foxhedgehog

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by foxhedgehog 9y ago
This is one of my favorite essays, it also has a great aside about how the appetite for power is more dangerous than the capacity for violence, which has always stuck with me as a particularly astute observation. The essay is also particula
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by foxhedgehog 9y ago
Booth was my thesis advisor and Seth is a friend. Precious Nonsense is great, would highly recommend and am happy to discuss further in a thread here.
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by foxhedgehog 9y ago
seems dystopian
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by foxhedgehog 9y ago
$!0M relative to the size of the federal budget is infinitesimal.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Stock price also doesn't correlate with hiring if there's increased automation driving it.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
I thought this was part of the charter of OTFI also?
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Are journalists just going to do this with every agency in the IC now? FEW KNOW THAT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TRACKS MONEY LAUNDERING, COULD TRUMP COME AFTER YOUR WELLS FARGO ACCOUNT?
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13003197
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
1. design the service around topic lists, make it easy for users to create lists of accounts and filter twitter's view by list. make curated lists sharable and easily discoverable. 2. delete nazis
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
If the protocol supports these features, then that's great and I'd love to see it adopted.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
I've been wanting to provide a high-fidelity many-to-many commenting system inside of a text editor or browser since I was in college. My thought was that if you could annotate something as complex as Shakespeare: http://img
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Also tracks with my experience.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
typically civil libertarians
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
you could have just asked and I would have told you it's "let down"
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
"Deep state" on the libertarian-leaning left is "federal bureaucracy" on the Rush Limbaugh right.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
The funnier thing is that the preponderance of evidence suggests that the stories about Russia may - gasp - be true! No need to reach for your tinfoil hat here, friend!
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
his son was my cofounder 20 years later
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
If twitter let you filter tweets and easily build lists around users, it would be most of the way towards being a more functional platform that let you easily finds signal amidst noise.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Naive question: one of the things that makes a game like Dark Souls so strong is how tightly-integrated the map is. It feels crafted. How difficult would it be to procedurally create something like that (I assume it would be very)?
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
It sounds like you don't believe that there should be classified information. I'm happy to explain why I believe otherwise.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
I think that people who have domain expertise about classified information are different from people claiming "secret knowledge." He overstates his case in some circumstances, and I think that there were positive effects of the pu
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
I do.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
John Schindler's reporting works as a kind of explainer on why Obama/Clinton/Trump are v. unlikely to pardon him: https://20committee.com/2014/05/31/the-xx-committee-snowden-...
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Republican lawmakers protesting end of American oversight of ICANN [$](wsj.com)
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Surely, in that case, you can vocalize what that claim was.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Sorry, I thought that I was asking a question and not promoting a claim. In any case, thank you for answering it, though perhaps not in the manner intended.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Am I going to be downvoted if I puncture the largely laudatory bubble around Woz at all?
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
Always good to see 100% completely neutral rulings from local arms of the Chinese government that are unconnected to personal interests and otherwise without blatant conflicts of interest.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
I was in college with Derek, he was a gift both to CS classes and to the campus humor magazine, where I worked with him. He did a particularly great drawing of our data structures prof on the whiteboard one day.
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by foxhedgehog 10y ago
good summary

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