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by phyller 8y ago
I'm not saying I think the random jerk on Twitter is a Russian troll. Though random jerks on Twitter don't hesitate to label me as one. The reason I put "troll" in quotes is because in this sense it is a generic term for
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by phyller 8y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/politics/russian-troll-instru... Also, below is a recent article about professional Iranian trolls, but mentions that the same cybersecurity company has been tracking Russi
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by phyller 8y ago
Option 3: I just want to see my friends and family on my feed. It's sometimes hard to tell what else is reliable or not, but I don't want Facebook curating my life.
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by phyller 8y ago
How did you get that from the article? Seems like the point was Facebook wasn't trying to get rid of Russian agents on it's site as much as it was trying to bolster it's image. I think most of us have experienced the Russian
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by phyller 8y ago
Interestingly, there is a belief in military pilot communities that pilots will have far fewer boys than girls. Two close relatives of mine are military pilots, and my observations have confirmed this. From individual families we know, to o
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by phyller 8y ago
Somebody ought to make a Dollar Shave Club for men's business attire.
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by phyller 8y ago
I'm sorry, unrelated, but where do I get $5 clothing delivered to my doorstep (USA). I am not aware of this and I hate clothes shopping, sounds like something I could use.
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by phyller 8y ago
I didn't say the hostility wasn't real. It doesn't matter why someone is pointing a gun at you when it happens. I was explaining my theory as to why they are bad neighbors.
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by phyller 8y ago
In my opinion, the little nugget of truth here is that the focus of the Chinese government has almost always been inward, and not outward, and definitely has been for the last several generations. Their greatest threat is not the US or anyo
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by phyller 8y ago
I'm kind of thinking both the US and now China got there because of economics. At the end of WW2 US GDP was something like 50% of the entire world GDP. Most nations would be happy to do whatever they even thought the US wanted to have
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by phyller 8y ago
By "rent-seekers" you mean organizations that have spent billions of dollars to research and prove the tech? As the current top comment represents, if company A spends billions of dollars creating a technology, then company B stea
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by phyller 8y ago
That would raise a variety of other serious issues. Besides the ethical problem that just because someone else does something bad, doesn't make it ok for you to do that bad thing. I could list several important reasons why "hackin
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by phyller 8y ago
It is, I have no idea why you have been downvoted
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by phyller 8y ago
I hear this a lot, but you can do the same thing in the US with a much higher salary. I have taken 4 to 5 weeks off in a year, plus two weeks of national holidays, with no pay cut at all. You can negotiate for more. US companies will pay fo
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by phyller 8y ago
I think the best of all possibilities is move to silicon valley, get a high paying job, earn the confidence of those around you with good work and communication skills, then go remote and fight to keep the same salary. Then live wherever yo
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by phyller 8y ago
And still, many doctors even in Connecticut where it was first detected won't provide the antibiotics for it until you have a positive test, and the tests are unreliable. This is a real tragedy.
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by phyller 8y ago
It boggles my mind that salaries can be so much lower in parts of Europe, while expenses are about the same as the US. Of course if you are living in New York City or San Francisco area expenses are higher, but most places they are not.
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by phyller 8y ago
Yea that's a really good point. The best way for Amazon to deal with the problem is to curate the reviewers, not the reviews, in my opinion.
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by phyller 8y ago
A lot of comments about existing tools to spot fake reviews, and wondering why Amazon doesn't use them because the fake reviews that are dominating Amazon are clearly hurting consumers. The long play for Amazon might just be that consu
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by phyller 8y ago
Huh. "9/11 proves that global warming caused by vapor trails" sounds absolutely nutty, but apparently is rather accurate.
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Ask HN: Are there dangers from too much carbon sequestration?
1 points by phyller 8y ago|1 comments
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by phyller 8y ago
> Genetically engineered phytoplankton might be used to photosynthetically convert CO2 into an ultra-stable carbon sequestration medium If you downvote this please leave a note with what is wrong with my logic. This is so wildly irrespon
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by phyller 8y ago
Tian gao, Huangdi yuan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_gao,_Huangdi_yuan
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by phyller 8y ago
Intel can call a tweaked 14nm "10nm" and probably will. Those designations are just marketing now. The real issues are: Will there be an even greater delay before a significant process improvement, including higher density, lower
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by phyller 8y ago
I'm not disparaging Yale at all, just explaining how a lot of untaxable property can affect a city. Yale owns a lot of commercial properties in New Haven, including stores and offices. I'm sure they pay taxes on those. And like a
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by phyller 8y ago
I would love this to be the case. My problem with this approach is that every single news report that I have actually had personal knowledge of has been ridiculously flawed. I just can't bring myself to believe that there is some prote
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by phyller 8y ago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11... I'd say that was a pretty big deal (Russians providing a "satellite image" showing a Ukrainian fighter plane shooting down a
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by phyller 8y ago
The obvious worry about this technology is disinformation being spread, misrepresenting who people are and what they have done or said. But it also gives everyone deniability. If someone catches a powerful person assaulting someone, and act
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by phyller 8y ago
Yea, it does seem like an excuse for the money raised by the church to make it into the local politicians hands. However, this can be a legitimate issue. For example, New Haven, Connecticut, the site of Yale University, has become a notorio
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by phyller 8y ago
I've also seen this at Disney World and the Washington Monument. Agree, it is so much better. Waiting in line (or traffic) is such a waste of human life and potential.

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