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Key Alzheimer's study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science(theguardian.com)
14 points by firefax 8d ago|0 comments
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by firefax 10d ago
Two books I read after 9/11 shaped my path greatly: 1.) Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police ISBN #: 0813337445 2.) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ISBN #: 9780671728694 Both should be available in most public
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Garda whistleblower unit members allege reforms undermined(rte.ie)
1 points by firefax 10d ago|0 comments
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Szmalcownik(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by firefax 14d ago|1 comments
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HSI agent 'directly involved with child exploitation cases' charged(theguardian.com)
3 points by firefax 17d ago|0 comments
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The far right's win in Germany is sending a chill through Europe's establishment(cnn.com)
53 points by firefax 18d ago|104 comments
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by firefax 18d ago
there's less breakups than people entering the market and most normal people don't wanna scoop them up the second they graduate -- at least not if you're gunning for marriage
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by firefax 18d ago
that sounds horrible
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by firefax 18d ago
I had a female friend ask me how she could get less lewd messages -- showed me her inbox. Perfectly normal photos, kind of thing you'd have as a stock photo on your lab group's page. Had to tell her sorry but it's just how it
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by firefax 18d ago
I research deanonymization techniques and, in the broad sense "disinformation" -- but more in the sense how do I plant the seed of an idea and let it grow rather than the crass and short term operations folks like "The Russia
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by firefax 18d ago
I'm ugly and I had a lot of dates. Not a lot went beyond one, but people were perfectly willing to chance a beer if you can actually string together a sentence. Maybe ranking people like that is why you struggle, and not your looks? Sa
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by firefax 18d ago
>OkCupid's algo wasn't any good. It was good until they tried to game it like it was the SAT
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by firefax 18d ago
I've been using Libreoffice to store my diary for years -- IIRC they use blowfish on the crypto side of things? I had a weird issue a while back where I'm not sure if I forgot my diary's password, or the file got corrupted. I
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by firefax 18d ago
>absolutely massive amount of moderation that it would require. Wow, this thread blew up -- I think you hit on the core issue, and one that I hadn't thought enough about. Moderation doesn't scale and is very difficult. >You
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by firefax 20d ago
Yeah, I'm surprised no one has spun up a competitor that combines evidence based match questions with the rich profiles okc was famous for -- OKC's only failing was you might find out you have someone you're a big match with
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by firefax 20d ago
>Because people were less cynical in the 2010s and there's no way to bring that back. We were only one year out of the Bush administration. I got a lot of lectures on third way neoliberalism from women who in the same age bracket wh
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Ask HN: Why don't we bring back old school OkCupid?
46 points by firefax 20d ago|83 comments
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by firefax 24d ago
What is Reddit?
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by firefax 24d ago
i like noscript
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China's Program to Keep Activists in Check(web.archive.org)
4 points by firefax 25d ago|0 comments
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by firefax 26d ago
What job interviews? The market is trash dude
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by firefax 26d ago
And an AR-15 can't take out an Apache, we take too much shit off these militia types.
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by firefax 26d ago
>Iran has nothing on Israel when it comes to interfering with other nations. This is simply propaganda and missing the elephant in the room (on purpose of course). I'm so tired of this geopolitical whataboutism. Once at tech policy
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by firefax 26d ago
Can you give me the original link? I know all about archive dot ph.
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by firefax 26d ago
I know we're not supposed to comment on voting, but you're not fixing anything with a ten day old account that's already in the negative IMO.
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DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions(theguardian.com)
465 points by firefax 28d ago|105 comments
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by firefax 28d ago
edited title for length
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by firefax 28d ago
I don't understand enough about coding to speak on Debian as anything but a longtime user. I find AI useful for small shell scripts that you can visually inspect. I want to make a GIF later, so I'll probably ask Duck.AI how to wri
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by firefax 1mo ago
I still had Facebook when this happened, and was thinking the other day how much the world has changed since I deleted it.
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by firefax 1mo ago
thanks

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