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by pigbucket 16y ago
"...one wonders why Swedish Bahnhof would take on the challenge of hosting a site that will probably be under permanent attack for the foreseeable future. Unless it's for the PR value" That's a good example of allowing one's imagination of
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by pigbucket 16y ago
The Pentagon has claimed that they could have shut Wikileaks down if they wanted to, but decided not to, reserving "that capability for threats of much higher consequence." Generally, the rhetoric coming out of the Pentagon is not nearly as
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by pigbucket 16y ago
>he should certainly return to Sweden to stand trial. He hasn't been charged with anything.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Following re google's new china policy got >1k http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048800
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Wikileaks takes some time to assess stuff before releasing it. That's probably not a bad thing, despite the boredom of anticipation. The general reason for the delay is dealt with in the first question in the interview (to which the article
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by pigbucket 16y ago
The true principles of tea-drinking were enumerated (there are eleven) and explicated in antiquity (defined as the golden time before my birth) by renowned tea expert George Orwell. I can personally attest to the veracity of Mr. Orwell's fi
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by pigbucket 16y ago
It's either a telephone's ring Or Microsoft's bing or a fisherman's nets or the president's pets or a ballerina's toes or (something that grows when dishonesty flows) Pinocchio's nose?
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Every once in a while a discussion of poverty comes up on HN and provokes typically two kinds of responses: The poor are deserving of their lot, lacking the necessary wherewithal to get up off their asses and take responsibility for their l
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by pigbucket 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/683/
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I agree more or less with everything you say, but don't think it's really relevant to what I said. Perhaps it was not clear, but I don't think the movie is misogynist, although it is in some obvious respects about misogyny. The terrain of s
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by pigbucket 16y ago
In The West Wing Sorkin created some of the smartest and interesting female characters in the history of television. If he wants to create a fictional universe in which quasi-historical figures inhabit a more sexist world, and in particular
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Yes, I think it was not clear to everyone that izaidi was quoting, from the movie, Sean Parker's advice to Zuck about thefacebook. A comment that can pithily cast an ironic sidelight on a sober request for precision in the naming of a compa
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Alternatively, if you jumped around energetically enough (like a Klingon, say) you might generate the acoustic radiation pressure needed to make your own touchable hologram. Of course the two theories are not mutually exclusive.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
> As long as I'm given more relevant content, feel free to use my publicly posted information. Doesn't that way of putting it, though, make it sound a bit like you are actually making the decision to opt in?
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Maybe a list of common errors in English usage would be more useful if it were a manageable list. How about the 20 most common errors in usage. I'd bet (but surely there are some studies on this) that the following would appear near or clos
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by pigbucket 16y ago
So "shareholder" doesn't mean Citi shareholder but rather taxpayers, and "dividends" doesn't mean dividends to Citi shareholder but tax refund to me. In that case, I share the wish, and admire the irony.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
How does selling these trust-preferred securities relieve the Treasury of its obligations to guarantee troubled assets? (I ask because I don't know)
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I think dividends could only come from Citi, not from an investor; and part of the original deal was a limit on dividends, presumably for the sake of preserving a semblance of moral hazard in the course of a massive bailout.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
That's an excellent point. Talk of the Govt. making a profit is nonsense until it's clear how much loss on those assets it ends up absorbing. According to that Bloomberg piece, though, Citi was supposed to cover the first $29B of losses, so
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by pigbucket 16y ago
From the linked Thirdway page: > Would this be hard and expensive for the federal government to do? It shouldn't be. The mathematical formula to do this is very simple. The Social Security Administration does this every year ... This w
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Well, actually it's Thirdway.org, who've been plugging this idea for a few years now, but since it's somewhat progressive too, your point may stand. My sense was that Thirdway was deliberately trying to avoid being overly inflammatory: they
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Discussion about whether the board should have accepted the offer would benefit from knowing when it was made. In Digg's "heyday" is a bit vague. 80m is a biggish bird in the hand but 20m of that was earn out and given that Google were repo
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by pigbucket 16y ago
The title gives nothing away except for the fact that some editor, not possessing the usual unimpeachable standards of his calling, decided to sacrifice meaning for sensation. The first sentence of the article points out that the avg. woman
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I think you misunderstand Sprout's meaning, and that Sprout precisely understands Wolfrom's. Sprout is actually saying just what you say: honest belief can be independent of truth or legality, but Sprout also emphasizes that from a legal po
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Classic exchange re late fees http://www.27bslash6.com/blockbuster.html
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by pigbucket 16y ago
It's a meaningful submission, from that submitter, on a day of massive HN introspection.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Eventually, programmer pickup lines will affect robot pickup lines: Eve: Directive? Wall-e: [Smashes trash] ta dah! Wall-e: Directive? Eve: Classified.
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by pigbucket 16y ago
I see a big national campaign here. On blogs and t-shirts and billboards. And in the movies themselves: Tattooed onto the butt of every pornstar. Worked elegantly into the already finely wrought dialogue. Exclaimed with uncontainable despa
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by pigbucket 16y ago
Aside from the word "lacuna" there is also an actual lacuna on the front page: it's missing a specified referent for the word "lacuna."
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by pigbucket 16y ago
From PosiesCafe blog: "When I talked to Lucinda today, she asked if there was a cap on how many were sold to help protect the business from too much loss, and the simple answer is, no. When you sign up for Groupon, you are agreeing to sell

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