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by hackuser 10y ago
I didn't say stupid. He's good at generating publicity and to a degree, being a demagogue (though that isn't going well so far). The reality of Trump's actions and words is far more convincing than the parent comment&#x2
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Does anyone know here the Business Advisory Council's homepage is? I looked around with no luck. I'd like to know who else is on it. Elon Musk is one, but who else?
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Does the [flagged] tag mean some individual flagged it, or that the moderators approved the flag? Unless HN is changing its standards, and I wouldn't like to see that, then this shouldn't be flagged.
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Trump has demonstrated, beyond any doubt, since 2015, that he will not listen to anyone who disagrees with him and is not interested in knowledge, expertise, or reason. There always is a slim possibility of some tiny influence. This is the
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by hackuser 10y ago
I agree people should not be reactionary, but it doesn't not apply in this case. Trump has been advocating these things for over a year and a half, to a far greater extreme and more brazenly than any major party candidate possibly ever
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I know the feeling, but don't forget that 'human flourishing' part of your life: ... the achievement of human flourishing, a concept the ancient Greeks called eudaimonia, or a life composed of all the highest goods. Su talke
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> our team researches Are good immigration lawyers doing the research? Do you want to handing out information? If your information turns out to be wrong, the consequences could be very serious.
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This looks very much like an angry, obsessive Internet rant in some kind of war. I don't find those things convincing or even worth reading. Is there something more reliable?
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> the admins and other mods will brush under the carpet actions done by the political left ... They're heavy leftists, so you can guess where this tends to lead things on that site. Can you back all of this up? Otherwise it's j
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by hackuser 10y ago
Note that they were banned for doxxing, not for intolerance or hatred. Generally I strongly favor free speech and believe the answer to 'bad' speech is more speech. However, there always are limits such as slander, harmful decepti
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> Probably the final 1967 version does too, but it's not online anywhere. Is this it? http://worldpowersystems.com/archives/codes/Revised-ASCII/in...
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> more directly, it protects physical power port from damage and wear. I've never seen a problem with that either. I've seen plenty of wear on the jackets around connectors on cables.
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> this is a very different country from back then Very different, but still a long way to go. I remember reading that in ~1959 (this is from memory, so all details are a bit hazy) 95% of Americans opposed legalizing interracial marriage;
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> we can't pretend we didn't have some part in this surveillance overreach Agreed, whether "we" refers to the voters or the IT industry.
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> treating it as an insider secret only the smarter half of Americans will figure out, regardless of the issue or question, I'm left in the dark alongside the unenlightened Republicans. The motives of the protesters are an insider s
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> What, exactly, is the problem with that? Everyone should have the right to refuse service to whomever they please. I encourage you to look up the history of segregation in the U.S. That approach works out very badly.
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> While they're being politicized right now ... That's long been true, though I'm sure sometimes more than others. I agree with what you say, but AFAIK they always have been associated with the left.
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Thanks for saying that; it's essential to reframe the discussion. A few thoughts: 1) The Obama administration's college rankings (I don't know if they are still around) at one point were using the earnings of graduates as a b
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> No magsafe Has anyone seen or personally heard of someone yanking their laptop, of any brand or model, onto the floor via the power cable? I haven't. I instinctively think it's a risk, but reality says otherwise. It seems to
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> driving cab is not such a great job either Many things are 'not ... great', but some of them are much better than others. Homelessness isn't great, neither is a low-wage job and public housing, neither is a decent paying
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Interesting. Why does that author claim to have knowledge or expertise? I looked at his bio but didn't learn much about him.
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> The drivers can work for Uber, and arguably earn as much as they did before. That's not my understanding. I've read that they earn less, and drivers I talk to say it's hard to make money. Also remember that Uber drivers
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> I doubt that outside of environmental circles that very many people cared. Do you have any basis for that? I think most people care about clean air and support laws and regulations to protect it. The laws did pass; there are regulatory
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Thanks. Am I correct about FDE and sleep mode? Does anyone know?
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But is it accurate?
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The new social activists are shockingly ignorant of security. Most that I know of are organizing over Facebook. When someone mentions security to them, the activists say that there is no risk to them. Education is even more urgently needed
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> FDE handles almost exclusively a single threat: the physical threat of your unattended computer. For most FDE solutions, doesn't the computer have to be off or possibly in hibernation (suspend to disk)? Does sleep mode (effectivel
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by hackuser 10y ago
First, thank you. Second, how much security does this provide and against what? For example, Moxie said once that Signal was designed to be usable and prevent mass surveillance, but not necessarily to prevent targeted attacks (my paraphrasi
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> The moral of this story is that you can have big-dollar redundant systems, but if you don't also have some dollars going to the care and feeding of them, it's wasted. Agreed. Another moral: Don't believe anything works u
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> the Federalist Society is a libertarian leaning ... The Federalist Society is establishment, movement arch-conservative. They are the legal wing of the elite, establishment conservative movement, with several Supreme Court Justices as

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