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by waqf 13y ago
Terrorists are people who instill public fear [of themselves and their present and future actions] as a political tool. Yes, they are "freedom fighters" if you find their reasons noble and "terrorists" if you find them
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by waqf 13y ago
There are legitimate criticisms you could make of the comment in question, but "I was curious what you looked like" is assuredly not a comment on someone's appearance.
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by waqf 13y ago
"free rein". It's a metaphor about horses, not kingdoms (though I have heard that the one can be exchanged for the other).
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by waqf 13y ago
Set aside the money every month, then make one lump donation?
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by waqf 13y ago
The nice thing about donating to an org with a small budget (unlike, say, a presidential campaign or your alma mater) is that you feel your contribution makes a real difference to them. For example, for a large-but-imaginable donation of ~$
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by waqf 13y ago
And the other part of this is the social skills lesson: [many] people do not like being told what to do and may get angry, even if telling them was from your perspective a rational action. It's no different from how people don't like being
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by waqf 13y ago
> If I'm disclosing to Google what URL's I'm visiting by typing them into Chrome, I can't complain if the government can access them too. How many people realize they're (with the default configuration) disclosing to Google what they ty
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by waqf 14y ago
Okay, and why is killing someone who is risking their life worse than killing anyone else?
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by waqf 14y ago
Also, "Tor" is the Scandinavian spelling of Thor. He probably thought of that when he saw the name, and mentally hashed it as "that anonymous routing software that's named for the Germanic god of thunder". I can imagine making that mistak
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by waqf 14y ago
I was about to reply that when this meeting took place in 2011 Schmidt was still CEO. But in fact you're right, he was not: he'd stepped down a couple of months previously.
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by waqf 14y ago
If you mean you wish that Apple were not always the first to market with obvious good ideas such as higher pixel density, then you should welcome their competition getting in on the act.
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by waqf 14y ago
Exactly. Pace the article, the reason that Lego seems expensive to us is that other toys are now much cheaper (in real terms) than they were in the '70s. If you corrected for "toy inflation" instead of "general inflation" this would be
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by waqf 14y ago
This is not what it seems. See here: http://goo.gl/b8uWE
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by waqf 14y ago
The other reason of course is because of the drop bears.
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by waqf 14y ago
Would it be discrimination if they judged that his market rate was less because of his skin color?
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by waqf 14y ago
I was deliberately not talking about whether it was reprehensible. I was talking about how and whether you would succeed in inducing everyone to stop doing it.
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by waqf 14y ago
s/ in software anymore//
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by waqf 14y ago
You will never win by directing your anger at the people who are just responding to the incentives provided by the system.
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by waqf 14y ago
Admittedly I don't know a lot about the NFL, but I was fairly sure it was a sports league. Can you explain to me how it has become a mode of transportation?
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by waqf 14y ago
They're getting rid of the machines that expose people (especially TSA workers) to ionizing radiation. That's news, although the headline is misleading.
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by waqf 14y ago
effect
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by waqf 14y ago
I was thinking specifically of the statement "[D]eleting the concept of marriage from law entirely is [...] probably undesirable."
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by waqf 14y ago
I am torn, because I want to upvote your first para which accurately addresses the points raised by the parent; yet your second para is all fluff, empty rhetoric, assertions totally without justification. If you are a new kind of troll, I s
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by waqf 14y ago
The spouse's income is described in para. 7 (depending on how you count): "Our married women's husbands worked too, earning $51,000 and $103,000 respectively."
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by waqf 14y ago
And yet what alternative is there? If you follow the news you're placing the same trust in journalists. To become a truly informed voter, not relying on others' summary explanations, would be more than a full-time career.
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by waqf 14y ago
But the "explaining the situation" is a striking exposition of a relatively original perspective, whereas the "options for dealing with it" are the same shtick we read every week here on HN.
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by waqf 14y ago
Without further information, your second paragraph sounds like a straightforward correlation/causation fallacy. Can you add context which might dispel that impression?
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by waqf 14y ago
What you call a "regular kettle" is to us a hilarious archaism.
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by waqf 14y ago
The Elite source code can be downloaded at Ian Bell (the other original author)'s site, http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/index.htm . It is indeed written in assembly language (using the BBC BASIC assembler).
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by waqf 14y ago
Sure it doesn't.

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