dogorman

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by dogorman 5y ago
Obviously your comment is sarcastic, but this is worth correcting: Chess is a Eurocentric Chess came from Persia, or maybe India, and spread both east and west along the silk road trade routes.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Games where you role-play as a feudal lord? You're either making his point for him, or missing it.
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by dogorman 5y ago
If they did this right it could be more lucrative for lazy revenue seeking cops than hiding behind overpasses waiting for speeders.
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by dogorman 5y ago
I'm sure chess board manufacturers would love this. Think of how many new sets they could sell if everybody decided they had to replace their old black and white sets.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Google's pursuit of profit is responsible these and innumerable more injustices. Those who would defend Google often claim that automated moderation is necessary at Google's scale, but does anybody really doubt that Google would
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by dogorman 5y ago
> breaks down trust in institutions. This is why avoiding the appearance of impropriety is almost as important as avoiding impropriety itself. When you do things that people might reasonably mistake for unethical, it contributes to
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by dogorman 5y ago
The Soviet system injured a number of people quite seriously. It gave Sigmund Jahn a permanent spinal injury in 1978, and in 1969 it broke Boris Voylnov's teeth. Water landings weren't without incident, but I don't think t
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by dogorman 5y ago
>it's not that they don't have a lot of capacity How can you say that any number of anything is 'a lot' when you're specifically not considering demand? What does it even mean for there to be 'a lot of capa
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by dogorman 5y ago
> I’ve checked a few other papers and think I’m tentatively confident in this line of reasoning: certain bugs take more time to fix (and cause more damage) than others, and said bugs tend to be issues in the design. I haven’t vetted the
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by dogorman 5y ago
This is an excellent idea. The guards are doubtlessly more in touch with the culture of the common people of Baltimore than the professional curators could hope to be.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Hungary aside, most of Israel's allies in the region are dictatorships Not just in the region. In the 1970s, Israel worked with apartheid South Africa to develop nuclear weapons. South Africa has subsequently been disarmed,
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by dogorman 5y ago
> I expect many will claim that they were groomed and forced to do it. Many of them might well be. How can you really tell what kind of situation is going on behind the camera? Abusive relationships can hide in plain sight for years.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Democratic institutions [...] NGOs" What is it that makes non-government organizations so democratic? Do they let the general public vote for their leaders?
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by dogorman 5y ago
The new headline is perfectly acceptable and means the same thing as the old. This has been my position in this conversation since the start.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> I guess somebody else thought they were different enough words to warrant changing it back again. Or dang thought to cut this fruitless tangent off at the knees. I am perfectly happy with the new headline, because it means the same
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by dogorman 5y ago
Journalists and editors swap out words all the time, particularly when they aren't explicitly quoting somebody. People who write for a living tend to like words and pick words form sets of synonyms that suit their personal preference
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by dogorman 5y ago
> "Important, salient" A keystone is that. Keystones are key, take the keystone out of an arch and the arch collapses. Doesn't that make a keystone "important, salient" ? I think it does. Both of those de
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by dogorman 5y ago
I think that is disingenuous; I don't think you would demand that people abstain from using synonyms in a less political context.
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by dogorman 5y ago
If a "key witness" is can be lost without sinking the case, then they are not "Indispensable, supremely important" and were not actually key. If an indispensable, or supremely important witness is lost, then your c
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by dogorman 5y ago
Did Assange believe it? If he believed it, he may have been motivated by it.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Even the headline here has been massaged - originally this was a "key" witness but by the time it gets to HN, he's a "keystone" witness. key : 1. Indispensable, supremely important. 2. Important, salient. h
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by dogorman 5y ago
1. Helping people murder journalists is a crime. 2. You say 'adware', while Wikipedia says: "These software items are commonly browser toolbars, adware, browser hijackers, spyware, and malware." 3. I provided two examp
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by dogorman 5y ago
The weird part is being the only guy bringing it up half a dozen times in one conversation.
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by dogorman 5y ago
Russia has been mentioned 7 times in this discussion now, every time by you. I don't have any stake in this fight; I don't use or recommend any of these applications. But you do seem to have a bone to pick.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> "doesn't seem to give a damn when criminal enterprises operating in their borders victimize people in other countries."
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by dogorman 5y ago
I think you mean reuse, not recycle. The first step in most recycling processes is a shredder.
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by dogorman 5y ago
I brought up Russia to make the point that Israel isn't the only country that operates like this. But they are one of the countries that does and their reputation for it spans decades.
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by dogorman 5y ago
> Aren't these private hacking companies breaking the law though? Like Russia, Israel doesn't seem to give a damn when criminal enterprises operating in their borders victimize people in other countries. This shit has been g
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by dogorman 5y ago
They're doing that too... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog... These firms are helping authoritarian regimes kill and imprison journalists. The journalists who survive by being paranoi
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by dogorman 5y ago
If these hacking firms succeed in chasing journalists off digital communication, I think the totalitarian regimes they serve will consider that "a win."

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