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Check out this analysis of American action movies. It may change the way you see Batman and other characters that may have influenced your thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

You physically attacked a person because he was being chased. Later on, you learned that he might have taken a pair of shoes that were in all likelihood manufactured using slave la…

OP's conspiracy theory is absolutely true. There is a whole thread of academic research estimating the right tail of the wealth distribution (spoiler: the Fed household finances mi…

> Personally, I think the entire financial system is broken and should be squashed. It's uglier than you can imagine.

I think OP has a good point. Although language if fuzzy, so are "binary" signals once you drill down to the physical layer. The fuzziness of language goes away if you allow yoursel…

Tx for the insight. Does the extra logging carry a risk over and above dos (which is mitigated by the `-m limit` stuff in the iptables rules)?

> Or is completely firewalled off from the world, and only accessible once you've authenticated yourself to your VPN. Or only reachable once you first authenticate (public/private …

I think you are asking something like, "does Apple voluntarily share my information?" Read some of the articles in [0]. At this point, I think it is pretty safe to assume that most…

I've always wanted to understand the geopolitics of oil and gas. Despite much interested reading, I can never quite figure out what's going on. One of the more interesting quote's …

The company has a retired NYPD commissioner on its board. Maybe people like that? Like most "social" projects, this is about turning ordinary life into reality TV. In the second st…

To put that 60k people number in perspective, FBI has 35k employees including administrative support staff.

Prime lifespans help to avoid lifespan synchronization with predators. But resonance is important too. https://web.archive.org/web/20120710081027/https://cims.nyu....