cryoshon

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by cryoshon 10y ago
Ahem, good comment, but: At age 22, you make 25k and get 0% matching, and can afford 0 to put into your still-hypothetical retirement fund. At age 50, if you're the median person, you make 50k. And you need that money to put your kid t
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by cryoshon 10y ago
they are tracking our every single movement, and aspire to track our every single thought we have a duty to resist this totalitarianism by any means possible or necessary; fascism is here, and free men can't delude themselves with hopi
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Saudi officials were 'supporting' 9/11 hijackers, commission member says(theguardian.com)
6 points by cryoshon 10y ago|2 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
not remotely debunked...
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Hillary Clinton and Electoral Fraud(medium.com)
24 points by cryoshon 11y ago|14 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
By that point, it's too late; most of the populace will side with the police anyway, via their inaction. I'd invest in political resistance and intelligence gathering instead. The first to prevent falling deeper into fascism than
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by cryoshon 11y ago
US govt takes that line. Remember to take care.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
You misunderstand: he has the freedom to speak, so long as he has no voice. Say whatever you want whenever you want; they're watching, but don't care enough to interfere if you're a nobody. Nobody will bother you until you ha
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yes, they do. And they'll defend that thought to the death without understanding it.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yeah. I wonder if there's a way to tally up their death toll... it's possible it'd be in the millions.
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Police using online surveillance to track talk on Flint water crisis(mlive.com)
4 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>and that our limited surveillence, in the grand scheme of things, is almost tolerable in comparison How is the surveillance we suffer under limited in any sense?
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The NSA won't tell Congress how many Americans it's spying on(theverge.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Don't worry. For BI to occur, the kings will first fall. Remember, they chose this course, and will follow it until the end-- they always do.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
The useful idiots/bootlickers are there whenever there's any kind of scandal or assignment of blame. Remember: if a person's model of the world favors authority over realism, authority is perpetually blameless in their eyes.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>Edge cases are the ones that make or break people. Holding aside the argument for socialized or egalitarian healthcare, it's undeniable that major events in someone's life (major illness, accident, death, foreclosure etc...) a
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Snowden: Surveillance is about “social control,” not terrorism(the-peak.ca)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>If people do it for whatever reason, well clearly the are immoral, deficient somehow, their psychology needs to be studied by a special committee. Yeah. There's also the marginal utility of money. The banks can piss away billions w
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Nah. A revolution will suck a ton, just that it's inevitable if the current system of "rape the poor so that the rich can buy more vacation houses" continues.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>But what do business leaders see coming for workers in the next three years? Only 27 percent expect workers to enjoy higher pay, while 41 percent said wages and benefits would be falling. I read this, and I am at ease, because it means
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Base pairs. I don't know the exact math and haven't ever done Westerns, but there's almost certainly a way of converting protein size (typically expressed in kDa) to base pairs, since theoretically a large enough quantity of
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>For people who are involved in dealing with CRISPR/Cas9, what is the effective rate of gene editing done in vitro vs. in vivo? Difficult question. CRISPR is ironclad in vitro, but in vivo it's not well understood. For referenc
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I was in HIV research for a time. I was unimpressed by this paper's title, introduction, methods, etc, until the part where they discussed correcting infected cells derived from human donors. As a general note, a running joke in the fi
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>“The fact that the 'nothing to hide' individuals experience a significant chilling effect speaks to how online privacy is much bigger than the mere lawfulness of one's actions. It's about a fundamental human right to
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Snowden, Chomsky, and Greenwald: A Conversation on Privacy, Tonight 8 PM EST(theintercept.com)
4 points by cryoshon 11y ago|1 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>Imagine what a great society we would be if we were all free thinkers. It's tough to herd cats.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Hm, I wonder if Jigsaw is recruiting... looks like quite an interesting job.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>provides some evidence that they've certainly been thinking along those lines. They've been acting along those lines, you mean. That's even scarier. We are in an election year in the USA... and if not the USA, there'
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by cryoshon 11y ago
A multinational corporation has decided to map defections in a civil war in order to encourage people to defect from the government. An evil government, sure-- but it's a company weighing in on one side of a war. It isn't within t
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by cryoshon 11y ago
>For one Google could influence the US presidential elections by skewing search results and making certain candidates look bad and others good. It'd be very hard to prove, but yes. This could be extremely granularly controlled, too-

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