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by uniqueid 5y ago
Google could also be forced to divest YouTube Fantastic! AlphaGoogle is the last entity on Earth I want hosting the bulk of humanity's video.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
A Roman would likely have taken issue (and maybe taken offense) with that claim. The men of Britain are taller than the Celti, and not so yellow-haired, although their bodies are of looser build. The following is an indication of their
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I'll stick with mainstream sources.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I really don't want to know the sources of the claims in this comment. I am skeptical to put it mildly. If one uses a search engine to look up surviving murals and mosaics from Ancient Rome the faces that pop up bolster the claims in
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Many people who visit HN, including myself, don't come here primarily for tech news.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/statue-liberty-france-us-t...
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by uniqueid 5y ago
This appears to be yet another article from a think tank content mill. I'd link directly to their entry in wikipedia if I were sure they didn't write the entry themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Cracking down on corporate tax avoidance is antithetical to 'neoliberalism', no?
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by uniqueid 5y ago
The puck has been traveling in the wrong direction for years now: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460092 Google's search results have gotten wo
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by uniqueid 5y ago
These stories terrify me. If they scare you now, just wait a few months or years until we see some massive breaches of Google, Facebook and Amazon data. It's possible the 'cloud-storage' model is a house of cards, bec
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JFK and NASA's James Webb discuss moon program off-the-record (1962)(youtube.com)
3 points by uniqueid 5y ago|0 comments
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by uniqueid 5y ago
For the leads https://youtu.be/xY3J4CYamUg
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by uniqueid 5y ago
That's a reasonable take when the comparison is between a landmine and a present-day autonomous drone, but the latter technology is in its infancy. A large part of the fear involves the future. As scary as inadvertently stepping on a l
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by uniqueid 5y ago
"You have 88 untitled Preview documents." Well there's your problem, sir.
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James Bond Unmasked (1968)(commentarymagazine.com)
68 points by uniqueid 5y ago|63 comments
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by uniqueid 5y ago
If gender is a state of mind, then why not race, or even species? Sorry, mule. You have to choose /s
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I agree with much of the essay, but I can't tell if it's a parody either. I associate the author, who cohosts an InfoWars-style podcast, with some of the kinds of bad content he complains about in this essay. It's also possib
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I agree it could help to look at legal changes, such as 'massive fines'. That's closer to the 'rethink' we need. In regard to human error, I think we are approaching the point where it is useless to focus on individ
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by uniqueid 5y ago
There are clearly worldwide problems with the hardware, software and protocols we use today. For months now there has been a massive new catastrophe every week. We have an internet that has few mechanisms to identify bad actors and make the
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I dunno. When I automatically convert code from tabs to spaces, the end result seldom needs any revision. Going the other way almost always reveals a couple lines where the coder used an inconsistent number of spaces for no discernible reas
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by uniqueid 5y ago
No worries. My comment was a little pedantic anyways
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Of course "they" will, but that doesnt make encryption bad. That statement arbitrarily frames the problem as a binary, which is misleading. Encryption is certainly more bad if terrorists use it to carry out violent att
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Clearly Musk didn't just realize realize the problem this week, but his SNL appearance kicked off a round of criticism (eg: 'Some More News' https://youtu.be/5pNL7MlUpmI ) and the Tesla announcement is probabl
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I don't think disinformation is an essential component of terrorist propaganda. It's easy enough to stoke hatred and urge violence against almost any group by harping on actual qualities they have, or actions they have taken.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Well yes, in the long term. I was hoping nobody would notice that I avoided admitting that ;)
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Why would a company do something in the interest of the consumer if it was not in their interest There are many reasons, but if for no other: so that emails like this don't leak and cause you bad PR! There's a whole sch
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by uniqueid 5y ago
If we're talking about reliability post-2010 I fully agree with you. Let's just leave it there. I'm pretty sure I have two threads in my HN comment history (probably several years old) in which I argued against the view that
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Apple was the gold standard for software for most of the first 35 years (excepting a few years after 1995) of its existence. Apple used to hold a reputation for building the best software in the industry. On a side note, sometimes getting o
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by uniqueid 5y ago
don't just be tempted, just do it Rightly or wrongly, it's rather awkward to respond to a comment exhorting people to flag me. I'll bow out here :)
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by uniqueid 5y ago
That's fair criticism, but it takes my comment more literally than I intended. I'm tempted to defend my use of hyperbole by rattling off a list of spectacularly dumb ideas social media have made popular. I'll resist the tempt

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