the_rosentotter

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by the_rosentotter 6y ago
The slow ethnic cleansing and land theft being perpetrated by a close American ally, supported by many of the biggest American corporations and capitalists, seems a comparable situation.
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by the_rosentotter 7y ago
The whole LGBTXYZ discussion is somewhat weird to me. How about letting people's sexual preferences be their own business? I would rather be free from knowing what goes on in people's bedrooms, I don't think this is an unreas
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China's Xi urges development of blockchain technology(reuters.com)
4 points by the_rosentotter 7y ago|3 comments
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by the_rosentotter 7y ago
One thing I haven't seen mentioned: 'Friends' in your teens and twenties are often really about having someone to hang around with while looking for a mate. So you won't look like a lone loser at the club, or in social s
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by the_rosentotter 7y ago
The actual map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Hereford...
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by the_rosentotter 7y ago
To paraphrase Steve Jobs, self-driving is a feature, not a product. I'm pretty sure once LIDARs become cheap commodity hardware then every line will have self-driving, just like it has happened with every other new thing in automobiles
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
> The idea of labeling "fake news" often emboldens believers of fake news to think of some grand conspiracy to hide the truth. Well that's what it is - an attempt to bully media into self-censorship, or provide a fig leaf
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
It's good to know both sides of the story.
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
I don't know that the editors and writers profit directly, beyond their salaries. More like the companies are run at a loss in order to control the conversation. Of course seats are filled with people that push the line the owners pref
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
I think the big papers (New York Times, Washington Post) have always been the voice of the establishment. I remember reading their editorials broadly condemning the labor movement while it was fighting for basic rights (and being slaughtere
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
Since this is a very politicized topic, as a Muslim I feel it is worth pointing out that there is nothing in Islam that promotes having many children per se (this topic is even omitted in the linked Wikipedia article). On the contrary, Isla
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
I found the information about haplogroups interesting. It shows the migration paths out of Africa for both your mother's and father's ancestors (only men show the father's haplogroup). Not only was the background information
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Choosing a PostgreSQL client(scalableminds.com)
3 points by the_rosentotter 8y ago|0 comments
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
Another tidbit: Questions have also been asked as to whether Danske received special treatment from its regulator, which was until May headed by the bank's former chief financial officer. I.e. the body that had sole responsibility to
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
Toward the end of 2013, an internal email changed everything. Entitled "Whistleblowing disclosure — knowingly dealing with criminals in Estonia branch", it was written by Howard Wilkinson, Danske's head of markets in Estonia
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Inside Danske Bank's 200B euro 'dirty money' scandal(cnbc.com)
2 points by the_rosentotter 8y ago|2 comments
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
> I don't doubt he's capable of doing that with his background Which background is that? He has an undergraduate degree in economics and a bachelor's degree in physics. I respect the guy but he clearly puts a lot into mana
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
> "Hackathons are technological Woodstock" This sentence embodies what repulses me about current Silicon Valley culture: The self-satisfied claim to San Francisco 60's heritage, only, you know, with peace and love being re
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
Steve Jobs was not deeply technical, nor was he ever a programmer. And in a way, that makes his accomplishments even more impressive. I think one of his key strengths was the ability to know if someone knew what they were talking about and
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
That is incredibly cool. Genius way to preserve, and even honor, the old, even though it is replaced by something newer. Wish we did this kind of thing more.
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
The self-conciousness, the fawning... This was a toe-curling read. And then it turns out ultimately Steve Jobs did not give a flying fuck about watches but happily wore a cheapo Seiko on the few occasions that he did use one. Ouch. Yet the
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by the_rosentotter 8y ago
> hen I get a text message, it gets archived to Gmail with a label so it's searchable. And every incoming/outgoing/missed call puts an entry with the details and timestamp in my calendar What? I have used Android phones fo
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
Saab designs have always been timeless (mostly pre-GM of course) and still look great today. The easiest fix for the balance chain issue on 9000s is to simply remove it. It's a whole subsystem only there to counter vibrations for smoot
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
I'm not a big car guy, but I am nostalgic for my 9000. Like a true Saab it was in many ways a strangely put together car, but it had a hard to describe feel of being well engineered and a great ride. I owned a 900 too, and had Saab sti
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
Makes sense. One of the ways well-known authors make money is by selling bogus endorsements. Basically just giving someone the right to quote them that they like their product. I doubt Stephenson's "employment" with Magic Lea
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
Of course it's listening, at all times. Otherwise it would not be able to react to the trigger phrase. What is interesting is whether it sends this data anywhere, and that is probably impossible to ascertain, since it could store it fo
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
There has got to be an astroturfing campaign going on here, or the HN crowd is a lot more naive than I thought. Seriously, no one is concerned that Tesla is announcing, not one, but two new products, while they are failing to deliver on
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
I'm aware that they were subjected to grave robbing. That seems like more low-level thieving than actual organized pillaging though, which required destroying structure to pull off, as evidenced by the fact that the most important arti
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
It seems that peoples through the ages have respected the pyramids enough to leave them mostly intact and undisturbed, giving us the unique heritage that we have today. I can't help but contrast this with the British explorers who just
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by the_rosentotter 9y ago
Or maybe you were just wrong and not everybody else? Just a thought. (I know this is a quote from Keynes)

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