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by user24 13y ago
I had to check that that was a real letter.
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by user24 13y ago
Great comment. > won't require her to seek out dubious illegal channels which are likely to be full of stuff much "worse" than she'd easily have found without all the censorship. This is one of my biggest fears. As an
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by user24 13y ago
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_23676390?source=comme...
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by user24 13y ago
I sort of take issue with "experiment succeeds". You don't (shouldn't) set up an experiment to prove or disprove something, merely to discover. I'm sure the issue, if indeed there is one, is with the reporting not t
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by user24 13y ago
> A fan? That will do nothing. Have you tried it though? Seems like you're dismissing it out of hand. edit: and having read the rest of the comments it seems like fans are widely used in India in Vietnam to combat mosquitoes.
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by user24 13y ago
FUNNY BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM HOLDING SHIFT WITH MY LITTLE FINGER.
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by user24 13y ago
Democracy is founded on the principle of an informed public. Secret laws and secret courts are the absolute antithesis of democracy. I just had to say that. Hi government. Please don't come after me. (But no-one will know that you did
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by user24 13y ago
> everybody is just saying the same thing expressed in different wording - safety. There's this recurring theme in what you and OP are saying, that you think buying a house, getting married, having kids, building a career is someho
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by user24 13y ago
I completely agree with that. You do seem to be pushing hard against something though. It comes off as both arrogant and naive, and leads to misinterpretation. For someone who's just saying "consider your options", it sure se
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by user24 13y ago
You're grasping for an alternative reality where people don't need to work. But without a concrete suggestion it's just wishful thinking. I think the fact that every large society on the planet ever has been based on this mod
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by user24 13y ago
I don't understand how you can not see a correlation. The jobs 'higher up' the ladder are generally better paid, with better benefits and are more enjoyable. If you're working 10 hour shifts with two kids and a tiny flat
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by user24 13y ago
I was going to mention that myself actually.
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by user24 13y ago
Not quite sure what the point is... wake up sheeple? You might see me with my degrees, career, dog, child, wife and house and think I'm just another conveyor-belter, but hopefully one day you will realise that every person has a unique
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by user24 13y ago
even more concerning when coupled with the fact that no UK news outlet is covering Tempora due to the D-Notice. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-me...
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by user24 13y ago
> I could go on, share links, etc. Please do.
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by user24 13y ago
I know nothing about tires (and had forgotten that we spell it tyre here in the UK), but I do know that a lot of people mix imperial and decimal measurements. Do you account for that, is it not an issue with tires, or should you add in a ei
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by user24 13y ago
> When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion. Please explain why vote participation increases with age then? I made this illustrative graph: http://i.imgur.com/Uhdub5G.png edit: made the axes clearer.
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by user24 13y ago
> you can't win on 3rd party in the US We used to think that in the UK too.
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by user24 13y ago
Isn't that the point of the article?
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by user24 13y ago
(and the NSA)
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by user24 13y ago
Trust me, they'd run into traffic without the ball too.
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by user24 13y ago
Context: "Nicole Smith, an associate attorney at Tully Rinckey PLLC in Washington, D.C., and a former security clearance investigator"[1] "In a photograph posted online after Snowden revealed himself, his laptop displays a st
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by user24 13y ago
So you're essentially asking for subreddits?
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by user24 13y ago
Firefox can't find the server at petitions.whitehouse.gov.
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by user24 13y ago
I don't think many people on HN do things "for the karma". I think that finger pointing like "holy karma grab" doesn't help the conversation or the feel of the community. This poll may be a foregone conclusion,
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by user24 13y ago
Yes, indeed.
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by user24 13y ago
One wonders what would have happened if he had, in fact, pleaded guilty.
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by user24 13y ago
Ctrl-P?
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by user24 13y ago
Useful background info, thanks. > it's rather hard to parse a meme photo for what text is actually written on the image, right? Actually it's trivial, but I suspect it's just not being done because most pictures on facebook don't have t
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by user24 13y ago
On the contrary, I was quite interested to see that this wasn't yet another excel-as-pixel-art project and that he was leveraging the better drawing tools in excel to achieve his goal.

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