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by 394549 8y ago
At the time of this writing: This story: 19 points, 46 min ago, 2 comments: rank 35 (2nd page) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18405775 : 17 points (less votes), 2 hours ago (older), zero comments: rank 11 (1st page) It
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by 394549 8y ago
> Why was this article hidden from the front page? A similar satellite journalism article from the BBC about a killing in west Africa was allowed on the front page a few weeks ago. Because it's about China, and information about Chi
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by 394549 8y ago
> Post-war Iraq is not the same as a war zone, so protection of the civil service, bureaucrats, diplomatic corps, etc. I think can be done by some kind of other trained force. I said conflict zone not war zone, which I meant to encompa
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by 394549 8y ago
> I have no problem with these guys as long as they are not doing military missions. As far as I'm concerned, security of American assets and personnel in a conflict zone is a military mission.
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by 394549 8y ago
> 'Enhanced security guards' are fine. I don't agree with that. Didn't these mercenary companies start out as just "enhanced security guards?" It seems like once you allow them to operate in any capacity,
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by 394549 8y ago
Mercenaries may always exist, but American ones don't have to. Participation in them should be made illegal, and all these private military companies should forbidden to operate until they find another line of business or liquidate
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by 394549 8y ago
American private military companies like this one and Blackwater need to be abolished.
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by 394549 8y ago
> not a libertarian, but what do the alleged actions of of a theocratic monarchy have to do with the potential excesses of free market capitalism? Probably because there's profit to be had in making deals with that theocratic mona
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by 394549 8y ago
> This is horrible for Europe - where end users will eventually pay more for their preferred 'Google Android'. It won't be "horrible for Europe." Those users have always paid for these apps in one way or another
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by 394549 8y ago
> By obligating handset makers to load the free apps along with the Android operating system, regulators said Google had boxed out competitors. It sounds like a very good thing to me to prevent companies like Google from having such term
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by 394549 8y ago
> Look at the comments that already exist - is there any way that you can imagine this not turning into a flamefest? That's an interesting censorship tactic: if you don't like a topic or an idea, start a fight about it, the rud
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by 394549 8y ago
> They are talking about how likely the order relates to market structure. What do you mean by "market structure?"
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by 394549 8y ago
> Months ago, senior Facebook executives briefly debated banning all political ads, which produce less than 5 percent of the company’s revenue, sources said. The company rejected that because product managers were loath to leave advertis
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by 394549 8y ago
> Nah, this isn't a legal debt that they can forward to a collection agency, as pointed out in the article. My understanding is that many collection agencies aren't very scrupulous about they debts they try to collect. Many of
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by 394549 8y ago
> I doubt UA would follow through considering it is illegal to submit known false debts. I wonder if they've snuck in a mandatory binding arbitration clause into their contract, and if that would cover disputes about false debts. E
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by 394549 8y ago
> This is insane on a whole other level, because United profits when you don't get on that 2nd leg. Not necessarily. If you use use hidden-city ticketing, they lost out on extracting the extra money they wanted to charge you for go
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by 394549 8y ago
The "free market" doesn't make fraud or misrepresentation illegal, the laws and regulations of the dreaded government do. The worst the free market can do to a fraudster is to stop dealing with her as knowledge of her frauds
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by 394549 8y ago
Only if you get caught.
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by 394549 8y ago
This is the free market at work, throwing off its chains. /s
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by 394549 8y ago
So you're saying the defaults should be setup for the unusual use cases like you describe, even if that means we get botnets of millions of routers? You're not going to define one set of secure-by-default rules that's going t
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by 394549 8y ago
> 1) This data privacy glitch is just like Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, except it isn’t. > well, if its not, then why even bring it up? that part smells like sensationalism to me.. It's the same type of glitch, except
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by 394549 8y ago
> Surely the author, editor, and publisher of this article, and anyone likely to read it, are aware. We are aware. That's a really weird statement. Articles are published so that readers can be informed of things that the author an
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by 394549 8y ago
It's a tradeoff. You have to balance that negative against the negative of having botnets of millions of never-patched routers. Automatic updates should be the default, but you should be able to shut them off if you want to make a dif
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by 394549 8y ago
> Can we really continue to claim that we're unaware Google, Facebook, and other web companies are monitoring everything they can and sharing the information they collect, sometimes for profit, sometimes accidentally, and sometimes
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by 394549 8y ago
> An "automatic" update that would potentially cause the router to reboot and bring down the network would go over very poorly with customers, even if it happens at 3 AM. Maybe the the trigger for the automatic reboot could be
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by 394549 8y ago
> the same group with fanatical penchants who mercilessly eviscerated the Alexandrian mathematician/philosopher Hypatia. IIRC, that's a bit of a myth. According to Wikipedia, she was murdered due to a political power struggle
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by 394549 8y ago
I wonder if you could test this theory using helium gas from one of those cylinders they use to inflate balloons. Put an iPhone in a bag, inflate it with helium, and see if it malfunctions.
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by 394549 8y ago
> On the Leadership Team of the Bro Project, we heard clear concerns from the Bro community that the name "Bro" has taken on strongly negative connotations, such as "Bro culture". My understanding is that the negative
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by 394549 8y ago
> How about actually leaking documents on day, I dunno, how the Chinese government is trying to brainwash Uighurs and erase their culture and religion? Wikileaks legitimately may not be in a position to acquire such documents to leak. M
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by 394549 8y ago
Are there still any places you can get Gros Michel bananas? I've heard they still survive in a few places, and I've always wanted to try one.

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