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by powera 10y ago
Equity percentage graphs of a large number of companies, with no additional information, are completely useless information. I'd much rather have 0.01% of Google than 1% of whatever your startup is.
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by powera 10y ago
This Medium post summarizes my take on this statement better than I can. TLDR "I can’t directly say the allegations are false." https://medium.com/@frabyn/decoding-jake-appelbaum-9fa75d060...
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by powera 10y ago
If outsiders can't contribute, why are you commenting on it (twice!) here?
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by powera 10y ago
I'm not sure why people would have thought that Meredith and Andrea were biased. All they said was "Jacob was accused of sexual harassment", and they said it before the Tor release confirming exactly what they said. On the o
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by powera 10y ago
Why are you so certain the website is slander (which, as a legal term, requires that the accusations are false)? And various other people who have negative personal experiences with Appelbaum, are their statements false as well? http:&#x2
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by powera 10y ago
People saying why they think he is guilty isn't the same as being treated as guilty. In this case, the people did talk to his superiors, and they appear to have done as little as legally possible about it until there were public stat
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by powera 10y ago
You might not have been arguing that it was related to the government, but the two posts you were replying to sure did, so I assumed you were as well, apparently incorrectly. If there's anything else I've misinterpreted, you'
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by powera 10y ago
In addition to the mixed-gender pseudonyms, I think all the "Stories" have Applebaum's picture, rather than the person named. Which makes it hella confusing. I'm not entirely sure I believe there's more than one pe
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by powera 10y ago
"Your personal attack at calling it a logical fallacy is noted." - no, it's not a personal attack, I'm saying the argument is incorrect.
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by powera 10y ago
You're correct that a "not guilty" verdict isn't the same thing as saying the person is innocent. But saying that "a guilty verdict ... does not prove he is guilty of what he has been accused" is splitting hair
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by powera 10y ago
No. You're basically saying that there's no evidence that it's a coordinated campaign (really, the fact that it was talked about on Twitter isn't evidence of anything at all), and that lack of evidence is why it has to b
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by powera 10y ago
Except this isn't "criticizing the monarch". This is making a case out of basically nothing against the mother of a "student activist".
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by powera 10y ago
The reason is because, for political reasons, large events can't charge the "market-efficient" price. Super Bowl tickets cost $850 to $1850 in face value, but resold for an average of about $5000. If tickets cost $5000 minim
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by powera 10y ago
So many people will believe anything a "hacker" says as long as it's bad for them. In general, these 100 million password dumps are almost always complete garbage, but everyone along the way says "better to be safe than
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by powera 10y ago
J'accuse! I still agree with the top thread that this isn't a "real" site, and speculate that it's just trying to drive PageRank to the long list of "spammy" sites linked multiple times in the article (via
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by powera 10y ago
Your advice to women at conferences is really to "be rude"?
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by powera 10y ago
Telling people "not to blame the victim" is a completely useless way to avoid harassment. I couldn't possibly actively do that to avoid harassment if I tried, because it's not even an action. Unless I'm mistaken,
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by powera 10y ago
Because they use Yahoo! Messenger, not because it will impact the oil market in any other way.
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by powera 10y ago
Where are you getting figures that food prices have increased as a percentage of total income? I've only seen that they've decreased, and GP post gave a link supporting his position.
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by powera 10y ago
Why are so many people saying that if some developers write bad unit tests, then all unit tests are pointless and a waste of time? Yes, I've seen thousand line files of boilerplate unittests that don't actually say anything usef
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by powera 10y ago
Yeah, anyone that invokes Turing machines to claim unittests don't work has completely missed the point of testing their code. Perhaps if the article was talking about "formal verifications of code" it would bear some resemb
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by powera 10y ago
"The bill is currently being debated in California's Congress as part of the upcoming annual budget" - it's called the Legislature. I mean, yes, I knew what he meant, but it doesn't give me confidence that he unders
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by powera 10y ago
There is high school football, college football, the Arena league, soccer. The NFL is by no means "a monopoly on football". It is a monopoly on televised football on Sundays, I suppose. Which isn't really a monopoly at all
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by powera 10y ago
This is basically just an ad.
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by powera 10y ago
A list of stupid Trump jokes is not good HN content.
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by powera 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by powera 10y ago
What is a "youthful city" anyhow, other than "the thing the people that sponsored this research want to make into a concept"? The potential for cherry-picking results is immense.
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by powera 10y ago
TLDR - "If 1 = 0, then Winston Churchill is a carrot". No, really, that's an accurate summary.
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by powera 10y ago
There's nothing really unique or interesting about these inventions in that they could be used for warfare. Also article is (2010) and numbers in titles is discouraged.
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by powera 10y ago
It's not pleasant when large companies insist they have the unrestricted right to certain words. It's no more pleasant when a small company does the same thing.

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