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by jccc 2y ago
HN is not a car blog. The point of clickbait is that the link will get reposted to all kinds of places online, with a headline that intentionally misrepresents the article to those readers and fools them into clicking. (Original headline wa
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by jccc 2y ago
This headline would be much less effective if it told you the truth, that the car never existed: “Unfortunately for us, Oldsmobile never went ahead and produced the Incas. They made a slew of other wild concept cars as well, but none of tho
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by jccc 3y ago
Yes but I think the point is even in that case anyone snooping would be drawn deeper to find something.
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by jccc 3y ago
Purchases of alcohol at the grocery store are not individually logged and tracked by personal ID. I’m certain that is not what happens when I show my birth date to a cashier.
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by jccc 3y ago
This doesn't simplify Ellsberg's argument but mischaracterizes it. He directly addresses the claim that his own and Snowden's actions were different, and offers specific, concrete examples of how they were in fact alike in im
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by jccc 3y ago
I don't bring in Ellsberg for his moral authority or to rebut or refute anything, but because he is himself the subject of the comparison. He addressed this exact comparison in a Washington Post op-ed. Surely Ellsberg's own commen
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by jccc 3y ago
I’m not rebutting Maciej, I’m noting that Ellsberg already did answer this exact point in detail in the Washington Post. I can’t imagine how that isn’t relevant here.
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by jccc 3y ago
I don't think Snowden leaked those things because he wanted to protest the Espionage Act of 1917. I think he wanted Americans to see the content of what he leaked.
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by jccc 3y ago
Fidel Narvaez the Ecuadorian consul in London helped Snowden get out of Hong Kong to the Moscow airport on the way to Ecuador with the purpose of getting him asylum (which had previously been granted to Julian Assange). Joe Biden (then vice
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by jccc 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/chelsea-mann...
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by jccc 3y ago
He was in transit to Ecuador, which was going to grant him asylum. The U.S. government revoked his passport, trapping him in the Moscow airport. One may believe that Snowden's location at the time the U.S. revoked his passport was chan
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by jccc 3y ago
Ellsberg disagrees with you: "Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-... "Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for
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by jccc 4y ago
Video of the damper movement during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSgd1XSZXc
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by jccc 5y ago
In 1897. "So in 1897 he approached the Indiana state legislature with a proposal: if they officially declared the proof correct, he’d let them use it free of charge, thereby saving a lot of money on royalties."
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by jccc 5y ago
I’m hoping one of these days to use mine as a Unix terminal with an rs232 Bluetooth adapter I have.
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by jccc 5y ago
From pg: “Whoah, I had no idea about any of this till now...” https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1449861338390466561
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by jccc 5y ago
This story and Jobs' reaction is not about the fluid meaning of the word "know." Jobs immediately caught on to the fact that Ali was lying to him about having a 150M offer, which he explicit admits: https://twitter
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by jccc 5y ago
> called someone who was convinced his company was worth more a liar for saying he knew it. No, that wasn’t the lie. From the horse’s mouth: “I was intentionally pretending we had another offer, and he detected it.” https://tw
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by jccc 5y ago
Each of the Five Eyes benefits, so one doesn't need to be the target of just Australian law enforcement.
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by jccc 5y ago
Orwell's concern was Us, not Them: "[Nineteen Eighty-Four] was based chiefly on communism, because that is the dominant form of totalitarianism, but I was trying chiefly to imagine what communism would be like if it were firmly ro
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by jccc 5y ago
Right, but the idea is that Apple has lost ~$10,000 to support his MacBook Pro. That doesn't seem to add up to me.
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by jccc 5y ago
"2 complete laptop replacements" "Factoring in the cost of the complete replacements, it would be closer to 10,000 USD!" I'm not sure how this $10,000 sum works unless you're saying you still have all three Mac
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by jccc 5y ago
Of course it's quite possible that's what Turing was doing in this case. I'm not saying it wasn't. My gentle objection from long experience is that gay men's motivations are so very often over-sexualized by people w
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by jccc 5y ago
Is there more detail to the story, or could it have been simply a common interest in logic and the like? As a gay man I can assure you that we aren't attracted to every allegedly good-looking male. (I really don't mean this to be
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by jccc 5y ago
Um, if I click "Continue" am I agreeing to their cookie policy? Is this popup a GDPR notice? For anyone who doesn't see it: There's a giant blue box on the left that just says continue to lego.com, and then a giant yello
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by jccc 6y ago
I don’t understand how his comment could be interpreted as having been made in bad faith — I’m sure he made it earnestly. I made my comment earnestly as well. I want HN to be the kind of community described by those guidelines, and comments
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by jccc 6y ago
Please don’t do this here. The HN guidelines make clear the kind of community we’re going for is one that resists provocation toward the uninteresting. In particular: “ Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a top
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by jccc 6y ago
Was that mainly a criticism of those developers, or of management? [Edit:] Okay, I see now it's referencing this part that I'd forgotten: "I read these articles about some of these people that have left. I know some of these
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by jccc 6y ago
Apple was barely above comatose, running on vapors. The point was that even OpenDoc being "better" tech does not automatically mean Apple could/should make it into products and sell those products to customers. Apple needed t
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by jccc 6y ago
A similarly awesome--and much, much less expensive--deck of cards focused on writing by the screenwriter John August (Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie): https://www.writeremergency.com&#x2F

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