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by ddod 12y ago
The most important part of a universal basic income, in my opinion, is to not provide it for people under 18, otherwise, you're incentivizing people to have more children (which in many macro cases is a good thing, but in practice in t
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by ddod 12y ago
To clarify, the scenario isn't that the Nazis just picked up existing technology-- They had to have direct dealings with IBM for the scope and implementation of the process, which was largely involved with sorting census data to figure
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by ddod 12y ago
I wonder how they can reconcile the name "Spartan" with built in note taking, social sharing, Cortana, and webpage overlay drawing.
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by ddod 12y ago
The etymology is important. Private vs. public is the difference between the individual and the group. What makes us individuals is that we exist independently from the public. If our actions, thoughts, opinions, and histories are public, w
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by ddod 12y ago
It was criticized on academic and theoretical grounds. In his field (International Relations) there are hundreds if not thousands of people all producing a lot of dialogue and research relating to overarching models for how states interact.
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by ddod 12y ago
Confirmation bias is definitely in full effect... My comment was on the technical aspects of the story and specifically highlighted the non-technical evidence as substandard. Joe Random bloggers who I've seen repudiate the government h
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by ddod 12y ago
I'm not sure how anything I said was anti-US. Is being at all reluctant to believe everything one hears anti-US to you? I'm wondering who is bringing discourse down here besides the person attacking commenters instead of discussin
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by ddod 12y ago
Could someone explain how they would know that the IP "used exclusively" by NK wasn't a proxied IP but in fact the "real" source IP? Personally, I think just mentioning that part of the evidence came from the Behavi
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by ddod 12y ago
I can't help your moral quandary, but the rationalization should really go both ways in that both technologies give the populous some measure of control against a possibly oppressive government (be it minuscule and ineffective or not).
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by ddod 12y ago
I am really confused as to why the security community is obsessed with the term "nation state". Every single publication or quote from security researchers that wants to attribute some worm or attack to a country incorrectly calls
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by ddod 12y ago
There's also the added bonus of timing, as the torture report seemed to only be gaining steam up until this. Also, the concept of "cyber-terrorism" being a thing seemed kind of ubiquitous to me, but from what I've been h
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by ddod 12y ago
I personally think there's a difference between substantial long-form content and the standardized "elongated-form" content that all starts out with something like "It was a cold December morning and the sparse streaks o
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Show HN: ParseHumanDate.js A robust library to parse human readable dates(github.com)
4 points by ddod 12y ago|0 comments
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by ddod 12y ago
This sort of thing is pretty off-topic, but at least in the US, some states (like Florida) have laws requiring prisons offer kosher meals. Considering both diets are voluntary, it does seem unfortunate that certain ideologies are state sanc
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by ddod 12y ago
I can't help but think this offering is designed to make people not miss the Mini when it's discontinued in a year or two. This article read really positive despite basically saying the Mini is a terrible purchase. If you want a t
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by ddod 12y ago
That assumes that each of these properties exist in a vacuum, which is surely not the case. There's an obvious interaction between written and spoken language, and even without that, hundreds or thousands of years of differences in the
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by ddod 12y ago
This article is interesting in that, while it's not the intention of the writer, it seems to point out some technical underpinnings for how language might impact culture. If a computer's handling of a language can vary so drastica
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by ddod 12y ago
I've been waiting for about a year for this refresh and fully expected to buy one today, but after looking at the combination of price, default HDD, processors, and very weak integrated graphics, I just can't justify buying this.
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by ddod 12y ago
Let's not conflate the implications of this with prejudices against the victims. If a startup had snagged one of these domains and had built a community or SEO with it, could you imagine that being taken away from them without any sort
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by ddod 12y ago
If you simply sent the SMS as soon as someone enters their login credentials instead of requiring another button to be pressed, it would make your system a bit less annoying.
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by ddod 12y ago
I think half of your advice is really good, and the other half not as much. We've all seen examples of seemingly useless things becoming very successful. Twitter, the Yo app, Let's Players, Beats by Dre, and so on. Your secondary
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by ddod 12y ago
You could similarly just make a few accounts and run them off of a few different VPSs, since it only takes a handful of votes to get you on the front page. That strikes me as unethical, but I'm sure more and more interested parties wil
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by ddod 12y ago
I think this could pretty easily be solved if there was a somewhat small box on the frontpage with samples from posts from the last hour that haven't made it past /new yet. This puts the important stage of the democracy (the prima
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Show HN: JS module for generating Dwarf Fortress style 2D maps(benwasser.github.io)
5 points by ddod 12y ago|1 comments
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by ddod 12y ago
As the creator (and neglector) of one of the more popular bastions of people interested in just Show HNs (showinghn.com), I think this is a good move. If anyone has any ideas of what other sort of value I could provide with showinghn.com, f
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by ddod 12y ago
In terms of liberty, one crime doesn't excuse another, especially when they're not directly related. If I manufacture cigarettes and someone dies of lung cancer, I could be ethically liable but my liberty to make cigarettes should
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by ddod 12y ago
That responsibility is not absolute, and could be interpreted differently in the frameworks of ethicality, legality, economics, and liberty. Ethically, I think you're correct that it's their responsibility to do what they can. Leg
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by ddod 12y ago
I think some related arguments to your point are that you could say ISPs don't do enough to prevent pirated content from being transmitted on their networks or that Muslims don't do enough to prevent Islamist extremists in their c
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by ddod 12y ago
The comments here are surprisingly pro-Microsoft. I'd personally rather deal with spam and botnets over a corporation legally being able to take over the DNS of other companies due to the actions of users of a service. Despite pretty c
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by ddod 12y ago
This idea was similarly proposed by a couple people when I posted my voice-recognition resume/website ( https://benwasser.com ) to Hacker News. Glad to see it taking off. Also, I didn't see it mentioned, but I found that

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