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by grandalf 10y ago
By mentioning that they are "ranking members" you make an argument from authority that is predicated on the legitimacy of the government alone, effectively saying "kneel and take whatever they say at face value". In my v
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by grandalf 10y ago
Exactly. Obama just created a National Anti-Propaganda Center to keep watch over American news organizations. An elaborate surveillance/police state combined with a propaganda system is scary indeed, no matter which president or politi
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by grandalf 10y ago
Wow, this should be the top comment.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> presented it as evidence Quite predictable, since they also considered the wild accusations of various politicians of a high level Russian conspiracy to be evidence.
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by grandalf 10y ago
The basic flaws I'd mention are: - Multiple state actors (or well-funded non-state actors) likely compromised the emails. - A state actor could also have faked the "trail" that points to Russia. - The rest of the evidence is
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by grandalf 10y ago
> But there are very good reasons for why they operate the way they do. Indeed there are, and no reasonable person would say that having intelligence agencies is a bad thing. The issue in this case is that the US intelligence agencies ha
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by grandalf 10y ago
We're supposed to trust them that it was not just Russian geographically but the Russian government and also the highest levels of the Russian government.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Give me a reason to trust them again? There is not a good reason to do so. The trust has been broken and we should consider them corrupt if not overtly adversarial to the democratic process. No officials took responsibility for the ex
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by grandalf 10y ago
It's supposed to be. But due to demographic shifts and dishonest officials the program now requires ample supply of young workers in order to be able to pay out the benefits to older workers. Inevitably, benefits get cut. If trends co
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by grandalf 10y ago
Social security was supposed to be an investment program so the benefits were earned after years of contributions. The problem is, demographics have changed and so it became a welfare program. To make matters worse, it became unsustainable
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by grandalf 10y ago
Do you think Google would decline to provide IP addresses or logs or any other information to the regimes?
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by grandalf 10y ago
Not with app engine's default cert that matches *.google.com Google has the private keys and would likely happily siphon off any data requested by said regimes.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Interesting. Sounds like they prioritized standardizing the connector but not the rest of the details. Perhaps in the scope of large scale manufacturing, having multiple (redundant) connector styles is a low hanging fruit for cost reduction
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by grandalf 10y ago
If you work at Apple there are likely chargers all over the place so you don't realize that some people actually do care about battery life.
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by grandalf 10y ago
So the alternate modes are required for proper operation? Or will it fall back to a standard mode and still work?
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by grandalf 10y ago
This is a very insightful comment, not sure why anyone would vote it down. Indeed the wrongdoing revealed has compromised the legitimacy of the state significantly in my mind. When you combine deliberate PR/propaganda with a surveilla
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by grandalf 10y ago
If America's adversaries benefit from Snowden's leaks that would be unfortunate, but far less of a problem than the existence of the excesses Snowden revealed. Until the government starts to take seriously the idea that it has ser
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by grandalf 10y ago
What about the counter-argument from domestic canines: More likely, artificial intelligence would evolve in much the same way that domestic canines have evolved -- they learn to sense human emotion and to be generally helpful, but the value
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by grandalf 10y ago
Even if it's not a quantum effect, biological system often have characteristics that break our conception of neat layers of abstraction.
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by grandalf 10y ago
In a nutshell, the js community is doing a great job of moving the language forward, and there is a great deal of cost to be borne by using the oldest version of the language that all browsers support. Browser vendors (in general) are the
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by grandalf 10y ago
True. I think MS just gradually shifts the costs so that at a certain point the cost of upgrading everything to the latest OS version seems like a good deal compared with the support requirements of IE9.
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by grandalf 10y ago
It's mostly government offices and large firms. I believe IE9 support is still required by most government agencies.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> dumb idea Most definitely. I think the management logic went something like the following: - Why aren't twitter's ad impressions worth a fraction of Facebook's? - Because FB uses an algorithmic feed which allows more pr
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by grandalf 10y ago
I'm not sure. I resorted to buying a copy of Windows 10 to use with certain software and utilities that seem primarily supported on Windows. The windows software seems to be under active development and I was able to skype chat with on
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by grandalf 10y ago
The UX is pretty good. The utilities seem to have originally been created for the Chinese speaking market but there are English language versions of the software that are very easy to use. Good idea about mapping some knobs to the UI. I&#x2
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by grandalf 10y ago
There's a lot of nitpicking about the details going on in this thread, and it's very interesting to read. But I think the gist of the post is that the hardware cost of a high end ultrasound unit is rapidly decreasing due to advanc
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by grandalf 10y ago
> another company What other company offers a similar broadcast style approach for text content and doesn't require real name registration?
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by grandalf 10y ago
> a big name in tech anymore Donald Trump is making headlines using Twitter every day. I think that once users/victims become immune to Facebook's dark patterns, Twitter will look pretty good. The only thing it can do to scre
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by grandalf 10y ago
True. I have two Echoes in my home, and love them, but in using Android I've been very impressed by the syntactic awareness and the power of OK Google. Siri is overall underwhelming and definitely at the back of the herd at present.
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by grandalf 10y ago
So far I think "OK Google" is noticeably more powerful than Alexa or Siri. Let's hope for much competition!

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