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I can see why they might not be on your personal list straight away, no. But I bet weapons, logistics, comand&control etc all do need them. So generals and admirals might start sweating just a little.

Am I crazy or is "sort by (upload) date" or "sort by most recent" by far the most useful option on most sites that you want to use more than once? (If not the only useful option).

The EU started out as an economic union. They are still very capitalist. Which means they protect consumers, promote fair competition, and encourage trade between member states. They're neither mercantilist nor plutocratic.

People don't represent groups. They represent themselves. Swat535 gets to define what being a conservative Christian means through their own words and actions, not serve as contrast to stereotypes about others.

I don't know. Depending on what kind of conservative (and from where) and what kind of christian (and from where), you might be very much closer to a lot of HN people than you might think.

If your view is that we should conserve western values and institutions and walk in the footsteps of Christ, ultimately that's not too far from universal human values that many people do in fact agree with.

The devil is in the details, of course.


The licensing terms exist as a patch on copyright. If copyright law were fixed, we wouldn't need those terms at all.

> If copyright law were fixed, we wouldn't need those terms at all.

Why do you think so?


> On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

-- Charles Babbage


Originally I was the one who put all the email addresses into linkedin to begin with (in fact back when I started using linkedin, you needed their valid address to link up with them). So it's my own contact info list, or was. Since I couldn't get the info back out, I ultimately deleted my linkedin account.

I think this is the point that most people miss in the first place!

LinkedIn harvested peoples contacts under the guise that they were going to help you find connections, but instead they spammed your entire contact list through their outlook plugin and now when you try to get your lists and contacts out they make it extremely painful.


Kluger/Clever Hans? [1]

The funny thing is: the abilities that people thought of as clever at the time (doing maths) can be done with a $1 component these days. The thing Clever Hans actually did (reading the audience) is something we spend billions on, and in some circles it's still up for debate whether anything can do it.

see also: Moravec's Paradox [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox


> The US wants to check whether people who show up for vacation without a visa have a criminal record.

Surprisingly, (at least some) European countries will tell you directly whether someone has a specific criminal record (given that someone's consent.)

If that's what the US wanted, then that could be given directly. But that's not what the US is asking for.


lol no, I don't think the US is asking for the subset of criminal records which the criminals have consented to sharing.

I think the idea is that if you don't consent you don't cross the border.

eg.

https://www.justis.nl/en/products/certificate-of-conduct

Idea being they could request a relevant certificate of conduct, which is only issued if your record is clean. No certificate means no access.


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