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by camperman 10y ago
> But I think the greater commonality between the cases is that the "very difficult to believe events" turned out in the end to be false. The cases have literally nothing to do with each other. That Cecilia Kang has authored fa
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by camperman 10y ago
> but the author's logic is likely correct. She was confident in her judgement that the UVA Rape On Campus story that disgraced Rolling Stone was true as well. It wasn't. Oops. > Not only circumstantial, but really flimsy. D
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by camperman 10y ago
There are a number of factual errors with this article. "He found dozens of made-up articles about Mrs. Clinton kidnapping, molesting and trafficking children in the restaurant’s back rooms." There are no articles that claim Mrs.
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by camperman 10y ago
It's called rhetoric and I don't really care about degrading the discourse.
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by camperman 10y ago
"This election was extraordinarily close. Within half a point." No it wasn't and you're extraordinarily ill-informed about the US's political system to even make that claim. The US is a constitutional republic, not
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by camperman 10y ago
The link does not apply to the first point. Google censoring searches for Hillary's health for example is well documented. Re the second one, if I DON'T add a Wikileaks link then you'll complain the information is not sourced
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by camperman 10y ago
I got a couple: - Stop censoring searches based on political party - Stop working directly with political parties https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12403
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by camperman 10y ago
"Mainline support is also progressing well. With some patches you can get temperature regulation, HDMI support, audio support now on mainline kernel." Patches to get HDMI and audio? More work needed I think. "Video decoding i
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by camperman 10y ago
I don't know how it could be clearer: an academic and long-time confidant of the Clintons emails the Chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign and says "we've all been quite content to demean government, drop
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by camperman 10y ago
"It's from an academic in the Arts and Humanities world and the whole email is basically just a guy waxing philosophic" Not just 'a guy' - a highly intelligent, extremely well-connected confidant of the Clintons who
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by camperman 10y ago
I don't make Wikileaks URLs - they do. If someone can't be bothered to click a link and see what the context of a quote is, then I'm not going to spoonfeed them.
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by camperman 10y ago
"To unpack that, Podesta's correspondent is bemoaning the fact that politics has begun to be covered as entertainment and celebrity gossip." I thought he was saying they've all been quite content to demean government, dr
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by camperman 10y ago
"But to anyone who sees civic and political participation as the most important way to advance democracy, and to beat back any capture by special interests, this is not medicine. It is poison." Nonsense. The mass hacks have shone
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by camperman 10y ago
No, it's accurate. Having a bank steal your money when you're a customer is devastating. Having a bank fire and blacklist you because you were an ethical employee is also devastating. The only difference with Madoff and Enron is t
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by camperman 10y ago
No it isn't.
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by camperman 10y ago
'The people in the national security bureaucracy--hell, even me , even though I'm not a national security bureaucrat and have only read a handful of military history books--heard that and thought: "HOLY SHIT."' I&#
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by camperman 10y ago
That still doesn't make them special. The failure of any essential service provider or business partner can have a crippling effect on a business. That's just a risk you take precautions against as part of normal day to day operat
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by camperman 10y ago
"When banks are held responsible its the people who end up losing money." If a bank is insolvent, as it looks like Deutsche Bank is, you've _already_ lost your money. "You can't just let them be when they struggle b
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by camperman 10y ago
Good points. Perhaps Luajit does need to be refactored into something more understandable to attract more people if it's going to survive in the long term. The major problem that I see is that we need another Mike Pall but with the add
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by camperman 10y ago
I got the impression during my deep dive that it was elegantly designed and written code that solved problems that were a good two levels above my current experience. I don't think it's the place to go if you want to understand ho
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by camperman 10y ago
Inflation in the US is 0.1% or less? Uh huh.
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by camperman 10y ago
Right. And it's not like the bond market is in a massive bubble or anything is it? And house prices can go up forever too, right?
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by camperman 10y ago
"Amazingly enough, the U.S. can still grow its way out of the massive debt we’ve taken on. I know … hard to believe. But it’s true. The power of compounding is truly inexorable, and it’s amazing what a steady 3.5% growth rate on a huge
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by camperman 10y ago
It's not hard to understand. Pick a medical commodity that costs a few dollars in Europe or anywhere else in the world but is exorbitant in the US. Could be insulin, an epipen - whatever. Try and bring some back in to the country with
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by camperman 10y ago
It made mine because I laughed so suddenly and violently that I spat coffee onto the screen.
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by camperman 10y ago
True. I interviewed a guy once who found a bug in my example code so I hired him on the spot.
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by camperman 10y ago
Something like: do I really want to work with you? :)
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by camperman 10y ago
I had a similar incident with, strangely enough, Microsoft. It wanted to use one of my photographs in promotional material and asked permission. I said that permission had already been given by me in the form of a CC-BY and they were very w
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by camperman 10y ago
I still love DDD ( https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ ). It's really useful for when you want to see what your code is doing to some area in memory.
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by camperman 10y ago
Oh to be young and carefree again :) It does feel like an earthquake. The most powerful subwoofer I've ever heard doesn't come close to the teeth-scraping body-slamming whump of a near miss from large ordinance.

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