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by forapurpose 8y ago
It's more complicated than that. Is co.uk simply a domain?
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by forapurpose 8y ago
A major step of growth for me was to be able to focus on what I lack; it was (and is) a much more worthwhile use of my time.
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As importantly, I think they were doing a good job before and have improved. Not every successful person makes that effort. Great work guys.
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> It's rather odd to be arrested for a tax evasion alone. If it's just a tax evasion, you got a letter from tax office and pay tax and fine. Are you talking about what happens in Japan, or what happens where you live (if that&#
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Compare to UK and American corporations: * The corporation investigated its own chairman (and CEO of its larger alliance), based on a whistleblower's report. * A corporate chairman/CEO was arrested by the government, and the accus
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by forapurpose 8y ago
How is an engine mechanic more 'blue collar' than a sysadmin or a website 'mechanic'? And a lot of coding could be (and has been) compared to assembly-line work. I think the only difference, in this respect, is that one
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The creativity really amazes me. For example, Mollusca Tullie (to the East, in the Unfathomed Fens) is actually a small settlement of nomadic halflings—built on the back of a giant snail. They defend the snail with their mastiff cavalry an
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Is there serious research showing the state of speech on campus? All I've seen is allegations and anecdotes and I fear an attempt to establish 'fact' via repetition, especially given the politicized nature of the issue (and t
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Letter to My Network: Join the Correspondent – Crowdfunded Journalism(boingboing.net)
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by forapurpose 8y ago
It also could be bias in the person recording the data, who may unconsciously prefer rounding placements between the 4 and 6 yard lines to 5.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> Internet streamers or reality show celebs. While that is a serious invasion of privacy, there is a far more critical issue of using this technology to suppress and abuse political enemies or those who are unable to defend themselves (m
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by forapurpose 8y ago
True, but after a certain point size doesn't matter for the visitor. I can see only a small fraction of the Met in any visit; IIRC a prior director said he couldn't see the entire collection, including the majority which is not on
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by forapurpose 8y ago
What expresses the most in art, IMHO, is the nuance and not the broad strokes. In music, for example, many people can play the notes in the right order; it's the great musician's nuance that makes it art. In acting, it's the
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by forapurpose 8y ago
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ I don't know how up-to-date it is.
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Anyone who disagrees with you and supports GDPR is a lemming? > Lemmings talk about it critically ... The only people I see blaming GDPR are GDPR critics. And, curiously, they all are repeating each other's arguments sort of like a
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> OCCRP tech here. Thanks for your hard work! It would be great if you could share more in this discussion. > The data exists in at least four different legal regimes. Doesn't redundancy have a negative effect in this scenario? I
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by forapurpose 8y ago
No legislation (really, 'no additional legislation' - we're not starting from zero, nor is anarchy desirable) has as much consequence and is not qualitatively different than a little or a lot of legislation; there are downsid
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> the personally identifying information is what used to be available in the phone book I think on HN we know well that changes in technology greatly affect the value and power of information.
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I agree that it makes sense in the abstract that ostensibly private organizations conduct themselves as they see fit. But in the U.S. the practical reality is that the Democratic and Republican Parties are effectively official institution
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> We are also way more sensitive about our personal information than we used to be That's not the typical narrative. I think people share far more than they ever did before, and when asked about privacy they express much less intere
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Kept Out: For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership(revealnews.org)
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Gates does wonderful things with his philanthropy. I notice that he doesn't invest in any social issues or in politics, even when the politics is directly related (e.g., does he lobby the politicians or try to move the public regarding
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> it just infeasible economically to give everyone good service Sounds like their problem, not mine. I've experienced, again and again, needlessly obnoxious, abusive behavior from airline employees. Would it be economically infeasib
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Does Incognito mode solve this problem? I thought it mostly prevented data from being stored on your local computer; I did not think it was effective against tracking.
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I think these are great points, and the second paragraph, in some form, should be in the Guidelines. It's refreshing and encouraging to read them. To be clear, I wasn't asking why that particular comment was downvoted; I'm t
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> if you really think all controversial speech is funded Not what I said at all. That Russian grassroots propaganda campaigns exist certainly does bear up to scrutiny.
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OK, so who are you referring to as the "single centralized power"?
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Here's a few ways of thinking about it: 1. Escalation, the instinctive response of angry humans, is generally a bad idea in international relations (or any relations). I once read a veteran practitioner express it this way: 'The j
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RFC 8484: DNS Queries Over HTTPS (DoH)(tools.ietf.org)
2 points by forapurpose 8y ago|1 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> you can barely afford to survives yourself Italy is a modern, advanced, wealthy economy - I would guess they are more wealthy than any country in the history of the world before 1970. They can do far more than afford to survive, and th

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