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by nsajko 6y ago
Oh how I wish that the UK way of admitting illegally obtained evidence spreads around the world. In the EU country I live in, judgments regularly get thrown out after guilt has been established because of technicalities like these. And, yes
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by nsajko 6y ago
Relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception
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by nsajko 6y ago
This is an interesting point and my sibling comments are wrong: I'm sure the judiciary could provide that accountability, given new law. Even though I think Wikipedia is a failed project (because of it's own guidelines not being f
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by nsajko 6y ago
Another possibly interesting comparison would be with Black Sabbath. That band is responsible for a lot of groundbreaking and beautiful music, but they're are also associated with "heavy metal", which makes them absurd in mos
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by nsajko 6y ago
It seems like this is just an instance of a more general pattern observable in newspaper and TV coverage of a lot of things: given a lack of other sources of information (because of language barriers and lack of free press in this case) and
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by nsajko 6y ago
Could you be more explicit? "Booble" and the other stuff seems like just harmless fun to me. I'm not saying it's particularly funny, but I don't see how is it demeaning or dismissive. Is joking about this off-limits
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by nsajko 6y ago
I think you're turning a blind eye towards the more than strong association of Spears' public image and marketing with her sexual appeal. I suspect that the way she was marketed as an idol was actually influential in the business.
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by nsajko 6y ago
I think the right way isn't "learn a HDL", it's "learn digital electronics design". Hardware description languages enable succint hardware description, but it's still necessary to keep an image of the actu
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by nsajko 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)
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by nsajko 6y ago
So currently the "logic" is that CIA can kill anyone (even a US citizen) using drones as long as it happens somewhere far away like in Yemen or Pakistan? Am I getting this right? I wonder if POTUS has to at least sign all the kill
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by nsajko 6y ago
Regarding your comments in this thread (the worst of them are currently "dead") and in case you decide to keep posting on HN, you should take a look at the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.ht
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by nsajko 6y ago
Amphetamine is used for treating narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_hypersomnia
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by nsajko 6y ago
No. Amphetamine is the name of a chemical with both legal medicinal and illegal applications. I might agree with you if the app's name was "Meth" or some other slang term for a stimulant drug associated with illegal use.
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by nsajko 6y ago
> evangelizing that technology within the organization Ever heard of the term "architecture astronaut"? > Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” an
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Why is statistics so difficult?(discourse.julialang.org)
2 points by nsajko 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsajko 6y ago
Most TSA employees are actually not law enforcement officers, if I understand this page correctly (and if it's correct): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini... EDIT: see this: https:&#x2F
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by nsajko 6y ago
What is the purpose of a document like this one? Seems to me that nothing constructive can be accomplished without giving much more context and specific examples to discuss, while this open letter contains nothing substantial like that.
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by nsajko 6y ago
How to distuingish this behavior from hypocrisy, then? The defense vs attack comparison seems very inappropriate, I don't know where's the line between the former and the latter, but trying to get someone fired seems like an attac
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by nsajko 6y ago
Larger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25573176
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by nsajko 6y ago
If I understood correctly, this is CPU-based, use of GPUs is not covered? How useful is this approach? Does it necessitate "unlearning" some ideas when transitioning to something like Vulkan?
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by nsajko 6y ago
> Not to mention the fact HRC called for the assassination of Assange and his treatment has been characterized by the UN as torture. The claim of Clinton calling for Assange's assassination seems to be a completely unsubstantiated r
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Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nsajko 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsajko 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789097
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by nsajko 6y ago
So you want to make ISOC or ICANN even more independent/powerful than they already are, to take away the single thing that reined them in this time?
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by nsajko 6y ago
The difference is not between potential good and immediate good, it is between common good and what's (supposedly) good for the looter.
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by nsajko 6y ago
The goal of science is to obtain knowledge and, in this case, learn more about the past and someone's heritage; not to loot.
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by nsajko 6y ago
Why do you think the artifacts will degrade worse if left where they were for a long time already, than if dug up and stored by some amateur? And, more importantly, the scientific value is mostly lost when removing the artifact from its con
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by nsajko 6y ago
No. There are two issues: the artifacts are not just treasure - scientifically their context (in the ground and in time) is what matters, the context the treasure hunter removed them from. I.e., he prevented scientists from ever being able
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by nsajko 6y ago
Your point is truthful but not completely relevant: Bezos, at least, did receive a considerable amount of money as funding for Amazon from his family. My point is that the money received from parents most often is, in fact, an advantage.
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by nsajko 6y ago
Your first sentence does not follow from your argumentation.

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