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by ixtli 8y ago
“Fans of the new character aren’t in dire poverty. After all, they have access to the internet and time to play on social media. But they live on the wrong side of China’s widening income gap, a place where finding a job, buying a house and
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by ixtli 8y ago
Thank you so much for this write up. I’m not from the area but I’m very wary of this sort of reporting. I really appreciate your thoroughness here :)
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by ixtli 8y ago
I have exactly the same story. My grandparents gave my mother a borderline eating disorder. Happily she became a nutritionist and helps lots of people … but the depression-era trauma still affects us today.
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by ixtli 8y ago
Interesting context to note: Lady Murasaki is the author of the Tale of Genji, which is widely regarded as the first novel ever written and one of the oldest extant pieces of Japanese cultural artifact to be considered a masterpiece.
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by ixtli 8y ago
Well currently their main application is inaccessible, so you have the issue of downtime making it impossible to see anything you've made. Collaboration is cool but even mature applications like GitHub have downtime sometimes that seri
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by ixtli 8y ago
Their main application is down right now. Bad timing, I guess. ( https://status.invisionapp.com/ )
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by ixtli 8y ago
I would pay to see a video of this person reading this again when he's 44.
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by ixtli 8y ago
its got a dark mode, if you have 10.14.+
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by ixtli 8y ago
I'm so glad this editor has lasted this long. I haven't used it in years but now that it's free im gonna replace the default system text editor with it.
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by ixtli 8y ago
> Biometric IDs seem to be about as close to a perfect identification system as you can get. This seems a massive assertion that’s not qualified at all in the article. It was my understanding that biometrics in consumer hardware have alw
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by ixtli 8y ago
There are responsible and irresponsible ways to dump this kind of info. Both result in the public learning what it is entitled to know. (All such secrets are bad of course and should be brought to light.) For instance, Assange has failed to
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by ixtli 8y ago
Have you watched the documentary "citizen four" about snowden? The way that they went about these releases are worlds apart and each man has his own clear agenda. Snowdens behavior set a good precedent for future leaking. For exam
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by ixtli 8y ago
I agree with this. Idk if you meant to reply to the parent.
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by ixtli 8y ago
> Would you though? Well, yes. The ever-increasing, horrible drone campaigns conducted from the Obama years onward as a tool of destabilization are one thing, but that doesn't make it reasonable to expect that they'd use them t
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by ixtli 8y ago
That's totally fair and, not to be dismissive, I don't think it's productive to try to have this conversation here. I just want to say I'm not trying to defend or downplay what WikiLeaks got up to under Assange's ov
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by ixtli 8y ago
The reason we try to uphold freedom of the press isn't to defend people like this or their actions. It always seems pretty clearly bad faith when people make this argument about Assange.
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by ixtli 8y ago
That's really cool! I knew that it did sound canceling but I thought it was all software!
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by ixtli 8y ago
I'd also like to point out that, while I really value this community I dislike this tendency. Not agreeing with such comments is fine, but this isn't a personal attack so I don't understand why this style of conversation is t
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by ixtli 8y ago
Again sarcasm as a way to convey a legitimate point is downvoted on HN so I'll translate: I would be surprised if he was prosecuted harshly given his important role in the election of the current president of the US. (Edit: to be clear
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by ixtli 8y ago
Further, this is probably their goal. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple bought something like this as system-wide background noise canceling would be a fantastic OS feature.
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by ixtli 8y ago
(((Globalism)))
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by ixtli 8y ago
While what you’re saying is clearly factually true, what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal. I think it’s rather obvious he didn’t mean to imply WaPo was actually an organization similar to Om Shinrikyo. In all h
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by ixtli 8y ago
You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN but really this article is clickbait designed to exploit a growing epistemological crisis in the west. The author is just describing a group with a history and traditions. While cults are also g
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by ixtli 8y ago
Thank you! “Overpopulation” is a canard. Humans didn’t eradicate these animals: a specific group of rich people who’re able to deploy capital without the consent of the people did that.
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by ixtli 8y ago
Because I didn’t think it was relevant at all: I don’t believe you want to talk about whether or not google is representing its own interests contractually. But now that you bring it up I imagine my intuition is correct.
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by ixtli 8y ago
Do you think that termination clauses given by google to employees have zero conditions attached to them? Even if you're an executive there are absolutely things you can do that would forfeit the contract. If you were fired for steal
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by ixtli 8y ago
Yes but with few exceptions the severity of the repercussions is inversely proportional to how much private capital you have. My previous comment was a bit ranty but this mostly what I'm lamenting.
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by ixtli 8y ago
Yeah honestly I wish there were any working mechanisms to hold people like this accountable for non-participation in society (or doing things that are outright deleterious, like hiding money when you’re absurdly rich) in the west.
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by ixtli 8y ago
I agree. I'm usually the first to jump on lazy design or the near complete sacrifice of form and function just to release a few hours earlier to save more of daddy's precious investment capital ... but these are clearly just toys.
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by ixtli 8y ago
"Due to lack of time, I resort to brute force ... YUK ..." - (label Simon3 page A-60) Same here :(

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