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by matt4077 8y ago
The woman doesn't have "proven ties with the CIA". According to a now-deleted article by some third-rate conspiracy theorist, she at some point during a foreign exchange in Cuba worked with (not for) a feminist organisation t
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by matt4077 8y ago
Accused criminals don't get to set the rules. There are many jurisdictions where criminal trials in absentia are not possible, legally. That's mostly to the benefit of the accused.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Being a guest to a somewhat sympathetic host, then getting thrown out for failing the house rules on hygiene (cats, condoms,...) seems to be his thing.
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by matt4077 8y ago
The linked article on Counterpunch has also been deleted.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Seriously? Quote: "While in Cuba, Ardin worked with the Las damas de blanco (the Ladies in White), a feminist anti-Castro group. Professor Michael Seltzer pointed out that the group is led by Carlos Alberto Montaner who is reportedly c
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by matt4077 8y ago
And I can't understand how so many people stay loyal to a guy who just wasted seven years of his life in a self-imposed prison with absolutely no upside except delaying whatever awaits him now. Or how many will, when given a choice bet
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by matt4077 8y ago
If you spent a decade hiding in the basement because you're afraid of the neighbour's cat... ...it's not the cat's fault, and the cat doesn't have to prove that it is a vicious killer one needs to hide from.
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by matt4077 8y ago
> [..] but then dropped the charges so I guess it was false. There are many reasons for dropping charges besides "she obviously lied". One of the reason might be that nobody wants to get all this attention and ensuing insults a
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by matt4077 8y ago
The UK is unlikely to extradite without assurances that the death penalty will not be applied, which is doubtful in any case.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Here's a HN story from a while back titled "The Man Behind Windows PowerShell"[0]. Of the 129 comments on that story, not one discussed how software development at Microsoft is always a team effort. Or checked any repositor
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's interesting how you are concerned about your own "career trajectory", yet for women you cite work/life balance and ability to have children. Edit: I just checked this comment from yesterday, where someone faulted Ma
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's a scientific feat that's ranked in the top 50 HN stories of all time, yet you somehow feel a profile of the central figure is somehow inappropriate? How would you rate "Meet Robert Oppenheimer, father of the bomb"?
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by matt4077 8y ago
These notices are not enforceable. See the 2017 transparency report here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/... (Page 4, Point 3.1: Referrals) Quote: A referral activity (meanin
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by matt4077 8y ago
Because Christchurch. (Which postdates the first draft of this directive. But there were similar cases before)
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by matt4077 8y ago
Essentially, this is the DMCA for terrorist content. With a somewhat short time requirement driven by some recent events (New Zealand being the most prominent, but not first). Here's a link to the current EU draft: https://w
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's probably somewhat rare in industrialised democracies these days. Many trade deals limit subsidies (hence this WTO ruling). It is also difficult to give one-off subsidies in diversified markets, because (domestic) competitors would
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by matt4077 8y ago
Every word of the article's headline is true, and the facts it contains (subject, object, action, and magnitude) are the most important facts of this story. The reasoning you want to see in the headline is in the first paragraph. If yo
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by matt4077 8y ago
I don't know how much more data I should offer, while your and OP's position is basically "everything was better in the past". The New York Times has seen subscriptions quadruple from 1988 to today. (two charts needed fo
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by matt4077 8y ago
The best proxy for "interest in politics", specifically, would seem to be voter turnout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St... That data shows only modest changes since 1940, and no
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by matt4077 8y ago
This sort of cynic pessimism is getting out of hand... By most any measure, today's western democracies are the best place, and time in history, to be alive: life expectancy, crime, food availability, mobility. This is also true of edu
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by matt4077 8y ago
This doesn't strike me as a "tremendous drop". Or really much of any definitive change: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&ei=LAmuXO...
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by matt4077 8y ago
McDonald's is used as a pretty good proxy for local prices and buying power around the globe. There's even the Big Mac Index ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index ).
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China wants to ban BC mining for wasting ressources, producing 10m tons CO2/yr(engadget.com)
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by matt4077 8y ago
Physics is the poster boy for reductionism, i. e. the ability to split any situation into its parts, understand those, and then reassemble a complete model that actually describes the world. Hence the jokes about spherical chickens (the app
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by matt4077 8y ago
This annoying bug was fixed in the recent preview releases, IIRC.
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by matt4077 8y ago
The DevTools have actually improved considerably. It seemed to be the major focus in several recent releases, at least by the length of the respective sections in change notes. I have changed from Chrome-only development to using both, sinc
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by matt4077 8y ago
Quote: „Going a step further, Intelligent Tracking Prevention now also limits long-term tracking for JavaScript first-party cookies.“
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by matt4077 8y ago
The only thing that would make people like the new design would be coming out with a newest design. It’s the perpetual law of redesigns, which makes me believe a very vocal fraction of the internet lives in constant horror of the world arou
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by matt4077 8y ago
That really depends on the data, doesn’t it? Say they used oogle Maps to get to your place of business. Fruit of the poisonous tree? What if they broke the license terms on some proprietary navigation software? It’s also relevant that ICE m
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by matt4077 8y ago
Designing a logo.

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