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by dictum 9y ago
Sorry for the snarky tone. I don't mean to discount your experience. It's relevant, but on a certain level so were the complaints of previous generations. People like me lamented all sorts of contemporary phenomena. Except for pas
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I'm not old enough to school the youngs but I'm old enough to take delight in sounding like a curmudgeon, but your comment would be recited nearly verbatim at some poetry slam of decades ago, except replacing "the internet&
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by dictum 9y ago
Your generation certainly had other things that your parents and grandparents would rather keep you from using/experiencing. Moreover, no one else had a smartphone, so you weren't the odd one out.
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by dictum 9y ago
He's... preaching . https://balkanist.net/the-islamic-sex-cult-supporting-turkey... > Followers of Harun Yahya wear drag make-up and practice a “sexed-up, Disney version of Islam” that helps promote conservative Pr
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by dictum 9y ago
"But Timmy was doing it too!" doesn't spare Johnny from a mouthful from his parents.
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In line with the age-old advice on how sausages are made, here's my advice: don't ever inspect the data leaving a mobile device. – Just as I was about to add this comment, I remembered how it's not limited to mobile devices a
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by dictum 9y ago
Without reading the source, I reckon this is because not all Medium blogs are under medium.com subdomains, so you can't request access only to *.medium.com in the extension manifest.
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by dictum 9y ago
> A track record of success. We believe winners have always won. I'm nearly sure this is a long-term marketing campaign in which they'll flip the script later with something to the tune of "see how hard things can be for p
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by dictum 9y ago
About the US, it's not very reassuring when, in the same week, the President says "(Xi Jinping), he's now president for life. President for life. And he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’
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by dictum 9y ago
One of the most fascinating things (in a repulsive way) I've heard of intelligence agencies doing is keeping an abuse ring running so the participants can be blackmailed. The MI5 may have done that: https://www.theguardian.c
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by dictum 9y ago
It can be organic if enough people who share an interest in world news have been influenced by their earlier marketing efforts. In the early 2010s RT invested heavily in advertising to people who can be vaguely classified as "political
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Cruel and Unusual: The Story of Leandro Andrade (2003) [pdf](scholarship.law.duke.edu)
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> The people who go and hold up a convenience store aren't doing it because of a reasoned cost-benefit analysis based on risk of capture, differential value of prison vs freedom, and future discount rates. They're doing it beca
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by dictum 9y ago
I'm extra paranoid and a likely outlier, but I'm already regretting what little displeasure I show towards the CCP on the Internet. I think what increases my worry is how, in other leading countries, at least 30-50% of the populat
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Curveball: How US was duped by Iraqi fantasist looking to topple Saddam (2011)(theguardian.com)
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by dictum 9y ago
They can do it without any cognitive dissonance by either classifying certain persons as non-citizens (hence not granted those rights) or by raising some unclear limit to these rights (so those who break national unity, "harmony"
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by dictum 9y ago
There's an in-house precedent too: https://web.archive.org/web/20110616041821/http://news.cnet....
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by dictum 9y ago
Also, queries containing "revolver": https://www.google.com/search?output=search&tbm=shop&q=beatl...
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Google Shopping now returns no results for searches containing “gun”(google.com)
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Not even I have the patience/desire/stomach to answer most of the questions the general public could ask about me, and I'm a not a famous billionaire with a well-known business past and well-known philanthropic present of who
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by dictum 9y ago
Blink may get built-in support for lazy loaded images: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/czm... I'm not excited about it. I can't remember a single time a page with
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by dictum 9y ago
This comment does nothing to assuage the impression that Xi's goals are of an autocratic nature.
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by dictum 9y ago
When you buy the harmony shibboleth, don't be surprised when you get harmony forever, in the form of absence of any opposition to the status quo.
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by dictum 9y ago
If my anecdote can counter your (healthy) skepticism, I ran the "who needs breakfast?" experiment on myself as a high schooler. I regret it. I was constantly dizzy/lethargic in the morning, despite eating well in the rest of
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by dictum 9y ago
It's not exactly a teaching resource, but one tool I think high schoolers will be interested in is the browser's dev tools. Showing how they can modify websites they visit - even if just to replace a phrase on the homepage of thei
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by dictum 9y ago
Concurrently, every attempt to map physics concepts into English is met by a barrage of "well, actually".
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by dictum 9y ago
"Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan" is something I expected to read only by 2026 or so, as the company, falling to hard times, would resort to dotcom bubble-era techniques.
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by dictum 9y ago
BrandonM retells his experience reading a certain now-famous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7988051 Dropbox's Show HN is a reminder of how dismissing designers isn't such a wise idea for engineers ;
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by dictum 9y ago
> Get injured and not be able to work for a year? Huh, not sure someone with that kind of resume gap is the kind of person that we want to hire. This is often voiced in HN as "a bad hire is a liability", which I mentally transl
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by dictum 9y ago
I'm genuinely skeptical of most drug use, recreational or medical (over time, any habit can start to lose its initial magic, and you start to perform it out of boredom. Then again, I'm greatly bored of e.g. coffee enthusiasts, so

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