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by honzzz 13y ago
This might sound really weird but I actually believe that for people who like freedom post-communist countries that were NOT part of Soviet Union can be quite good place to live right now. I had previously spent 7 months in the US and I had
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by honzzz 13y ago
I think you are right but I also understand OP - it's way too easy to choose the easier path. The older I get the more I admire people like Vaclav Havel and others who would rather spend years in jail instead of just 'sucking it u
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by honzzz 13y ago
All it takes is a phone call. You call one of them - he claim he has the rights. You call the other - he claims he has the rights. Now what? And try the other perspective... try to imagine that you are the store owner and now someone make
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by honzzz 13y ago
IMHO the store has no way of reliably determining whether the 'Tide' you bring is fake or not (that's what courts are for) and therefore should not be responsible. Generally I understand your anger but I think that the concep
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by honzzz 13y ago
If the guys from Flipagram are reading this - why would you contact Apple about this? Eastern European countries have lawyers and courts too. And not only can hiring a good lawyer in some Eastern European country be much (much!) cheaper tha
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by honzzz 13y ago
I up-voted your comment, that comic strip is spot on, but I was trying to express my feelings more than stating some general statement about human nature. I remember that when I was reading Zimbardo's book I was most touched when he wa
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by honzzz 13y ago
There are many people who enjoy controlling or even abusing others and positions that give people power over others obviously attract those people - psychopathy prevalence in those groups is statistically higher than in general population.
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by honzzz 13y ago
I feel so sorry for this guy and I just think that I would rather 'risk' dying in a terrorist attack while flying with him than live in a society that needs do this to some random guy in order to feel safe. I get that they need to
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by honzzz 13y ago
The fact that they refused to give him any water stuns me the most. Is this really not illegal in the US? Is this not considered a torture? Is this not so obvious abuse of power that the huge media scandal is assured? Is this not the thing
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by honzzz 13y ago
I've a friend who spent a good deal of time recently in Khazakhstan, and she was very amused by my attempts to express my fears of the United States becoming an authoritarian police state. She laughed and said that no, I did not under
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by honzzz 13y ago
I think that The Power of the Powerless, essay written about this topic in 1978 by Vaclav Havel, might be interesting even these days. I am not sure it can resonate with western people. Nevertheless, I am going to give it a try: http:&#x2F
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More NSA Spying Fallout: Groklaw Shutting Down(techdirt.com)
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by honzzz 13y ago
And let me (just for fun) go even farther and provide unsolicited interpretation. Does your anger have anything to do with the possibility that you have the same issue that she had, value (subconsciously) your successes based on how others
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by honzzz 13y ago
This is exactly why making decisions like she did is so difficult. Because people judge you and are angry at you just because you are different and you don't want what they want. I am sure that you had some big difficulties in your li
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by honzzz 13y ago
Thank you for your comment. It certainly made me think. I am not sure I see this the same way that you do. But I do realize now that my comments might seem negative and I do not want that - I think I have said enough and I should stop now.
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by honzzz 13y ago
I understand that building racing bikes is his profession. I am not trying to be sarcastic here - I just really do not get what is cool about a bike builder building a bike which (to me) seems to be not so special (if the bike were able to
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by honzzz 13y ago
This seems so obvious to me that I really do not understand how can anybody not see that. Is the difference between a man fighting with other men (where other men are obviously part of the race) and someone hiding behind the car not clear?
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by honzzz 13y ago
No, I am not 'trolling' at all, I am just expressing my opinion and trying to provide some feedback about newsworthiness of the article and related HN post. You might disagree with me but that does not make me a troll and I find t
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by honzzz 13y ago
I have to agree with JungleGymSam - the title does imply that there is something special about the bike because people assume that it's a 'bike capable of 80mph' under normal conditions. I guess people do not expect that it w
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by honzzz 13y ago
Yes, but is it really cool when anyone can do it? You could use any store bought racing bike (with minor tweaks) to do this. The only reason that you can set 'records' like this is basically because real racers with real top bikes
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by honzzz 13y ago
Yep. And thanks. And to be honest, I think that asking random people for IDs was the smallest thing. People from always-free countries do not realize how much authoritarian regimes damage society. It's not just that some people became
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Cost-Benefit Analysis Of NSA Surveillance Says It's Simply Not Worth It(techdirt.com)
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by honzzz 13y ago
Although I really hope that nobody would label Estonia (or any other EU country) as '3rd world' country now.
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by honzzz 13y ago
This is only because our mobile market is so small that we only have 3 providers and they are all subsidiaries of global companies (O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone) with headquarters under different jurisdictions. This is not enforced by our gove
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by honzzz 13y ago
I understand what you mean but I think the term '3rd world country' could be a bit discouraging to some of our American friends who might not have a clear picture about realities in our part of the world. For example I also live i
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by honzzz 13y ago
Exactly. The problem I see with these 'guides' is repeatability. You cannot just follow the steps and get there... the substantial part is missing. Find A Problem Worth Solving... well everybody knows that, right? Is anyone here i
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by honzzz 13y ago
You mentioning 'psychological issues' reminded me of the (super interesting) book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. In that book there is something about our ability to asses risk and emotionally perceive danger that is
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by honzzz 13y ago
I don't know exact numbers but the numbers you provided do not seem to add up. The Boston Marathon bombing caused an estimated $333M in damage directly? I don't think you can do direct damage like that with primitive pressure cook
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by honzzz 13y ago
How big part of the damage is caused by the terrorist attack and how big part is caused by (over?)reaction to it? If after each car crash the car traffic in the whole city had to be stopped and people were advised not to leave their homes u
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by honzzz 13y ago
I just remembered reading an article [1] mentioning indirect impact of combination of fear of flying caused by 9/11 and annoyance caused by TSA (which one has bigger impact?) that pushed more people to travel by cars. That is less secu

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