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waterphone

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Comment #18527638
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46302140 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/03/facebook-role-rohingy... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambr... https:/…

Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 5:01 PM UTC
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Comment #18527619
Because Facebook is a horrible company and an increasing amount of information about just how bad they really are is coming to light lately.

Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 4:56 PM UTC
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Comment #18527585
The article explains why. Facebook is a genuinely evil company with genuinely evil people doing genuinely evil things to manipulate the world in negative ways, and I want nothing t…

Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC
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Comment #18527539
I'm not going to tell anyone else what they should do, but I am unwilling to use or associate with any of their services or properties.

Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 4:43 PM UTC
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Comment #18527234
Am I the only irritated by these inevitable questions from people with no sense of literary craft any time an article from the New Yorker is posted on HN?

Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 3:26 PM UTC
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Comment #18525189
Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 2:59 AM UTC
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Comment #18134033
It was first implemented under Obama, but it was authorized by Congress in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS…

Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 7:39 PM UTC
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Comment #18134015
The Wireless Emergency Alerts system, authorized in the 2006 Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih.... https:…

Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 7:38 PM UTC
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Comment #18133997
Considering that it's run by FEMA, and they are mandated by law to only use it in national emergencies, and multiple FEMA officials have to sign off on any message sent out, politi…

Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 7:36 PM UTC
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Comment #18133977
Because the 2006 law authorizing this mandated that Presidential Alerts not be able to be disabled. https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....

Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 7:34 PM UTC
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Comment #18133963
There are a few possible scenarios where a national alert makes sense: ICBM launches that they either can't yet predict the target of or on a scale that is targeting across the cou…

Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 7:33 PM UTC
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Comment #18130477
Upvoting is not an expression of support for the content, it's a "I think this article should be seen by more people" signal.

Wed, Oct 03, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC
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Comment #18044188
Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 2:53 AM UTC
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Comment #18043579
The First Amendment doesn't obligate private companies to do business with people or other businesses they don't want to be involved with. If the U.S. government were ordering his …

Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 11:57 PM UTC
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Comment #17973764
I was referring to the failure of whatever mechanism would be used to cancel an alert that appears post-fall.

Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 9:49 PM UTC
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Comment #17971616
It does this by default without a subscription service in the event of a detected fall if you do not respond to an alert within a certain amount of time. Hope nobody falls on their…

Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC
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Comment #17954650
Yes, it's an imperfect predictor of the future. No one else does a very good job predicting economic futures either, however.

Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 7:55 PM UTC
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Comment #17953982
Investing in total market index funds is literally investing in the economy as a whole. (Or as much of a whole as the index represents.) So while yes, they will crash with future m…

Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC
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Comment #17948706
One of those is based in fact and reality, the other is not. The reason you're having a hard time finding "neutral" news is because reality is not inherently neutral.

Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 1:10 AM UTC
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Comment #17892363
Oh, I understood what you meant, I was just providing an additional data point for this particular conversation in response to what you were saying re: search queries vs. results.

Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 3:51 PM UTC
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Comment #17887353
Number of search results: AFAIK: 8,600,000 AFAICT: 346,000 AFAIUI: 14,600

Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC
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Comment #17886229
"AFAIUI" is nowhere even close to as common as your other examples. I have never encountered it before, and Google Trends doesn't even register it in a comparison between the other…

Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC
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Comment #17871091
Getting freelance web development work. Maybe the markets are just changing, but in the past couple years my opportunities for new clients and projects have dropped off significant…

Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:35 PM UTC
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Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 12:29 AM UTC
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Comment #17844168
All the more reason to constantly tell people the right thing to do and why and strategies to avoid letting fear and other emotions get the better of them in those situations. We c…

Sun, Aug 26, 2018, 3:59 AM UTC