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by bradleysmith 12y ago
I appreciated the blog post, your about-us page, and this comment.
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
This is remedied with a simple VPN, correct? only justification in that article: " Arvind Gupta, the head of IT Cell, BJP Tweeted: 'The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were c
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
Whoa. Link for the lazy: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/231128.htm
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Barrett Brown Accuses Rolling Stone of Fakery [pdf](cryptome.org)
2 points by bradleysmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
His 'Sleeping with the Devil' on the US-Saudi connection was pretty damning for its time too. No pun intended. http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/... I grew up in Saudi, and got my un
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
I've read OF Dulles, but this one escaped me. thanks for the share. For more of the nuts and bolts of modern operations, I suggest 'Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy' by Mark Lowenthal. http://www.amazon.com&#x2
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The Sabu Files – Collection of Documents Relevant to Anti-Sec(sabufiles.com)
2 points by bradleysmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
very cool! original source doc: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/29/1406023111
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
"The New York Times has reported that Al-Qaeda has designed Foursquare to identify popular locations for bombings!" "Actually, Brooke, that's been discredited as any kind of real threat, the people that use that site are
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Chat logs reveal Sabu's role in security breach of the Sun in 2011(theguardian.com)
1 points by bradleysmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
This could be remedied by allowing 'new entries' after a certain time to exit with proper screening, couldn't it?
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
Very interesting. I'm going to have to ponder on that one. I agree that goals 'beyond our biology' are, quite basically, rooted IN THAT biology. We can never trust our perception to be anything other than a reflection of that
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
That's a valid pursuit, and I think it noble of you. Your associations are your own, and I don't intend to suggest they be any particular way at all. Still, your point doesn't take away from those non-SOMEONE's that do n
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
>There are a lot of people who think that human life is more than a mere bacteria-like existence, and that its value extends beyond our biological goals and limitations. Whether you like it or not, we have long since started to explore p
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
>We have to stay alive, and we're all dead in less than 100 years. Therefore, we have to reproduce. Surely we also have other goals, but reproduction is a sanity check on those. You're discounting the value of information that
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
how do you figure? I would ask the author the same question. To me, building a robot to get yourself a Burning Man ticket is the definition of radical self-reliance. I get the non-commoditification, gifting economy as a goal, but the demand
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
Appreciate your thought out reply. >I do know that world citizens seem to be very happy living in a world of celebrity photos and memes and " listicles" these days. Like they were happy using nokia 3600 phones before there were
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
No, I didn't mean like Flipboard or Circa. I also wouldn't expect much support for these kinds of things. I meant companies that are trying to change how news is consumed and produced, not those that prettify how it is presented f
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
Was interested to see nothing mentioned about news & current events information startups. This seemed to be a re-occuring "problem worth solving" on YCombinator lists, and is notably absent.
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
This makes the most sense to me as motivation for this kind of give-away. Both familiarity to soon-to-be-promoted techs, as you said, and establish themselves as the system to migrate AWAY FROM. To have the first $100k of server time's
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
... to share snarky comments and bitch about things. Why does anyone start a facebook group? what about BM makes it non-facebook-group friendly? There are a lot of loosely connect people that meet through BM or regionals, facebook is actual
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
LOL, there are plenty of people at BM that can afford to do LITERALLY nothing else. Regional burns too. Your perspective of poverty may be a bit skewed. You think junkies can AFFORD a heroin habit?
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
very cool, thanks for the project.
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Live Stream at Burning Man(m.ustream.tv)
1 points by bradleysmith 12y ago|0 comments
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
I believe that you are probably right. As with many policing policies, crossing as many things off the cover-your-ass list at time of arrest seems to be very important. Should there be a need to push 'resisting arrest' at a future
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
This was a fantastic read, thanks for sharing
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful responses. This post wasn't in consideration of suicide myself, just interested in the dissonant thoughts on it here. There is probably a visibility bias in who would feel compelled to answer this question in
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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on suicide?
2 points by bradleysmith 12y ago|5 comments
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
unexpected empathy is always particularly moving, especially for the hopeless. It's a STRONG pattern interrupt to a negative view of the world around you, and really makes people question themselves.
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by bradleysmith 12y ago
that is a great thing, would love to see that. Thanks for sharing.

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