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by bmm01 9y ago
There's no mutually assured destruction between the US and NK. The US can destroy NK, but NK cannot annihilate the US, even if it can severely damage many of its urban centers.
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by bmm01 9y ago
But making judges appointed rather than elected positions might.
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by bmm01 9y ago
Leaving aside the content and focusing only on style, can't we agree that the internet made journalistic writing so much more dull? What an engaging piece.
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by bmm01 9y ago
I'm not trying to speak as an authority on the subject, because I'm not. But perhaps it's you who has not properly contextualized the crime. And perhaps there's something wrong about the casualness with which you dismiss
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by bmm01 9y ago
Completely disagree. Media companies are utterly dependent on Facebook and Google for revenue. If Twitter had succeeded in growing as Facebook did, Twitter would also be a platform that media companies believe they must be on. They couldn&#
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Tim Wu on US Antitrust Law. Is Google a Monopoly?(vox.com)
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by bmm01 10y ago
The TechCrunch article describes ZeniMax's allegations at more length: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/01/jury-awards-zenimax-500-mi...
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by bmm01 10y ago
In many respects, Y Combinator, or really, start ups more broadly, seem uniquely ill equipped to solve this problem. Startups seem to be especially incompatible with the business challenges that face media companies right now. While perhaps
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by bmm01 10y ago
That's a somewhat naive view. It presupposes that the current system is just, because (1) all members of society had an equal hand in shaping the current system, (2) that it was designed to serve the interests of society as a whole (ra
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by bmm01 10y ago
I disagree. When the AG points out that an executive action is morally or legally dubious, it reflects more on the actions of the president than on the AG. In this case, government cannot be compared to a business, where a subordinate publi
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by bmm01 10y ago
Many are persecuted for other reasons too.
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by bmm01 10y ago
Wow, the chaos of the Trump administration has now fallen on Hacker News and heated political discussion has ensued. I didn't think there were ever discussions here about US foreign policy, except for how they relate to things with som
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by bmm01 10y ago
If he's going to stop purchasing and using American good and cancel plans to come to America after the immigration policy was implemented, but not after Obama's targeted killings in Yemen and elsewhere, then clearly the former cro
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The Great AI Awakening(nytimes.com)
3 points by bmm01 10y ago|0 comments
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by bmm01 10y ago
Great comment!
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by bmm01 10y ago
This is my first iOS app. I built it with React Native. It allows users to post messages to a specific location (the location where the user is when they send their message). If another user comes to the location of the message, that user w
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Show HN: Spaceboom, location-based messaging built with React Native(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by bmm01 10y ago|1 comments