitable but is strongly mediated by policy." Acknowledging income inequality as a problem
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Because the G-20 wants to remain the G-20 and not the G-19; you can't kick out a member every time you don't agree with their opinion, regardless of who wrong you may feel it is.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
She was also a champion of financial de-regulation which culminated in the crash of 2008 which large swathes of the population have yet to recover from (underemployment, retirement-funds, etc...).
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Any country that is facing economic stagnation (most of the developed world) is going to be hard pressed to inflict short-term pain for long-term gain.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
Hopefully it won't be as bad for Linkedin employess as it was for Nokia employees.
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by adrenalinelol 10y ago
This is a red-herring, when people no longer have the ability to fund their local communities in this country, they also lose their agency. Look at Flint, MI; Due to their tax revenue (or lack thereof) the state government put a crony in ch

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