notavalleyman

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by notavalleyman 4y ago
Not having access to the names and methods of intelligence agencies doesn't hinder my trust in the media, no, and I can't really establish from this article that much more than that is happening. If anything it boosts my trust, kn
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by notavalleyman 4y ago
Maybe, but I am not including it in any of my articles, so it's not really on me to know everything about it. Another user provided an NYT link which suggested it was real , but only indicative and not necessarily factual. https:&#x2
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by notavalleyman 4y ago
Thanks for the context - I didn't really understand you though - why do you say the actual specifics were mostly false, while also saying the Congress investigation verified some parts and couldn't verify others?
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by notavalleyman 4y ago
> but you are not aware of the deception, then perhaps it isn't spin You are quite right that I am lacking complete awareness, so I think it would behoove the author to at least link to something to back up their statement, and with
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by notavalleyman 4y ago
I wanted to get behind this more but there were a few sections that had me doubting. 1. It says the UK media largely ignored the Snowden leaks due to a D-Notice - the source supplied didn't really back that up and it didn't sound
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by notavalleyman 5y ago
Wow, what a struggle you're having. If only there was some way to externally determine whether this is really a disastrous launch, like the BBC have quoted an NYU director as having said, or a huge success, like you've imagined fo
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by notavalleyman 5y ago
Yandex is hardly a politically neutral web service, though
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by notavalleyman 5y ago
About a dozen people have written their rationalisation in the thread. But you have decided they are just old and their beliefs must not be sincerely held - they're just "a bit aged". Surely if the other commenters were young
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by notavalleyman 5y ago
Can you explain a bit more? Are you telling us that you ran counter-intel operations? In America? And, American domestic news would report on something your counter-intelligence asset was saying? Because neither of those make sense
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by notavalleyman 6y ago
Offtopic, but I've always wanted to abuse ants' (the insect's) ability to find the quickest path in a grid, to make a tiny calculator or memory array, redstone style. Thought for a moment that you had done that, and got mysel
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by notavalleyman 6y ago
This link hijacked my back button on Android Firefox.
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by notavalleyman 6y ago
Here is the official comment https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-issues-stateme...
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by notavalleyman 7y ago
You may be wrong on a few fronts here. Firstly, Congress funded the 1.5bn, not Obama, and these things are never cash - the funding is in the form of vouchers to spend with US defense contractors. The vouchers are not made available to US a
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by notavalleyman 7y ago
This is a result of the common Maker/Taker pricing model. [1] Those who "make" liquidity by publicly quoting ask/bids are rebated fractions of a cent when their orders are filled, and those who "take" liquidity
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by notavalleyman 8y ago
Just speculating here, but there might not be anything temporally "special" about the spread of infection right now. We might find that every N years a new disease emerges, spreads, and then is adapted to - and we're just luc
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by notavalleyman 8y ago
Can anyone help me think this through: it seems Google/Alphabet shouldn't just be #3 cloud provider, but the cloud itself. It should have been difficult for consumers to separate the concepts of cloud/Alphabet, as cloud is so
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by notavalleyman 8y ago
> A font family with the weights and other options a newspaper needs is a major undertaking. It's maybe 5 to 10 person-years of rather specialised work I'd love to hear more about this and why it's such an undertaking. Is
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by notavalleyman 8y ago
This feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen. "Disclaimer: Termly LLC is not a lawyer or a law firm and does not engage in the practice of law or provide legal advice or legal representation." And yet the homepage says: - Save Thou
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by notavalleyman 9y ago
> their scarcity is "real" Then why does every imagined new application of blockchain also create a new coin-type? If someone really does come up with the killer app for blockchain personal banking...well then why would they de
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by notavalleyman 9y ago
>to hear your rebuttal When gold is mined from the ground, planet Earth has less gold. When a coin is mined, there's a bit less solution space for the class of crypto problem. But when a Blockchain/protocol is forked, nothing o
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by notavalleyman 9y ago
> Money, in other words, mostly measures trust. This is less obvious for precious metals or cryptocurrencies because they have an intrinsic value of their own as well Cryptocurrencies have intrinsic value? Did the author intent to write