samdfonseca

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by samdfonseca 6y ago
The article is what communicates facts. The headline is just an advertisement to draw the user in to read it. Optimizing the headline means the article is able to inform more people; in line with the mission of the organization. NYT wants t
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
Just to be clear, 1600 of my coworkers are journalists, so I'm pretty confident in my support for journalists creds. Assange is not a journalist. Journalists don't encourage sources to break into classified systems and absolutely
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
All of the following can be true at the same time: - Sweden dropped the charges after the US pressured them to - The US has been seeking his extradition for years - Sweden is extremely servile to the US in security/foreign policy - He
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
His actions are entirely undemocratic. Sweden and the US have both democratically built a system of justice that we all agree to subject ourselves to. He decided to evade that system to serve his own self-interest. What about defending the
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
I agree that standing trial for rape must be terrifying, but that doesn't mean he's being persecuted. We've agreed upon a system of justice that best protects the rights of both the accuser and the accused, and he decided to
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
> "arbitrary confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy, to his oppressive isolation, harassment and surveillance inside the embassy, and from deliberate collective ridicule, insults and humiliation" Not only hyperbole, but it'
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
So you just decided you were gonna find something to criticize before you even clicked the link, eh?
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
what?
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by samdfonseca 7y ago
This is correct, raising taxes would increase demand for dollars. Supply is greater than the tax demand, but much of the additional demand comes from the tax in dollars requirement. Since businesses have to pay sales tax in dollars, they&#x
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by samdfonseca 11y ago
it's a feature flip/toggle service http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureToggle.html https://code.flickr.net/2009/12/02/flipping-out/
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Show HN: Flipadelphia flips your features(samdfonseca.github.io)
2 points by samdfonseca 11y ago|3 comments