cryoshon

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by cryoshon 11y ago
>I don't get why this would be considered evil or even underhanded. It's normal operating procedure for various government organizations to ask media outlets to postpone publication due to time sensitive events. It's a for
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by cryoshon 11y ago
So... whatever happened to "Don't be Evil"? This incident depicts the US government asking for clandestine political cover from a multinational corporation, and receiving it. The State Department was the organ by which this u
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Chelsea Manning: government anti-leak program a 'blank check for surveillance'(theguardian.com)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|2 comments
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Fearing no punishment, Denver cops abuse crime databases for personal gain(arstechnica.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Government/police types trend heavily Republican, though. I assume many of them are voting for Trump.
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Cops often let off hook for civil rights complaints(triblive.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|1 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
For these kinds of projects, the line is very blurry, though I agree there is a large science component. Can't make use of the science portion of it if the engineering portion isn't ready, too.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
No, that needs to be invented. That's why it's hard.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Here's a several billion dollar hard tech idea that would benefit many, many, many people: cheap/fast/efficient water desalination and purification. It's a hard problem. Current solutions aren't cutting it. Unlock w
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The perils of turning 26: when US millennials lose their parents' healthcare(theguardian.com)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
From this, I'd expect parallel construction cases (circumvention of legal protections) to trickle down to the municipal level and become the new standard for policework, which is to say the new standard of policework would be extralega
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by cryoshon 11y ago
The article mentions that it's mostly men between the ages of 21 and 30 who use neurostimulatory devices. I know I've been tempted to try. Maybe this is silly, but I view this as evidence of societal sickness. Young men are pushed
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by cryoshon 11y ago
To put this into context, the people around my age that I know are worried about being able to pay rent, having enough money to marry, paying off their student debt during their lifetime, and being so handicapped by a lack of money that the
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Red Cell: The CIA's “alternative analysis” Unit (2015)(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
That's an interesting project. Is this script open source by any chance? It's not of any practical use, but it'd be interesting to graph the fluctuations if there are any.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
In practice biologically, sure, you're right, but it's tough to look beyond the tribal-cultural ingrainment of marriage into people's psyches... sure, people may always fantasize about doing better than they currently are, bu
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Just one more symptom of runaway economic inequality... The consumer has less and less real ownership/power. In good areas, the landlords have realized that year over year rent increases won't prevent units from being rented... an
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Hm, I've never thought of it this way, but you're entirely right. This explains why many struggling families can "get" "reverse mortgages" in which they sell their earned equity back to the bank that has always
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by cryoshon 11y ago
That's a good point, actually. The culture is to make people feel constantly needy, so that solutions can be easily sold... there's also very few mental health resources in the US, so the neediness easily festers into a pathology.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
"“In the future, intelligence services might use the [Internet of Things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” Clapper said.
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US intelligence chief: we might use the internet of things to spy on you(theguardian.com)
16 points by cryoshon 11y ago|5 comments
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Financial despair, addiction and the rise of suicide in white America(theguardian.com)
6 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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Supreme Court chief sells Microsoft stock, then takes on case involving MS(hosted.ap.org)
7 points by cryoshon 11y ago|1 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Most relevantly for the HN audience: "The truth is that almost a quarter of American start-ups are not founded on brilliant new ideas, but on the desperation of men or women who can’t get a decent job. The majority of all American ente
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After I Lived in Norway, America Felt Backward(thenation.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|1 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Cynically: the old are already impoverished, and we have more to gain by freeing the youth from future poverty than we do by salvaging twilight years. Realistically, you're right about debt having two sides... but one side is typically
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80% of Chicago PD dashcam videos are missing audio due to ‘officer error’(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I agree entirely. I would venture to say that sending people without sending robots to pave the way is dangerous and irresponsible, as it denies whoever arrives to Mars a welcoming mat / basic resources which might help with survival.
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Police destroy evidence with 10 failed passcode attempts on iPhone(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
3 points by cryoshon 11y ago|2 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yes, The Culture Series has informed my political thought quite intensely as well-- I only heard of it via HN about a year ago. "Money is a sign of poverty" is the thought that sticks with me the most. Why bother having a currency

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