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by smtddr 12y ago
I can tell you that as someone with 90%+ relatives living in Lagos, Nigeria... they don't seem too concerned. But it is a real problem. Not the END OF THE HUMAN RACE ANDROMEDA STRAIN[1] like the western/UK media has been making it
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I think the most important thing here is that law enforcement must approach the individual. What happens next may end up a complicate web of legal acrobatics, but the individual at least knows the law is after them. That's a good thing
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>>The big problem is: what happens when a cop comes out on a call and there is clear photographic evidence of a crime being committed (very likely, considering the sheer number of things that are technically illegal)? When there is c
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by smtddr 12y ago
>> The Kinects can read up to three people on each side, and you can see others through the Cube, which acts as a portal, virtually connecting people who are separated in physical space. http://www.wired.com/2008&#x2F
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>If not, why not? I.e., what makes race special? What makes cancer special? Ebola? AIDS/HIV? Why/how does anybody focus on anything? btw, these are the kinds of specious debates on HN that derail the main topic into obli
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>The core question which you keep ducking is, "why do you insist on grouping by race/gender?" I.e., why don't you group humans into "suffered lots of disadvantage", "suffered a medium amount",
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by smtddr 12y ago
Ya know, in the past 2 weeks I got "cold-call" emailed from recruiters directly to my personal email; not through LinkedIn's InMail feature. One from life360.com and another from jut.io. That hasn't happened to me in
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by smtddr 12y ago
The message isn't for people like you or me (I play too when the jackpot is some crazy value) . It's for the poor & uneducated who think that by spending half of their month's salary on 350 lottery tickets gives them a be
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>>What's the point in fighting legislation when you can solve the problem with technology? Because encryption can be made illegal.
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(which is already a pretty stupid reason to downvote, FYI). >> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 "I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren&#
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by smtddr 12y ago
No... Not yet anyway. I remember seeing this image (or something extremely similar) years ago to show the negative outcome of net neutrality[1] efforts failing. 1.And the ideas in this article is what I mean when I use the term "Net n
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QoS at the ISP level isn't the same as QoS at the customer level. QoS at the ISP level is probably just something like not letting torrent traffic completely saturate their whole network, so the mostly average user just trying to load
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by smtddr 12y ago
Since it's both webview and browser itself, I'd suspect some kind of common denominator object at fault... like... https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/... Especially with
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To add to this reply... http://blog.tsa.gov/2011/06/tsa-cancer-cluster-myth-buster.h... Q: Why aren’t your officers permitted to wear dosimeters? A: There is a really good reason for this. The emissions from our
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>you should have enough money to enable you to take care of your kids into adulthood, because doing so otherwise is negligent I would phrase this as "Society should be structured such that money isn't a concern because th
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And a financial disaster for CC companies because, let's face it, the whole credit system is significantly supported by exploitation of less fortunate people. If situations like this article describes didn't happen CC companies wo
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>The debt begins with the parents that choose to have kids when they are unsure of their financial wellness and security for the years to come of their child's growth to adulthood. Having children should not be tied to having
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>>And the money that is being garnished is to pay back the creditor for the money and/or services that the debtor received. It's called justice. I wouldn't describe a big CC corp bringing a citizen to near-financial-r
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by smtddr 12y ago
As extremely anti-NSA & pro-snowden as I am, I can't help but notice that this vid is formatted in a propaganda type way. If I saw a similar vid with this format supporting views that I don't agree with, I would have called it
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by smtddr 12y ago
So it's really going to happen... slowly, in the name of piracy (but we know that's not really why) , any form of encrypted communication will become illegal. Oh, and of course this won't apply to affluent.
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by smtddr 12y ago
well, it's possible for Comcast to inspect the hostname of a DNS query even if its destination is not Comcast's nameservers.
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by smtddr 12y ago
Totally with you; this story sounds made-up. >>Users who try to use anonymity, or cover themselves up on the internet, are usually doing things that aren’t so-to-speak legal. So what does Comcast think about people who use VPN? Mayb
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>It's a significant digital-age fair use ruling, one that's especially important for people and organizations who want to comment on or criticize news coverage. This is why FOX News sued. >>The company has more tha
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The term you're looking for is "feature phone" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_phone
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Now, let's take those 3 points and consider a 3rd world country with interwebz-censorship or very poor infrastructure and no forseeable future where it'll improve to anywhere near what most first-world countries have. Cellphone
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I love how these kinds of discoveries challenge, if not out right shatter, our current scientific understanding of human beings. Again, I recommend Gattaca movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ Don't let
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>this data confirms what everybody sees in reality What it confirms is.... http://thehairpin.com/2014/09/white-beauty-myth
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by smtddr 12y ago
The problem comes when your so-called "separatism" causes me not to get a job, or an apartment, or a promotion, or when you donate money to a campaign to ban interracial marriages. If you can keep it in your own home then that&#
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>Rather that avoiding "omg sugar" or "omg salt" or "omg fat," we should just be eating well-rounded diets. Define well-rounded. ;) Isn't that what we're all trying to decide? We even have so
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by smtddr 12y ago
I'm a vim user myself and I prefer modes. Part of the vim cult's belief is the Never-Leave-Home-Row. That is, where you first rest most of your fingers on the asdfjkl; keys. Your hands are 99% of the time if you're not active

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