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by enko 13y ago
I do hope you weren't talking about my comment. I would not like to think I was contributing to this perceived decline in HN standards. I wrote what I did because I took a kind of offence at the assumptions baked into the article. I fe
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by enko 13y ago
Thanks. You sound like you have some vague disagreement about what I said, but can't express it in any meaningful way, so instead you came up with that.
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by enko 13y ago
It's not about who's the record-holder. It's about the whole concept of a central government seeing that investment in infrastructure benefits the country - and the economy - as a whole. The USA that built this bridge - in th
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by enko 13y ago
What's crazy about it? I resent that headline. Doing big things should be applauded. Good on them. You want crazy? America binding itself hand and foot with its bullshit Chicago School economic idealogy, that's crazy. It is absolu
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by enko 13y ago
Definitely. If the methane thing pans out .. well, in 10 years time we'll probably be totally desensitised to news headlines that read something like "Reflective cloud seeding program starting over Pacific basin" or "Mir
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by enko 13y ago
I've been struggling with this concept for a while. How can we have an effective democracy when it's so easy for stupid, essentially malicious, but persuasive-sounding "political memes" to infect the working classes and
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by enko 13y ago
This is a really unhelpful comment. Why don't you think for a second next time before rushing out some snarky, superficial nonsense. Of course people would still work, for the same reason you don't still live with your parents - a
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by enko 13y ago
See Australian politics for clues on why that probably won't be an attractive option for politicians where you are. We implemented a carbon tax. While not perfect, it's a pretty decent stab IMO, yet is very easy to demonise and as
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by enko 13y ago
> which runs out: hands-on pilot skills, or cheap petroleum to fuel commercial aviation Are you kidding? Have you seen the numbers for fracking and methane hydrates? The age of cheap hydrocarbon fuel seems to be beginning , not ending.
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by enko 13y ago
You're right. The error is from here: http://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/predator-drones-seek... I thought it sounded awfully high. Egregious errors like that don't auger well for the reliability of the
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by enko 13y ago
Well, it's quoting from the ACLU feature. The headline does take a certain stance, but 10 years ago it would sound like some joke headline from Robocop. I'm not a US citizen but if I was I'd love to take that tour.
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by enko 13y ago
You can't make this shit up. > Police in North Dakota borrowed a $154 million MQ-9 Predator B drone from the Department of Homeland Security to arrest a family of anti-government separatists who refused to return six cows that wande
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by enko 13y ago
While I agree it's certainly false, your implementation idea would almost certainly introduce detectable delay. All you'd need is a beam splitter. You can manufacture them to only take 1% of the beam.
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by enko 13y ago
> you couldn't tap in without disturbing the optical signal Well of course you can't. If you're going to split it off to read it, then you're "disturbing" it by definition. Whether or not you can do such tha
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by enko 13y ago
> engineering, and by that I mean I may do anything from backing up someones data to assembling Ikea furniture I thought I'd heard pretty much every creative interpretation of the word "engineering" possible but have to ad
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by enko 13y ago
I have no idea how they derived that title from the email. I also object to the use of the word "propaganda". In fact, ironically enough, I think that singling out US propaganda is itself kind of propaganda. I have little love for
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by enko 13y ago
> find a dead child born a similar year as you. You then got their birth certificate. You're missing the crucial step of: how on earth would you get the birth certificate of some unrelated 30-years-dead kid?
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Spherical Flight Vehicle(youtube.com)
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by enko 13y ago
Fair enough. Usually I would probably agree with you. But in this case, I feel the "reaction comments" are important. The reaction is going to be the main story, after all.
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by enko 13y ago
Go and read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson and then come back with your views about hypocrisy. Salient quote: You know, when I was a young man, hypocrisy was deemed the worst of vices,” Finkle-McGraw said. “It was all because of mora
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by enko 13y ago
Strong organisations don't.
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by enko 13y ago
> Maybe you view the scanning of the outside of people's letters differently now... but it's not a new story and the article says as much. I guess it's the context of an all-pervasive spying culture that lends it a new rel
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by enko 13y ago
Well maybe not for you, but for me it's another piece of a jigsaw which is beginning to show a very ugly picture indeed. You're a US citizen I see. Well, maybe you don't understand or give a shit, but from the outside, the op
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by enko 13y ago
I think it's OK for now. This is big news; very very big. I am a fan of trying to keep HN on topic but for now I am very interested in what everyone here has to say. I have to say, I thought I was very up to date on US spying - I know
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by enko 13y ago
They would seem to not disprove it at all, seeing as they're "historical".
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by enko 13y ago
> I believe as I do because it is an essential part of who I am (identity). Interesting. I do not think I've heard someone put it quite like that before. I find it quite bizarre and circular: "I believe in X because I define my
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by enko 13y ago
> I haven't seen anyone elsewhere point out that maybe he is onboard. I've seen speculation along those lines, especially since it emerged they didn't allow a proper search. A "walk-through" indeed - I would be w
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by enko 13y ago
http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/08/24/huxley-...
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by enko 13y ago
Thanks for probably the most insightful comment here, including mine. > I really wonder how the corporate world works sometimes. Well I do. What the corporate world wants is growth. Growth at the expense of anything and everything else.
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by enko 13y ago
Well maybe we bloody well do. What have we got now?

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