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by atlantic 12y ago
Chine is the biggest climate polluter in absolute terms; but per capita, the US and Australia are way ahead, so maybe you should include them in your list of likely candidates.
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by atlantic 12y ago
> Given Wikileaks et al have recently shown quite how poor governments are at keeping secrets How do you come to the conclusion that governments are poor at keeping secrets? There have been relatively few leaks of consequence, and govern
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by atlantic 12y ago
Probably because there would be a big public outcry in the UK, in the event of a direct extradition to the US. Both because Wikileaks has a lot of support in the UK, and because the general public feels extradition laws are unfairly tilted
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by atlantic 12y ago
Excellent comment. Thanks.
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by atlantic 12y ago
You can't hire solely based on profile, as it may or may not be factually correct. Instead, the key indicator of competence is the number of projects a person has participated in, the duration of each project, and the kind of income th
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Judges halt warrantless cell phone tracking(theguardian.com)
2 points by atlantic 12y ago|0 comments
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by atlantic 12y ago
So much talk about Snowden, and then a newspaper reveals how to trigger a software bug than can shut down the entire air traffic control system for a large segment of the US. This is a genuinely damaging revelation, even if some critical de
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by atlantic 12y ago
Maybe the problem could be solved at the software level, rather than through operator training. Drones would have the different rules governing airspace built into them, and would either override illegal operator commands, or at least warn
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Israel's Mordechai Vanunu is as much a hero as Edward Snowden(theguardian.com)
4 points by atlantic 12y ago|0 comments
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by atlantic 13y ago
I don't want to sound ungrateful, but the only reason Euro-politicians have put so much energy into, first, universal chargers, and now, roaming costs, is that they are some of the only issues that affect them directly, because of the
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by atlantic 13y ago
Speaking as a developer, I've worked for years both in open-plan spaces and in individual offices. My experience is that productivity is incomparably better in an individual office. There was no upside to open-plan; just constant inter
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by atlantic 13y ago
I've been working from home for about 5 years. If you want to be productive, the key point is to make a very clear distinction between work and leisure. On a normal job this is clear enough - the clothes, the physical setting, the time
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by atlantic 13y ago
The comments below the original story indicate it's fake.
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by atlantic 13y ago
The general argument that you are making here seems to be something along the lines of: this site teaches web development, so it should practice what it preaches. You are saying nothing about the content of the site, its offering to users.
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by atlantic 13y ago
The problem was not the use of best practices per se, but the uncritical use of these practices. For example, it's good to use design patterns, but not every pattern is appropriate to every situation. We got to a point where it might t
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by atlantic 13y ago
There isn't a name for the political system we find ourselves in at the moment. It works like this: you free to act as you wish as long as you respect a series of red lines that are never clearly formulated. All these red lines pertain
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by atlantic 13y ago
I was involved in a software development project last year, in which the entire remote development team of 20 people got fired, because the software architect implemented a bunch of best practices, design patterns and state-of-the-art frame
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by atlantic 13y ago
The media discussion so far has centered around personal issues. Is Snowden a traitor, did he give secrets away to China/Russia, should he be assassinated, how is his girlfriend feeling, what did his father say, does he have a new job,
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by atlantic 13y ago
It's fairly obvious that anyone intending to drive a getaway vehicle would disable this device first; which makes one wonder what the real intentions of the authorities are in this matter.
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by atlantic 13y ago
That's how I read the author's argument. Doesn't mean I agree with him; I would agree with you that the signs are ambivalent at best.
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by atlantic 13y ago
That isn't the argument at all. The author is not saying "in the future Snowden will be a hero, therefore let's make him a hero in the present to align ourselves with history". That is not a good argument because history
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How Kafka’s The Trial prefigured the nightmare of the modern surveillance state(newstatesman.com)
2 points by atlantic 13y ago|0 comments
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by atlantic 13y ago
That's good to know, but it might still not be accepted. While an Ivy-league education is sure to earn recognition, many second- or third-tier American institutions might fall short.
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by atlantic 13y ago
That would be correct. In Portugal, university fees are around €1000 per annum. A private university costs around €5000. So by our standards, this is expensive. A second disadvantage is that American degrees are not automatically recognized
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by atlantic 13y ago
I'm a regular HN reader, and IT professional, and I'm currently learning Latin, have been for the past few months. Why? To gain access to classical, Medieval and Renaissance literature, and more importantly, to the mindset of the
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by atlantic 13y ago
Intelligence agencies have a history of attempting to circumvent the limitations imposed by funding. There's a lot of evidence that the CIA has been involved in drug trafficking. In the case of the NSA, it could for example sell some o
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by atlantic 13y ago
I've never been to the US. But I recently watched a series of YouTube videos on Floyd Mayweather's personal life. He lives with a retinue of about a dozen very attractive female "personal assistants", ranging from the ma
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by atlantic 13y ago
I don't understand how they would do this. On oDesk, both employer and employee only have the opportunity to rate one another after the work is completed and the project is closed.
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by atlantic 13y ago
> Also, as a person with ADHD who takes Adderall I don't see what the big fuss about it as a drug/medicine is. If you, as a responsible adult, consent to taking this medication on a regular basis, then fair enough. The big fuss
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CertiVox confirms it withdrew PrivateSky after GCHQ issued warrant(itsecurityguru.org)
163 points by atlantic 13y ago|75 comments

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