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by clicks 13y ago
The video review does not have favourable things to say about it (flickering issues, lighting issues, etc.). I wonder though if the 39' Seiki 4K TV (going for $699) contains any sort of upgrade improving on the issues found in the 50&#
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by clicks 13y ago
> There is nothing all that silly about it. It simply interprets the Constitution in the way you would a contract--based on what the parties intended the document to mean at the time of the agreement. For contracts relating to small situ
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by clicks 13y ago
Particularly the big annoyance in the latest version of UI/UX wave is the small fonts. I always zoom to about 150% and in instances where the pages are spaced out very little content is visible in one screenview. I just hope this phase
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by clicks 13y ago
Sorry, confusion on my part.
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by clicks 13y ago
But at least you agree that it falls under even the most loose interpretation of a "cruel and unusual" punishment and is thus unconstitutional? Or no?
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by clicks 13y ago
No you don't get to decide what can be termed torture or not. A day or two ago you said it's "debatable" whether or not torture happened at Guantanamo Bay ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6007152 )
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by clicks 13y ago
Try typing 'n'... seeing as the url of this website is news.ycombinator.com. It doesn't start with y, as youtube or yahoo does.
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by clicks 13y ago
Here's hoping that the free time slots are now filled with talks that discuss ways to escape the surveillance state. Particularly how systems for the use of masses could be erected.
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by clicks 13y ago
Right, that's the point. Google will increasingly give you better results the more you use it because of data-tracking and search personalization.
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by clicks 13y ago
While I have myself made the decision to start using DDG and abandon Google for these very privacy issues, I will voice another devil's advocate argument that there's another big plus to personalization (and data tracking): If I s
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by clicks 13y ago
> I have a deep and abiding faith in the masses of ordinary people. Why? Didn't a mass of ordinary people once support Hitler? Didn't a mass of ordinary American people once own slaves? Don't a mass of ordinary American
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San Francisco to L.A. in 30 Mins. With Proposed New Transportation System(news.yahoo.com)
188 points by clicks 13y ago|102 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
That was a typo by me. s/posts, private messages, likes/private messages, likes/. I think a public post is public, so it's fair game as concerns the gov't trying to use it in whatever way they wish. On a tangentiall
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by clicks 13y ago
If I was well-assured that if I participated in Facebook all of my posts, private messages, likes, etc. were truly private and would never ever be released to the gov't or any other entity in any way, ever, under no condition such that
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by clicks 13y ago
I think that a generation of millennials, who don't particularly value privacy and don't see much wrong with the government monitoring certain communications when they voluntarily post every little detail
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Scientists demonstrate ability to store 360 TB/disc(phys.org)
7 points by clicks 13y ago|1 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
That is interesting, but probably not a viable solution for _today_. Something like an always-on dashcam [1] would be the way to go. I'm thinking there are some out there whose energy is generated by pedaling your bike. yum was good so
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NYC cases show how crooked officers misuse FBI database for cyber snooping(startribune.com)
2 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
> At least the NSA ain't lying Sorry, wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYgkjczoBYk It appears to be highly likely that were it not for the recent leaks, NSA would have just outright lied and told you that they
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by clicks 13y ago
For me, this actually was the tipping point. In social groups I hung out I was usually the guy who'd defend America on numerous accounts, but in the last few weeks I've been bombarded by a load of information which I find to be
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by clicks 13y ago
I think that has a lot to do with upbringing and culture. We here at HN know a lot about computers and programming -- even some of us for whom it isn't even our profession. We learned a lot of this stuff because it was a hobby. Several
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by clicks 13y ago
I think you guys are on to something. I choose to fix my own car when it has small issues, I choose to fix my own computer when things go haywire (whether it's a hardware or software problem), I choose to install/fix issues relati
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by clicks 13y ago
That's just a defeatist attitude then isn't it. I think it's better to proactively attack something even slightly evil, because if you don't it'll keep becoming more accepted until it becomes normal and starts rotti
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by clicks 13y ago
> I'm not saying Facebook is evil Why not? I say it is. Just as you said the other day -- advertising is preying on people's cognitive biases. Sure, the world is very morally complex, but that has no bearing on the morality of
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Lawrence Lessig now doing an AMA at Reddit
3 points by clicks 13y ago|1 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
This is getting extremely scary that big-name journalists already are now smearing him with accussations of criminalities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU8-cBfgLJA
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by clicks 13y ago
> I'm kind of tempted to do this, since we largely do this kind off thing for VPN already. Take advantage of the zeitgeist rdl. You can look forward to at least one customer if you decide to go ahead with this. (me). :)
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by clicks 13y ago
It could be a crowd-sourced effort -- e-mails that are spam you mark as spam and upload to some repo that is maintained by someone (a la Adblock). You keep your filters updated, and run your e-mail against the filters file.
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by clicks 13y ago
If you want some more irony: Keith Alexander, chief of NSA, was at the last Defcon [1] giving talks wearing jeans and.. yes, a t-shirt with EFF slogan: https://twitter.com/EFF/status/346011010819305472 [1]: http:
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by clicks 13y ago
At the risk of going more off-topic, but nevertheless answering your question: I judge most things on how they affect people at large. Not just high-salary employers and employees usually from stable households, but normal people that make

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