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by benten10 11y ago
Schadenfreude. Where I am from, American (and other rich tourists) make simple things such as groceries ridiculously expensive, and obviously the housing too. There's no peace to be had at nights, with loud beer-addled tourists shoutin
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by benten10 11y ago
Which points, exactly? I realize I casted a wide net, not really sure where this is going. I checked out your comment history, and you don't seem to have have posted anything I would disagree with outright
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by benten10 11y ago
The double-O program was mostly a relic of the cold war era that, while may have been in vogue during the dying Yeltsin years and the earlier Bush years, has been getting outdated. There are obviously places that would gain from it, but we
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by benten10 11y ago
You overestimate people's ability not to be offended, and underestimate the diversity in people's actual beliefs. For example: When someone on HN said over the weekend "I don't see anything inherently wrong with colonial
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by benten10 11y ago
Oh absolutely! But that's not really constructive because you could say the same about 99% of social-network businesses, no? You could also say: "It's not always the physical structure of a country that makes it great but its
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by benten10 11y ago
First para: I mention social network elsewhere. Give me group emails, with everyone replying to everyone else, and give me the ability to see only those emails that people I care about are sending, and give me a limit in the size of an indi
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by benten10 11y ago
That is a ridiculous hyperbole, haha. I'm rolling my eyes. I can justify: I do not have to 'actively' go out to seek for information that I might be interesting/relevant to me: it comes to me. It's better than reddi
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by benten10 11y ago
Couple of responses: 0) Your arguments seem to be targeted at social media in general (eg. why I can't follow them on their sites, etc). Don't want to get into a conversation on benefits/disbenefits of social media 1) There w
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by benten10 11y ago
that's what I used to do, when google reader was still around. Twitter also removed direct RSS support for tweet feeds, and I did't like the hassle of having a third party in between. It'd be really awesome if there was a t
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by benten10 11y ago
I am being flippant here (see my other comment on this post), but giving out the people you follow on twitter would be an easy way to compromise your anonymity (assuming that those accounts don't have a large overlap of followers). Jus
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by benten10 11y ago
I really hope twitter somehow makes money. I would be willing to pay a subscription fee if that helps it sustain. Facebook, I'd rather see die in the hottest fires of all the hells. I don't exaggerate when I say this: twitter ha
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by benten10 11y ago
I remember seeing this/such papers elsewhere. They have appeared in conference/papers for the last few years too. Here I'm suggesting untrained coloring of 'new' images from existing though, so maybe what I'm a
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by benten10 11y ago
Idea for computer-imagery/ML people: a method to realistically recolor old photos by sampling from new photos of the same place, with some caveats (for eg. the object must have a corresponding object, etc)
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by benten10 11y ago
To reply with the response such posts usually get: You must be really fun at parties! This post was entertaining to most of us because we are not in the industry, knew little about the presence of hydrogen sulfide, and did not realize tha
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by benten10 11y ago
My first reaction was extreme anger at your first statement. Now that I have cooled down a bit, Would you ever consider rubbing yourself with paper a valid realistic alternative to showering? Then WHY are you more comfortable with merely ru
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by benten10 11y ago
You are of course joking, because the absurdity of 'trying to use more energy' for something that can be done more efficiently, aka 'wasting' energy to be considered more 'advanced', according to an arbitrary s
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by benten10 11y ago
I vote if he commits any crime, he be sent to solitary confinement till he's on the edge of insanity. Solitary confinement is one of the most terrible things that can be done to a human being, and is very comparable to being 'suck
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by benten10 11y ago
I suspect (or wish, rather) that this is likely not what happened. I imagine this suit over at NSA, who probably started from a technical background. Couple of guys from a project team tell him they can break significant portions VPN connec
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by benten10 11y ago
Don't know if you'll be checking this after probably being downvoted out of existence but: Would you have something apart from 'personal experience' to back your claims? It's an interesting issue: a cultural mistrus
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by benten10 11y ago
Yupp. As many, including Brianna Wu, have done. Then what? The harasser could be a 21 year old man in Siberia, covering himself up with multiple layers of anonymity. I'm suggesting that the attackers will keep attacking until you leave
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by benten10 11y ago
As some others have noted, this will keep on increasing as more people use the internet. As internet proliferation amongst less 'inclusive' societies (yes, even less than HN!)increases, online threat, intimidation and violence aga
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by benten10 11y ago
>That's exactly how people defending "righteous causes" end up being trolls and harassers themselves. When one misuses their abilities to harass/intimidate others, some of their liberty should be taken away, wouldn&
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by benten10 11y ago
Compare the second part you say to the following: >IF I come and creep you out, stalk you, threaten harm to you and your family, maybe you should just change name and location, and go live in a different state. Pre-empting the 'but
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by benten10 11y ago
>So I'm being downvoted for pointing out that a liberal newspaper calls itself liberal? Next thing I know I'll be getting downvoted for calling Trump a right-wing presidential candidate. I can't downvote, but I assume you&
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by benten10 11y ago
s/he meant "relatively left-wing (from my perspective)", implying his position is to the right of wherever NYT may be.
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by benten10 11y ago
>The implied argument here is that if engineers make social justice their number-one priority, then little engineering gets done. Right. And the argument I'm making is that they are NOT mutually exclusive. A lot of people seem to be
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by benten10 11y ago
I've posted my response elsewhere in the thread, but here's a tldr. This is accurate, but it's looking at the symptoms, not the cause, and is also not a COMPLETELY accurate description of how things are. CS/Eng as a comm
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by benten10 11y ago
There are days when I feel bad about myself. Most people here in HN are smarter, generally more successful then myself. And then when they start talking about women in tech, and I feel much better about myself. : ) If >90% of women in te
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by benten10 11y ago
How about this: There's a warehouse 'owner' internal to the browser (and not exposed to pages/extension), who 'remembers' the resources the browser has, and the times it took to access them (for commonly-access

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