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by bendoernberg 10y ago
The entire black population of Montgomery Alabama gave up taking the bus for over a year during the boycott because they cared enough to make that sacrifice. People who care enough sometimes go on hunger strike, lie down in front of tanks,
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
Setting aside the merits of Lyft, everyone is watching to see what consequences Uber experiences as a result of their chronic antisocial behavior. If people continue to use Uber and their business succeeds, it sends a message to other compa
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I'm confident that well-organized engineers working together could very substantially grow the percentage of company revenues that go to engineers, which would benefit both upper and lower tier performe
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
"It's hard for me to imagine that if things were done democratically most engineers would vote for me to make what I do." It sounds like you feel the current system works out very well for a few elite performers, in a way tha
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
I think he may have meant "worse even as a male employee" or something to that effect.
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
I called the Halton police department and was told that they could not investigate until I contacted my local (US) police department and had the US police send them the information. They refused to just give me an email address where I coul
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
Not to nitpick but do you have a source for officials saying that WMD's were found in Iraq? Obviously US officials said that intelligence pointed towards Iraq having them, but I'm not aware of any statements like "we found ch
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
FWIW communities coming together in times of emergency is a pretty universal experience, not unique to the US in the 1940's (the UK's home front experience during WW2 [1] is cited as an example most often I think). A book I'v
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by bendoernberg 10y ago
The original purpose of Bitcoin was to create digital cash. It is possible to track the transaction history of funds in a bitcoin address, but there is currently no central authority who can blacklist/lock addresses, and most of the ma
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
What makes it expensive and hamfisted?
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
There's still a person spending their minutes on a random, menial task, it's just not someone with a Hacker News account anymore.
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
Like how Russia was behind the JP Morgan hack, until they weren't? USA Today, 10/07/14: "Report: Russian hackers behind JPMorgan Chase attack" Reuters, 10/20/14: "Russia ruled out as culprit in Chase
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Insurer Anthem Reveals Hack of 80M Customer, Employee Accounts(abcnews.go.com)
4 points by bendoernberg 12y ago|0 comments
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
"On a weight-lifting bench, [Emerson's father] had arranged a two-foot stack of the “short biographies of successful people” that I had heard about from Emerson. They turned out to be extremely short: a single-sided page each, pho
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
For context, see Fight for the Future's blog post on why "numerous problems with [the Sunlight Foundation's] data and their methodology make it impossible to support their conclusions": http://tumblr.fightfort
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What are the best tools for estimating crowd size in a timelapse video?(youtube.com)
1 points by bendoernberg 12y ago|0 comments
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Watch live: Hong Kong democracy protest deadline looms(channel4.com)
1 points by bendoernberg 12y ago|0 comments
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Reddit considering a cryptocurrency backed by 10% of its shares(reddit.com)
5 points by bendoernberg 12y ago|0 comments
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
This has been, by far, the best produced livestream I've ever seen. Maybe it's just due to stationary locations for some of the cameras and better bandwidth, but it's on another level.
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
Giganews has responded by claiming the ex-employee is delusional. They posted links to a pastebin allegedly written by him, which includes the following: "Besides spamming, the only other conduct that is unacceptable is uploading or co
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Ferguson, MO alderman needs help getting Twitter verified(twitter.com)
4 points by bendoernberg 12y ago|0 comments
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
What layer will leverage the networks to useful economic extent? I expect it will be a new network type that natively supports exchange of value... blockchains/bitcoin. I think we're about to find out just how many ways there are
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
Not only was my submission (formerly on the front page) buried, I've now lost my ability to downvote submissions and comments. WTF? And I don't want to hear about how the NSA's email surveillance isn't tech-related when
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
Infuriating. I also just lost the ability to downvote posts and comments...
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Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On(firstlook.org)
88 points by bendoernberg 12y ago|32 comments
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
People have been livestreaming marathon voting sessions on http://votedogecar.com , apparently one kid voted 84,000 times.
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by bendoernberg 12y ago
Why not publish the list? Surely it's not worth frustrating students from hundreds of colleges who try to take advantage of the offer and can't?
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by bendoernberg 13y ago
Classy
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by bendoernberg 13y ago
It's still on the front page, not sure what you're talking about http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/234iem/bitundo_allo...
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by bendoernberg 13y ago
Hmm, I didn't have trouble. It even calculates how much you owe with different approaches, e.g. first in first out (FIFO), last in first out (LIFO) etc. and can handle trades between coins like Bitcoin -> Dogecoin

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