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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Yes, we should be specific in our definitions, otherwise the default would be the dictionary definition, which would have included the previously "absurd" theory (before Snowden) that the US government is performing dragnet survei
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What is the difference between the two? It seems to me both of those things are the same, except for maybe the former being of the future tense, and the latter the present/past tense.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Does the author discern anywhere in the article on plausible theories/historical examples vs. the outlandish theories? If so I must have skimmed over it. If not, then how is it not implied?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Hackers, thieves, social engineers. Identity theft is at an all time high, affecting 1 in 16 US adults every year and costs almost twice as much as all other property thefts.[2] [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money&#
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If you have an identity, a credit card number, or a SSN, then you're a target.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How is this not an appeal to authority hidden behind a strawman? Of course many people have wild beliefs about people wanting to harm them; many times they are wrong, sometimes they are right. It is the nature of fear to overcompensate. Doe
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Perhaps it is the anti-authoritarian ideological foundations of Bitcoin that triggers much of the animosity, as GP evidences: >its proponents are full of shit, political and naive to the extreme and they are against government by default
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why do you think the socratic method cannot be used for a means of discussion and learning for both parties?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
@jlrubin, do you have any specific plans on how you would like to spend your profits from these pins in order to combat nazism?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Is it not implicitly being done to maximize advertising revenue? I would say that in itself is unscrupulous
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How is that a useful observation, though? As the length of any internet argument grows, the probability of anything being said would approach 1.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Show me examples of corporations mass murdering people, though? United Fruit Company in Guatemala, Shell Oil in Nigeria, BP in Iran... there are countless examples of corporations paying off people to do their dirty work for them
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What does it say about our system that we have relatively more corporate overlords than government overlords?
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Ask HN: How often do you “unplug”?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>"Have a problem? Science and tech will eventually find the answer." I used to believe this myself when I was first getting into tech in school and reading Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. Then I got into the real world
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If you're innovating for the sake of innovation, then you're stuck in a rat race without an attainable end goal.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Dr. King was in fact censored, ignored, slandered and misrepresented by the television and print media. Especially when he protested the war in Vietnam and began his poor people's campaign. >You can keep saying that it will be a
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Indeed, and yet Dr. King would likely have been censored on the internet by the EXACT same justification (he is dangerous to us) in the not so distant past, if the internet were around back then. Which is why it is important to have equalit
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The idea that I'm seeing any of these comments arguing to the contrary means HN is already infiltrated by /pol/ and other Nazi sympathizing groups. If you're not with me, then you're my enemy. Spoken like a tru
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>If you can't acquire the resources to start your own print, then tough luck. "See, we just had a misunderstanding. I thought I lived in the USA, the United States of America, and actually we live in the USA, the United States
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The problem is who defines "dangerous speech"? Dr. King himself was labeled as "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security"
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's like reverse reparations. The Haitians had to pay for freeing themselves, and it wasn't until 1947, more than a 150 years later, that they finally settled the debt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externa
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Watch your context on that quote. Exposing racial injustice and providing a platform for the promotion of racial injustice (among other things perpetrated by the Daily Stormer) are two very different things. How can it be exposed if all
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>If I act like a complete jackass and no one wants to sell me a house, society wouldn't be "covering me up". They'd just be refusing to associate with me, as is the right of every individual. That sort of thinking is
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
There are 3 levels: 1. Surface web: public facing websites that can be found on google. Think public parks that are accessible to anyone. 2. Deep web: websites that require log ins because they have private content. Think of your home which
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>No one's covering up the problem, people are just refusing to listen Refusing to listen would mean not visiting their website. Covering them up would mean driving them to the dark web.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>China is going to have a massive data set... of Chinese citizens. With how much the ruling party exercises its authority over the nation and the nationalist nature of a lot of Chinese culture I don't see how this data will be broad
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It is possible to be both a victim and an oppressor, especially when the oppressors above have great leverage over the subject
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Perhaps if the lady had rephrased her question and not called China "an authoritarian country" they might have been able to get a better response. Even if it's true it is insulting to prideful nationalists and insults shut do
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
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