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by hackuser 9y ago
An open endorsement is not at all comparable to breaking the law, stealing information, turning it into misinformation, and leaking it anonymously. You also could say that Muhammad Ali and I both have thrown punches and that Linus Torvalds
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E.P.A. Dismisses Academic Scientists from Major Scientific Review Board(nytimes.com)
132 points by hackuser 9y ago|92 comments
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Why the Macron Hacking Attack Landed with a Thud in France(nytimes.com)
1 points by hackuser 9y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 9y ago
> I've wondered purely out of curiosity if the decline in wages is related at all to the entry of women into the work force Adding workers adds wealth per capita; it's not a zero-sum situation. Adding more workers to the econom
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by hackuser 9y ago
> America's economic growth has peaked I assume you mean, the size of the economy has peaked. The rate of growth was never thought to be increasing (i.e., it didn't grow 4% one year, 4.1% the next, etc.). This question is answe
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by hackuser 9y ago
> the ones voting ... for politicians who oppose subsidized healthcare It's more complex than that, because those same voters are pressuring their elected representatives to retain healthcare subsidies and similar benefits.
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by hackuser 9y ago
Again, I'm not questioning your judgment. Sorry if you feel that way; I'd delete the comment now if I could. I wouldn't question other people either, and especially, for obvious reasons, I wouldn't question the people yo
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by hackuser 9y ago
In fairness, you don't know what your life would have been like without them. I'm not second guessing your personal judgment, which must include a million factors I have no idea about (and it's not my business), but I don&#x2
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by hackuser 9y ago
> It's looked down on as if "you just can't handle life" so you "just feel sad". Loved ones have mental health problems and those reactions just piss me off. If someone has a broken bone sticking out of thei
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by hackuser 9y ago
People will write that software, select which software to purchase, write the rules for its use, and implement them. Powerful people aren't going to sit back and let those things happen in ways that they don't like, which are thre
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by hackuser 9y ago
It will be intentionally biased; that I'm confident of. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14288232
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by hackuser 9y ago
Ultimately, everything is politics, and I predict that if these algorithms become widely used, politics eventually will be the primary determining factor in their calculations. Why? If these algorithms become widely used and thus influence
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Wikipedia isn't spending more because of high costs of hosting, bandwidth and development. They are spending on executives, administration, grants, travel/conferences, and other mostly unrelated expenditures What is that base
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by hackuser 9y ago
I'd add: Let's not get caught in the trap of looking at good-paying jobs as a problem. Wikipedia employees shouldn't be expected to work for next-to-nothing or nothing and to make great sacrifices for the rest of us, which is
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Of course my points are based on generalizations and my value judgement is subjective. We are all ignorant regarding the vast majority of things - the best we can do is draw observations based on the information we have. That reasoning
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by hackuser 9y ago
What if you don't want others to know about your health, or whatever else a machine can smell?
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Sunset: The arkOS project is being discontinued(arkos.io)
1 points by hackuser 9y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 9y ago
It looks like a commercial, easy-to-use (they claim) version of some of the personal cloud/server projects out there that I've read about (EDIT: ArkOS, Sandstorm, Yunohost, etc.), which is a good thing: The projects aren't re
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by hackuser 9y ago
Is there a way non-subscribers can read it?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> "I think if you look back at what they were projecting and how they thought the business would develop, I would say what they've run into is some pretty tough competitors." What market segment is he talking about, and wh
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France’s Macron Hack Likely by Same Russian Group That Hit DNC, Sources Say(defenseone.com)
3 points by hackuser 9y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 9y ago
> when I first started using Uber, most of the drivers were college educated millennials driving a brand new Toyota Prius To pick on one point, I don't see educated people or millennials as likely to be better drivers.
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by hackuser 9y ago
These are baseless allegations, impossible generalizations, and repetition of lies. There's a reason the parent contains no factual basis - not one citation - for what it says. > inferior cultures This is just ignorant, and against
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by hackuser 9y ago
That video is great. The multiple cursors GUI is a brilliant way to visualize a repetitive operation (i.e., one that often would be recorded and executed by macro). I was going to ask if anyone else implements it, but I thought I'd sea
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by hackuser 9y ago
Then perhaps you should welcome the immigrants so that the women will be free. Do you object to immigration by white-skinned males who abuse and/or control women? What about those from cultures where there is widespread racism? What ab
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by hackuser 9y ago
The same pro-Russian propaganda uses the same talking points over and over, on every issue. 'There is no evidence!' (regardless of the evidence).
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by hackuser 9y ago
> There aren't a lot of facts to go on In fact there is a long history of evidence. The Russia defenders love to try to create uncertainty, using these same talking points every time, regardless of the evidence.
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by hackuser 9y ago
There is widespread, well-known evidence of it, no matter how many times you try to raise doubts.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> most of them pragmatic I'm not sure how you can count them and say 'most'. Certainly a lot of racism is involved. I've rarely heard many economic analyses or real evidence that provide pragmatic reasons, but that do
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by hackuser 9y ago
Do you have any basis for these otherwise baseless allegations? Major cities are filled with immigrants and cultures from all over the world, and are the engines of advanced economies. New York is one very successful example; London is anot

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