fmblwntr

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Scapegoating the Algorithm(asteriskmag.com)
47 points by fmblwntr 1y ago|33 comments
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by fmblwntr 1y ago
ironically, he was the head lawyer on the legal team for napster (obviously a huge loss) but it accords well with your theory
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by fmblwntr 4y ago
No, from the abstract of the paper "The orbital period, 185.6 days, is longer than that of any known stellar mass black hole binary. [...] How the system formed is uncertain. Common envelope evolution can only produce the system's
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by fmblwntr 7y ago
yttrium and indium are both suspected to be toxic, manganese can certainly be toxic. no idea about the relative doses, I suspect that the chemists certainly thought about this etc, so I'm not trying to say YInMn is toxic, but "ino
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by fmblwntr 8y ago
I think you're agreeing with the article if I understand your point correctly?
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by fmblwntr 8y ago
Everybody says this all the time, to such an extent that an article was written to express the contrary view I'm also pretty sure that given a famous "highbrow" literature or art work, you could easily find plenty of respecte
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by fmblwntr 9y ago
I'm not sure why you switched to worldwide when it specifically said DRC. Most economic indicators there have been flat or declining for the last 50 years. Vague platitudes about the world as a whole are unhelpful, and if anything only
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by fmblwntr 9y ago
To be honest, I can't imagine a situation in which I would need a new law in order to have follow age of consent laws. Like, you are really complaining that if a user says they're underage, you have to treat them as such? Or that
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by fmblwntr 9y ago
what if i set a machine to fire a gun randomly and select it for the trait of hitting people? who is responsible?
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Painting the American Dream at Guantánamo(theparisreview.org)
1 points by fmblwntr 9y ago|0 comments
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Mathematical Life in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by A. Grothendieck [pdf](sites.math.washington.edu)
1 points by fmblwntr 9y ago|0 comments
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Evidence of Google blacklisting of left and progressive sites continues to mount(wsws.org)
52 points by fmblwntr 9y ago|16 comments
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Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms(wsws.org)
159 points by fmblwntr 9y ago|136 comments
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by fmblwntr 9y ago
"NASA did not invent the smoke detector. NASA's connection to the modern smoke detector is that it made one with adjustable sensitivity as part of the Skylab project. The device was made commercially available by Honeywell. The co
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Show HN: Ant Lion Den(antlionfarms.com)
1 points by fmblwntr 9y ago|0 comments
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by fmblwntr 9y ago
and Poland of course, got a piece of Czechoslovakia from the Munich pact...
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Winning Hearts and Minds, from the Computer’s Perspective(squamuglia.wordpress.com)
1 points by fmblwntr 9y ago|0 comments
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When an App Is Called Racist (2015)(newyorker.com)
2 points by fmblwntr 10y ago|0 comments
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Covertly, Israel prepares to fight boycott activists online(bigstory.ap.org)
1 points by fmblwntr 11y ago|0 comments
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by fmblwntr 12y ago
I think it's weird that Kuhn never realized that things work. Could have saved himself a lot of work.
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by fmblwntr 12y ago
if you work as a software engineer pretty much by definition you are part of a tiny, tiny minority of workers in the world, so perhaps you should try thinking about the experience of workers in the third world via empathy?
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Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise(e-flux.com)
7 points by fmblwntr 12y ago|1 comments
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by fmblwntr 12y ago
Hmm, I think this should link to: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/161 Which is described as a updated and more accurate version of the post linked here.
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by fmblwntr 12y ago
I think you are reading way too much hostility into this post. I think it's clear that David Samuels has a lot of respect for Coster-Mullen, all he's doing is establishing him as a "person," by giving his notable persona
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ACLU, Insane Clown Posse Appeal Judge’s Decision to Dismiss Juggalos’ Case(aclumich.org)
4 points by fmblwntr 12y ago|0 comments
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by fmblwntr 14y ago
Wasn't surprised to see this was a Rails developer.