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Snowden:"People at the working level at the NSA and CIA are not out to get you"(freep.com)
1 points by bananacurve 13y ago|0 comments
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Hopefully Russia doesn't have a doomsday machine.
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Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet(jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by bananacurve 13y ago|0 comments
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by bananacurve 13y ago
They probably used Google Maps and Streetview to get there.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
It is not that they really think it is worse, it is just easy to get up votes by claiming they are.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Thank you, I especially liked this little bit: > A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap betwe
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by bananacurve 13y ago
The state of the world is improving, sorry but it is, but that doesn't fit into the epic narrative that so many want to believe. Your life is not as epic a struggle as your parents or their parents, all men are essentially kings today
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How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light(mit.edu)
2 points by bananacurve 13y ago|0 comments
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by bananacurve 13y ago
I understand and largely agree with your comment but please don't refer to reproductive rights as bike shedding.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. Therefore, it is inconsistent to hear something of the Way of Confucius or the Way of t
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Is our Sun falling silent?(bbc.co.uk)
24 points by bananacurve 13y ago|7 comments
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Bugs and Drugs gives good local info. http://www.epocrates.com/e/BugsAndDrugs
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Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network(gizmodo.com)
1 points by bananacurve 13y ago|0 comments
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Shouldn't you be out on a ledge somewhere?
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by bananacurve 13y ago
It's not "others do it too" it is that the entire West has a shared security model and Europe has outsourced much of its defense. http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761... >Some
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by bananacurve 13y ago
The entire West is complicit. Pretending it is just America ensures the status quo remains in place. Also look up the word tyranny, it doesn't mean whatever you want it to.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
That is a lovely fantasy but I'd be surprised if they even cut back on US military bases.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
The article directly contradicts itself. >A government spokesman said the talks between the US and Germany were ongoing and they hoped to “get something in the next three months.”
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by bananacurve 13y ago
The copyright holder is free to send pg a takedown request letter. https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Aaron's gripe was not having access to publicly funded research, which should be a slam dunk. Trying to tack him on to another cause, however well intentioned, is a disservice. There was an argument during the suffrage debates that the
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by bananacurve 13y ago
>U.S. surveillance problem As long as people are willing to pretend that the problem is only the US and not the entire West colluding then the easier it is for these governments to continue.
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Quantum mechanics explains efficiency of photosynthesis(ucl.ac.uk)
1 points by bananacurve 13y ago|0 comments
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by bananacurve 13y ago
When does a perceptual schematic become the bitter mote of a soul...
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Obama's father went to Harvard but his grandfather was a cook. Hardly a pedigree.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
>in democracies like the US and UK -- where potential leaders seem to primarily be chosen solely on the basis of social class Maybe that is true in the UK, but that is clearly not the case in the US, unless you are going to try to argue
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by bananacurve 13y ago
So there is a conspiracy by the "elites" to make the masses love the Kardashians? This level of absurdity is not apparent to you? Being intelligent is not a perfect defense to confusion.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Fine. Deleted. betterunix is a mouthy clown who would never dare say his bullshit in person. Edit: Read his comments, he often is uninformed. I am very sympathetic to Aaron but joking about those injured at the marathon is stupid.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
Starting off by citing the thoroughly debunked Google bus incident is not going to help your credibility but no one probably even read the article anyway.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
>Well now, the Boston bombers only killed three people -- bad, but you know, not that bad. That is cruel to the hundreds injured. Try harder to not be a jackass.
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by bananacurve 13y ago
I get all my software for free just on principle.

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