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by blah32497 13y ago
The very best torture scene I've read or scene was the one in Day of The Jackal - where they torture the legionnaire to divulge the location of the OAS leadership. Putting myself in his shoes, there is no way - no matter the importance
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by blah32497 13y ago
Does anyone have any insight into why Adobe and printer companies actually care about this? Are they being paid to do it by the secret service? (and wouldn't that be public information?)
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by blah32497 13y ago
anti-aliasing is only needed because of low pixel density. With higher res screens it becomes irrelevant.
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by blah32497 13y ago
Looking at "Pillars of Eternity" it looks like a bit of a step back. While I like the artistic style, the whole thing just looks very dated. They're definitely going for the nostalgic demographic here. I think what bothers me
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by blah32497 13y ago
Please don't misunderstand, I'm not excusing his behavior. He's not a sociopath because she shows remorse and cares about the people around him. The guy wasn't making excuses for himself. He's not operating on some
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by blah32497 13y ago
Okay, I reread the article b/c I was starting to feel like I read something completely different. At no point does the author mention the government and at no point does he mention making every aspect of your life public. Seems like mo
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by blah32497 13y ago
The question WAS absurd given the context. He clearly explains right before that he does it because he enjoys doing the job - he enjoys trolling people, and he enjoys the money. He isn't doing it because he has some sick set of princip
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by blah32497 13y ago
> That's because you're an average Joe. And I think this article is written targeting the average Joe. Everyone is getting off on tangents about how the gov't is going to go fascist and that privacy is the best thing in th
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by blah32497 13y ago
The reasons for privacy are always so contrived. "Dystopian futures", "enemies trying to ruin lives" etc. etc. It never resonates with me. I think what the author is trying to say is that if you live an open life with fe
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by blah32497 13y ago
At least with this guy we had some recourse. When some Polish programmer makes a copy cat website no one will be able to take it down. Bollaert just showed us the new reality: You can't stop the internet from trolling. Everyone missed
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by blah32497 13y ago
Really? I thought it was very humanizing and interesting to see the guy behind it all. He clearly caught up in the money and attention. Ofcourse he was a complete asshole, but he was self aware and felt bad about what he did. He is just the
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by blah32497 13y ago
A very good argument, but definitely not what the other folks were talking about. "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals
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by blah32497 13y ago
Yes... but this creates a diplomatic issue where Uruguay is seen as defacto condoning drug smuggling into neighboring countries.
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by blah32497 13y ago
You're not really explaining what's "foolish" or a "complex risk to society"... Why is it okay to do it to several thousand people (selected in some non-systematic/statistical process more akin to voodoo t
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by blah32497 13y ago
Don't these kind of deals need congressional approval eventually? The idea of dealing behind the scene is that it allows you to talk more openly about what is and isn't on the table without having anything on the record. Ex: Say t
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by blah32497 13y ago
This is fear mongering. You could have some person out in the field tailing you and get the same info (maybe even more). You can also put up a camera and tag people as potential DUIs based on how close to the middle of the lane they are dri
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by blah32497 13y ago
I'm all for legalization, but my concern would be that now gangs will grow pot in Uruguay to export to neighboring countries. This may spark turf wars and the like... Given the limits on how much you can buy at have, hopefully they can
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by blah32497 13y ago
(I'm gunna respond even though I'm getting downvoted b/c hopefully someone gets something out of this.. but keep it coming! =) ) There is nothing inherently evil in surveillance. In and of itself it's a neutral thing. It
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by blah32497 13y ago
It's not like last year they passed the evil-fascist-police bill that allows the cops to buy tanks. This is all happening within the preexisting legal framework. (The Patriot Act has been around for already 12 years) There has been no
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by blah32497 13y ago
mass surveillance =/= authoritarianism This is a false equivalence that keeps being brought up on HN. Yes, authoritarian government have mass surveillance, but the converse isn't necessarily true. The only very clear example of th
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by blah32497 13y ago
Not a very clean topic, but shitting really does make me more productive! If I'm feeling groggy, tired, lazy it's usually when I haven't taken a shit in a while.
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by blah32497 13y ago
Or you have just one number that has a broker that gets you the best rate with the fastest, or most appropriate response time. When it's less busy, the more affordable companies do most of the work - when it's busier, the more exp
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by blah32497 13y ago
"Economic growth works the best." Well I'm sure they see this as a potential long term solution (though, outside of very advanced first world countries, this doesn't seem to hold). But in such a crowded country that seem
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by blah32497 13y ago
How is the one child policy pointless? Isn't the point to keep population growth in check? Hasn't it worked?
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by blah32497 13y ago
I think it's just down-right unprofessional. I don't work in SV, but if the president of my company wrote something like that he would have been laughed at. Making things "cutesy" and "funny", is just an obnoxi
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by blah32497 13y ago
What a strange move. Maybe he wasn't spending enough time at iD and was forced to leave? You'd think his having a leg in gaming and a leg in VR would create a wonderful synergy. Knowing all the in's and out of both worlds he
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by blah32497 13y ago
People closed their doors? I work in a everyone-gets-an-office environment and basically all the doors remain open 24/7. It's basically an unspoken rule. You only close the door if you're super focused and want absolute silen
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by blah32497 13y ago
Really? Everyone I know uses MATLAB. I work with engineers, so the stats I do is minimal. Thank you for the feedback by the way!
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by blah32497 13y ago
Does anyone have extensive experience with Pandas vs R? I'm a long term R user, though I'm not exactly a pro and I honestly don't really like some aspects of it. I've looked a little at Pandas and it seems to do some thi
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by blah32497 13y ago
As a Russian-American this comes off as complete BS. I've seen this written before and it's always in the form of "It's not us that smile too little, it's you Americans that are fake and smile too much!". For o

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