lingben

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by lingben 10y ago
not to be glib but the best way to fix windows 10 privacy issues is to stop using windows 10 and switch to linux, there are many user friendly, mature distros out right now and they are only getting better: ubuntu, linux mint, arch, manjaro
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by lingben 10y ago
https://www.fastcoexist.com/3061574/the-new-nationalism-of-b...
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by lingben 10y ago
Such a comment betrays an incredibly unsophisticated understanding of the issues being discussed. Perhaps a revisit to McLuhan's maxim would be enlightening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
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by lingben 10y ago
doesn't seem like you actually read what I wrote but here's a relevant article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/19/do...
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by lingben 10y ago
“The wind kills all your birds. All your birds, killed. You know, the environmentalists never talk about that.” http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/290093-trump-wi... https://www.washingtonpost
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by lingben 10y ago
if you have been paying attention to what he says, then you would have heard that he is incredibly against renewable energy sources, especially wind (he has a major grudge against wind farms ever since his battle with them in Scotland) htt
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I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is Rural America(rollcall.com)
15 points by lingben 10y ago|13 comments
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by lingben 10y ago
this infographic shows just how razor thin the win was for Trump and how it was delivered via the electoral college: http://i.imgur.com/FZEjdCF.jpg these are facts, one can decide to deride them in a childish attempt to obf
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by lingben 10y ago
> There's just no need to keep pretending that your opinion is the only rational choice when you've been repudiated so completely. You do realize that Clinton won the popular vote, right? the majority of Americans agree with he
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by lingben 10y ago
really? please provide a similar example to the despicable Birtherism movement on the right, which Trump himself championed btw
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by lingben 10y ago
I say the following with human empathy and don't want it to come across as flippant or insensitive (due to the nature of the method of communication): from what you've written it sounds like you could benefit from talking to a cou
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by lingben 10y ago
if facing Trump as a Jew he would have been implicitly and explicitly vilified for it just a few days ago Trump's campaign released their final tv ad: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/07/tru
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by lingben 10y ago
there is a linux OS built specifically for chromebooks called gallium OS https://galliumos.org/
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by lingben 10y ago
yes but to be fair blatantly lying has been their business model from the very beginning
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First recording of computer-generated music – created by Alan Turing – restored(theguardian.com)
83 points by lingben 10y ago|14 comments
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An Organic Chicken Farm in Georgia Has Become an Endless Buffet for Bald Eagles(audubon.org)
3 points by lingben 10y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 10y ago
interesting ideas, perhaps the closest we may come to doing 'nothing' is meditation
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by lingben 10y ago
The problem as I see it is that while 99% of police officers are not only law abiding and do their job with integrity, the 1% out there can and do destroy innocent lives. It is like walking into a mine field. You could very well walk out un
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by lingben 10y ago
try going for fish or seafood instead of red meat, I love steaks but I started to balance it out with more vegetable proteins/fats (avocado) and oily fish like salmon
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by lingben 10y ago
actually recent evidence point to below 100 to be beneficial
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by lingben 10y ago
> Costco carries the Kirkland Brand that's average Kirkland's olive oil brand is not only one of the few imported brands that consistently passes tests as authentic 100% virgin olive oil but is also one of the most affordable
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Meet Alto Tech's 'Cool Glass,' a Vastly Cheaper Alternative to Google Glass(pcworld.com)
1 points by lingben 10y ago|0 comments
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As Snapchat userbase grows, Twitter CEO calls his service “confusing”(arstechnica.com)
3 points by lingben 10y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 10y ago
for those interested in more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_school_%28learning_styl... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptkID2k091I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkiij9dJfc
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by lingben 10y ago
Because journalism, like other major professions has an aura of respectability, it needs to be protected from charlatans who wish to don it as a mantle whenever it suits them and to cast it aside just as easily to further their selfish purp
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Facebook Changing Guidelines for Trending Topics After Probe(bloomberg.com)
2 points by lingben 10y ago|0 comments
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by lingben 10y ago
> the ethics of where the money comes from not sure what you mean by 'ethics' it is clearly a construct, just like the concept of money in the first place or the idea of democracy or the authority of police, or the constitution
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by lingben 10y ago
don't mean for this to come across as snarky but what has he done lately? is his best work from the 1980's?
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Facebook Admits Its Trending Section Includes Topics Not Actually Trending on FB(gizmodo.com)
15 points by lingben 10y ago|2 comments
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Max Levchin on the Quantified Self and “Value for Privacy”(blog.mixpanel.com)
1 points by lingben 10y ago|0 comments

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