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by cyphunk 11y ago
While I agree the article is trash I also think having it posted on HN provides value as the comments and reaction show clearly how unwelcome xenophobia is.
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you had me at "Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border" what a pile of crap
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a) I wasn't speaking from a historical perspective but rather about the present. b) the limitation and example cited is the bonobo one we keep chasing our tails over.
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Not owning assets is the entire idea of the sharing economy. Provided one doesn't get upset about someone else having more than themselves the conclusion of the article could sound just fine: "But in fact we’re enriching the owne
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by cyphunk 11y ago
that was a fun read. I also think that all public beaches aren't nude beaches is another capitalist conspiracy.
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Bonobos do not have social penalties for promiscuity, however. So, interesting, we've come back to social constructs from evolutionary biology. Outside of religious communities humans don't have intense social penalties either.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Attempting to dangle a carrot in front of the horse this study shows the GDP losses from not having peace. But what is also shown and might be overlooked is how economically rational the step from non-violent resistance to violent resistanc
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Calculating the Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict(rand.org)
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how communism is presented and held en mass today seems to be as a bunch of people hating richness. how libertarianism is presented and held en mass seems to be people that hate non-trivial social demands that are created by any central aut
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Didn't we already try the theories of "differing brain size means <insert_gender,race,etc_here>" in the past? Any time I hear "fMRI" I feel a hidden tinge of Phrenology trying to pull itself back from the grav
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Traverls expect their airport to be like a kafkaesque mall that forces them to see all the possible wares they can purchases before getting out of it.
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Tegel is the only airport that I know that doesn't place barriers forcing me to walk through all the duty free to get from point A to B. You can land in Tegel and be in less than 10 minutes.
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This comment was Bauhaus inspired. .
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A response to this inevitable progress would be: A Silkroad where reputation is tied to responsible drug use. Where irresponsible use, at worse, lands a therapist at your door rather than police dogs. By turning dark markets into a means of
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That one chart single handedly shows how permanent the idea of online drug markets are and also how attractive the field currently is for further innovation. It shows a market with high turn-over which to the minds of a geeky criminal trans
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by cyphunk 11y ago
5287 in my inbox (not gmail, all local, no lists) and not the least bit bothered. I treat it like a phone in perpetual silent mode.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
A teacher in the US finding a way to teach sex ed in a state that forbids saying condom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06kT9yfj7QE
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Consciousness Might Emerge from a Data Broadcast (2014)(scientificamerican.com)
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Loss of support for guaranteed income reflects radical shift in values (2013)(remappingdebate.org)
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Perhaps a recipe for disaster but I consider ignoring email count and avoiding sorting as a form of zen. The result is you use your fallible mind to prioritize and remember important mental threads. And if that fails often you may find it b
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Based on their definition of vulnerable the Ubuntu 12.04LTS installation image is also vulnerable. I think this is only news to anyone that hasn't setup a fresh install of Windows. I remember some presentation from the Honeynet project
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by cyphunk 11y ago
thanks for updating my outdated data :)
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Why austerity is the only deal-breaker for Greece by Yanis Varoufakis(agenda.weforum.org)
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Appalling (from the speech): "More than 6,500 young men and women died in those wars" Strangely typical that people forget that "human" is a definition that applies to more than just "American". Just take one
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Collectively the EU bloc represents the larges global economy (18tr GDP). It should be the US forced to accept EU regulations to participate in the EU economy, not the other way around.
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WeWank™ CoWanking™ spaces inbetween the mostly empty airbnb housing projects that you shuffle between with uber, all coming to a city near you.
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Historically Europe was a region constantly reminded of people power. The Greek crises is the first "European" action in the Eurozone since the foundation of the European Union. Like everyone else I curse under my breath when trai
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Can we just agree that either now or in the near future the idea of thought or expression without attribution is a thing of the past. Something that our grandparents internet had but not for us. This slow crawl of both policy and protocol t
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And the history of black/grey market meandering. I remember watching a discussion on their official support forum from users requesting help on broken drives purchased new in box off of ebay. OCZ didn't even bother to check serial
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Not at all. There should bit git4chan for Academia where you can submit articles but never obtain attribution.

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