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by kenny87 7y ago
> And it's misleading And worrying that a large number of readers interpretation of the article was influenced by a headline. We really have to do better and be vigilantly aware of how media and power influences public opinion, espe
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by kenny87 7y ago
> has previously warned That's the UK's position but it's not clear from the article that some kind of forced backdoor made it into the treaty, just that WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages .
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by kenny87 7y ago
> some of the greatest minds of our generation are being put into rooms to work on animations for buttons on virtual DVD cases and Photo Books. why thank you sir!
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by kenny87 7y ago
> ... I don't see how any of these individual things are proven to be true. 'Let the experiment be made.' -- Benjamin Franklin That is to say democracy is, or ought to be, at its essence all about discovering, through expe
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by kenny87 7y ago
Read the Q&A: > Q: Why did you make this? > A: Because educating others and fighting ignorance is one of the noblest activities that anyone can ever engage in. Also, jokes. Part of the fun the is genre bashing. But don't take
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by kenny87 7y ago
Apparently, when they decided developing for the web was a good idea. The bigger problem is that computing is insanely complex in the modern age. Developing for the web is on the cutting edge of that computing power. We're delivering f
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by kenny87 7y ago
very nice, added to my projects list
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by kenny87 8y ago
Season 2 Episode 4 of The X-Files.
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by kenny87 8y ago
The interviewer just doesn't get it.
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Robert Scoble Interviews Roy Rubin Magento(youtube.com)
1 points by kenny87 8y ago|1 comments
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by kenny87 8y ago
Apparently, at least according to CNBC [0], UX Design is one of the most in-demand skills in 2019. Not sure about their data sources, but it's definitely a skill a good web dev should consider adding to the toolkit. [0] https:/&#
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by kenny87 8y ago
yeah sad, but true.
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by kenny87 8y ago
yeah, we often overestimate the general OPSEC awareness and measures these guys take. I mean doing this in a foreign embassy, in Turkey of all places, in the foyer? When I worked overseas our security people told us to assume everything is
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by kenny87 8y ago
There was a thread on HN exactly about this last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18488520
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Harvesting in a trade war: U.S. crops rot as storage costs soar(reuters.com)
3 points by kenny87 8y ago|0 comments
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by kenny87 8y ago
I see humans but no humanity.
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by kenny87 8y ago
well said. “Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those
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The Art of DJing, Louie Vega(residentadvisor.net)
2 points by kenny87 8y ago|1 comments
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by kenny87 8y ago
am i only the one that want's to know who their plug was? :-)
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Virginia Police Caught an Assault Suspect Using His Strava Record(slate.com)
1 points by kenny87 8y ago|0 comments
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We are more than our brains, on neuroscience and being human(aeon.co)
1 points by kenny87 8y ago|0 comments
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High rents are pushing people out of some US hotspots(ft.com)
1 points by kenny87 8y ago|0 comments
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by kenny87 8y ago
>>The data were rife with other contradictions. Worker bees and drones in Britain struggled to survive the winter, but the same variety of wild bees increased in Germany. Egg production also increased in Germany but fell in Hungary. I
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by kenny87 9y ago
Your point about shovels reminds me of something Alan Kay said about human universals. That is if you want to make a lot of money take one of the top 20 human universals and build a technological amplifier for them. Link: https:/&#x2F
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by kenny87 9y ago
Michael Jordan was great at doing this. His hall of fame speech is filled w/ anecdotes about him turning slights into motivation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzBMGXfK4c
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by kenny87 9y ago
yeah like kim dotcom? being located in one country is no defense against committing a crime another country.
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by kenny87 9y ago
well said, to the contrary, it appears we -- americans/europeans -- are the brainwashed ones. instead of finding common cause we our fellow human beings we all too easily follow our leadership's narrative that the people of China
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by kenny87 9y ago
a quite beautiful polyphonic piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSPaJLXfd-w . but agreed that some of the most beautiful musical pieces mankind has ever created can be found in the Western classical music tradition. i d
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by kenny87 9y ago
Perhaps the people of the PRC value the stability that creates the conditions for their improving lives more than free speech and other individual rights. We, in the 'West', are in no moral position to say that their system is som
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by kenny87 9y ago
For the very basic precalc foundations this one was great: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0760706603/ . For easing into higher maths I recommend this one on proofs: https://www.amazon.com/Ho

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