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by kgarten 8y ago
Seems US government officials are also colluding with Russia, as they stranded him there (revoking his passport while he was in transit in Moskau).
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by kgarten 8y ago
The article claims a lot ... yet I cannot find any source interviews where Snowden defended Putin.
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by kgarten 8y ago
Can you link to interviews where he said that he signed up for the intelligence job to leak information. Sounds very strange to me. Snowden was not the first who tried official channels.Seeing what happens to Thomas Drake, I think Snowdens
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by kgarten 8y ago
Can you point to one instance where Snowden supported/defended Putin or opinions of Putin? Couldn’t find one in the article.
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by kgarten 8y ago
So what happens if a you realize your government is not adhering to the law? Shouldn’t you inform the public? That’s what Snowden did, with high costs to himself. Snowden taught a generation to have a moral compass. This article adds no new
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Meet the guy with four arms, two of which someone else controls in VR(technologyreview.com)
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by kgarten 9y ago
cool work. Has anybody similar project references for opensource work on animal walking?
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by kgarten 9y ago
That might be a digression, but overall you have to "trust" a company or software provider to some extend. Even if you have all source-code etc. there are always possibilities to include a backdoor or similar if there's one b
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by kgarten 9y ago
No the source code won't help you. If you want to hide sth. you can hide it ;) http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
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by kgarten 9y ago
It's 10 min yet also a nice guide: https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.ht... Just love the book and his fonts :) I know it has been posted before, but I just had to ...
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John Oliver on Nuclear Waste [video](youtube.com)
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by kgarten 9y ago
reminds me on the histograms in R. E.g. http://www.r-tutor.com/elementary-statistics/quantitative-da... They also don't cross and I felt it's aesthetically pleasing in that case ... yet for all plots I agree
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by kgarten 9y ago
Oh you should try Hungarian then ... Studied both for a while. At least for me Hungarian was magnitudes worse to learn. Still both languages have interesting concepts.
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by kgarten 9y ago
I don't think so ... as I mentioned before the current perception of the German language has a lot to do with Prussia and Nazi Germany (first and second world war), as well as Hollywood movies. I can't find the reference, but one
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by kgarten 9y ago
I guessed so. Yet, I felt quite offended by the first post (I"m German, speak Spanish, French English and Japanese). Don't feel German is necessarily harsh. It seems the perception is mostly from Prussian German ...
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by kgarten 9y ago
Just wondering what you want to express with that. Do you also equate Germans with animals or why did you share the quote? (quality discussions at HN again) Edit: also the quote is not verified ... Seems like Charles V never said it :P
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by kgarten 10y ago
on a tangent, I was just reading https://medium.com/@dominikus/the-end-of-interactive-visuali... in short (over simplified, my take): interactive visualizations are dead because nobody interacts with them. wondering if
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by kgarten 10y ago
So you think the articles were right? Be careful with over generalization ... What about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318980 ? Thanks @ j_s for finding the article. Read the HN comments and then read https:/
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by kgarten 10y ago
Thanks so much. Perfect! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318980 has the text I was referring to. yet, I remembered it was hosted on another website (without comments etc. and no wordpress blog). Read the highest rated
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by kgarten 10y ago
13 from the incident alone. not sure how many homeless people died (as they were sent there to clean up the mess) as an aftermath of the incident. Yet, maybe you think that's acceptable. http://www.reuters.com/article&#
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by kgarten 10y ago
I cannot find the article anymore, but there was one about "Why I'm not concerned about Fukushima" (directly after the incident) that was completely wrong (false information about the security infrastructure etc. there) and a
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by kgarten 10y ago
Don't understand the downvotes. I had similar feelings (I remember astroturfing articles about how safe nuclear power is after the Fukushima incident on the top of HN).
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Courage(medium.com)
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America, America(blog.lareviewofbooks.org)
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Beyond Virtual and Augmented Reality (33c3) [video](media.ccc.de)
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by kgarten 10y ago
hmmm ... seems more a last try of some lobbyists to push nuclear. Solar power is now the cheapest form of energy in almost 60 countries :) http://www.sciencealert.com/solar-power-is-now-the-cheapest-...
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by kgarten 10y ago
Sad to see again another propaganda nuclear article at HN. I remember the top article after the Fukushima disaster at HN was an astroturfing blog post on why Fukushima is no big deal (with a lot of misinformation). Here we are again ... Eve
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The art of man and machine(bbc.com)
2 points by kgarten 10y ago|1 comments
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Switzerland: Athletes compete in first cybathlon championship [video](youtube.com)
1 points by kgarten 10y ago|0 comments
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Cybathlon 2016: Amazing Images from the World's First Bionic Olympics(now.howstuffworks.com)
1 points by kgarten 10y ago|0 comments

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