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by pinaceae 13y ago
the difference lies in quality of living. dying of cancer is a shitty way to go. having a massive stroke/heart attack/aneurisma? at least you pop and you're gone. going through chemo/radio for months/years to slowly
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by pinaceae 13y ago
it is not about repairing damages. it is about the feeling that his/her actions had tangible, long lasting consequences. i feel the big differentiator is if you yourself have ever been victim of a crime. once you have experienced the f
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by pinaceae 13y ago
not an easy topic though. some crimes are easier to stomach than others. some sentences are not meant to help the person going to prison, but protecting the population from that very person. the lax practices in western europe have led to n
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by pinaceae 13y ago
there would be civil war if this were remotely true. ever think about those "facts" for a second?
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by pinaceae 13y ago
7bn people on earth, but the NSA has a direct interest in cpbotha hence his actions make total sense. because if the US intelligence services took interest in him, moving his data to other servers would totally stop them. i can see the ag
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by pinaceae 13y ago
facebook is blocked in china
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by pinaceae 13y ago
the right move for whom? Moto got bought. android destroyed the market for mobile OS due to its gratis nature. no mobile OS can be sold/licensed anymore, android has destroyed the price point. apple is building its own OS, MS needs to
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by pinaceae 13y ago
iBeacon.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
so what are the sales numbers of the cited best-in-class phones? HTC in particular seems like a dead man walking.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
I propose something like an Uber for telecom networks. Or even better, wait for it: An Uber for Elon Musk. Where do I collect my funding?
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by pinaceae 13y ago
so?
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by pinaceae 13y ago
MS paid less for Nokia handset business than for Skype. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Goodbye to the Nokia brand, soon only to be mentioned in rose-tinted lookbacks. Mobile phones, built like a brick, running for days.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
right, absolutely the same case. giving access to a border agent vs. the whole internet. and again, i travel a lot and never, ever has anyone given a fig about my hds.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
i went through 2 passports in the last 6 years, ran out of space. travelling with company laptops and now additional iPads. never, ever, did anyone want to search my HD. and this is Russia, China, Japan, SKorea, US, Brazil, Argentinia, plus
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by pinaceae 13y ago
article starts with a general overview, then explains the numbers (a really small sub section of travellers get into trouble at the border, most for very good reasons like warrants). and then the article takes a u-turn and focuses on a spec
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by pinaceae 13y ago
"The product side needs to provide a set of requirements, and the development side needs to find out what the client needs, and how to deliver it. The development side has to have enough product knowledge to determine the actual need,
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by pinaceae 13y ago
? His troubles could be solved by not sharing his private number to people he does not want him calling. Like his professional contacts. Just switch numbers and don't share the new one. He mentions he can focus on a conversation rather
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by pinaceae 13y ago
the draft was used in Vietnam, and since then? not like the US ran out of wars. what the hell are you trying to prove? and for the record, I am European, Austrian in fact. and the US is now requiring it's own citizens to use the biomet
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by pinaceae 13y ago
oh boy, would you be surprised about NL and CH. you don't like the draft in the US, which never gets executed? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Switzerland "Compulsory military service concerns all ma
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by pinaceae 13y ago
as someone who recently moved TO the US - you are delusional. as if there is a magic, fairy place that is freedom and liberty and pixies. Asia? good luck, the individual has awesome rights, try talking badly about the thai royalty for examp
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by pinaceae 13y ago
i would add the problem of movement forces on the storage space. he has open, flat shelves. open in the direction of the vehicle, so the first attempt of breaking harder will throw a bunch of stuff around, incl. that slide out keyboard. RVs
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by pinaceae 13y ago
at the end they let him go. he triggered alarms, they checked, determined him not a threat, let him go. false positive would be him charged with terrorism.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Contrarian perspective: He fits a certain profile. Triggered a bunch of attributes (address move, chemicals on him, etc.). The 9/11 attackers walked through the scanners with knifes. The Boston bombers were flagged, but still traveled
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by pinaceae 13y ago
if you care that deeply about morals and ethics, you need to be for the complete abandonment of the Armed Forces. which is a classic pacifist position, but it should be clear that there can't be a grey area. you either have an apparatu
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by pinaceae 13y ago
never claimed superiority, just vast difference. laid out in a subsequent comment. but perfectly fine with strong language in internet forum posts, it is a consequence free area.
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by pinaceae 13y ago
you're arguing from an ethical viewpoint, which is fine, but it does not apply to this sentence. i know this is hard, but let me explain. in the civil justice system there are laws. if you break them, you get punished. some of them hav
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by pinaceae 13y ago
of course not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justic... matters like absence without leave, contempt towards officials, etc have no place in the civilian justice system. if you don't like th
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by pinaceae 13y ago
No, this is the Armed Forces code of conduct. He broke the laws of his organization, was before a court of that same org. This is internal. Once you wear a uniform, other rules apply. secrecy has a different impact, loyalty as well. Civilia
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by pinaceae 13y ago
will this also lead to a mass exodus in HN users? given the ferocious posting in these threads will all those now also go offline? will yc now only finance startups that deal with encryption and freedom rather than the next social/loca
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by pinaceae 13y ago
so if someone mentions the Gestapo they explicitely do not mean to bring up the overall context of the third reich, gotcha. i am an austrian of polish decent. for me bringing up the fucking nazis in this context is completely laughable. t

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