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Comment · 3 years ago
I have a manager who does the "teaching" thing poorly. If you're making a request in the form of a question, fine. But if you're trying to make me THINK, fuck off.
Comment · 4 years ago
Basically returning to Pneumatic tubes but probably way less elegant and over-engineered
Comment · 5 years ago
What if the state is the US demanding data using NSLs or dragnet warrants?
Comment · 5 years ago
great! finally a search engine that will give me mainstream news sources and the official washington or brussels consensus on facts.
Comment · 6 years ago
But it will be bar policy to have your name/address/email info or their reader won’t authenticate you.
Comment · 6 years ago
Or there’s cases like WMDs or “Assad gassed his own people” which are outright frauds coming from the establishment who determines what is factual.
Comment · 6 years ago
It becomes an issue when people do try to start their own networks, those networks get smeared and service providers (credit cards, hosting, dns) start cutting them off.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don’t like the “unbanked” basis for these anti cashless arguments because they’ll just solve that problem.
Comment · 7 years ago
No they intentionally put those sources higher in the results even when there’s more popular content below it. They get extra priority as they’re deemed “authoritative sources.” So if you’re searching something political you’ll get a Washington Consensus result every time pretty literally. If you search names of recent mideast wars, CFR appears to be a preprogrammed result like Wikipedia.
Comment · 7 years ago
google also has a definite opinion on news, politics and other controversial topics which will get worse and worse during election years or during times of war.
Comment · 7 years ago
ICBM tag with targeting coordinates hmm
Comment · 7 years ago
Isn’t this all predicated on a manifesto that surfaced before the dust even settled? Also saw reports the manifesto was a hoax. Everyone needs to slow the hell down.
Comment · 7 years ago
What if Rachel Maddow had a source inside the IRS who's trying to get at a folder that has trump tax returns and other financial details but doesn't have access. Source says they can deliver everything if Maddow can get some passwords on a thumb drive cracked. Maddow says she can't but to keep trying.

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