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by mahranch 11y ago
> Also note the absence of even a single concrete example where actual harm for the security and safety of a western countrie's citizens was caused. I'm no expert on geopolitics (none of us are), but I'm fairly certain tha
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> A majority of users? Please, Reddit has ~16M unique users per month. You're off by about 160 million. Reddit had 172 million unique visitors last month. Source: http://www.reddit.com/about/ > There's
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> cause a bot/moderator to remove your thread and ask you to make changes He said "disappear with no explanation ". Most of the time, bots will comment on why a post was removed. Not only that, the rules are indicative of
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> will probably end up going to Voat.co like everyone else talks about. Good luck with that. The users exiting reddit are precisely the kind of users you don't want on your website. The young, trolls, immature and racist/bigo
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> Please stop spreading this nonsense. I expected better from HN. She may not have been removing anything, nor any of the other admins, but lnanek2 does bring up a strong point, albeit indirectly: She is hated by a majority of users on
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The only cast member of LOTR to meet Tolkien. Tolkien also gave him permission to play a role if they ever turned his books into a movie. He gave him permission to play Gandalf, funnily enough.
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What this article fails to take into account is the underlying politics at play here. You might think of all places, that science would be "politics free" but it's not. Far, far from it. For example, people working on strin
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> Gaijin is slang. It's not necessarily used with a derogatory meaning. I think this is incredibly important here. People watch movies like Fast and the Furious and think it's always a bad, derogatory word when that isn'
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And the best businessmen (CEOs) have the highest amount of sociopaths than any other profession: http://mic.com/articles/44423/10-professions-that-attract-th... Being a great businessman doesn't mean he'
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I quoted the producer of the show, so it wasn't just my own preconceptions. I was pointing out how I felt the same vibe that he did, even before I read the article. I doubt it was just a coincidence. And it's nice of you to try an
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I think it's more than that. I got a vibe that something wasn't right with the guy just looking at the first picture of him and pushed aside the feeling believing it to be just an old picture. Then, at the very beginning of the ar
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SPOILER ALERT - Don't read any further if you have not seen the movie. I don't know if it was an Easter egg or just coincidence (I'm leaning towards the former), but one thing that stood out to me was the Japanese girl (Kyoko
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But you're arguing from a position of ignorance. We don't know how important the information is. There may be completely valid reasons those things are top secret. You cannot know why because you're not privy to that informat
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> Also, going to China, where you have family, is suspicous now? Did you read the article? She went to China and met with a senior Chinese official . She then came back to the U.S and immediately started asking about sensitive and prote
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> it's followed by a caveat which misses the key point Which is a bit ironic since you missed my point. I agree she was abused by an uncaring and incompetent prosecution. I don't think anyone disputes that. My point was that
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I think that's missing the point. Even if the information appears benign, it's still government trade secrets. Countries like China aren't singularly focused on stealing super top secret blueprints for the U.S's latest w
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I didn't say detain, I said "investigate". There's quite a difference. And yes. If the evidence suggests there might be something there, they should investigate.
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I feel for Mrs. Chen, I really do. The U.S Government should not have moved forward without solid evidence. However, after reading the article, several of her actions did and should have throw up some red flags. Flags which should have be
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> Can a blinded panel pick out top quality sushi? Since fish can vary from practically tasteless to overpowering, it probably depends on the type of fish. But I've seen people can eat sushi and tell you the exact temperature based
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And I really hate to be cynical since as you say, her conclusion is decent, but where she says: > " PS: I left that job a few months later — one of the best decisions I've ever made! " I would bet my first born and my enti
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This is less like flush toilets and more like computers. It took nearly 50 years for the first computers to sit in consumer's home offices. It took time for the technology to be miniaturized and cheap enough to make its way to consumer
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Google's Panda and Penguin algorithm updates really hurt spam and low quality "blogspam" type sites. It was a pretty huge overhaul that changed the game. I wonder if facebook is working on such an update. One which would squa
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> Any 20-somethings working in tech, remember that you too will age. And what goes around comes around. The sad thing is, they already know it. They just don't care. They think "Oh, that's 15-20 years away, what do I have
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> filled with commenters writing in broken English that there was no bubble for X, Y, Z reasons. This is one of the biggest misconceptions. What we think of as "shills" do not and would not speak in broken English. It would
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> I'm a thief for protecting my PC from malware? Well, yeah. You're a thief for robbing content creators of their revenue. However, that's justified because you're trying to protect yourself from Malware. You'r
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> Y'all gotta get off tumblr. Yeah, there's a handful of misguided activists who read malice into everything. But they're the minority But isn't the problem the fact that if nobody speaks out against them that they&#x
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It's not about the actual radiation, that's easy to deal with. It's about the containers cracking or leaking and having that stuff floating around in the ocean, contaminating our food and the environment. Even the strongest c
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> None of the countries that have developed nuclear weapons have gotten their plutonium from nuclear waste Just because someone hasn't done it before doesn't mean someone won't in the future. You're also ignoring the
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Why Ellen Pao Was Doomed to Lose(fortune.com)
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> He received 19% of the popular vote That's not a significant number. 19% might seem like a lot, but he didn't pick up a single state. If he had, then he might have been a serious contender. A serious contender is someone wh

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