forensic

12 ms·

211.
by forensic 15y ago
Expressions of incoherent rage have fuelled the majority of social change in history.
212.
by forensic 15y ago
The Democracy-destroying government-subsidized corporations are already playing hardball with you . Why do you refuse to play hardball back? Try getting hired to be a VP at Pfizer while publicly supporting patent-reform. Try spreading the
213.
by forensic 15y ago
Why do you bring "fairness" into this discussion? YC has a fiduciary responsibility as well. Corporations that are pro-SOPA don't make PR statements saying, "We are pro-SOPA because it will make us money." Instead they say, "SOPA is good fo
214.
by forensic 15y ago
Politicians and most judges, and almost all lawyers, are paid specifically to come up with plausible sounding reasons why nothing violates the constitution. It's a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.
215.
by forensic 15y ago
Is .onion technically considered a TLD? Even thigh its outside the DNS system?
216.
by forensic 15y ago
Safari is gonna need support for spoofing headers, all these companies want to get their foot in the door by having you use their app
217.
by forensic 15y ago
Social sciences and political science are FAAAR more scientific than computer science. Computer science makes stuff like psychology, sociology and anthropology look rigorous. They actually do experiments and case studies and use real world
218.
by forensic 15y ago
It's a science in the same way that math is a science. A "formal science" seems appropriate. My school considered it a natural science, which is just stupid. Note that most computer "science" classes are stuff like learning java, learning U
219.
by forensic 15y ago
Klout, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc... sociopathic MBAs just see these as tools to justify their bonuses. Anything that can be done will be done, because there are a lot of empty suits running around trying to find a way to justify their paychec
220.
by forensic 15y ago
There's also the fact that zero science actually happens in a Computer Science department. But since our society worships science, everything has to be science or it's no good! Even stuff that isn't science!
221.
by forensic 15y ago
yeah this is by far most likely. The guy's wife or whatever had her phone turned on while in labour, facebook knows her GPS coords, facebook knows she's his wife, and so on doesnt take much to throw out a guess based on a single GPS locatio
222.
by forensic 15y ago
Geopolitically, South Korea is a puppet state of the American Empire. So is Japan. Both countries invaded Iraq for oil at the command of George Bush II. Both countries have ~30,000 imperial troops stationed there. Both countries toe the i
223.
by forensic 15y ago
Mozilla could just sell the search bar to Bing or anyone else for that matter. This really isn't that dangerous unless searching the web as a whole "pulls an Enron" and people go back to browsing Yahoo! categories.
224.
by forensic 15y ago
Google opposes SOPA. Facebook opposed it, but then supported it when a clause was added that protects Facebook. Truth be told, SOPA is actually beneficial for the big players, it actually gives the big players a competitive advantage. No co
225.
by forensic 15y ago
The expressive language actually makes his point clearer. An inexpressive comment is when someone makes short insults and doesn't explain themselves. He explained himself in detail. Good English communicates the ideas and feelings of the wr
226.
by forensic 15y ago
Why does everyone forget education, especially highly basic education like what psychotherapy provides? Letting people rot in misery increases human misery because those people multiply. I agree that throwing money at the problem is not a s
227.
by forensic 15y ago
Never trust advice that contradicts itself. :)
228.
by forensic 15y ago
The media was wide awake during the Iraq war-mongering. They were the primary supporters of the war. War is good for business. They are war-profiteers.
229.
by forensic 15y ago
Lots of companies die because of bad strategic decisions. These guys were positioned to become millionaires or to make nothing and they made some bad strategic calls and got the nothing. Good example of a company with good tech, good timing
230.
by forensic 15y ago
Technical people will need to grow some balls and stop treating politics like a dirty word
231.
by forensic 15y ago
Unfortunately corporations have become the new governments/armies, and so if you boycott every corporation that does something you don't like... you're screwed. It's like telling people in Soviet Russia that if they don't like Communism, th
232.
by forensic 15y ago
Sounds like PR hit for New York venture capital.
233.
by forensic 15y ago
The real issue here is not so much the defamation, which happens all the time, but the nature of Google, which gives this lady a giant amplifier for no good reason.
234.
by forensic 15y ago
Victims do have the responsibility to report their crimes.
235.
by forensic 15y ago
It's determined by the opinions they present. For instance, if the journalist is saying there is a conspiracy, then they're a conspiracy theorist.
236.
by forensic 15y ago
What is the difference between criticizing a group and being prejudiced towards a group? There is a difference.
237.
by forensic 15y ago
Collectivist vs. individualist is one of the most extensively researched concepts in the social sciences with respect to cultural differences. Everyone knows it's real. You might as well argue the Earth is flat. http://scholar.google.ca/sc
238.
by forensic 15y ago
Part of the issue is that engineers believe they are perfectly rational creatures with no feelings. What this actually means is that they are unaware of their feelings and so their feelings control them without them knowing it. Engineers ca
239.
by forensic 15y ago
> Counterexample... I am asian, my "pragmatically authoritarian" father did not encourage me to play violin in order to win money for his bloodline. Thus forensik is wrong. QED. Oh please. Why even bother saying this? Apparently I claim
240.
by forensic 15y ago
The idea that test scores are "meritocratic" is itself a myth. Wealthy people score higher on tests for very simple socioeconomic reasons that are not related to any innate merit but rather to the advantages conferred by an aristocratic upb

More ›