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by user982 8y ago
His son was targeted and killed in a separate, later strike.
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Why I’m done with Chrome(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
2357 points by user982 8y ago|838 comments
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by user982 8y ago
My takeaway from the book differs somewhat: 1. Don't be a psychopath.
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by user982 8y ago
Then again, this is the opening to The Naked Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LIHoEJAA4k
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by user982 8y ago
> [T]he national anthem seemed fair game for spoofing in 1988. That’s a major contrast to 2018, when the anthem has been elevated to a sacred, untouchable level by a large segment of the American public. > “I don’t know that we’d get
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A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core and Random Slicing(infoq.com)
2 points by user982 8y ago|0 comments
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I’m relieved that it wasn’t a cockroach this time.
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Secret Israeli Report Reveals Armed Drone Killed Four Boys Playing on Gaza Beach(theintercept.com)
2 points by user982 8y ago|0 comments
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by user982 8y ago
I hoped that link would be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvAwB7ogkik
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by user982 8y ago
It helps that you do not have a real left-of-center party to begin with.
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by user982 8y ago
This was one of a clutch of related cases before the Supreme Court that gave us the pro-censorship cliché about "shouting fire in a theater."[1] The Espionage Act that they were convicted under is, of course, still on the books, a
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by user982 8y ago
That this is a punchline is the problem.
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by user982 8y ago
> Even in the 1960s, that kind of overtly religious appeal would have been very, VERY controversial. This kind of material _never_ appeared in military stuff... The Air Force barred an airman from reenlisting because he would not say &
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by user982 8y ago
The NSA's existence was still not publicly acknowledged when some of these were commissioned (the versatile initialism then being "No Such Agency"), which may have shrunk the artist pool.
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by user982 8y ago
"Hang up the phone."
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by user982 8y ago
> > Your government currently arrests people for criticizing the government online > Citation needed - I have _never_ heard of this happening. A British teenager was arrested and charged for posting on Facebook that UK soldiers s
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by user982 8y ago
The government body will refuse to return the money voluntarily if you sue.[0] [0]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180508/10330739804/cbp-s...
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by user982 8y ago
That he considers activism for Palestine "pro-war" is telling in and of itself.
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by user982 8y ago
I haven't seen as much evidence for squid intelligence as for octopuses.
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by user982 8y ago
"Bringing joy to millions" might be a bit more of a stretch for some of those.
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by user982 8y ago
> all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him I agree with the rest of that sentence, but this really isn't true. Disney's bowdlerized versions actually do harm and even displace the source materia
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by user982 9y ago
> Just yesterday I was scrolling through the comments on a Fox News post about an 18 year old who'd been sentenced to 25 yrs for being present during robbery when his friend killed someone. You misread this, likely because that wo
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by user982 9y ago
"Despite what some reporters may suggest, this is nothing more than the standard practice of monitoring current events in the media. Any suggestion otherwise is fit for tin foil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists."
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by user982 9y ago
Let's see how long this post lasts before it gets flag-killed like its Israel-critical predecessors. Update: Less than 15 minutes.
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At My Lai: The Photographer Who Captured the Massacre(foto.gettyimages.com)
230 points by user982 9y ago|171 comments
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BUILD2 Demo and Tools(advsys.net)
3 points by user982 9y ago|1 comments
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by user982 9y ago
Agreed. I was mostly being facetious; although Indonesian independence might not have occurred without the effects of the Japanese occupation, the actuality was obviously nothing to be grateful for.
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by user982 9y ago
> Many people from thousands of kilometers away, liberated the Netherlands from Germany... Analogously, Indonesia should be grateful to the Japanese for traveling thousands of kilometers to liberate them from the Dutch Netherlands.
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by user982 9y ago
> Iraq however was unjustified. The difference is that more than half of America admits it and thus freely elected a new President from a different party. Bush was reelected after the Iraq War by a larger margin than before, serving
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by user982 9y ago
The Cuban Missile Crisis was directly precipitated by the US placing nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey and aiming them at Moscow.

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