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by webXL 11y ago
That article is a textbook example of cherry picking. If you pick the height of a boom as your baseline, of course poverty will increase during a major recession.
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by webXL 11y ago
Perhaps parent was taking issue with "few actual responsibilities", which our current government treats as an opinion.
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by webXL 11y ago
Not total privacy since the network knows who's on both ends, or at least that you're on one end, but as long as you can tunnel encrypted traffic over it via a hotspot, I'm not sure how that could be cracked.
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by webXL 11y ago
Are you suggesting this is a complete waste of time based on your own needs? Well, fine. But I'm sure there are plenty of valid use cases for it and at the very least the architecture and libraries involved are HN-worthy. Seems like th
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by webXL 11y ago
You don't have to do anything. Relax. Any open source project leverages other open source projects. How is this "stack" any different?
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by webXL 11y ago
Nice article, but I think some of the ideas need some clarification. > For example, keys of a Map object are value equality checked... This has a lot of really nice implications. I'm not sure how immutability helps here. And it&#x27
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by webXL 11y ago
Unless you're starting from the ground up...
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by webXL 11y ago
I thought this article was a new use-case of FB's Flux initially. Great name, but perhaps the headline could have read "Netflix Flux: ..." or "Traffic Flux: ..."
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by webXL 11y ago
"so the government should not be in the business of killing people." But as a species, we're a long way from selecting government officials who don't want to kill. These freaks crave power. And Glossip had the chance to
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by webXL 11y ago
I know there are big ethical problems with my "next step", but do you really care if you're killed by a murderer or a careless police officer? Or a careless safety inspection that leads to an accident? Incompetence that leads
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by webXL 11y ago
I'm sympathetic to that argument, but the logical next step is to say that they're also too incompetent to protect your life, and then it's the wild-west. I believe in extreme circumstances, society should reserve the right
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by webXL 11y ago
Your headline would also only tell half of the story, because we don't know whose "ways" the administration rejected. They, the administration, spent time looking into something that they later concluded was wrong. Right? WaP
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by webXL 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. What does material possession and power (I assume over others) have to do with freedom? These hackers have power (their ability to obtain government data and subvert its power) and the Chinese gove
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by webXL 11y ago
Whoopsies!
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by webXL 11y ago
They're serving a 503 page now: "503 No server is available for the request" looks like it hasn't been displayed in a while or no one cares about the copyright date: "Facebook © 2014"
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by webXL 11y ago
Hopefully it spreads to HN!
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by webXL 11y ago
Seems like this trust issue could be solved with a bit of cryptography. A search for "blockchain elections" turned up some interesting proposals. http://www.bitcongress.org/ seems like it's being served over
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by webXL 11y ago
What's sensationalized? The approaches were analyzed as part of a months-long government discussion about how to deal with the growing use of encryption in which no one but the user can see the information. Using OUR money
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by webXL 11y ago
Why did we end exit polling? Seems like an obvious counter-measure/check. I don't trust for-profit media to conduct them. This is something that we all need to chip in to accomplish, if we care about democracy. If we can't tr
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by webXL 11y ago
"Grassroots" hacking isn't a good strategy for a state that wants to cover up its tracks. So I'm suspicious of these claims. Perhaps the government makes it worth the hackers' while to hack the USG instead of it. Ju
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by webXL 11y ago
Got any links? Google image search of "PRIVACY IS DEAD" + bus didn't turn up anything. Then I dropped the quotes and replaced dead with NSA, and got a bunch of bis pics with THANK YOU EDWARD SNOWDEN, so I don't think Goo
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by webXL 11y ago
I just have to take issue with his claim about privacy being a luxury good: In this world, privacy becomes a luxury good. Mark Zuckerberg buys the four houses around his house in Palo Alto, to keep hidden what the rest of us must
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by webXL 11y ago
> cost $100 trillion (money which would be spent anyway on non-renewable energy infrastructure) For every dollar diverted from non-renewable infrastructure spending, can you produce the same amount of energy? My guess is that it's n
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by webXL 11y ago
Any idea which bank it was? And what's the point of spoofing? It seems like a number of people who got fired could pool funds together for a wrongful termination lawsuit.
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by webXL 11y ago
Is Sweden a socialist country, according to your metrics? Government spending makes up just over half of their economy. We're somewhere between 35-38%, federal, state & local. I'll leave it at that.
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by webXL 11y ago
Perhaps. Can you give me a concrete example of "white privilege"?
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by webXL 11y ago
Fair enough. I was alluding to some other comments I had seen. As for your evidence, I think you're going out on a limb with "whites get favored in pretty much everything". While that may have been true up until the 1960s, we
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by webXL 11y ago
Racism is the individual or collective act of blindly favoring one race over another, or hurting one race over another. There's this thing called the dictionary. If you don't like the definitions in there, come up with a new word
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So the theory is that women are concerned about their reputations, so they ask for less than their male counterparts. But with the people that a female candidate would be working with, only the hiring manager would (should) know. I think th
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by webXL 11y ago
This may be very simplistic, and this cave-man doesn't have much knowledge in this arena, but part of me believes that discrimination can only exist in an anti-competitive environment. In competitive markets, the company with misogyni

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