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by jgome 10y ago
From Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/5bjhwx/wikileaks... ): > CNN colluding with DNC over questions to ask Trump. Apr 2016 > https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails&#x
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by jgome 10y ago
Right after WikiLeaks released the last batch of DNC/Podesta/Clinton emails, the most damning ones... Hmm...
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by jgome 10y ago
for me, it's easier to think of it this way: 1 mi ~ 8/5 km, so v miles ~ v x 8 / 5 kms, and w kms ~ w x 5 / 8 miles.
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by jgome 10y ago
He's talking about ISO images, though.
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by jgome 10y ago
Background info here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/07/facebook_drops_feed_...
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Facebook ‘glitch’ that deleted the Castile shooting video: It was the police(theregister.co.uk)
218 points by jgome 10y ago|267 comments
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by jgome 10y ago
Well, I made the project for fun and to learn, so yeah, I do use it. I've thought of some uses: - to share voice messages, as a sort of "anonymous vocaroo" - since you can add voices to videos or images, could be used to add
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by jgome 10y ago
I guess. I'm using espeak and picotts, and yeah, the default voices are terrible. I'd have to pay for better voices, but I have no money.
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by jgome 10y ago
I posted my webapp ( http://nask.co ) twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nask.co , received only 1 comment. I also posted it to reddit, but didn't have many comments. While people find it interes
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by jgome 10y ago
the same "the Guardian" that called their audience "russian trolls"...
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by jgome 11y ago
> And I don't see Mexicans (who have good relations, or Dominicans or Venezuelans for that matter) getting on boats and hoping for a better life in Cuba. Well, people DO leave their countries to Cuba. You just don't see that (a
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Show HN: Leave an anonymous voice/video message(nask.co)
3 points by jgome 11y ago|0 comments
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by jgome 11y ago
> This might make a good "Show HN". Actually, that was my intention... Guess I should have paid attention before posting, heh > Is the source code public? Not yet. I was planning on doing this, but I just forgot about it. An
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Leave an anonymous voice/video message(nask.co)
2 points by jgome 11y ago|2 comments
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by jgome 11y ago
Or just paste it in the address bar and copy it again (ctrl+l ctrl+v, then ctrl+a ctrl+c). This removes newlines, though.
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by jgome 11y ago
This helps prevent variable shadowing when using :=, which is yet another weird feature of the language... BTW, if you really want to make sure you don't make mistakes, use the compiler tools, or, better yet, https://github.
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by jgome 11y ago
Actually, I live in one of the countries that "benefit" from this treaty, and people here think the same as you: it benefits the US, some of the US people, and US corporations, not the people of this country. You see, I don't
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by jgome 11y ago
Do these look like "economic weapons" to you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_interventions_of_the_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_r... https:&#x2F
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by jgome 11y ago
But why would they? They are ruled by the very same upper classes and large corporations that rule all other countries... And their ideology is that of the "competition" (that is, supported and subsidized by the state) and profits
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by jgome 11y ago
I always wondered if this ever happened naturally... Guess I now haev a confirmation. Nice... I suppose.
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by jgome 11y ago
Yes, you need new euphemisms and new twisted definitions to profit from naive people, to convince them that they should buy your bullshit because they "need" it, and to tell them that govt. subsidies/legal pardons given to co
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by jgome 11y ago
Where did he set up a straw man? He's just saying that, given two alternatives, he would take one. And I agree with him, there are so many nice bullshitters these days. Hell, most of these bullshitters seem worthless "professional
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by jgome 11y ago
The US armed forces are letting old, powerful men rape children in afghanistan. They also enabled ISIS and other violent muslim groups to grow, after overthrowing Saddam and Gaddafi, and even gave money to them. How do you feel about this,
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by jgome 11y ago
Some history and some facts about the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_interventions_of_the_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_United_States_foreign_r... https://en.wi
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by jgome 11y ago
Reminds me of the Start-Up Chile program...
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by jgome 11y ago
Are you saying that some random ISP(s), some third party or even their hosting provider can't modify the PDFs and the sums on the fly to inject malware? Do you really think most people checks the sums?
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by jgome 11y ago
It's as if China was the universal scapegoat for infosec people in the US... Wait, this is a known fact in infosec circles.
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by jgome 11y ago
>I mean isn't it already widely accepted that China has one of the world's largest and most active cyber warfare forces? Do they? I thought the largest "cyber warfare force" (gotta love these buzzwords) was the NSA, a
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by jgome 11y ago
Did you read the announcement? > Apple iOS, like all operating system, is often affected by critical security vulnerabilities, however due to the increasing number of security improvements and the effectiveness of exploit mitigations in
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by jgome 11y ago
We only need a way to tell the computer "hey, this random result/behavior could be useful for this and/or that specific purpose!"...

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