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by mundo 10y ago
Point 7 wasn't that the hack took place or the matter of who did it, it's the three-letter-agencies publicly accusing Russia of it. They did so because a) they believe it's provably true, or b) ???.
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by mundo 10y ago
Point 7 is the one you're supposed to be trying to explain. The FBI, CIA, DHS and NSA have all said, in plain language, no anonymous sources, just regular old press releases, that Russia hacked the DNC. The reasons they might say thi
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by mundo 10y ago
From the downvotes, I guess the FBI doesn't typically keep information to itself, it just releases it on principle. How nice of them!
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by mundo 10y ago
> The whole "they know whats best for us and our only choice is blind faith" attitude is really disturbing. This is so, so insulting. There is no way a fair observer could read the comments here and conclude that the people wh
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by mundo 10y ago
I don't! Dammit, read the post! No one on god's green earth trusts the FBI at their word, but that doesn't mean you can assume the opposite of what they said is true without evidence!
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by mundo 10y ago
This is the least plausible conspiracy theory I've ever heard. C'mon man. Imagine you're whoever-it-is you think is behind this, and you want to discredit Trump for whatever reason. What would you do? You've got acces
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by mundo 10y ago
This (complaining about the lack of evidence) just seems ludicrous to me. Does the FBI have a history of declassifying stuff like this so that randos on the internet can independently verify its conclusions? When high-level intelligence p
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by mundo 10y ago
The "evidence" cited is not the handful of unclassified details included, it's the fact that the FBI and DHS are willing to go on record publicly accusing Russia. There are no asterisks or weasel-words or "allegedly&quo
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by mundo 10y ago
Plot twist: there was no attack, the RNC and DNC invented it as a way to teach America's political blowhards what spear-phishing is and how to avoid it.
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by mundo 10y ago
I examined the documents with a leaked 0-day steganographic analysis flux capacitor, and it discovered the words "JOINT ANALYSIS REPORT" underneath the DHS and FBI logos. That might be a clue.
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by mundo 10y ago
Did they really need to say, "We also have other data about the attack that we're not publishing because it's classified"? Isn't that kind of safe to assume?
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by mundo 10y ago
Is your prior for "The FBI would publicly make an accusation like this without any conclusive technical evidence" really higher than your prior for "The FBI would not include all of the evidence they based the accusation on i
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by mundo 10y ago
> I find it completely unbelievable that anyone who read Superintelligence could possibly assert "The Argument From My Roommate" with a straight face Pretty sure that was a joke, and zeroing in on it is a pretty bad violation o
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by mundo 10y ago
People will stop downvoting this if you edit it to add a specific example or three.
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by mundo 10y ago
I actually just learned today that Riot (the IM app) is not related to Riot (makers of hugely popular video game League of Legends). I thought the occasional mentions I was seeing of "Riot chat" meant that LoL's mobile chat
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by mundo 10y ago
Likewise!
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by mundo 10y ago
> the pathologies of reddit are down to a shared platform (the voting system, moderation tools, etc.), userbase, and site culture. I don't buy this, not a whit. I think /r/the_donald and /r/woodworking are as di
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by mundo 10y ago
That's the thing about reddit - it's so big that you can find whatever you want. Whether you want polite discussion about woodworking, erotic fan-fiction, or examples of horrible racism and misogyny so you can write an article fo
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by mundo 10y ago
The problem with generalizing about Reddit is not its size, it's that Reddit is made up of a bunch of separate forums with separate mods and rules and users and so forth. It's just a place where discussion boards live. Reddit :
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by mundo 10y ago
I loved it. Not just the story, but it being here, with this title, and the ensuing confusion. I'm no expert, and trying to explain short fiction and poetry is probably a mug's game (one of the themes of this piece!) but here&#x2
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by mundo 10y ago
If you read any of the pieces discussing the late Thomas Schelling's contribution to game theory, you know that making a pledge to do X if Y occurs is a perfectly sound strategy to discourage Y from happening.
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by mundo 10y ago
So, how does this make money? Other than the Prime membership, I don't see any reference to fees on either the customer or restaurant side. Is this a freebie land grab?
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by mundo 10y ago
If you read any of the pieces discussing the late Thomas Schelling's contribution to game theory, you know that making a pledge to do X if Y occurs is a perfectly sound strategy to discourage Y from happening.
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by mundo 10y ago
Wait - is the author just measuring Zillow's accuracy the same way Zillow does? As in, "Here's a poll that asked N people something. Let's check the poll's accuracy by calling 3 of those people and asking them the
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by mundo 10y ago
> Hahn doesn't even have a gangster's ethos. This would be a good time to remember that we haven't heard Hahn's side of the story.
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by mundo 10y ago
"The industry" is mainly Luxottica[1], a company that controls the majority of the world glasses market - prescription and non, production and retail, and even (through a vision insurer) purchasing. There's a ton of "lo
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by mundo 10y ago
I read it as "I feel like I got screwed, but I don't want to sound whiny, so I'll frame it as 'Mark Cuban got screwed' instead because it affects him too".
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by mundo 10y ago
It seems like there are two very different groups being discussed here: the "I think I can do a better job of educating my kids than the state" homeschoolers and the "I want to protect my kids from this immoral society"
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by mundo 10y ago
Exactly the same feeling I got. Kind of unfortunate effect of making a catalog like this - the "we invented something truly new that we think every home in America can use" products do not benefit from being in the same list as &
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by mundo 10y ago
Not to sound conspiratorial, but isn't Gab.ai trying to market itself as a censorship-free twitter clone for alt-right types? If so, what better way to generate brand awareness and users than by picking fights with liberals?

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