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by glenstein 16y ago
I don't think telling German officials to "consider the implications" of enforcing an arrest warrant against C.I.A. officers implicated in the kidnapping of a German citizen makes the U.S. look good.
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by glenstein 16y ago
Politico called it a "devastating portrait of apparent U.S. indifference to a pattern of murder and torture." BBC said the memos "Show U.S. 'ignored torture'". I only remember the New York Times anything that could be construed as favorable
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by glenstein 18y ago
People don't need to like food to live, and yet they do.
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by glenstein 18y ago
not sure what you mean. I wasn't being critical, I was actually encouraging the development of such sites. And I fully believe in the feasibility of eventually using all those different metrics I had described. It's doable, and I want to se
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by glenstein 18y ago
This is definitely true. Plus, I think these are open to abuse. If the submissions are coming from a self-selected user base, surely its possible to self-servingly interpret certain statements as "predictions" that aren't, or a certain set
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by glenstein 18y ago
Wow, I guess I'm #3. But my idea quickly expanded into a full fledged "credibility index"- because why not keep track of present-day claims they make about things already known to be false? It seems like one in the same issue to me. And wou
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Ask HN: Have you read Dreyfus's What Computers Can't Do? How did you react?
4 points by glenstein 18y ago|0 comments
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by glenstein 18y ago
Hey, me again. After having used your service for a bit, I wanted to say that the single biggest pain is that title of a feed item looks identical to the description text of the feed above it, so it kind of looks like the description text j
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by glenstein 18y ago
Outrage over legitimately outrageous behavior from the NSA does not imply that there is some sort of unbalanced perspective that needs to be tempered. At any given moment this debate needs rest on a larger foundation of common understandi
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by glenstein 18y ago
The metadata was NOT collected because the NSA cared about adhering to constitutional safeguards, they did it out of practicality. They were operating in an utterly intractable and vast ocean of communications information that could not pos
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by glenstein 18y ago
Your feedstomper service rules. I'm using it for Ask Metafilter, and I'll probably use it for a host of others.
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Ask HN: Any "semantic web" programmers here? What is the future of the Semantic Web?
4 points by glenstein 18y ago|5 comments
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by glenstein 18y ago
Well, "the metaphysical" needs to actually be there , before it can show us any shortcomings of "scientific naturalism". How exactly does someone observe the "unobservable"? How could one come to confidently believe in a realm built up out
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by glenstein 18y ago
Please, I don't want to have to sign up!
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by glenstein 18y ago
I thought of Ron Paul, and I could tell by the questions that it already knew by the 5th or 6th question. It can guess Ron Paul. You answered a question incorrectly.
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by glenstein 18y ago
I thought of Dagny Taggart, it guessed Howard Roark.