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by mcphilip 13y ago
It's 180 degrees against the mainstream narrative because it is a ridiculous oversimplification of the crises and misleading in its claims about OTC derivatives. For a serious look into the complex causes of the crisis, I recommend Ec
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Here's an in depth explanation from PIMCO as to why Summer's withdrawal will likely be very bullish for credit and equities: http://www.businessinsider.com/el-erian-market-reaction-to-s...
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Calling ignorant what is indisputably taught in many places as standard syntax is pathetically pedantic. Honestly this is the first discussion of single vs double spacing rules that I've encountered. It's been taught to me sinc
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by mcphilip 13y ago
It's not as simple as just shutting down accounts. The bully can contact those that know the target, spurring them on to continue abuse. Consider the case of Amanda Todd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_A
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The NSA and cryptography: cracked credibility(economist.com)
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Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time(nature.com)
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I read the article having never heard of Watsi. To me it read as proactively addressing concerns I may encounter when considering participation. I came away with a very positive view of Watsi and have visited the website and started doing
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I wonder what would be the impact on the amount of funding if donors were only shown pictures of patients after choosing to donate? Say donors could still get the rest of the demographics data, just not a picture. Would this lead to &quot
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by mcphilip 13y ago
This has been the case for nearly all NSA related stories in the past week. There is a lot of flagging going on. I'd be interested in a data dump of who is doing the flagging and getting an idea if it's an indicator that the HN
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It might be helpful to remember that this is merely a well written op-ed with Putin's name attached to it. It's an international relations gambit to influence the American public to consider Russia's point of view. To get b
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>I would tend to believe Obama because he is much more credible than Putin, and has much more to lose if he can't produce evidence to support his claims. >Despite Putin's call for transparency, the fact remains that he is un
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Re: Exhibit A pilif has an average karma score of 7 and that post got a ton of replies and obviously a lot of upvotes. Those three factors are what led to the top spot on the comment page. If you're going to try and convince "us
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Urgh. When do we get to the point where I can read HN without comments complaining about very relevant NSA discussions being voted to the top? It's foolish not to speculate on reasons why giving your thumbprint to a vendor may not be
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by mcphilip 13y ago
If you read the Spiegel article [1] where this quote comes from do you still think it's just a metaphor? I take the comment as snark, but also a troubling indicator of a depraved culture in some circles of the NSA. [1] http:/&#x2
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by mcphilip 13y ago
The confirmation that there can be no expectation of privacy has destroyed a lot of the joy of internet use for me as well. At a more pressing existential level, it's making me despise working in web development. I may never work on
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Im curious who is so heavily flagging this article? Fell off the front page in minutes...
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I took over a large Groovy codebase that was damn near unreadable since it's controller and service layers heavily abused Groovy 'features': the def keyword (basically never defining intended types at all); not declaring retu
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The main purpose of the downvote as I understand it is to punish responses (in the ranking algo sense) that don't add to the discussion. A snark one-two liner sitting on the top of the comment page is hardly a comment that's addin
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by mcphilip 13y ago
From the guidelines: >On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Huge downvote to this. Saying that a hacker community shouldn't be interested in the Snowden revelations is ridiculous, and listing him alongside New World Order conspiracy theories is just insulting.
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My cynical take: 56,000 out of how many samples? This number is meaningless without context. I'd expect that an audit would be over a small sample of the total data collected.
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Edit: my reading skills suck today. Feel free to ignore/downvote this. The independent article [1] referred to has an interesting claim: >The Independent understands that The Guardian agreed to the Government’s request not to publ
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by mcphilip 13y ago
@nanexllc on twitter is probably worth following for analysis of what happened today. So far I've only seen one chart from Nanex, but it appears to be showing a breakdown of the NBBO in AAPL: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I was looking for intelligent discussion about why even a small percentage failure rate is worth being alarmed at and how this can be communicated to Average Joe effectively. Instead, I get this inane straw man reply. Obviously a very small
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Cue praise from the majority of the main stream media that only tens of thousands of communications are improperly monitored since there are roughly 150 billion emails sent per day (globally). The surveillance program will be declared a st
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I second the Liar's Poker recommendation. Besides being insightful, there are some great anecdotes. My favorite was the one where traders would ask interviewees to open a window, which had been previously nailed shut. One interviewee
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Why should we assume that Facebook is trying to be a good steward of the Internet with this project and not simply motivated purely by profits? There are plenty of examples of Google pursuing projects that don't readily contribute to
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by mcphilip 13y ago
Is it just me it does anyone else feel like this is one of the most important articles posted in... decades? The guardian is obviously put at grave risk for revealing that UK spooks have gone so far as to oversee destruction of inconvienien
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Since you seem intent on furthering this conversation, here's an honest suggestion for you if you want to truly think about what you are arguing. Extensive academic thought already exists related to the argument you are trying to make
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by mcphilip 13y ago
I downvoted you and am leaving this comment in hopes that those reading this thread don't get the impression that the entire HN community supports such a despicable outlook. I, for one, am grateful for all of the many important contr

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