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by vivekd 9y ago
Lots of startups fail for timing reasons. There seem to be alot of startups that maybe just started at the wrong time. One example is QBotix that provided robotics for the solar industry, probably not much of a market a few years ago, but
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by vivekd 9y ago
You make it sound like Donald Trump himself dug up the terrorist plans and issued the order. In all likelihood he wasn't even aware of it until after it was issued, it's not the president's duty to oversee stuff like this. T
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by vivekd 9y ago
>I will complain because we have zero evidence of credible threat, because you didn't read the article where it talked about the evidence of a credible threat.
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by vivekd 9y ago
>This has nothing to do with conspiracy or fraud. But thats exactly what you are saying when you say that they made up a terror threat and lied about the contents of information in the raid to justify policies. That is the definition of
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by vivekd 9y ago
Whether someone sounds like Donald to you is not relevant to the facts at hand . . . like the fact that they raided an ISIS camp and found plans and a video which was widely disseminated. Which was mentioned in the article. What or who I
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by vivekd 9y ago
Its not just ability to make bombs out of laptops, but also discovered plans to do so. If in our silly senario it came out that we did a raid on a terrorist hideout and found plans to hide bombs inside shoes to bomb planes, and that shoes
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by vivekd 9y ago
I dont think that Europeans are self centered, I think the people complaining about being required to check in their laptops to prevent likely terrorist attacks are being self centered in doing so. The government cant clone or access your
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by vivekd 9y ago
>Citation needed on that one. People need to read the article which talked about this or other articles where the evidence was widely released to the general public and shared with everyone. http://www.reuters.com/article
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by vivekd 9y ago
They have shared the intel with their allies and with the general public. If you guys want to get ahead to conspiracy theroies saying that is is fabricated then you need to explain why other stuff like the moon landing and vaccinations and
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by vivekd 9y ago
People who have nothing to do when their laptops are taken away are in needed of a therapist
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by vivekd 9y ago
> has historically been full of shit and completely made up from time to time. Therefore there is no reason to believe it now. Then why do you believe them about the terrorists being the bad guys, or even existing at all. Why not set up
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by vivekd 9y ago
>intel is just bullshit just to implant those measures If you are going to assume without evidence and offhand that everything the American government says is bullshit, you might as well go ahead and join the terrorists because you seem
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by vivekd 9y ago
So your argument is that when the US says they raided an ISIS compound in Yemen and discovered plans to hide bombs inside laptops to blow up planes - this does not qualify as good enough intel to act on? You seem to be using snark as a sub
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by vivekd 9y ago
So lets get this straight: 1. Discovering a terrorist plot to hide bombs inside carry on laptop batteries - and then not taking any precautions at all and allowing laptops on planes as normal: A prudent and smart thing to do. 2. Discoverin
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by vivekd 9y ago
A lot of comments very critical on the ban. America has intel - and good intel from a raid - that shows that ISIS has the capability and intent to hide a bomb inside laptop batteries to blow up passenger planes containing lots of people.
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by vivekd 9y ago
This was answered and discussed at length in the article >The battery bombs would need to be manually triggered, a source explained, which is why the electronics ban is only for the aircraft cabin not checked luggage. Obviously stuff in
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by vivekd 9y ago
>I think you are failing to differentiate between computer science and programming. In my mind computer science is to programming as fluid dynamics is to plumbing. Maybe but Im just following the articles lead in conflating the two - fro
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by vivekd 9y ago
Now that I'm learning computer science on my own I realize I enjoy it and have a knack for it. But when I was in school I was intimidated by it. Computer science was presented to me like something that required tons of complex math t
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by vivekd 9y ago
What this whole thing about consent issues tells me is that the promise of the sexual revolution and free no consequence sex is bullocks. Is it sexual harassment when someone gets someone to have sex with them by taking advantage of another
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by vivekd 9y ago
I don't have to read Mien Kampf to know it's full of crap
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by vivekd 9y ago
So "fake news" just means popular right wing news sources. . . good to know.
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by vivekd 9y ago
I think you are taking the word "hate" out of the context intended by Mr. Berners-Lee. He wasn't talking about hateful in terms of hateful of the status-quo. He was talking about hateful in terms of something like Mien Kamp
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by vivekd 9y ago
is that snark and sarcasm I hear? ;)
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by vivekd 9y ago
>Many parents/guardians are not suited to teaching a modern curriculum, or their talents are best employed in other areas. At least for the first few years of a child's life, I think a parent can handle the curriculum. And it
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by vivekd 9y ago
This stuff seems to me to be inherent to institutionalized education. When you have an instituion with lots of kids to teach, what option is there but to have them all sit down all day and be passive. Also dealing with lots of kids and th
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by vivekd 9y ago
>Religion isn't math; it's subjective No it's not. At least it's not in the case of Abraham religions. Each of these religions have texts that claim to come from God. And the content of these texts are about as ope
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by vivekd 9y ago
Because legislating every conceivable fear and every instance of mass panic will lead to an overly complex and overly burdensome legal system that hampers legitimate activity. In the words of Cicero, "more laws, less justice" When
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by vivekd 9y ago
>The internet is not broken,” There is no problem for the government to solve.” - FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai This is sooo true. If internet carriers were preferring some kind of content, or censoring or giving less bandwidth to certain c
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by vivekd 9y ago
And admit to Argentinian sovereignty over the Islands? No way! 10s of millions is a small price to pay to assert British sovereignty over the Islands.
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by vivekd 9y ago
> Akasha stores users' files on IPFS instead of a centralized server which means that a government could not simply block access to a single server to shut down Akasha. If you live in the Western world (like almost 80 % of internet

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