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by skwirl 13y ago
Given the context of this submission, this is effectively speculation and IMO not appropriate for HN.
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by skwirl 13y ago
According to a Microsoft survey, India is the third worst country in the world for online bullying[1]. The same survey showed that 54% of Indian students report being bullied offline, and 50% report having bullied someone offline. I think
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by skwirl 13y ago
Can you link to a source regarding your claim that the AP wrongly implicated Sunil Tripathi in the Boston Marathon bombings? I couldn't find anything on Google, either by searching the entire internet or just ap.org.
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by skwirl 13y ago
She is referring exactly the very exchange that took place in video linked in this submission I just described above. Where do you see anything denying past involvement in what you linked? edit: I saw this (separate) tweet almost immediate
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by skwirl 13y ago
In the video he says "I'm not involved in Bitcoin" (present tense) which is not inconsistent with what was reported in the Newsweek article: >"I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it," he says, di
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by skwirl 13y ago
Women as a whole aren't born being more inclined to go into non-CS fields. This preference is acquired at some point in childhood. I am comfortable making this claim because we know that in the mid 80s 37% of CS graduates were women
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by skwirl 13y ago
Probably for the same reason most people don't store cash under their mattress and store it in a bank instead. Of course, storing Bitcoins on your laptop is even more risky than storing cash under your mattress. Someone has to physica
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by skwirl 13y ago
To me it sounds like bullshit being invented by a reporter trying to spice up a story.
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by skwirl 13y ago
It certainly did, which is easily confirmed with archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20070525044536/http://mtgox.com/...
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by skwirl 13y ago
Tip #11: Don't call things "retarded" if you are an adult.
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by skwirl 13y ago
You are right in saying that "blacks are dis-proportionally present in the prison population" does not prove that, if all factors were equal, people who happen to have darker skin are somehow predisposed to end up in prison. That
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by skwirl 13y ago
Your unregulated financial institutions fail to take basic security measures to protect consumers, they frequently halt withdrawals without warning, your uninsured deposits are sucked into the void, your speculative 'currency' exp
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by skwirl 13y ago
Since anyone can look over your shoulder and see your screen, and also anyone can torture you into giving up your passwords and log files, all encryption is worthless, and actually worse than no encryption at all since it gives you a false
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by skwirl 13y ago
"It seems very likely that they're getting the same government treatment as Quakenet" is not a conclusion that can be drawn from this blog post or the leak. My understanding based on what I read is that "Anon IRC"
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by skwirl 13y ago
You do realize that Massachusetts has had this system in place for a while now, right? The insured rate went from 86.6% in 2006 to 96% today. The uninsured rate is 3 times less than it was just a few years ago. On this topic, you can look
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by skwirl 13y ago
I don't have any particular advice to give, but, assuming nothing improper happened here, if you gave it your best, there is nothing wrong with failure. Failure is part of the system. Your investors and employees realize that startup
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by skwirl 13y ago
I don't really see what there is to be upset about in this particular case. This is how investigations are supposed to be done, by the book. The FBI has copies of the servers TorMail ran on that they legitimately seized in an unrelate
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by skwirl 13y ago
Developers are annoyed by hundreds of companies and professional recruiters who try to recruit them constantly. To single out Google reeks of nothing more than "HEY GUYS LOOK AT ME I'M TOO COOL FOR GOOGLE!"
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by skwirl 13y ago
The joke wasn't funny. When something isn't funny people can't tell if it is a joke or not.
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by skwirl 13y ago
It's possible, but the argument that Starbucks/Google shifting sales from the UK to Ireland implies that the United States is playing accounting tricks with imports and exports is non sequitur. And the implicit assertion that if
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by skwirl 13y ago
Can you link to some kind of evidence of that? My understanding is that RCN, Verizon, etc. are just not interested in expanding in to Cambridge. edit: Here's what the city has to say, from http://www.cambridgema.gov/con
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by skwirl 13y ago
Since "stress" is rather subjective, I don't know what study would ever prove it.
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by skwirl 13y ago
That money isn't coming out of thin air. Why is the onus not on Facebook or Google to use the $3 billion and $4 billion they were going to use to buy Snapchat on something more meaningful? Why is it Spiegel's responsibility? Es
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by skwirl 13y ago
The Snapchat founder is incompetent because of his race, gender, and socio-economic status. Got it.
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by skwirl 13y ago
That isn't my impression of YNAB. I only tried it out briefly about a year ago, but what I understand is that you plan you future savings by adding it to your budget today. If I wanted to save $80,000 for a down payment on a condo ov
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by skwirl 13y ago
I'm not sure how your conclusion follows from your premise. You are still trackable until you install a new font, update a plugin, install a plugin, etc. This may not happen for some time. Even when you do make a change, you could st
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by skwirl 13y ago
It's back now.
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by skwirl 13y ago
So were you under the impression that incarcerated persons could not have their cells searched without a warrant, too? The 5th and 14th amendments provide that no person shall "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due pr
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by skwirl 13y ago
There are a lot of companies using IE-only web apps (if you can call them that) that only work with older versions of Internet Explorer. It's pretty unfortunate.

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