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by squozzer 10y ago
I'm only comparing the political / social situations of Snowden vs. Ellsberg. Not antebellum vs. today. And it's admittedly a distortion. The article itself goes to great lengths to justify Ellsberg and condemn Snowden, mostl
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Maybe Leaker 2.0 is inferior to 1.0. It perhaps parallels America 2.0 (indefinite detention without trial, torture, and maybe a few other crimes against humanity) being a bit inferior to America 1.0.
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by squozzer 10y ago
Though with the UK, another bit of writing applies equally well: "That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
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by squozzer 10y ago
This comes to mind every time I see something a news story about government malfeasance enshrined into law: "The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitiou
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by squozzer 10y ago
It's called "heads I win, tails you lose."
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by squozzer 10y ago
One could say the same things about pro sports, actually. Many aspirants start very young (e.g. Tiger Woods) and put in 8+ hrs / day. Not to mention the sports camps, bespoke coaching, academic tutoring to maintain eligibility - all to
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by squozzer 10y ago
One answer I've been mulling for my next interview is something like the following: I lack whatever skills or traits are needed to advance at my current job. That's why we're having this conversation now.
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by squozzer 10y ago
Minitrue on steroids. No hardcopy = no messy reconciliations with past statements. Atomized information = no messy reconciliations amongst ourselves. >In a democracy, we’re making choices that govern each other. So yes, we all have an ob
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by squozzer 10y ago
I have the feeling the 20% survivors - especially C-level peeps -- will feel rather empty knowing they can't torture their new AI employees with meetings and other forms of corporate suckage.
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I don't know why people seem so eager for Taiwan to join - or at least not upset - China. Look at Hong Kong.
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The reason so many in media and government act the way they do about China is they want the US to become the next China. With aforementioned media / government people in the analogue to China's Central Committee, of course.
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by squozzer 10y ago
Here, here. There are essentially two forces at play that drive the current default work culture -- 1) Fetishization of work itself -- which I happily stole from an article posted on HN some time ago. 2) Arbitrary deadlines -- these usually
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In the states, it is quite common for congress to exempt itself from laws. One that comes to mind involves hiring practices, specifically the consideration of race or gender. Now it seems hypocritical on the surface for congress to not play
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Which is what they got, from a certain point of view.
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The Cold War era had a certain logic -- that once the US and USSR were effectively destroyed -- allies and neutral countries, even non-nuclear ones -- would become threats. If any missiles remained unfired, might as well re-target. In other
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by squozzer 10y ago
And now The New Yorker joins PropOrNot's shit list.
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Makes one wonder what exactly they fear.
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I think doctors are too tightly bound to the status quo to take the kinds of professional risk by speaking out against any law, no matter how heinous.
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>Huggies tried to make a similar sensor to detect when the diaper is full of shit, but it proved impossible to distinguish from normal activity on Twitter. +1
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Long term, I think guitars (and the four-piece rock setup) will go the way of Glenn Miller. It's just so much easier to make music on a computer. And frankly, electronic music isn't as limited by physics (vibrating strings, reeds,
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by squozzer 10y ago
All of this Putin-phobia -- maybe justified -- is giving me a 1984 moment. He's starting to take on an Emmanuel Goldstein aura in the US. Disinformation exposes weaknesses in trust, it does not create them. Keep in mind the phrase, &qu
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by squozzer 10y ago
I'm not sure we want computers perfecting human biases. I will say that Hollywood (and probably other movie cultures as well) is not above using mean-looking people to represent heavies in film. Which, despite its unfairness, does give
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by squozzer 10y ago
Whether Snowden receives a pardon or not, it's worth reviewing the following two questions: 1) Would the intelligence community have policed itself otherwise? Probably not, intel agencies prefer gathering more data over less. 2) Would
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>I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. Translated into English -- he didn't kill anyone. >At the poin
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It might even be worse than that -- some people will try to engineer lawsuits using auto-cars as marks.
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The timimg of the acquisition with Dyn's recent DDOS has me feeling even more paranoid than usual.
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Especially in light of the fact that George Washington was a colonel in the VA Militia before renouncing his allegiance to the king and joining the Continental Army.
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The idea itself (essentially pre-selling content) is not novel. Old print magazines used to have ads for products that didn't exist, but would if the ad generated enough interest.
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>Let us all be clear: “National security” must never again be permitted to justify wholesale denial of constitutional rights and protections. Sadly, it already is, just not in an obviously barbarous way. But The Internment, for all its c
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>“Anyone who claims that automated spam accounts that tweeted about the U.S. election had an effect on voters’ opinions or influenced the national Twitter conversation clearly underestimates voters and fails to understand how Twitter wor

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