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by phaus 10y ago
I don't think Manning should spend 30 years in jail, but she wasn't convicted for whistleblowing. She was acquitted for leaking the few files related to war crimes; she was convicted of leaking 750000 unrelated documents.
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by phaus 10y ago
Hyundai's transformation happened much earlier than 8 years ago. By the time I bought my first car in 2002, they already had a decent reputation and a 100k warranty.
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by phaus 10y ago
Are you going or have you gone through that program? If so, how much time per week do you spend on it? I work a full time job, I have a family, and I'm looking for a master's program.
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by phaus 11y ago
Man of Constant Sorrow is almost certainly not about the music industry. Its roots haven't been definitvely traced but many people think it was a Celtic folk song.
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by phaus 11y ago
I've been meaning to get back to learning Arabic after one failed attempt. I'm into calligraphy and Arabic calligraphy is some of the most beautiful writing in the world.
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by phaus 11y ago
Can you recommend any good resources for an honest and unbiased approach to learning about Arabic culture/history? I can't go back to college or move to the Middle East, but I've been wanting to study the culture pretty deepl
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by phaus 11y ago
Most things are stupid when taken to extremes. Political correctness has jumped the shark at many schools.
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by phaus 11y ago
That makes sense. Anonymous started as trolls. In the beginning, it was for the lulz. There was actually a good amount of infighting when they started becoming interested in social activism. This infighting persisted up until at least 2013.
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by phaus 11y ago
I've seen posts like the ones you described, but I've also seen cases where Paypal did something stupid/unethical. I also happen to know a lot of people that run Ebay businesses that have had a variety of legitimate issues wi
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by phaus 11y ago
The last champion of privacy rights Obama sold us was FBI Director James Comey. I hope this one is a real privacy advocate.
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by phaus 11y ago
Its one thing to share you anecdote of not having issues with paypal, but its a pretty shitty thing to do to try and act like anyone that does have a problem is in the wrong.
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by phaus 11y ago
It was just that one and her reasons showed that she has virtually no understanding whatsoever of what high functioning autism is.
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by phaus 11y ago
10K+ worth of training. Some people with PTSD claim that having one is life changing.
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by phaus 11y ago
I'm not saying people in the comments are any good at helping people with mental illnesses, but from my experience the professionals are pretty fucking terrible at it too. I'm autistic and my wife has PTSD and anxiety disorder. Sh
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by phaus 11y ago
So, is this incorrect or am I just misunderstanding it? I intended my original statement in the context of functional truth, because the ownership of the actual landmass doesn't seem to matter when we are discussing a legal/politi
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by phaus 11y ago
An embassy is usually considered sovereign territory. In other words, the Equadorian embassy is geographically located in the UK, but it isn't a part of the UK.
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by phaus 11y ago
If he's smart, he wouldn't even consider leaking any data he may have access too.
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by phaus 11y ago
I would say shelter is as much of a basic need, and places like the bay area show that prices are rapidly increasing due to demand. Would a basic income exacerbate the problem in places that already have an issue with high housing costs? As
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by phaus 11y ago
I understand the argument. What I'm asking about, is whether or not it would negate the positive effects of a basic income. The people who argue against the idea of a basic income often use this argument as evidence that it can't
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by phaus 11y ago
I'm intrigued by the idea of a basic income, but usually when people begin to talk about it, I see a certain argument presented. A simplified version of the argument is as follows: "In a free market, if a certain subset of people
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by phaus 11y ago
>I think the question PG needs to address is this: what is the justification for non-founder executives getting paid tens of millions of dollars at the expense of other employees? What is the justification for those top-level salaries to
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by phaus 11y ago
After the first problem, the one that's a tutorial, did you feel like you could actually solve the second challenge? I still feel completely lost. For the most part I understand the problem it walks you through, but I feel like I don&#
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by phaus 11y ago
Steve Jobs probably didn't "know" programming. http://www.woz.org/letters/does-steve-jobs-know-how-code
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by phaus 11y ago
I like lots of things that Bill Murray's done, but that isn't really funny at all. I doubt it would have been funny 40 years ago either. Humor is subjective, so my opinion really doesn't matter. I think there are definitely c
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by phaus 11y ago
Thanks for answering. Now it makes a lot more sense. I wasn't aware of the follow-up articles, only the original politically-fused exaggerations.
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by phaus 11y ago
>Shrimps on Treadmills Serious question, meant with no sarcasm at all: Can you give an example of something as ridiculous as the shrimp on treadmills study that cost a fortune and ended up being incredibly important in a way that wasn&#x
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by phaus 11y ago
It isn't justified. Excluding nation-state assassinations and a couple of serial killers/mass murderers, people in this country generally aren't killed via sniper rifle. The majority of gun-related murders involve small calib
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by phaus 11y ago
You might have gotten a W520 less than a year ago, but the W520 is a system from 2011. That's ancient for a laptop. >That's how awful modern Thinkpads are compared to basically anything else. Your company choosing to buy Macboo
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by phaus 11y ago
What area of security interests you and what do you mean by "I already know all of the basics?"
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by phaus 11y ago
It doesn't sound like you are making fair comparisons between Thinkpads and Macbooks. My 15" T550 is just .2 lbs heavier than a 15" Macbook Pro. The charger for my T550 is much lighter than the one I have for my Macbook Pro,

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