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by bionoid 9y ago
Yes, now let's just get it covered on mainstream media. Oh wait.
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by bionoid 9y ago
I suggest you look at Irvin's brain [0], which contains a lot of the connections. Red items are confirmed, documented CIA, yellow is "highly likely but not 100% confirmed". [0] https://webbrain.com/brainpage&#
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by bionoid 9y ago
I mean, the CIA director ordered all the documents destroyed. Clearly any effort to uncover it is going to be speculative. Who else is making FOIA requests, interviewing people, and systematically collecting evidence? [0] Nobody. [0] https
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by bionoid 9y ago
> and for absolutely nothing of value Nothing of value to society anyway; looking at the 1979 reunion video, it seems like they were pretty happy with the return on investment overall. [0] https://www.gnosticmedia.com/ccn
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by bionoid 9y ago
Jan Irvin at GnosticMedia has done a lot of interesting research on MKULTRA. I learned that Timothy Leary was a CIA agent and basically the counterculture of the 60s was manufactured (see "manufacturing the deadhead" [0]). Persona
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by bionoid 9y ago
> This is a remarkably direct and appropriate apology [...] many people lost a significant fraction of their support because of this change, and that won't necessarily come back They could have restored all cancelled pledges and cov
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by bionoid 9y ago
They knocked him down on the street, arrested him, charged him, dragged him through two years of trials. After winning the appeal, the chief of police mocked him openly and called him a liar. There was ZERO repercussions for any of the invo
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by bionoid 9y ago
Norway is the same for the record. There was a local case recently where the police knocked down an innocent man on the street, handcuffed him, and charged him with assaulting a police officer. There were something like 30 eye witnesses, st
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by bionoid 9y ago
> This [Formal provability] is bollocks. How precisely does modularity, composability and ease of debugging improve from this module? Not at all. It may have benefits, sure. But to claim these as general attributes is just sophistry in m
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by bionoid 9y ago
Text::Template [0] was a favorite of mine, no new language to learn, just embedded Perl. Config::General [1] was another classic, super-flexible markup language for data. [0] http://search.cpan.org/~mschout/Text-Templat
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by bionoid 9y ago
Sorry I missed this response, thanks for the tip about ihiji, looks interesting! > working out the protocols for those systems [...] It was a major royal pain. I can only imagine; I wrote an Extron GlobalViewer client module for Crestron
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by bionoid 9y ago
Is this not just a marketing pitch, though? Where is your cut from Coop Norge Eiendom AS? [Coop Norway Real Estate]
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Interesting project, bookmarked for further research! Surprised I have not come across it before, have periodically been searching for things in this space.. Are there any open source system aimed at larger installations? This space is domi
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by bionoid 9y ago
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no reliable way to test whether a driver is actively intoxicated from pot Police here use a spit test; supposedly it reveals use within the past 24 hours. But as far as I know, it can/will tes
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... then they will monetise it.
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by bionoid 9y ago
I am frankly baffled by the choice of "for hustlers"; my associations are "drug dealer", "scammer", "thief", "dishonest person" and so on (I'm not a native speaker, so I'm not sure
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by bionoid 9y ago
I assumed the study is referenced in the book (and that the quote is from the book) -- but honestly I have no idea
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> Careful with that advice. [...] Whatever you do to counter your depression, have a trustworthy, knowledgeable aid at your side: a therapist. Quoting the UiA, "One [1988] study indicates that 70% of therapists had seen for treatmen
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by bionoid 9y ago
> Consumable parts are and have never been reused Can you substantiate that? It's clearly at odds with my experience, neither of my two replacement units had a battery life that even came close to unboxed unit. I just don't buy
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> they're giving you a remanufactured iPhone using reused internal parts like screws or shielding And, unless something changed recently, batteries. My iPhone 5 had a faulty charging socket, which got worse. A month after unboxing,
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> Having a third party paying them or even just offering dinner to them so they can do their jobs is a huge conflict of interest. Not directly related, but my sister studied to become an audiologist some 15 years ago (in Norway). I was a
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by bionoid 9y ago
Looking past the visual design, I think a more pressing question is what will happen to the API? From my perspective, it is Reddit's saving grace. It bridges the gap between available functionality and what moderators and users actuall