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by nsns 11y ago
I.e. new mutations of an older modern phenomena - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
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Ask HN: The “New” page – bug or feature?
1 points by nsns 11y ago|2 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
Well, a community needs certain borders to become one; these may be implicit, but they certainly exist here. What's special in this forum, imo, is the level of discussion and the willingness to listen carefully and to react thoughtfull
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Burner phones and mysterious encryption: how is Isis communicating now?(newstatesman.com)
2 points by nsns 11y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
Well, you could say that advertising companies are actually in the business of tempting their clients into advertising by promising them the ability to tempt the general public into buying their products. The problem imo is that, ever since
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by nsns 11y ago
Seems like software design needs a concept similar to the English highbrow/lowbrow distinction (professional vs. amateur?); this change seems to introduce lowbrow UI design into an highbrow product; like if the NYT suddenly started usi
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by nsns 11y ago
Right, just as the sadness of seeing a notepad and pen beat human memory.
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by nsns 11y ago
This sometimes has more to do with the day of the week and the time of day in which a piece is posted, as well as the "competition" at the given time from other viable stories.
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by nsns 11y ago
If I understand correctly, this is quite different, as such IOLs offer no accommodation, but only different areas with varied optical powers, which isn't as convenient (ever seen an elderly man trying to read a menu hanged on the wall?
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by nsns 11y ago
Indeed... Apologies to parent.
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Snowden: FBI's claim it can't unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is 'bullshit'(theguardian.com)
4 points by nsns 11y ago|1 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
...it was the last stand of homo sapiens in the man vs machine... But who made that machine? I'd say a more precise evaluation would be that the ability to program a machine to assist in playing chess outdid the ability to play chess
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Oculus Founder: Rift Will Come to Mac If Apple “Ever Releases a Good Computer”(arstechnica.com)
11 points by nsns 11y ago|3 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
No idea about the veracity of these news - but I found some interesting past announcements here - http://www.graphene-info.com/revolutionary-graphene-polymer-... (2014) http://www.graphene-info.com/graphenan
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by nsns 11y ago
Right, but note that almost anywhere outside the (christian) west uses (at least) two concurrent systems without much trouble (e.g. India: Western/Shaka calendar, Israel: Western/Jewish Lunar calendar, etc.).
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by nsns 11y ago
Instead of a sisyphean refutation of every attack, wouldn't a better strategy be to research and prove the attacker's conflict of interests (and thus discredit them)?
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by nsns 11y ago
You're not being anti-intellectual, but you're overlooking the fact that it's a precise, technical language, used in post-structuralist philosophy to describe and analyze social reality (e.g. by Deleuze, Foucault et al .), a
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Google moved over €28bn through State in tax scheme(irishtimes.com)
1 points by nsns 11y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
The idea that one can translate words without understanding what is being said, seems rather similar to an idea that one can infer the meaning of words from their constituent letters. Meaning not only works simultaneously on so many techni
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by nsns 11y ago
Related: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/04/lourdes-gps-mis...
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Cryptome’s searing critique of Snowden Inc(timshorrock.com)
18 points by nsns 11y ago|1 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
Exactly. The monetizing of web services thru advertising, while extremly common now, is nothing but a short term (self-destructing) strategy, it can not be viable for the long future.
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The Independent gave me some of the most exciting times of my career(theguardian.com)
2 points by nsns 11y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
Also this one: The problem is that, acclimation aside, Pudding is still a cat — an innate master of not doing what you want him to do.
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by nsns 11y ago
It seems there's a very simple solution to this problem....
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How a Medical Mystery in Brazil Led Doctors to Zika(nytimes.com)
1 points by nsns 11y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 11y ago
This is like a Rorschach test for Startup people.
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by nsns 11y ago
This is certainly correct vis-à-vis the real implications, but usually not the behavioral tendencies. In a way most "virtual lives" seem more similar to the real life of actors and public figures, i.e. persona-oriented.
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by nsns 11y ago
Also, doesn't each human require some 20-30 years of training from birth in order to be able to answer such questions? This fact seems to be constantly ignored.
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by nsns 11y ago
...or an inconsequential assemblage of organic molecules; forming and disintegrating in the blink of an eye.

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