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by throw2016 7y ago
Studies were supposed to be about science and the scientific process and even there we now have reproducibility crisis and a whole string of dubious and discredited studies. We are being overwhelmed by a culture of heavily funded think tank
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by throw2016 7y ago
What made Linux and FOSS possible is a specific time and context and that is not happening again. There is no job security, everything is about building a resume, getting a job and hanging on or a startup, everything is related to money or
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is the definition of a police state, with law enforcement officers empowering themselves and demanding to go through your personal papers, how dehumanizing is this? What is the difference between this and the stasi or the police of any
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is a shocking display of not just incompetence and bad practices but of brazen undisclosed covert control. Why should your local browser depend in this fragile way on some muckup in Mozilla HQ? And people line up to defend this? Where
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by throw2016 7y ago
There are people actively fighting the dehumanization and there are people building tools to dehumanize and defend their work. In a movie or artwork which side do you think are going to be portrayed as the 'good guys' and who are
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by throw2016 7y ago
These issues need discussion in a neutral venue. China is not a model of anything but given the intense debate in the US about the systemic corruption of the lobbying system pointing fingers at others as if corruption is somehow unique to &
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by throw2016 7y ago
This reads as a 'ahistorical' interpretation of events. Is is possible to engage in informed discussion without context? How many centuries did it take for the transition from feudalism in Europe yet there is this kind of 'ma
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by throw2016 7y ago
Discussions about ethical, privacy, surveillance issues often get hand waved and diluted here. See yesterday's thread on Google's retaliation as an example. We need a diversity of communities that can represent the the software in
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by throw2016 7y ago
What these people are doing takes tremendous courage. Posts here over the last few months have many wondering why people in Facebook and Google are not speaking up and in this instance we have some genuine dissent, activism and protest at l
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by throw2016 7y ago
China is a totalitarian country. Its not a democracy so there is no point criticizing them for the lack of democracy but its democracies that must be held accountable, yet we do not see that right from Snowden, Assange and Manning to a cult
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by throw2016 7y ago
Meritocracy depends of equality and you can't conceptually have equality with wildly differing starting points. The transition from feudalism to capitalism would require land reform for equality and meritocracy to have some measure of
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by throw2016 7y ago
It seems just like crypto the 'ai' hype cycle is coming to an end with zero achievements to show for itself beyond puffery and premature speculation about radiologists, drivers and others losing their jobs. And its not just hype,
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by throw2016 7y ago
How do we understand these kind of threads of HN? In the last 6 months there have been security breaches at Facebook [1] Google [2] Cisco [3] and look at those threads and some of these breaches are extremely amateurish and the general cons
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by throw2016 7y ago
It's interesting to understand what is happening internally in these social media companies engaging in blatantly shady and unethical behavior. Its more than weird that inspite of HN being a place where many of these individuals are th
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is a bit like saying we left the safe open and nothing was stolen so its not that big of a security problem. The specifics of the exploit is besides the point as it could be anything. This is an indictment of the designers of wild land
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by throw2016 7y ago
Hey look we have democracy, freedom, free speech but if you actually try to use any of these seriously beyond ranting about some politician to actually exposing the rot we will demonize and come after you. This is a nice arrangement, the v
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by throw2016 7y ago
Given US state linked organizations like Atlantic Council, ThinkProgress, Propornot manned by ex US security services personnel are working with Facebook, Google and other social media websites to 'takedown' dissent on US involvem
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by throw2016 7y ago
There is a already a crisis of invasive surveillance, profiling and profiting from stalking users. There is also government surveillance that can't be thwarted with its own panopticon of secret orders, secret courts and secret processe
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by throw2016 7y ago
Do you have any details on the US driven sanctions regime in effect on Venezuela and its impact? Here is the official UN release [1] on the results of illegal US sanctions on Venezuela and an interview with the UN rapporteur for Venezuela.[
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by throw2016 7y ago
Piketty's extensive data on global wages raises serious questions about Pinker's narrative. And if there is still doubt Pinker's data sources [1] and interpretation are questionable to say the least. Here is Pinker himself ad
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by throw2016 7y ago
This can't be right. The bulk of US defense expenses in the last 2 decades for instance have been in needless middle east wars that destroyed those countries, killed millions and enriched US corporations and their employees. It created
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by throw2016 7y ago
This is not because consumers are 'ignorant' or stupid but because of willful deception and complete lack of transparency from Google. What do Google engineers think when they design those deceptive 'improve user experience&#
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by throw2016 7y ago
The only way to get on a network is via an ISP or mobile provider and this step itself gives up your identity and credit card/financial details and your browsing history, location data and other metadata is available to any state entit
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by throw2016 7y ago
If facebook and other platforms can quickly take down nudity and porn why can't they take down extreme violence?
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by throw2016 7y ago
There is always 'censorship' in operation. Either overtly when things are not allowed or covertly where some things are simply not aired, people not given visas, opportunities, blacklisted and generally isolated. The problem is wh
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by throw2016 7y ago
Isn't this the nightmare scenario the GPL was created to fight against, a device that is not acting in the users interest but against it, with tons of private APIs [1], complete lack of transparency, deceptive language and hoovering up
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by throw2016 8y ago
There has been a lot of fud and scaremongering on China and Russia with very little evidence and facts. This makes it look like the commitment to competition, free markets and due process is hollow and self serving and the moment it doesn&#
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by throw2016 8y ago
This kind of subgrouping has little value as it tends to manufacture elaborate myths about the 'ingroup' and alienate and dehumanize the other leading to a fictional narrative of the world. So for instance we get the myth of &#x27
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by throw2016 8y ago
This is becoming too common. Laura Poitras has documented her harassment as have multiple others activists and journalists. The idea of opaque no fly and other secret lists, secret processes and demanding to go through people's persona
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by throw2016 8y ago
Having just deployed Discourse and Diaspora its obvious Ruby and Rails was not designed for end user use. There is complete and total dependency hell and a hard requirement for a build environment for basic app deployment. This kind of engi

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