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According to his son's biography of him, George H W Bush played a pivotal role in the Nixon resignation, in that Nixon resigned the day after receiving a letter from Bush, then chairman of the Republican National Committee, urging him
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Craig Murray has not been shy of calling out The Guardian in the past: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/08/rusbridger-h... His opinion is fairly extreme, though if you read carefully and follow th
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There are some gems at the glassdoor site referred to in the article. It is true, CTO did make whole team of people redundant on New Years Eve via voicemail - maybe 'how to' book on leadership taught him redundancy procedure. L
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Well, from http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_... and quoted in Baez's blog. Thursday in "As of Thursday morning" referring to Thu Mar 3, it seems.
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There's surely a Wildean quote in there somewhere.. "The only thing worse than your data being sent to people you don't know..."
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When this event was posted here a few days ago[1] I spent probably an hour or so reading through the timeline[2] posted in one of the comments. To a non-wikipedian such as myself it's a little opaque, but builds to quite a climax. It p
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> the problem of people not being able to get their disks out of their machines if the OS for some reason refused to release it My first time on a Mac, about 1990, I felt pretty confident having plenty of early PC experience. A graphic d
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Yeah, it wasn't at all clear to me from 2 minutes of static analysis under what circumstances an email would be sent and to which address. I'd hope the authors of the linked article would have verified this with a packet sniffer (
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That sounds horrific. This code seems related - it has the cow ascii art and the email-sending functionality and email address mentioned in the article: https://github.com/simonjiuan/ipc/blob/master/src&#
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Yeah, it's the SF author - he's collaborated previously with John Baez, as for example at https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2009/10/girih_by_egan.h... where you can see the link to the applet goe
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This point is addressed by the inventor in the comments at TFA: Ernest Shackleton October 29, 2015 at 10:21 am Penguins at the North Pole?? Julldozer October 29, 2015 at 10:56 am If you were a penguin on a touristi
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If this bothers you, you probably won't be pleased to learn that the overwhelming majority of "real numbers" can't be written down or even computed (ok, in principle you can enumerate the digits of at least one such numb
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I share the dislike of and militancy against ads evinced by some of the posts here. I started reading the piece thinking "Oh, another marketing guy who's drunk the ' relevant ads are good for people and everyone apart from a
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Some informed opinions at: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/php-history and its HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054294 (I remembered seeing some other fb engineering talk on yout
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Relevant wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture Edit to add: For a specific Goldman Sachs context, see for example: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/
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Surprised no-one's mentioned wikileaks and the document leak [1] that exposed Palantir tendering to attack Assange's org on behalf of some bank. Combating this threat requires advanced subject matter expertise in cybersecuri
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A little surprising to me to see Peter Gabriel amongst the respondents! His answer [1] seems to be an update of the scenario which (iirc) inspired the lyrics to the song Here Comes The Flood[2], co-written with Robert Fripp quite some time
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I haven't been keeping up, but it certainly used to be the case that domain names can contain digits but have to start with a letter - see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035 where it mentions "rules for arpa
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http://cryptome.org/2013/11/snowden-tally.htm is one of the places trying to track Snowden document releases.
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Maybe stating the obvious, but it's fascinated me for a while how online interactions with high affect content are almost exclusively aimed at the interactors' imaginary constructions of each other - there's so little of a pe
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Regards claim 2, Searle repeats the phrase "specific causal properties of the brain" quite a few times without spelling out just what he's referring to, but from other remarks he makes it seems clear he means actual electroch
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If the title rang a distant muffled bell somewhere in the back of your mind, as it did for me, I saved you the trouble by googling - it's a pun on the title of Julian Jaynes' contentious book: The Origin of Consciousness in the Br
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I think the change was that after the leaks the existence of the programs was incontrovertible - while many with an interest in the topic would have asserted their existence, they could not be discussed in a meaningful way in large-circulat
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Discussed at Scott Aaronson's blog: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2521
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If you don't regard the question as important, you should probably stop arguing about it. But if you do then the argument is over, of course, since it is a philosophical one :)
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In 2002 an Irish documentary team, it seems, "accidentally" covered events surrounding the coup and countercoup of that year in Venezuala[1]. It has some unbelievable footage obtained during critical stages of the events. I don&#x
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I know what you mean, but in a way I find it strangely reassuring that the head of the CIA is (in some respects at least) plain old old-skool dumb. It tends to confirm me in my suspicions that the media-projected image of ruthlessly efficie
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That already happened a while ago (though MI5, not GCHQ), according to this guy[1] and several other "theorists" (viz. [2]) MI5 themselves beg to differ[3] (though they don't address Wallace's allegations directly, it se
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His short story, Learning to be me , is a really great piece exploring a related technology. Recommended!
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The Taming of the Shrew riffs on a similar theme, right? I find that play fascinating, partly for the unresolved play-within-a-play setup (when the inner play ends, we never go back to the container play..) and partly for the similarity to

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