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by dictum 13y ago
>it is like if US citizens have some sorta of weird hero complex where they believe that the foreign policy of the US is save everyone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny http://en.wikipedia.org
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by dictum 13y ago
And Jean Charles de Menezes.
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by dictum 13y ago
Every response from the NSA and people speaking on their behalf, both before and after the Snowden leaks, has basically been 1. A denial that they have the "capability" to do [insert method of mass surveilance], leaving open the p
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by dictum 13y ago
>Wyden then asked Director Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded, "No, sir." Wyden asked "It does not?" and Clapper said &quot
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by dictum 14y ago
"Good people" is more likely to mean "people who are morally good" than "people who are good at what they do" even in this context. Sorry for misunderstanding your comment. I've seen the association of moral goodness to technical competence
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by dictum 14y ago
Remember when HN was for people who didn't correlate having a good job with being a good person?
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by dictum 14y ago
Remember when televangelists raised funds and sold trinkets by telling people that "they" (the non-religious, secular institutions, other religions...) were plotting against them in nefarious ways? You still can't gaze into the abyss withou
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by dictum 14y ago
As a paranoid would say: that's what they want you to believe. Now that people are learning about how companies use their data in dubious ways (and they can't deny it, only PR-speak it), it's in their best interest to twist the narrative so
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by dictum 14y ago
Congratulations, Yahoo! Now you own a slice of the smartphone apps pie. Remember when you bought Geocities and Broadcast.com to have a slice of the dot com bubble pie? Remember when you bought Flickr and Delicious to have a slice of the Web
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by dictum 14y ago
CNN has a pageviews problem. Don't worry, they're working on it.
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by dictum 14y ago
The kids will love chess when they have to get good grades in chess class and wake up early, in the winter cold, to attend it. “I suspect that many children would learn arithmetic, and learn it better, if it were illegal.” — John Holt
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by dictum 14y ago
Steve, I'm sorry to mention this, but a few weeks ago you mocked someone's repo on Twitter. Incidentally, that person happened to be a woman. The personal attacks on Adria (death threats and all) are disgusting, but they're not the kind of
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by dictum 14y ago
The whole thing is terrible, but I was particularly impressed with this: >My Mom has to hire programmers and developers sometimes for her work. She's really glad I like computers and programming because she says as a business person she
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by dictum 14y ago
"This shirt was apparently so offensive and dehumanizing it reduced one of its victims to tears." It's just an anecdote, but I think this situation emphasizes how much of the debate on gender issues is very tinted by personal feelings and m
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by dictum 14y ago
When I learned about the dongle incident, my first thought was similar—what if a heterosexual man didn't like a joke about some aspect of homosexuality a gay developer was sharing with his colleague? Actually, now that I think about it, wha
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by dictum 14y ago
I didn't know about the abstract, but I can see what they meant for "thinking like a porn director": titillation. It's a strange metaphor, but I think it was about not dragging on for too long and cleaning showing what's amazing about your
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by dictum 14y ago
Porn is a thorny issue—there's really no need for a slide with softcore porn in a tech presentation unless it's a conference for developers of porn websites ;) However, the specific example Adria objected to ("Getting the Money Shot") is si
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by dictum 14y ago
I've seen the same underlying assumption (that people should avoid accidentally offending other people even with things that aren't offensive) before. It was when a bigot tried to explain why gay people shouldn't make public displays of the
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by dictum 14y ago
After sketching, I usually design a wireframe with gray boxes, visually flat (like Nathan's wireframes). I've been thinking of replacing this method with HTML wireframes using a simple CSS framework. That would allow me to link between wire
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by dictum 14y ago
Thanks for your reply! Your method is simple enough to work well without becoming tiring over time, but I wonder: would you want to change it somehow? Would you use software (specifically, a web app) instead of paper? How do you keep goals
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by dictum 14y ago
I'm slightly younger than you, but I'm emerging from the same situation and I'd like to talk to you. My email is on my profile. Unlike you, I didn't go to college, so that made things worse. I feel I've wasted the last 3-4 years, but I'm tr
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Ask HN: How do you manage your plans and projects?
6 points by dictum 14y ago|3 comments
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by dictum 14y ago
Some people want to make small investments in new startups for the same reason people play the lottery: there's a very small but real chance of winning something. It's not a margins game like buying stocks of big corporations in the stock m
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by dictum 14y ago
It's underwhelming for what we have now, but Google isn't running Google Fiber to allow a bunch of teenagers to download 1080p movies in seconds, it's running a network that will serve as a testbed of things that currently require too much
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by dictum 14y ago
For lack of a better word, geeks. Edit: People tend to have feelings regarding companies and institutions. People who are interested in tech and computers have stronger feelings about companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft. At least in
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by dictum 14y ago
You are underestimating the number of people who are interested in both a morally and socially acceptable suicide method and a claim to fame in science.
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by dictum 14y ago
Pardon me if I'm being too cynical or if I'm missing the point, but all I see is a CEO saying that young employees should work more for lower wages, with some naturalistic, late XIX century imagery of bravery — fighting in a war, the most d
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by dictum 14y ago
This is the first time I see a slideshow (well, it is a slideshow, no matter how the creators of the service want to call it) made with Tapestry, and the first impression was terrible. I'm on a desktop browser. I can't tap. I shouldn't have
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by dictum 14y ago
Don't give them ideas.
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by dictum 14y ago
I'm currently using an early 2006 iMac with Core Duo and 2GB of memory, running OS X 10.6.8, while my main computer is being repaired. For two years I thought it was dead (or on its last gasp), after some futile attempts to revive it with a

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