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peu4000 commented on Assange Hearing Day 6 craigmurray.org.uk/archiv... · Posted by u/k1m

That "nuanced take" takes some really outrageous positions, such as agreeing with Pompeo's description of WikiLeaks as a hostile, non-state intelligence agency. Intelligence agencies aren't in the business of publishing documents for the public. They're in the business of collecting documents for their own governments.

peu4000 · 5 years ago

Russia, almost certainly, used Wikileaks to dump hacked documents in order to influence the 2016 election. The CIA is also accused of hack and dump operations more recently -- welcome to the 21st century.

peu4000 commented on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020? · Posted by u/xcoding

billfruit · 6 years ago

I would recommend 'Understanding Poetry' by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, as a good introduction, it also includes a reasonable collection of poems from various poets to appreciate.

I would also suggest getting an anthology like 'The Golden Treasury' or Anthony Quiller-Couch or Robert Penn Warren (Six Centuries of British Poetry) or G B Harrison. They are available often in small pocket editions, which one can carry around with one.

peu4000 · 6 years ago

I've been reading "Sleeping on the Wing" on and off recently -- I think it's meant more as an intro for older school kids but I've never read poetry outside of school and it's been an interesting overview of different poets and styles.

peu4000 commented on 23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M tomsguide.com/us/23andme-... · Posted by u/Taurenking

seganddr · 6 years ago

It's interesting for a new account to have such a strongly opinioned, eloquent, and top voted comment on such a controversial topic.

peu4000 · 6 years ago

Do you find it similarly interesting that a 5 year old account with 3 other posts and a few comments posted a 1.5 year old article and managed to get over 300 upvotes on it?

peu4000 commented on Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection blog.jonlu.ca/posts/safew... · Posted by u/jonluca

jcomis · 6 years ago

I think they recently cleared this. I tried 10+ area code variants just this weekend and none worked.

peu4000 · 6 years ago

Works at my local Safeway, as of yesterday. There was a period of time over a year ago during which Jenny's number didn't work at a different Safeway but it's been reliable at this one, so far.

peu4000 commented on Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate Lobbyists elizabethwarren.com/plans... · Posted by u/evo_9

dvdhnt · 6 years ago

Hard pass.

This would be a fragile suture over the gushing wound that is corporate lobbying. It's literally allowing wolves in the hen house.

If we're going to keep doing this whole Democratic Republic thing, along with the Constitution, we need to adhere to the spirit of the framework and not just the letter of it.

The federal government was set (what was at the time) far away from everyday life so that our representatives would not be swayed by salesmen and their snake oil.

So, if you want to make a difference Liz, do something about the root problem and help us defeat corporate lobbying.

peu4000 · 6 years ago

Your vague plan of just stop corporate lobbying immediately fails because the negative incentives for someone in congress vastly outweighs the positive.

peu4000 commented on Ask HN: How do you handle logging? · Posted by u/ElFitz

peu4000 · 6 years ago

We're in the middle of a cloud migration, but in our dockerized environment we're sending logs directly from stdout to cloudwatch using Docker's cloudwatch plugin.

In our legacy environment we're writing to files and sending them up to cloudwatch using awslogs.

Cloudwatch is kind of ass for logging, but they added insights somewhat recently; it upgraded cloudwatch logs from being unusable to just being a pain in the ass to use.

This works for us so far because it's super simple and we don't have a major need for log analytics, just the occasional production debugging session.

I did a PoC for fluentd + logdna/logz/etc and that also seemed to work pretty well.

peu4000 commented on I feel like im talking to the borg twitter.com/rulesObeyer/s... · Posted by u/louis-paul

peu4000 · 6 years ago

This is just cheap twitter advertising -- the only thing different about this(from Wendy's twitter advertising) is that Amazon is harnessing Twitter's outrage lust to get more eyeballs on their ambassador's nice words and it looks like it works.

Don't interact with advertisements, folks.

peu4000 commented on How Turkey Purged Its Intellectuals nytimes.com/2019/07/24/ma... · Posted by u/gumby

deogeo · 6 years ago

Amazing how a billionaire funding an institution with a self-admitted propaganda purpose is 'democracy', while elected officials trying to limit the influence of foreign capital is 'authoritarian'.

By that logic, limiting the influence of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute is also anti-democratic.

peu4000 · 6 years ago

It is quite amazing that different situations are different.

peu4000 commented on YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems” twitter.com/KodyKinzie/st... · Posted by u/avolcano

jlmorton · 6 years ago

There's a lot of bad content on the Internet, and a lot of people wanted to ban it. And the free speech absolutists said, that's a slippery slope. Once you start restricting speech beyond whatever is illegal, there will be no end to the demands to ban certain content.

And a lot of us said, slippery slopes are silly arguments. All we're asking is to ban overt racism and calls to violence. We can evaluate these things individually on their own terms.

It may turn out the absolutists had a point.

peu4000 · 6 years ago

There's no such thing as a free speech absolutist and YouTube was never a free speech platform.

peu4000 commented on Opioids and the Labor Market (2018) clevelandfed.org/newsroom... · Posted by u/resalisbury

bobcostas55 · 6 years ago

~75% of addictions start with people using them _without_ a prescription.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTab...

peu4000 · 6 years ago

But almost all of that %75 comes from hand outs from someone the user knows and 6.48B indicates that person has a prescription for said pills.

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KarmaCake day43January 5, 2015View Original