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by swombat 11y ago
It's quite sad that even a relatively smart and educated community like HN fell for the "oh, they're putting restrictions on surveillance" thin veneer of bullshit when it's pretty damn obvious as soon as you look at
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My parents and grandparents lived in Romania at the time. There was no prerecorded message, just fear and uncertainty.
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by swombat 11y ago
This very first link about the bill extending section 215 (the section under which spying has been justified) until 2019 is pretty self-explanatorily demonstrated by this link, from the page, via a third party legislation tracking site, gov
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by swombat 11y ago
Here's your answer: according to https://www.usafreedom.fail/ this act doesn't actually restrict the NSA. In fact, it extends the spying powers of the NSA. So they'll continue what they're doing, and do
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by swombat 11y ago
The fight isn't even started, this is just another punch in the face. According to https://www.usafreedom.fail/ this act actually extends spying rather than restricting it. Of course, it's being presented as the o
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by swombat 11y ago
Or not: https://www.usafreedom.fail/
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by swombat 11y ago
If you feel like you can't effect change where you are (a fair conclusion), I would suggest at the very least looking into moving to another country which is more representative of your values. Yes, it seems like giving up. But then ov
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by swombat 11y ago
> In the US, you can talk about it, you can get a lawyer, you can have newspaper articles written. And is this helping Joseph Rivers, a victim of shameless organised theft and institutional racism? The "most people are unaffected&
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by swombat 11y ago
What I don't understand is why bother owning the hardware these days, other than personal taste? Surely the reproduction of an ancient hardware drum sequencer in today's software should be perfect. I'm not criticising your pr
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by swombat 11y ago
Milo Yiannopoulos has been fairly public, though blasé, about receiving death threats and even syringes in the post: https://twitter.com/nero/status/506435662481219585 https://twitter.com/nero&#x2F
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by swombat 11y ago
> At what point do we know that the persistent death threats are just kids being obnoxious and no one is going to be hurt? Well, a partial answer to that may be: you never know whether the death threats are real or not until something
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by swombat 11y ago
I think it's important to clarify your post with one simple fact: death threats and doxxing have occurred on both sides of the GG "debate" ("debacle" perhaps more accurate). Without that pointed out, you seem extrem
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by swombat 11y ago
That's a fair bit more substantial than the "death threats" that continually float about on both sides of debates like GamerGate and whatever. Very sad that this happens anywhere in the world. Surprised? Not entirely. This is
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by swombat 11y ago
Autonomous vehicles will follow whatever assumptions we give them. Given that they will, for the first decade at least, largely be operating alongside human-driven vehicles, chances are they will have exactly the same constraints. I'd
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by swombat 11y ago
Ah, but they don't have to stop, do they? Unless a whole group of people starts crossing the road all at the same time and holding hands (in which case, well, you can't stop people from committing mass suicide I guess), even a ver
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by swombat 11y ago
> The lack of structure brings out the worst in human behavior. Well, that's your experience, and you're entitled to it. I'm finding the opposite. Though describing holacracy as a "lack of structure" seems like
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by swombat 11y ago
I actually don't like the way they've defined lead link in Holacracy. It does feel too manager-like because they have the ability to create roles or remove people from roles. We had this as a stepping stone at GrantTree, in our pr
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by swombat 11y ago
Whilst I've had some 121s that were cut short if the person was very busy and just wanted to focus on something else, most took the full hour and some overran. The structure was very fluid, but I generally did start with a fairly strai
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by swombat 11y ago
> Talking to your cofounders and team - Sometimes, this looks like having coffee or grabbing a beer. Invariably, you'll be talking about work and how things are going. This is work because you need to know what's going on, and
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by swombat 11y ago
rcurry is right if the knife wielder is within 20 feet AND the gun holder has their gun holstered, uncocked, with the safety still on. Why not also do a test where the officer has to front-load the powder into their musket and put a bulle
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by swombat 11y ago
Most people with knives aren't Bruce Lee. Some evaluation of the actual danger the person poses is necessary. A man standing idly with a knife is not the same as some sort of ninja commando running towards you at full speed. From inevi
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by swombat 11y ago
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ
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by swombat 11y ago
Thanks for the clarifications. That does seem a lot more balanced and sensible than the reading I got from your first post!
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by swombat 11y ago
Big difference, I think, is that in your case you're mixing it with water, so it will warm up a lot more quickly. In the OP's case, he just had the dry ice in there with no water, so presumably it would melt more slowly, and there
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by swombat 11y ago
I wonder how you would feel if the reciprocal attitude was adopted by your employer - i.e. if they continually interviewed potential replacements for your position, to: * get practice at interviewing people for your role * have an idea of w
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Well, as I mentioned, from what I hear, Eve has that. It may not have orcs and elves. On the other hand it has big fracking spaceships with huge lasers...
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Something about pots and kettles and the colour (or lack thereof) black...
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And the final element missing to instil real fear? True PvP, where anyone might decide to betray you and kill you while you're resting to recover hitpoints or manna or whatever. It's only when loss is possible that you can truly g
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by swombat 12y ago
Gotta love Ayn Rand and her incredible ability to make bare, simplified, polarising dichotomies out of rich, complex topics, then paint the extreme opposite to her as evil, without examining whether her own chosen extreme may be equally evi
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by swombat 12y ago
Your post is weaker for it. The word "fuck" was appropriate to express what you wanted to express. The word "forget" is lame and forgettable. I'm sorry to see your post neutered by some kind of sudden appearance of

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