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by tedks 12y ago
I think New Englanders have it worse than most other American regions because their culture is so bland and denialist because of the Puritanical influences that still roam unchecked. It's probable that Mainers would hate Portland just
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Do you know anything about Yik Yak? It doesn't have ads, at least not on Android.
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Let's say you're the NSA. Edward Snowden posts "the NSA is spying on u" on yik yak. You see the yak on the Ft. Meade yak feed. How do you get Edward Snowden's yik yak userID? This post doesn't show anything tha
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Sometimes we have to look at questions in a hard, unflinching way, and prepare ourselves for the answers that come. It could be that "too much" focus on diversity could create "reverse racism" where there are somehow ins
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The impact of this re-shift towards patronage on culture in the world of the 1% is an exercise left to the reader.
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Yik Yak is an anonymous network, so a userID here is only on the device and not associated with any post. A user can't get the userID from a post.
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I used to be very involved in a number of activist groups, and I think the drug culture was significantly harmful to their effectiveness. Activism itself is not a threat to the status quo. Successful activism is.
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Besides #5, all of the above was public knowledge basically from the time marijuana was scheduled. Why is it being unscheduled now?
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If you demand any information that opposes your existing opinions to be spoon-fed to you, but blindly accept things that you agree with, you're just covering your ears in a different sort of way rather than being truly open-minded. I&#
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I don't disagree with it; I just think it's suspicious that people are publicly acknowledging that now rather than at any other time. That said, marijuana is certainly less benign than you're making it out to be. I know s
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This is new to me, thanks for pointing it out. That said, this doesn't mean marijuana needs to be recreationally legalized; in the US it would only need to be made a Schedule II drug rather than a Schedule I drug. Cocaine is a Schedule
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Most police departments don't pay for their weapons systems, they're gifts from the DoD. State surveillance is officially motivated by terrorism, with the drug war only an ancillary motivation. The war on terrorism can never be wo
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Is nobody else on hacker news scared shitless of the convergence of militarized police forces, pervasive surveillance, and now legalized drugs? Why is drug policy "liberalizing" now? There's no new information. We've kno
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>People with college degrees earn significantly more over their lifetimes. This is almost certainly due to people with college degrees having more racial and economic privilege than people without college degrees. Controlling for this I&
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It's interesting to think how revision control will impact future art historians. Imagine if we had the revision history for The Hobbit.
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So you're systematically stripping away the value of integrating skills from your conscious, procedural mind to your intuitive, parallel processing mind? Sounds awful. How do you debug?
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...it's racist no matter what. It has a connotation (even if it's unintentional which I entirely doubt) of racism, and the overt message (our unifed in-group needs to expel members of this out-group from our space) is racist. I li
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>What if you were born to a Saudi Arabian family? What are the chances you would be a Muslim, possibly signifigantly conservative, you wouldn't like the TV shows and music you currently like, your goals would be drastically differen
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We live in depressing times.
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I would say that they get bored, and where they were willing to put in effort (which all relationships require) at the beginning, they aren't now. Which again, isn't surprising. Even people who get married and think they'll b
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>In my recent tales of online dating I've run into this a lot The reason why Tinder won and OkCupid lost so horrifically (okcupid in my area has gone from an oasis to desert in less than a year...) is because people are literally un
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by tedks 12y ago
Because eventually you can look at a person and their history, zoom out a bit, and see the forest without the obstruction of trees. Sociopaths are effective manipulators, but don't form close relationships outside manipulation; they&#x
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And this is why academics are busy stomping out 3% speedups in arcane bullshit nobody cares about while startups and BigCorps are getting actual research done and pushing computing in new, exciting directions.
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When you think about hacker news, it makes sense to think about news. Generally, for each fad, there's some actual news related to the fad, and a bunch of hangers-on. Go and Rust are new languages, so anything they do is news. OCaml ge
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I think this is a fair rephrasing of my claim.
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>Then i'll just say you don't understand me or the folks that work for me. I'm sorry, Google is a publicly traded company. Are you really saying that if there was a clear business reason to release proprietary LLVM modules
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>Effectively what we have here is XMPP/Jabber with TextSecure on top of it instead of XMPP/Jabber with OTR on top of it, which has been around for quite some time now. Maybe that's not terribly impressive but it's gre
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Actually, Tor has pluggable transports that mimic HTTP as well, though obviously the traffic is encrypted and then stenographed into HTTPish shape. Take your FUD elsewhere.
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I hope all the people commenting with pitchforks in hand have also never said (or have been alleged to have said) anything at a private dinner between friends that could be construed in any way to be similar to these remarks.
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I don't think Google has poor motives at all. This is the way the wind is blowing. Google is almost certainly right to move to LLVM and you'd be far better situated to comment than I am. Personally, I see something as big as Chrom

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