> Fascinating. It's a shame that it's so hard to get people to pay for quality journalism. Maybe because it isn't quality journalism. Ultimately, something is worth what people are willing to pay for. > The world will…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/tony-porter-su...
> We're not talking about US, Britain, Europe or any other country. But you said "people of those nations"? Now you are backtracking? > It's also not a prerequisite to be Chinese or Uyghur to discuss this topic. If…
I'm spartacus!
> How do you even measure that? How about on a per capita basis? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/tony-porter-su... Or how about 1. In terms of quality and sophistication tech. US and Britain pioneered most…
> China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants What silly clickbait. I swear the media ( or propaganda ) sure loves to scaremonger with "china". The brits want it. Europe wants it. Russia wants it.…
HN is an echo chamber too. It's no different than reddit. Just much smaller.
> In simple terms they couldn't keep up with comment moderation and were not able or willing to invest in enough moderators. Has nothing to do with that. It's because their comment section gets no activity to merit…
> It very clearly sets it to display = block the line after That's the point he is making. > if you ran a normal browser. What's a normal browser?
> for the first time since WWII the US may have the second biggest economy and be falling further behind. Since 1890 or so. The US was the largest economy in the world for more than 50 years before ww2 started.
Because you aren't a kid anymore? You are older and have a wife, children, nephews, nieces and responsibilities? Not only that you have friends from childhood, high school, college, work, etc and there are only 24 hours…
It's not a myth. It's a fact. Younger people are more naive and idealistic. Older people are more skeptical and conservative.
Is it possible to have a discussion about anything without someone bringing politics to it? > He's my dad and I love him, but needless to say, when I see my partners going down the same path, it freaks me out. Your dad…
> Nuclear power can (technically) easily replace all fossil fuel power. It can replace fossil fuel power for electricity. Not all fossil fuel power. > It would take a decade of serious dedication and leaving behind a…
It's ridiculous. My university tried to switch the CS program from C/C++ ( OS, networking, etc ) and Scheme ( functional, programming languages, etc ) to java and there was a mass movement against it and we kept the…
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
> Given that Breitbart, Stephen Molynieux, etc, all basically support the least charitable interpretation of the memo (that women are genetically less predisposed to engineering) So? Are you saying you disagree? Then…
> Google is now a firm part of establishment They have been for a while now. They have a deal with the washingtonpost and nytimes to "feature" those two newspapers on google news and search. Check the waybackmachine and…
> If they are completely qualified, they should and would be hired by a system that completely ignores gender and race. I can't believe you were downvoted for expressing that merit rather than race and gender should be…
That's exactly how I feel about software ever since I got acquainted with windows 10. Do you best to remove all the junk. Then they keep reinstalling their "malware" until they finally remove the option of disabling or…
> Then he started retweeting Breitbart articles and selling "Goolag" t-shirts and threw his credibility out the window What does that have to do with his credibility or his arguments? His arguments stand on its own…
iPhone, iPad or apple app data. What you listen to on itunes. What you watch. Etc. They have to in order to tailor their services better, manage their infrastructure and of course plan for their future development.…
If you aren't paying for it, then you are the product. Even still, apple is still collecting data on you. If their business ever suffers, they can still sell your data. Apple still owns your data even if they aren't…
What if they were israelis? China, russia, britain and israel run the largest espionage rings in the US. If the FBI called out israel, I bet the media would call it racist.
Of course we do and of course they do. What's interesting is why the sudden "expose" and the media blitz. It's like how we knew the russians and everyone has been taking steroids for decades, but all of a sudden there…
> Fascinating. It's a shame that it's so hard to get people to pay for quality journalism. Maybe because it isn't quality journalism. Ultimately, something is worth what people are willing to pay for. > The world will…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/tony-porter-su...
> We're not talking about US, Britain, Europe or any other country. But you said "people of those nations"? Now you are backtracking? > It's also not a prerequisite to be Chinese or Uyghur to discuss this topic. If…
I'm spartacus!
> How do you even measure that? How about on a per capita basis? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/06/tony-porter-su... Or how about 1. In terms of quality and sophistication tech. US and Britain pioneered most…
> China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants What silly clickbait. I swear the media ( or propaganda ) sure loves to scaremonger with "china". The brits want it. Europe wants it. Russia wants it.…
HN is an echo chamber too. It's no different than reddit. Just much smaller.
> In simple terms they couldn't keep up with comment moderation and were not able or willing to invest in enough moderators. Has nothing to do with that. It's because their comment section gets no activity to merit…
> It very clearly sets it to display = block the line after That's the point he is making. > if you ran a normal browser. What's a normal browser?
> for the first time since WWII the US may have the second biggest economy and be falling further behind. Since 1890 or so. The US was the largest economy in the world for more than 50 years before ww2 started.
Because you aren't a kid anymore? You are older and have a wife, children, nephews, nieces and responsibilities? Not only that you have friends from childhood, high school, college, work, etc and there are only 24 hours…
It's not a myth. It's a fact. Younger people are more naive and idealistic. Older people are more skeptical and conservative.
Is it possible to have a discussion about anything without someone bringing politics to it? > He's my dad and I love him, but needless to say, when I see my partners going down the same path, it freaks me out. Your dad…
> Nuclear power can (technically) easily replace all fossil fuel power. It can replace fossil fuel power for electricity. Not all fossil fuel power. > It would take a decade of serious dedication and leaving behind a…
It's ridiculous. My university tried to switch the CS program from C/C++ ( OS, networking, etc ) and Scheme ( functional, programming languages, etc ) to java and there was a mass movement against it and we kept the…
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
> Given that Breitbart, Stephen Molynieux, etc, all basically support the least charitable interpretation of the memo (that women are genetically less predisposed to engineering) So? Are you saying you disagree? Then…
> Google is now a firm part of establishment They have been for a while now. They have a deal with the washingtonpost and nytimes to "feature" those two newspapers on google news and search. Check the waybackmachine and…
> If they are completely qualified, they should and would be hired by a system that completely ignores gender and race. I can't believe you were downvoted for expressing that merit rather than race and gender should be…
That's exactly how I feel about software ever since I got acquainted with windows 10. Do you best to remove all the junk. Then they keep reinstalling their "malware" until they finally remove the option of disabling or…
> Then he started retweeting Breitbart articles and selling "Goolag" t-shirts and threw his credibility out the window What does that have to do with his credibility or his arguments? His arguments stand on its own…
iPhone, iPad or apple app data. What you listen to on itunes. What you watch. Etc. They have to in order to tailor their services better, manage their infrastructure and of course plan for their future development.…
If you aren't paying for it, then you are the product. Even still, apple is still collecting data on you. If their business ever suffers, they can still sell your data. Apple still owns your data even if they aren't…
What if they were israelis? China, russia, britain and israel run the largest espionage rings in the US. If the FBI called out israel, I bet the media would call it racist.
Of course we do and of course they do. What's interesting is why the sudden "expose" and the media blitz. It's like how we knew the russians and everyone has been taking steroids for decades, but all of a sudden there…