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by scrollbar 8y ago
Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content." Your argument that this is the same as the desire for blocking legitimate hate speech in the US is si
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by scrollbar 8y ago
Getting this as well in SF. transtelecom.net WHOIS says they're Moscow-based
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by scrollbar 8y ago
> Farmed fish (in this US mostly tilapia and salmon) have other issues, but mercury isn't a generally concern. I'm an amateur Bay Area fisherman, so as someone eating fish out of the Bay, am often studying up on mercury and PCB
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by scrollbar 8y ago
I feel the pain and feel similarly. Sorry that we're sharing this space of despair in our political institutions. The town hall comment jumps out to me. I have this sense that more local communication, or dare I say "organizing&qu
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by scrollbar 8y ago
The Netflix documentary on him is equal parts disgusting, entertaining, and insightful (particularly relating to how our culture of worshipping money and power over all else enables people to get away with murder, literally) https:/&#
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by scrollbar 8y ago
I've hacked away on projects over nights and weekends, hoping that one of them would be my ticket to a self-led lifestyle, but with no success. Then I landed a contracting client, and quit my job to commit fully to the client. I took t
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by scrollbar 8y ago
"Business is business, it's not personal." OK, Laurie Bream... Culturally, thankfully, it seems the negative outcomes from this attitude are on display right now. Mainstream life is very partitioned, dissociated, maybe. I thi
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by scrollbar 9y ago
I was just researching currencies with fastest transfer time and verified that Ripple works fast and with low fee. Curious if you've taken a look at it for your use case? I bought a small amount recently but am mostly just curious abou
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by scrollbar 9y ago
Do HN users have much to say about Brave? I've been hearing quite a bit about it lately but haven't tried it out yet. I'm figuring that if I switch browsers, it would be to something with some interesting edge like this, rath
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by scrollbar 9y ago
Eek- my scanning wasn't quite efficient enough! Thanks for correcting me.
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by scrollbar 9y ago
I'm in the middle of reading Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution by Marjorie Kelly, which talks extensively about Maine lobster fishery rights. Along the sensitive areas of the coast, only owner-operated boats are al
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by scrollbar 9y ago
I'm sure you're well read and educated. I won't ever be as knowledgeable on the subject as you. I have the benefit, though, of not having my entire livelihood and career dependent on my faith in the systemic health of mainstr
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by scrollbar 9y ago
I will reflect your outrage back to you now: Why on earth would you NOT assume that institutionalized greed affects the results of medical science? Who is funding the science? What are their financial motives? Who conducts the research? Wha
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To grow up, stay the same(linkedin.com)
1 points by scrollbar 10y ago|0 comments
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“Skynet vs. RoboCop” Automation(linkedin.com)
1 points by scrollbar 10y ago|0 comments
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by scrollbar 10y ago
Scientific value != value. I view theology as a study of how humans characterize their relationship to that which is beyond logic: god, infinity, existence, whatever. To me, this study has individual and collective value even in modern time
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by scrollbar 10y ago
Interesting discussion at the tail end of the document: (a) We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn't we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective "marker" for any intruders
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5 Simple Rules for Working with Data Scientists(siliconfinale.com)
1 points by scrollbar 12y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing the World Series Through Mobile Geo-data(blog.radiumone.com)
8 points by scrollbar 12y ago|0 comments
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by scrollbar 13y ago
Don't like one of your professors this semester? It's a pretty easy equation. Drop out of college. Not happy with NSA collecting dragnet surveillance on you? It's a pretty easy equation. Renounce your citizenship. Neighbor ma
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by scrollbar 13y ago
exactly his point
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by scrollbar 13y ago
Makes sense. I'm curious though, do you mean that even with the same number of categories for each it's too difficult? ie. instead of using hierarchical groupings and all categories no matter how small, use only the top ~10 and bu
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by scrollbar 13y ago
Is "evil" really the word?
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by scrollbar 13y ago
I default to using treemaps for viewing composition of a whole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping
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by scrollbar 13y ago
Not directly (but I agree). I'm saying that averages ignore distribution. If you combine one part of 100% growth and nine parts 0% growth then overall you have 10% growth. Does that mean all the parts are growing, or even most of them
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by scrollbar 13y ago
This article condenses arguments being put forth by econ/finance blogs but fails to connect the dots. One angle: Banks have been receiving money at 0% interest rate for 5 years now due to ZIRP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by scrollbar 13y ago
Echoing what they said in the linked article, it doesn't fit into a left/right paradigm, so "direction" might not be the right word. Instead I'd elaborate: editors there have opinions about political matters, and th
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by scrollbar 13y ago
I cancelled my Economist subscription recently due to finding myself frustrated with their political bias. It seems they often assert controversial opinions as accepted truth. I would much prefer that any statements of policy preference wer
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by scrollbar 13y ago
A couple comments mentioned wanting to build this in the Bay Area. I've been wondering for awhile why there's not an active group here. Let's meet up to discuss more, how about a Google group to organize? https://g
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by scrollbar 13y ago
No, Asheron's Call was an MMO in every sense of the term. There was no free to play (at least in the pyreal scarab bug time period), monthly sub fee was it, and the game would have been wholly uninteresting without the full on massively mul

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