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by temp453463343 13y ago
The reason I use 50 years is because people are constantly thinking we're going to go the way of NAZI Germany. People bring up McCarthy and other examples from a completely different era that have a very different context. When you sta
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Yeah, if you think the US is going to go fascist you're living in a fantasy land. You wouldn't just need a depression, you would need the whole fabric of society to unravel and become as poor as pre WW2 Germany. No country with a
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Confiscating your cash would need to be done with some kinda of judicial order, so it's not up to the president or someone who you "pissed off" The drone killing is a seriously disturbing precedent, but with the backlash that
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by temp453463343 13y ago
"This means that if you piss off wrong people you're going to jail." Except that's not the reality. The reality is that if Obama really really hates someone and wants to make their life miserable, the most he can do it m
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by temp453463343 13y ago
> What if tomorrow, the law changes, and the government starts hunting down anyone with leftist leanings? If you think that's a possible reality you're living in a paranoid lala land - which isn't surprising given all the
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by temp453463343 13y ago
I wish that were true, but in the context of everything he says it doesn't seem true. This part especially his belief that privacy is a universal right: More fundamentally, the "US Persons" protection in general is a distract
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by temp453463343 13y ago
I work an hourly programming job (not exactly the norm). I can either spend X amount of hours laminating my floor, or spend those X hours working and making money. Then I can spend a fraction of that to pay a skilled laborer to do it for me
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Definitely not tethered. Cables become super heavy at those lengths. Not to mention you need very strong/thick cables. If you just try flying a kite on a good windy day an keep feeding it string, it will pretty quickly start loosing al
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Almost everything they're done is centered around ads and getting more data on their users to sell more ads. Even this project, in the end it's about getting more people online to look at their ads. (not sure how much ad revenue y
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Is it just me, or does it sound like they're glossing over the downsides? “It could replace 40 percent of the world’s demand for Portland cement." Why not 100%? Sounds like the cure for cancer. I'll believe it when I see it =
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by temp453463343 13y ago
"people used the cocoa leaf to make a tea they drank all the time" It's really hard to quantify what effect has been of this. Bolivia by all metrics is an underdeveloped country. Has this contributed to it or not? No way to r
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Cynical and not very likely =). If you work for an org for 30 years I assume that creates a lot of loyalty.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
The timing makes a lot of sense. With all the shit hitting the fan over the past few days he probably is now flooded with paperwork and hearings and sorts of madness. Maybe it made him reevaluate his priorities and look for an easier job.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
... I wasn't justifying anything. I was just speculating. I think this is a rather unique situation where a lot of pro-privacy people seemed to have switched sides. That raises questions. What everyone seems to be concluding is that th
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by temp453463343 13y ago
This makes me think there is a shitload we don't know about. (like this program has stopped a nuclear bomb going off in San Diego or something). To have so many people switch their minds about privacy and to have this so secret for so
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by temp453463343 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty "Liberty is the value of individuals to have agency (control over their own actions)" Privacy is not a liberty . It's a restriction on the action of others. TSA and
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by temp453463343 13y ago
The difference is that this program is public and the Swedish public can debate it.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
It's the American obsession with the apocalypse. Conflict is "fun" and "cool" and gives people a way to amplify their voice disproportionately. Blow up a government building and you'll get more attention than s
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Lol. I think it's telling of how non-serious this whole issue is - when the absolute worst the government can do is make it harder for you to fly.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
The world Jefferson lived in is infinitely different from ours. There is absolutely no chance that the government of the US will turn tyrannical. none. zero. if you think there is you're nuts. There is all sorts of talk in this comment
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by temp453463343 13y ago
My personal experience hasn't been the same. I used to be really bad at writing, but through the school system forcing me to write I got significantly better. I think I'm pretty good now-a-days, though I'm a bit rusty. Sure you get better a
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Not sure if you were trying to be snarky with the lmgtfy but that didn't actually bring anything up. Look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies I quickly looked through them and didn't find anything directly relating to
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Of-course a website full of programmers would recommend Symbolic Logic. I've never ever found it useful. On the other hand classes on ethics (which illustrate how not black and white the world is) and social philosophy (which present ethica
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by temp453463343 13y ago
Are you kidding? The US system is completely devoted to writing. All my English classes were centered around writing essays (usually about the books we read). In fact, I'd argue the opposite. The French system places a big emphasis on learn
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by temp453463343 13y ago
All merchant ships are required to have enough compressed air for several starts (and we're talking about much larger diesel engines). I'd assume it's the same for a nuclear sub.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
It's also one of the lowest res frequencies.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
"when in reality there maybe 1% of pirates that would have otherwise bought the game." Not saying you're wrong, but recognize that you're completely pulling this out of your ass.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
While I agree that the process is more similar to the "real world" - the fundamental problem is that the grading is not. When you work as a team towards some goal whoever is evaluating you is doing so based on your contribution to the team.
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by temp453463343 13y ago
This is a completely idiotic way of testing people. I could have come into class not knowing anything, waited till the end of the test and then offered 100 dollars to anyone to be allowed to copy their whole test. And I would have passed th
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by temp453463343 13y ago
"America needs more dense cities like NYC, for economic, national-strategic, and environmental reasons. " Not sure what you mean by national-strategic, but sure cramming people in like sardines makes it easier to make things efficient - but

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