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Well, while I don't necessarily agree with the articulation of the top level post, but I agree with the sentiment. And I agree with your remark that the capability of appreciating nuance is funda…

How about these cases? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare_in_the_United_Sta... And this list doesn't even include us tapping the German prime minister's phone l…

What exactly is this? A list of IP addresses and countries? It's unclear which attributes from this list associate the hack with Russia, and presumably it's more than IP address seeing as ho…

I think this discussion is way too black & white. I for one don't think all building codes are bad, but it's trivial to imagine a case of too many building codes. Now the question is, …

Selling houses is a very formalized process, this should be easy to enforce. First of all, there is a deed of sale that gets signed over, the unsuitability for resale could be listed on the deed. Reme…

That's a strawman summary, and destructive to the discussion. The state argued that bulldozing his house was the right thing to do, more on process than any evidence as it seems his house was str…

For once there was a great discussion about this whole fiasco on reddit (yesterday): https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5j0ahs/us_got_it... In particular …

Well I can tell you I've personally had situations in my life where: - I was told things like "You can't understand this as a white man," - I had a coworker get very disturbed (and…

How can you say nobody is getting shunned for gender pronouns? Did read the link I posted about people getting in trouble for the word "Niggardly?" The fact is, plainly that there are SOME p…

No, what I mean by that is that it will always be legal to hurt people in certain ways with words. Those ways are not threats but emotional... such as: What I had in mind was a mother saying "I…

Seems like the best solution to me would be an accessibility option on the device that prevents this type of flashing. May seem hard, but compare that against stopping people from being immature/…

Sure, that's why I threw the word usually in there. My point isn't that what happened here is "Right" or "wrong" my point is, 10% of the internet freaks out about all of …

Did you read all of what I wrote? I'm not suggesting the action is "justified" because of "Freedom of Speech." But you absolutely cannot deny that from a legal context, this a…

The fact that pushed me over the edge is when I learned a cat twitching in its sleep is dreaming. Apparently all mammals dream. Now we haven't exactly defined consciousness, but I can't real…

I have no idea how this made front-page. The title is inconsistent with the article title, and even the article title seems inflated to what it describes. As I understand it, the experimental group pl…

Well, no that's a little different. If one out of thousands of police organizations were corrupt, that would offer little evidence that the average one is. If one out of 5 acronym agencies is cor…

What evidence do you have that corrupt FBI agents are rare? Just because OUTSIDERS have only publicly caught a few does not suggest those are the only ones. There is also more to the problem than corr…

You bring up the question of, how do we know what's true in this day of internet news? Well, the answer is research and discussion. Why do people here seem so worried that the government is lying…

I absolutely would not give up on fighting the political angle of this. Public trust in government to be any more honest or effective than any other clump of people (corporation) is going down across …

Do you think that distinction is substantive? Do you think there's some reason to believe that FBI agents are morally superior to the DEA and Secret Service? As I see it, the illegal and immoral …

>> especially troubling in the hands of an administration of President-elect Trump, a Republican who has "openly said he wants the power to hack his political opponents the same way Russia …

Well, I can't speak to your career experience, but I can speak to mine. My experience has been (31, SF) that companies are fundamentally disorganized, frequently reinvent things (a behavior seen …

I get the sense that most engineers would almost never use, and never need to use, most things beyond advanced-beginner in this sheet. It may be fun to brag about knowing how to use "embedded DSL…

As long as you're not saying "typical" means justified.

I don't know why this isn't more upvoted. As an SF resident I can confirm that this happened over the holiday (Friday) (I heard a muni station agent mentioned the word hacked, all the gates …

Wow, what an empty article. An official unwilling to be identified asserts the default (not tampered with), and then implies malicious intent on Russia's behalf as if it were a side note. If we h…

Let me try to make this simple, because I think you want to, and can, understand what I'm saying. I'm saying this article quotes the NSA using language condemning what Russia allegedly did. …

Of course people can draw incorrect conclusions from true facts. But since neither you nor I know the exact truth, we'll never know for sure which party is the one drawing the incorrect conclusio…

I don't understand this critique. Though "influence election" sounds ominous, in this case it really refers to "influencing" voters by revealing true things, does it not? One …