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by fein 8y ago
Correct, most of the DOD stuff was from 'curveball'. > laundered through the administration (particularly Cheney's office) as anonymous leaks. Aside from the fact that Judith Miller knew who she was getting her data from,
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by fein 8y ago
There weren't anonymous leaks regarding the propaganda campaign the NYT had for the Iraq war. That all came from Ahmed Chalabi, who had ties with officials at the Pentagon. The guy was a swamp creature.
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by fein 8y ago
I have yet to be convinced of that. This is the same media company that sold the Iraq war lies. They do seem to have one constant though; writing articles that support the destabilization of sovereign middle eastern countries.
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by fein 8y ago
And those officials are... I too can make up random shit and claim it as fact with vague references, but that doesn't make it any more true, false, or valid.
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by fein 8y ago
Good for him for standing up for his values, exceedingly so when you take a look at the twitter threads that came about after the change a few days ago. If everyone lived by the general concept of that code, the world would be a better plac
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by fein 8y ago
An article about an article that cites no one. Amazing display of journalistic integrity.
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by fein 8y ago
> and a ton of other distractions that have proven nearly impossible to control without an outright ban in the whole house. So your parents were right.
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by fein 8y ago
The rational reason is due to an irrational relationship with Israel.
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by fein 8y ago
"We just coordinated a partisan effort to accuse you of sexual assault from an incident no one can remember that occurred 35 years ago, and drag you and your family through the media mud and also call you a gang rapist for an added bon
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by fein 8y ago
We need more people like yourself sowing discourse on HN. Good read, and great take on the current stream of consciousness.
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by fein 8y ago
> Who wouldn’t want science and empirical evidence to guide policy decisions. One look at crime stats and this will not be a favorable idea.
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by fein 8y ago
Everyone is equal, but hey heres a WOMAN that did a thing! I'm happy she achieved this, but the cognitive dissonance from HN is depressing. That being said, I never knew these records were done with a draft vehicle. It kind of takes th
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by fein 8y ago
At the current gig, we're stuck in an open office setup that is a thoroughfare between the warehouse, marketing, another dev bullpen, and sales. The main AC unit (the size of a mid sized Kia) is directly above my head making sure that
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by fein 8y ago
I wouldn't call being able to take care of yourself a soft skill. Laundry, cooking, finance; all hard skills required to survive. Reading this whole thread, I really don't get it. This guy has to have fucked up a lot to get to thi
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by fein 8y ago
So you spend time doing things with friends around town? this is basically retirement age as is, when you'd have the exact same scenario if retired.
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by fein 8y ago
And now they result to anti depressant and anti anxiety medications. What exactly has changed? 1 in 4 women on prescribed pharmaceuticals for mental issues in the US (25% of women vs 15% of men): https://www.theguardian.com/
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by fein 8y ago
It's almost like forcing women into industry careers, thus increasing the number of workers in the workforce, leads to wage suppression and damages the family structure... Housewife is a fine career, one more worthy of praise than most
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by fein 8y ago
I'm pointing out that twitter selectively bans individuals who step over a line arbitrarily drawn by twitter, not anti discrimination laws.
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by fein 8y ago
> No, because they are very different, as explained by justice.gov [1]. Then please explain to me individuals like Sarah Jeong being outwardly racist yet a member of the blue check cadre. There is clearly a double standard here, and you
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by fein 8y ago
The government does indeed criminalize spammers, so I'm not sure where your logic is going here.
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by fein 8y ago
The Marsh case handles a scenario in which a private company controlled the public space. The big 3 of social media currently do the same thing, however in a digital sphere. Trumps twitter, for example, was ruled as a public resource and th
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by fein 8y ago
> A more relevant case So are we deliberately conflating spam with political discourse now? Seriously?
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by fein 8y ago
> some sports stadium You can actually go right outside that sports stadium and still have your message heard. If you're banned from Twitter, FB, and YT; you have effectively no voice on the internet. The social media companies that
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by fein 8y ago
> It's also not going onto other people's property and doing whatever you want. It is when that property is considered the public space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama The internet should b
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by fein 8y ago
What would this other platform be that provides a similar reach? Freedom of speech isn't just saying what you want while alone on your back patio. Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc is the "digital public space". Hell just take
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by fein 8y ago
It would be nice to know why I would use this instead of something tried and tested like Redis, but the sparse description doesn't really help.
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by fein 8y ago
Because you want an out of the box LXDE flavored Ubuntu. Same reasons one would use Kubuntu or Xubuntu.
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by fein 8y ago
A sufficiently diverse group will indeed fail to find consensus. That is something that can only be reached when diversity is low. I'm proposing we approach policy setting with a basis in reality instead of trying to project an inhuman
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by fein 8y ago
> Politics is rooted solely in policy And where does that policy come from? The collective. A "correct" policy is whatever the tribe deems is correct.
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by fein 8y ago
Politics is rooted in tribalism; I'm not sure what your point even is. There is no trap; tribalism (collectivism) is the foundation of a nation. Trying to resist it is doomed to failure.

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