wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How do you define what is "normal" in life? Is it not normal for people to have periods of their lives (weeks, months, years) where they feel constantly miserable/sad due to a variety of reasons?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It's very easy for the state to effectively shut any non-complying company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Blocking a road is not civil disobedience. How would you define Dr. King's marches, then?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Strawman argument aside, the intelligentsia has always been feared by the state.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It puzzles me how many people here on HN claim to "trust" a company with which they have no human contact with (i.e. Google, Apple, Facebook), implying that their data is safe with them. "There are two types of companies: tho
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Despite the down votes, you are correct. Jon Oliver did a bit a while back about for profit prisons, which revealed how "high recidivism rates" were part of the investor sales pitch.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Perhaps it is because all it takes to "be a Christian" is to say "I believe in Jesus", or at least that is how it has been predominately defined by the religious authorities over the past 2,000 years. From then on it is
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
This seems like a false dichotomy. Finding the right balance between individual autonomy and working together for mutual benefit might be a better way to frame it. >A quick look at how the natural world works is a good enough deterrent:
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It seems more likely that it was due to the unknown and possibly dangerous nature of the drugs. The benign physical effects of plants like cannabis were well established by the government's own studies. The science was purposefully
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I suppose another way would be to issue restricted local currencies and non-transferable coupons or vouchers. That has the added benefit of creating a lot of paper-pushing bureaucracy jobs. Isn't one of the main goals of BI to elim
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What about a resource-based basic income? There is already a vast surplus of food and shelter that goes wasted every year, at least in the US.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It seems to me the opposite: kids are born with a natural curiosity of the world around them, which is why at a young age they incessantly ask the question "why?". This quickly becomes annoying to the adults, who were themselves t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Seriously, this shit doesn't happen. There are too many people doing too many things in the world for a government across the world to do much of anything to anyone You don't think governments hack their enemies?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Do we know that to be true? Why wouldn't they sell the information when it is worth so much? >Has there even been a spike in fraud? Identity theft is at an all time high.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>What's China gonna do about it? If someone lives in America, then they have nothing to worry about. If you're on the internet, then you can be targeted by anyone across the world, no matter where you live. Psyops/social e
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There is an even greater divide between the US and cultures who don't speak the same language: Mexico, Russia, China, etc.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Agreed, self-sacrifice is a common motif in the Hero's Journey, which is antithetical to survival of the fittest.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There is still much to be learned about the brain
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Southerners who do this come off as saccharine and insincere. If they're not being sincere then they're doing it wrong.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Black hats can get money easily enough without needing to resort to getting tangled up with secret police. Seems like the only reason to do that is if they had black mail on you
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It is curious how little skepticism many here on HN have when it comes to the news and 3 letter agencies blaming attacks on the usual boogymen. It seems running an attack through a proxy in Russia, NK, or China would be sufficient enough to
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Master: a man who has people working for him, especially servants or slaves. If you work for money, then by extension you work for the bank, because that is where money is apparated. The bank is the one who decides how much money is to be c
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>why should people's social lives be built outside work? Because it is much more genuine, easier, and less risky. There are countless laws, regulations, and policies dictating how one is to act in the workplace: you must dress this
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is HackerNews a place solely for news about people using computers for illegal activity?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There are various things I do which I consider to be forms of meditation: -sitting down in a shower with the lights off -going for a walk in the forest with no cell phone -laying in a hammock by a river -long distance running while focusing
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Reminds me of this Dave Chappelle bit about Ja Rule https://youtu.be/Mo-ddYhXAZc
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The long night; The sound of the water Says what I think. -Gochiku
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Yes, people will still refuse to back up their wallets by writing down the 12- or 24-word seed phrase Stupid question here, but what is wrong with doing that?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>No. But there is no national security or stability reason for them to lie about this They don't have to be lying, they could just be mistaken. Is it not common for hackers to leave fake tracks pointing to someone else as a diversio
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>there are also some crucial cases where it was majorly non-compliant - TV coverage of the Vietnam war being possibly the most significant & influential example. Indeed, though you'll notice that ever since the gory coverage of

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