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by hitekker 6y ago
The assumption that corporations, not courts, decide legality seems inane to me. The company you worship could commit a crime and then engage in a cover up to destroy all evidence before discovery could occur. The easiest, recent example is
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by hitekker 6y ago
I recommend http://privacy.com for guarding against greedy, software subscriptions. 1. Create a virtual credit card for one merchant 2. Set the monthly payment limit just above the merchant's monthly charge 3. When you no l
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by hitekker 6y ago
The GP was just poking fun. Getting defensive and suddenly asserting a bold, moral stance without evidence, seems a bit thin-skinned to me. FWIW, I read this paper which says that whale-watching is not unethical provided certain protocols a
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by hitekker 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932015_Myanmar_po... is one of several articles demonstrating how the West was rebuilding its influence in Burma up until recently.
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by hitekker 6y ago
If you look a few comments below, you can see the poster in question defending modern-day slavery: > We may disagree, but it's their country. And people who don't like it can always leave
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by hitekker 6y ago
IMHO, accounting for politics is a vital, basic part of planning. How people quietly perceive your planning, how your planning feeds into their hidden plans, how people could use your planning against you. It's a delicate, dangerous
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by hitekker 6y ago
Uh, have they acknowledged their mistakes? One or two of them are in this comment section right now, denying culpability and fanning flamewars. Not quite the behavior of the repentant.
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by hitekker 6y ago
You do know that Android was originally written in Java, right?
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by hitekker 6y ago
> “You will have killed us,” Gram said, “destroyed the culture that we have built for thousands of years, and you won’t even give it any thought. Your species doesn’t think about what it does any more. It just acts, like a single-celled
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by hitekker 6y ago
> Morimoto receives words of gratitude from customers who state that "the act of doing nothing serves as support." However, he remains nonchalant about the praise, saying, "I'm not doing it for that purpose, so my onl
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by hitekker 6y ago
Great anecdote. The outrage in its comment section indicates the author struck a nerve.
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Subprime Attention Crisis: the Digital Ad industry may be in a bubble(thenation.com)
2 points by hitekker 6y ago|0 comments
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by hitekker 6y ago
To quote the top comment: > You [Ametaphine] think the world should get behind you and change the corrupt system. The mocking tone of these naysayers indicates not just acknowledgement of prevailing reality but also an attempt to rationa
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by hitekker 6y ago
I’m reading it right now And I highly recommend it. Many of its insights remain both relevant and thought-provoking.
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by hitekker 6y ago
With regard to the idea that duties are nationalistic: this author makes the case that duties are actually a tradition of moral & ethical obligations that precedes the concept of rights. http://bostonreview.net/books-ide
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by hitekker 6y ago
The scientist saw BS, he called BS, and then 20 years later, the field he criticized turned out to be mostly BS. If you're offended by the audacity of scientists criticizing pseudoscience, you may want to read about the concept of &quo
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by hitekker 6y ago
The point is to persuade yourself. Or rather, to satisfy the collection of niggling doubts[1] we call the "inner critic". That voice constantly questioning us in our own heads, poking holes in our logic, and ensuring we're ac
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by hitekker 6y ago
> In the interview with NPR lasting nearly an hour, Baquet says the Times did not have evidence Chaudhry had ever been to Syria. Nor could it show he had joined ISIS, much less killed civilians for the group. The man's account prove
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by hitekker 6y ago
It's fairly irresponsible to argue legal theory without a disclaimer. IANAL is an acronym for a reason. Of course, by this point, other people have seen through your rhetoric and have adjusted your comments score accordingly.
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by hitekker 6y ago
> "Likely" is a probability statement, not an escape valve. This is a good warning that we ought to be more mindful of.
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by hitekker 6y ago
> This fall, as Canadian authorities were wrapping up an investigation on Chaudhry, Callimachi similarly championed her series. On Twitter, she raised questions about the competence of Canadian intelligence officials in the Chaudhry case
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by hitekker 6y ago
If you did disagree with the courts, you should have qualified your statement that “[the courts have ruled] property is not afforded the rights of humans and cases can be levied against property directly” Otherwise this comment (and the on
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by hitekker 6y ago
A fascinating line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chef-d%27%C5%93uvre_inconnu > In 1927, Ambroise Vollard asked Picasso to illustrate Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu. Picasso was fascinated by the text and identified wit
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by hitekker 6y ago
> Readers enjoy the form because it feels a bit like ski jumping-- the writer provides the momentum and the reader's imagination leaps off the end with all the story's implications flying past. Great metaphor. The story zips yo
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by hitekker 6y ago
Indeed. The HN community has been quite negative on Confluent marketing Kafka as a database. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23206566 Apache Kafka also doesn’t refer to itself as a database in its own documentation: h
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by hitekker 6y ago
I tried Stencil a year ago and I didn't see anything too novel to warrant further investigation. One nitpick for the OP: the side-by-side code examples are screenshots without syntax highlighting. For an article comparing two frontend
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by hitekker 6y ago
> most people in the mental health world would agree that intense feelings of anxiety underlie most bad behavior That is a huge assumption to make, without any supporting evidence. > But intense anxiety, from which most workplace abus
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by hitekker 6y ago
"Faking nice" over "making nice" is pretty common in online communities too. 1) A person-turned-abuser sees an opportunity to abuse an undeserving bystander. 2) The abuser takes it, using polite-sounding, civil language
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by hitekker 6y ago
Speaking as another manager, it sounds like you just can't handle a hard conversation.
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Experimenting with SQLite in iOS(medium.com)
3 points by hitekker 6y ago|0 comments

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