> A bad side effect of this is that when I do hear ads or see a TV it's really, really difficult to filter it out.
That brings to the forefront a feeling that I have noticed in the back of my mind recently: I notice ads that many people don't since I've tried to de-advertise my content consumption. Hulu/Spotify ads breaking up episodes/songs annoy me more than ever, perhaps increasing this cascading failure that the article features.
> Well for me the way to deal with the whole "climate change" is wrong, if they were to say - "who wants cleaner air and water" - Nobody would argue and things would just move forward
I've tried this argument many times with climate change skeptics. It almost always comes down to economics for them. They want cleaner air and water, but not at the expense of their wallets.
Bringing up the long-term economic effects of climate change just brings us back to the original argument.
I believe that it is not simply the decision of leaving the EU that is the big news. It is the ideas and discussions that caused that decision to be made by the majority of the UK population (this article focusing in on the economic inequality portion of the argument) that are the most interesting and cause the largest reaction.
I should also mention that it is big news in the US because we are seeing similar sentiments from a portion of our populace and the foreshadowing of our own elections is, well, interesting.
Something as simple as the new grab bars in the middle of the car will be a great improvement. Although I'd rather it be a 3-bar split as opposed to the 2 in the mockup. That way we can still have the annoyingly frequent bar leaner and still have a place to hold on to.
When the network is up it's surprisingly fun for a game with so many problems. Makes me hope they actually fix some of them soon we can play the game it should be.
Morse Code has always been timed and spaced. There have to be consistent pauses between dits, dahs, chars and words or it all runs together and makes no sense.
didahdah is the letter W and didah dah are the letters AT. Having the wrong timing or no pauses between dits and dahs totally changes the code.
And, it's never been very efficient for sending large messages. 40 WPM is the fastest humans can copy. Most normal people top out at about 20 WPM. To put that in perspective, we speak at about 300 WPM. Basically, that's why Morse Code has so many abbreviations called Q codes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code
"The duration of a dash is three times the duration of a dot. Each dot or dash is followed by a short silence, equal to the dot duration. The letters of a word are separated by a space equal to three dots (one dash), and the words are separated by a space equal to seven dots. The dot duration is the basic unit of time measurement in code transmission."
It is extremely efficient and effective when you only have a few watts, a switch and would like to communicate around the world. Nothing really compares.
I'd be interested to hear. I doubt I'd have any points to bring to the discussion further, but I've not really heard someone speak for the work the NSA is doing.
(I skimmed your comment history for the elaboration, but found nothing in my brief search. Sorry!)
I don't have much to say about it, other than the specific belief that I don't think this comment will ever be directly connected to me by the NSA or anyone else, almost regardless of its content.
A lot of the concern over the loss of privacy from a 1st Amendment standpoint revolve around the idea that the US government will eventually start to silence dissenters. I don't worry about this, because I can write this comment, and as long as I don't literally make a direct or actionable threat against someone, no one on the planet but me will know who wrote it. Even after everything I've read about what the NSA is doing, I still don't think they have the capability of identifying someone in a position like mine without a warrant.
The idea that this comment is safe makes me think the US government isn't yet at a point where the article writer seems to think it is.
Thanks. I don't agree with this (Ben Tilly's take on NSA surveillance is practically identically to mine), but I'm glad to know there are people that have coherent arguments in support of NSA, rather than just a crowd of HN commenters bickering about who opposes NSA more.
That brings to the forefront a feeling that I have noticed in the back of my mind recently: I notice ads that many people don't since I've tried to de-advertise my content consumption. Hulu/Spotify ads breaking up episodes/songs annoy me more than ever, perhaps increasing this cascading failure that the article features.