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by mrobot 8y ago
This might be a stupid question but in the mosquito create video, what are the blue smudges he draws in the left portion of the image for? What are the blue lines dragged down in the GIMP? What exactly is going on in that part of the video?
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by mrobot 8y ago
It's good to see a positive article about China. Everything i was seeing in the news seemed so negative and hostile.
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by mrobot 8y ago
Is it me or does there seem to be a significant increase in both communist and china posts hitting front page on HN and in media in general?
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Ask HN: Signal Hackers: Why a delay connecting voice to signal partner?
3 points by mrobot 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Signal Hackers: Why an arbitrary delay connecting voice to signl prtnr?
1 points by mrobot 8y ago|0 comments
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Army judge not planning for 9/11 trial at Guantánamo in 2019(miamiherald.com)
1 points by mrobot 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrobot 8y ago
I was interested in knowing more and tried to find what her father was charged with. The best i could come up with was this from a badly translated article: "Under the leadership of Markizova big sabotage was conducted in the livestock
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by mrobot 8y ago
Can anyone speculate as to how this changes the landscape with respect to Foxconn and their new electronics manufacturing presence in the United States? They do manufacture a lot of technology. What might be different after the tariff vs be
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by mrobot 8y ago
I don't know that much about the Soviet Union. This guy was basically sent to prison for 'participating in “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activities.' I have been following some leftist stuff and saw this article recently
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by mrobot 8y ago
> We may not have a good understanding of human consciousness but we have a pretty good understanding of fundamental physics and human consciousness can not sidestep the laws of physics. The laws of physics havn't been completely de
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by mrobot 8y ago
I think we should at least attempt it instead of throwing our hands up. One good thing would be to get rid of giant bills like omnibus bills and make all legislative changes more atomic.
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by mrobot 8y ago
Can you imagine any way to restrict corporations from doing this?
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by mrobot 8y ago
You could have it work like our current republic, where only elected officials can submit pull requests to the central legislation repo. If you really wanted you could have your elected official look over a pull request from you to them, bu
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by mrobot 8y ago
Los Angeles police already use gang databases to fault people for being in the "wrong" part of the city based on their database entry. This stuff is gonna turn into some kinda crazy 21st century internet apartheid.
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by mrobot 8y ago
Or we could curb the landlords and build some decent real public housing for a lot of people that is not the prison system. Have you considered "hacking" the problem of these landowners who charge too much?
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by mrobot 8y ago
"Whatever means you want" just has to not include matching to a database of suspicious people that are not currently under investigation for a real crime. Or to something with a floating definition like "terrorist". Whic
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by mrobot 12y ago
What was the maximum capacity over the entire attack? Even if you held majority for just an hour, it seems you could still build a useful database of identities and their usage. I was trying to imagine how much just an hour Tor snapshot mig
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by mrobot 13y ago
It sorta sucks to see such a completely positive spin on being plugged in when we are having so many problems with privacy and not caring enough about abuses of our connectedness. Where's the part about setting precedent for letting ma
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by mrobot 13y ago
Agreed, i also found this article odd.
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by mrobot 13y ago
My favorite part of surveillance is that we are in the era of "storage is infinite", yet the NSA still ran out of space.
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by mrobot 13y ago
Don't forget that we can also just ignore it or have it hidden from us. In that case it happens without us being for or against it.
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Techbrats Goldberg, Shih, and Gopman do not represent the tech industry(pando.com)
1 points by mrobot 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrobot 13y ago
Here's a good article on the "54 attacks" line, which was actually cited in the "likely unconstitutional" ruling: http://www.propublica.org/article/claim-on-attacks-thwarted-... The Obama 100%&
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by mrobot 13y ago
I read your profile. One reaction was that because of your experiences, you might have already been desensitized to having your rights violated in such a manner. It was more of a shock to us who didn't expect our google searches to be
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by mrobot 13y ago
Where are people suspecting the shipping carriers?
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by mrobot 13y ago
Wouldn't it be easier and less visible to everyone to bug at ship time? Why is two days your estimate?
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by mrobot 13y ago
Thank you, i made an assumption, i thought it was published on behalf of an anonymous source.
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by mrobot 13y ago
> Can you give more context on the quote you cite? I'm not sure how staring at the ground addresses suicide risk, as I do not believe anyone is dying of boredom here. First i thought that was the idea, but I think "the ground&q
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by mrobot 13y ago
> We need to make sure we're not being manipulated. Here the Guardian is just serving up an emotional, unsubstantiated, one sided view of this discussion. I'm not sure how this is different to much of the chest beating I'd
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by mrobot 13y ago
Oh. Ok. Yes, it's worth going to the trouble of reading into exactly why this is the ruling. I am in fact playing armchair judge. I wish i didn't have to, but i've lost faith in my judicial branch on these matters.

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