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by diyorgasms 11y ago
It is wildly irresponsible to wield accusations like that without offering some sort of support for that position. I would say that it is in the US government's interest to discredit wikileaks, as their leaks tend to air dirty American
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Good call thanks.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
I've hit my article quota from WaPo for the month, and as such was unable to view this in my browser. For anyone else having this problem, wgetting the URL worked for me. I'm sure there are more convenient ways of bypassing the pa
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
These allegations of sexual assault really should be investigated in good faith. The time is coincidental, I'll grant that, with the allegations being levied against Assange shortly after WikiLeaks published something so prominent, but
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
If the US weren't the global hegemon then our actions would resemble those of a rogue state. However, if we weren't a global hegemon, it would be unlikely that the US would be in a position to take these same actions.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Self-preservation is a hell of a drug. I can't bring myself to blame him for hedging his bets.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
You talk elsewhere in this thread about being charitable in your arguments. You are either being deliberately obtuse or distinctly uncharitable in this comment. The GP (I believe) is making the point that the CIA doesn't hold a monopol
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
That's what I gathered from the article too. It seems strange that there's an awful lot of pro-Israel handwaving in this thread implying that The Intercept (of all outlets) would publish this piece at the behest of the US governme
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
>Besides, "reddit" isn't a single entity. It's almost as if reddit is made up of millions of users and you can deduce the "average" or aggregate opinion of reddit by examining voting patterns.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Allowing people to work for less would cause a race to the bottom in which nobody would make enough to survive. We've seen the tech giants collude to suppress wages, imagine what fast food companies would do if they realized there was
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
I most certainly am interested. Thank you for the link. And for what it's worth, I hope the Al Jazeera America cutbacks don't affect the excellent written journalism you all do.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
This is one of the most horribly elitist comments I think I have ever seen on this site. Cost is a huge consideration for prospective college student, especially since the onset of the Great Recession. Furthermore, quality education is avai
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
I don't really think this is a liberal/conservative issue. I'm what most Americans would call extremely liberal, and yet one of the very few legislators whose views consistently align with my own on matters of encryption and
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
And government will be irrelevant after the heat death of the universe. Of course any system can be subverted. That doesn't stop some implementations from being better than others.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Oh having used enough "enterprise" software in my day, I have very few doubts that this was a bug. I only have doubts that Sanders' campaign would have discovered this while the Clinton campaign did not. Both have presumably
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Right? Bernie just got some endorsements (which he has been sorely lacking), and all of a sudden this company (the CEO of which is a public Clinton supporter) has a problem that affects the Sanders campaign but not the Clinton campaign, on
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
> Why not let that person have the job? For the same reason we have minimum wage laws. Pitting workers against each other in a race to the bottom leads to unsustainably, exploitatively low wages.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Yes, in my response I am trying to be as explicit as possible in saying that I think these inefficiencies are a net good. However, they are still inefficiencies. There will almost always be somebody willing to work for less, and things like
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
This is a complex issue well outside of my personal areas of expertise, but I would certainly think that workers earning meaningful equity would induce them to act in the best interestes of the company, because their own interests would be
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
I don't think this is a continental divide at all. I think what PG said here would be considered reprehensible to a lot of Americans, and I count myself among that contingent. This isn't demonstrative of a divide between continent
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Historically, unions have been very antagonistic to capital. Paul Graham is basically the definition of capital; he uses his wealth to generate more wealth. And what he is suggesting is that startups could fix the inefficiencies in the mark
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Wow, that's not a review, that's a murder! Hit the nail on the head though. I think it's fairly accurate as to their failings.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
I think you're painting the humanities with an overly broad brush, and writing off an entire field of study because of some presupposed notion. And that you specifically exempt STEM fields from your ire has you playing right into the w
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Remember, however neat these are, Lenovo is a company that has been caught multiple times inserting spyware into their products. There are other enterprise-class solutions out there that are satisfactorily good. We need not keep giving mone
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
"I work for the NSA." Doesn't give me any useful information about their duties or role in the organization, but I know where they work. I imagine cover stories are more important when dealing with human intelligence assets (
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Out of curiousity, why? If your kid isn't underage, then presumably they are capable of making rational decisions about with whom and to what they consent. And at that point it's none of your damn business.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
I speak only for myself, but I recently met someone who works for the NSA, and I told him off like I've never told anyone off before. It was my goal to do my best to break him as a person as much as I can with words. People who work fo
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
As for the why, have you ever tried installing vanilla Windows on a modern notebook? I know Linux has a reputation for bad driver support, but in my experience with Dell, Lenovo, and HP, a vanilla Windows installation will have no graphics
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
Presumably the millimeter wave body scanners, which are both invasive and relatively unstudied in its health effects.
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by diyorgasms 11y ago
A charter school is not a public school. It exists outside of this system you are talking about, and has a whole host of other problems. But it is disingenuous to bring a charter school into this discussion, because they are not the same th

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