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HugeAcumen

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    Comment #25402899

    "... the WikiLeaks team has racked up numerous awards for journalism over the years, including the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (2011), the Martha …

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    Comment #24770253

    * "Sufficient" ≠ Optimal * That's for light skinned folks. * I suspect the difference between 51°N and 56°N (ie, Scotland) in such a study would be much larger than most would thin…

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    Comment #24750101

    > The framework Apple and Google worked together on works great and protects privacy. Not so. https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/contact_tracing_app_...

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    Comment #24632348

    >It has no bearing on anything as far as I can tell. ...It says a lot that all of your examples are from your own life. There are counter examples abounding that just aren't affect…

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    Comment #24579274

    Looks like someone fell for the media narrative. Young people voted in record numbers for Bernie. And his demographic was everyone - the elderly had the most to gain in many ways.

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    Comment #24579094

    ... What? You didn't offer a link for your claim; why would you ask for a link to a fact easily findable in the search engine of your choice?

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    Comment #24578698

    Thanks, I was wondering how this was the fault of the left. */s

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    Comment #24554369

    I want to vote for those things. I'm told by my blue friends that I'm naive. Reds call me a socialist. This is by design. It is intentional. Billions of dollars are spent giving pe…

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    Comment #24543502

    Dear lord. Zero articles in the past two weeks. If you've been following the case at all, there's been a Hell of a lot to report, from Amnesty and EU ministers despairing at having…

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    Comment #24543370

    I'm not seeing where your link makes any such claim. It quotes Assange as saying ‘forget the Jewish thing’, after he allegedly pointed out that a number of people :shown to have li…

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    Comment #24542888

    ... And that picture is based completely on Assange being "autistic", "on the spectrum", "paranoid" and "narcissistic" - because he thinks his voice is important, that left wing me…

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    Comment #24542803

    Wooow - that essay aged like milk. Not that it was much good to begin with - the majority of his criticism is based on calling Assange "paranoid" and "narcissistic" - because he th…

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    Comment #24503337

    Before people engage with this gent I would point them to his recent conversations here. Many people, at length, have tried to engage and explain to him the import of these proceed…

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    Comment #24277479

    That's great, thanks :)

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    Comment #24275114

    Some people do - though likely not as many as discuss Love Island. I think the tech community in particular (with both the awareness and the means) has a duty to the public to make…

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    Comment #24275051

    In case anyone is taken in by this, here is the relevant part of the link: "Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in the field of virtual reality, told the Times that at a dinner at Epstein’s to…

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    Comment #24273270

    ... [crickets] Welp, gonna delete your app now. Shame I didn't get to try it.

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    Comment #24267791

    I'd really like this answered as well. I'd like to try this, but that prompt has put me off.

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    Comment #24206043

    If you measure "doing well in life" by money and power, yes. If you measure by being a decent and content person, I'd have to say no.

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    Comment #24203412

    It's deception to an utter randomer, as well as to yourself. You really need to be careful with lying to yourself like that. Being a whole integrated person who doesn't have to rem…

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    Comment #24193290

    ... Those seem like pretty tiny nitpicks in the context of the wider argument to me. The central point of his book - that there was far more geographic luck involved in European do…

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    Comment #24169531

    It looks interesting - but... The first thing i did was hit the search button to see if the site could help with my own projects - being asked to login when I tried was pretty jarr…

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    Comment #24169509

    Believe it or not, there is a large, large space between acting socially responsible and wanting money for "an edgy leftist position." So large. A gulf. Maybe you misread the quest…

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    Comment #23819141

    ...Did you read what you posted? This starts off as a recap of the HL universe then veers hard into far-far-far-right diarrhea. "In real life, the Hollow Empire — led by the synago…