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by merraksh 13y ago
When Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked for a “ballpark figure” of the number of Americans whose information was being collected by the NSA last year, the agency refused to give the senator any information, arguing that doing so would violate t
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by merraksh 13y ago
Hmmm, then they'll need to use local wifis.
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But the Occupiers, who tended to be young, white, and middle-to upper-middle-class, knew social media like few other demographics. They knew how to live-stream video directly to the Internet. They all had smart phones, so police couldn’t s
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by merraksh 13y ago
why in hell would anyone be interested on what my mom exchanges with her friends? To ensure complete information collection, it would not be smart of any spying agency to only target "suspicious" email accounts, when a suspect c
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by merraksh 13y ago
America respects international law on not torturing to some debatable degree First, by "America" you mean "The USA". I don't want to be nitpicking, but since the article is about another country of the Americas I&
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by merraksh 13y ago
(And yes, just in case you were wondering, the element thorium really is named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. And yes, Norse mythology originated from Norway, where Thor Energy is based. Coincidence, I think not!) The first sample
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by merraksh 13y ago
I don't understand. It seems Khalid was arrested (for having the same name as an al Qaeda trainer) while in Macedonia, then tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan. From the Wikipedia article, it seems Germany was not involved in the abduct
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by merraksh 13y ago
If anything, some Western European country (Germany the clearest candidate) might offer Snowden asylum. Unlikely though.
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by merraksh 13y ago
This is one of the best parts: If you see something, say something. and it's directed to potential whistle-blowers.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal says it well: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2961#c... but also: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2974#c...
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by merraksh 13y ago
Euler defined the function e^x in analysis as: e^x=lim(1+x/n)^n as x tends to infinity. So, we get: It should be as n tends to infinity.</pedantic>
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by merraksh 13y ago
I saw this link and didn't bother to check it, but I think you hit the jackpot: Palace of the Grand Master Explosion, in Rhodes On 4 April 1856, the Ottomans had storaged a large amount of gunpowder in the palace and the adjacent church,
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by merraksh 13y ago
From one top comment: Buildings with rods didn't get struck; buildings without, did. And the conflict was finally settled, once and for all, when a church somewhere in Spain was struck by lightning, setting off explosives that were stored
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by merraksh 13y ago
Let's see if The Oatmeal is right this time too about new user interfaces: http://theoatmeal.com/pl/state_web_winter/facebook_layout (see second part)
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by merraksh 13y ago
“When news is received, Verify its source & authenticity. Only then should the news be passed on to another.” I guess someone wanted to act as fast as possible, without wasting any second; hence the reason not to check source or authe
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by merraksh 14y ago
This would not allow me to 1) start typing a command; 2) look at or copy+paste stuff from the previous commands I usually do my history search through history|grep.
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by merraksh 14y ago
Good point, thanks. Updated.
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Douglas Adams' 61st birthday doodle by Google(google.com)
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by merraksh 14y ago
... make the results of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12 months after original publication. Doesn't that shift the burden on agencies rather than publishers, allowing them to publish on paid-for jour
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Sage 5.7 released(sagemath.org)
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by merraksh 14y ago
I suppose somebody posted this after learning of his death. His theory appearing on the HN front page is a way to remember one of his achievements on the day of his passing.
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by merraksh 14y ago
In climate modeling studies where the Gulf Stream was artificially swept out of existence, the temperature differences between eastern Canada and western Europe persisted. Okay, so the Gulf Stream does not play any role. But then, in the
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Dell goes private with $2bn help from Microsoft(encrypted.google.com)
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by merraksh 14y ago
Dear HN, given that this is a direct reply to another HN post, it might be useful to have a "submit reply post" feature that shows this entry, indented, right below the "Why the f*ck?" entry, just like in your email software or any forum. I
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by merraksh 14y ago
The side bar shows a link to an article by Jeffrey Goldberg, "A Wonderful New Book About Scientology, By a Wonderful Writer", about a book by L. Wright. Not sure if this goes with or against the post, as the Amazon description of the book s
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by merraksh 14y ago
s/be/bet/
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Related read: Apostolos Doxiadis' novel "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's conjecture", an entertaining account of a mathematician's effort to prove the result.
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by merraksh 14y ago
Very good point. I had never done mistakes like these before moving to the US, and at the time English was not my primary language. A few years later, I make these mistakes more and more often. I tend to blame this on the fact that, at the
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by merraksh 14y ago
Not to be pedantic, but the title should be Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is awkward and awful Just move the apostrophe ahead. </grammar_nazi>
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by merraksh 14y ago
Agreed. Thankfully Apple didn't get into self-driving cars.

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