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by cyphunk 11y ago
"ISIS was one of the terrorist groups that learned from Snowden, and it is clear his actions played a role in the rise of ISIS" Despite how seriously misleading this statement is I can't help but laugh. Been rolfmao way too
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Does David Cameron think that only poor kids have trouble learning the "value of work"? And clearly this policy will only apply to poorer kids.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
On the other hand... who gives a flygin f' about a startup ecosystem? If to get a strong startup scene I have to live in a society that loves risk (and loves to tell you that taking it is a character quality)... no thanks. I'll ha
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by cyphunk 11y ago
The issue in Israel is most startups choose to sell rather early. The same is true of the EU. I don't have a list but remember companies such as a Skype, Rockstar and others that were EU (are?). Many just get purchased. This may have m
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by cyphunk 11y ago
tl;dr: a brief look at community created HD icons from as far back as 2002 but mostly just from the past few years.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
As a side note regulation in agriculture is one area in particular that concerns europeans over the possible TTIP trade agreement. The EU and US have fundamentally different approaches to such regulation with the EU siding on more regulatio
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Here is a case where having ALL records is claimed to have been relevant: pinning the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's PM to Hezbollah [1]. As we all start to internalize the value of metadata criminals will avoid using systems that exp
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Snowdens revelations bring the public to question and defend the right of privacy. This right provides more direct and clear protection to those in minority communities of all types. So I doubt we are questioning his actions in relation to
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Imagine that for a moment: Self driving car companies could promise to pay all accident expenses provided it was on auto drive at the time of accident. Not only is that a marketing win, potentially reducing accidents and saving costs for ow
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Does this narrative not justify NSA's bulk metadata collection? Seems anyone who says "no" is either disputing the tone and narrative (emphases on metadata) or assuming the circumstances warrant it in Lebanon but not elsewher
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by cyphunk 11y ago
If the enemy of your enemy is your friend and a friend of yours winds up being hosted by the enemy of your enemy, does this really compromise the status of your friendship? Maybe your point is that what I consider enemy in this analogy (N
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Just a reminder that this is the same guy that calls snowden a traitor
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by cyphunk 11y ago
It's a great article but also long so here is a tl;dr paraphrased: Berridge stumbled upon evidence in 1986 that dopamine did not produce pleasure, but in fact desire. In early 1990s, after rigorous research, that he fel
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by cyphunk 11y ago
I tried to re-read the article from your perspective but guessing my personal biases are still getting in my way of seeing your point. Is the article dumb? It starts out in the position as a first person editorial, and one from the gaze of
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by cyphunk 11y ago
1. I've seen things more off topic than this, especially things which relate to currently popular events. 2. "bad story" is subjective and many disagree. I didn't know that disagreeing with opinion was reason to flag. bu
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Because the article isn't about white poverty. It comes at a time of the Baltimore riots and I think it's understandable it doesn't attempt to address all forms of poverty.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
On point 2, HN flagging things that are critical of the US... I find surprising. On point 1, facts. I haven't found where to dispute the articles facts yet. Where the commenters dispute it's actually an issue of perception. - [1]
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by cyphunk 11y ago
why would the original submission of this article be flagged? Not worth discussing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516703
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USA Where the Poor Live Dearly(zeit.de)
13 points by cyphunk 11y ago|15 comments
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by cyphunk 11y ago
I hear this response often to the "i have nothing to hide" camp. Feels to me like we would have something better to say. Pointing to one thing most clearly wish to hide is just not a good comparison with the digital breadcrumbs we
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Missing an alternative option: migrate to, perhaps even become citizen in, a country with a half decent social welfare system. > Lesson: Unless you are confident that your skills are very far above average, don’t take a career path that
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by cyphunk 11y ago
> A dependency graph would tell us, at a click, which of the pillars of scientific theory are truly load-bearing. This is the problem with the academic form of knowledge transfer as a whole. It's too dependent on feeding of ego. And
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Social Justice Wiki(sjwiki.org)
1 points by cyphunk 11y ago|0 comments
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Notes from a Boner(captainawkward.com)
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by cyphunk 11y ago
It seems strange to someone who is not living in the US or Israel how people can just say as this author does "By most accounts, hundreds of dangerous militants have, indeed, been killed by drones, including some high-ranking Qaeda fig
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by cyphunk 11y ago
Meanwhile, Obama has a child teach him how to open the Processing.org IDE. Meh, maybe the future is brighter though considering Hiliary knows how to setup her own mail server.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
thanks for the clarification. design as a bi-product of human intuition and then an agent for influence back on it. got your point.
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by cyphunk 11y ago
I have not found a project yet that I could divorce the layout from the content without the use of javascript. i gave css many attempts at this. mainly from the desire to make the content easy to manage for others. or just for aesthetics. b
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by cyphunk 11y ago
flexbox will be nice. once widely supported. <div style="display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center; width:100%; height:100%">dynamic both v and h aligned center</div>
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by cyphunk 11y ago
and I wonder how the <ul><li> somehow survived unscathed and free from the semantic witch hunt of yore. shouldn't we replace them with: <div style="display:list-type; type-of-list:unordered"> <div style=&

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