thenewkid

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by thenewkid 13y ago
Great quote when asked for an alternative to Facebook. "My alternative to a nasty system is I just don't use it"
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by thenewkid 13y ago
What proof do you have that the Russian government controls RT? Are you suggesting that any organization which receives state funding of some sort is controlled by the state?
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German artist projects picture of KimDotCom onto U.S. embassy in Berlin(youtube.com)
1 points by thenewkid 13y ago|0 comments
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Scroogled!
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New York MTA: simulated subway attack uses gas which may sterlize women(gothamist.com)
2 points by thenewkid 13y ago|0 comments
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Amazing, literally within seconds of replying, I get a downvote.
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by thenewkid 13y ago
How can you thank the moderator? The new title "Retired Senior Microsoft Manager Dies In Phuket" while strictly factual, removes any context relevant to recent news.
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Got any tinfoil? Cliff was found dead on July 1st, the same day that the SF Chronicle ran an article "Interview with NSA expert James Bamford". A comment on the article suggests - without evidence - that Cliff and James might be b
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Retired Senior Microsoft Manager Dies In Phuket(pattayadailynews.com)
14 points by thenewkid 13y ago|5 comments
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Wall Street Rip-Off: Thompson-Reuters sells data two seconds early for a fee(rollingstone.com)
1 points by thenewkid 13y ago|0 comments
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SFO Crash: Victim may have been run over by emergency vehicle(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by thenewkid 13y ago|0 comments
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British Airways Flight 38(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by thenewkid 13y ago|0 comments
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by thenewkid 13y ago
This is shocking stuff. "An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. [DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the pro
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FBI Document: [DELETED] had "plan to kill local Occupy leaders via sniper fire"(whowhatwhy.com)
308 points by thenewkid 13y ago|145 comments
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UN Secretary General: Edward Snowden's digital 'misuse' has created problems(guardian.co.uk)
8 points by thenewkid 13y ago|0 comments
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by thenewkid 13y ago
The OP is nit-picking. At the end of the day, it only matters if a person puts their name behind a statement or not.
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by thenewkid 13y ago
So will everyone who is nit-picking over grammar also be demanding that politicians write their own speeches and statements?!
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Yes, except it would be self-exile .
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Here's an enterprising journalist! "Surreal 21 hour adventure of reporter who deliberately got sequestered at Moscow airport in the hope of finding Edward Snowden" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Perhaps your friends are not able to prioritise? Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. What good is it to have the right to abortion, gay marriage, immigration amnesty etc. if tomorrow you ca
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New Yorker cover - Bert and Ernie's "Moment of Joy"(newyorker.com)
1 points by thenewkid 13y ago|0 comments
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Don't worry, $1.25m buys a lot of pivots.
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by thenewkid 13y ago
DigitalOcean is nothing special, don't know why they get so much hype. Droplets are just another marketing gimmick, another layer of abstraction which developers don't really need. If you want a bare box to play with, try the comp
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Will children be able to draw rainbows free of political and cultural symbolism? Or will the appropriation become permanent, much like the word "gay" which has lost its original English and French meaning? "The rainbow flag
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Owner of new MacBook Air: 4 GB of RAM is not enough(forums.macrumors.com)
5 points by thenewkid 13y ago|1 comments
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by thenewkid 13y ago
> "large population of gay people in tech" Any citations to back this up? How did you come to this conclusion?
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by thenewkid 13y ago
The lawsuit targets the Irish subsidiary because that's where the money is. If they move they will probably pay higher taxes. Quite clever! > The group’s complaint draws on the precedent set in 2006, which found that a mass trans
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by thenewkid 13y ago
Michael Hasting's friend was just interviewed on TV: "His friends and family that know him, everyone says he drives like a grandma, so that right there doesn't seem like something he'd be doing, there's no way that
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GCHQ code breaker found dead - locked in sports bag and dumped in bath tub(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by thenewkid 13y ago|2 comments
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by thenewkid 13y ago
So what is his full name? > "The name used in US government diplomatic documents was Edward James Snowden, the US Department of Justice referred to him as Edward J Snowden, and Hong Kong’s Immigration Department had him recorded as

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