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skylan_q··on Meme pages plan mass revolt against alleged Facebook bias
anonymity fosters honesty

honesty fosters new art

skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
Yes, you're right. I suppose it is a very comfortable position to be in and we should envy him.

Thanks!

skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
If he leaves, he goes to jail.
skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
Identity was given away after he's been killed. That is to say, he was already outed. There is no danger anymore as it's been realized and the people out for blood already got it.
skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
I think that's a bit quick to accuse someone of conspiracy theories.

"The DNC is rigged and Hillary Clinton is closely connected to many mysterious deaths." Conspiracy theorist!

leaks occur supporting the conspiracy theory

Look, the real issue here is that Assange is meddling with elections! Our corruption is our business alone! Look how he implies conspiracy theories (which we all know are never true). How reckless!!

skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
Outing a source that's already dead and everyone who wants anyone connected to him controlled/dead?

No, I don't think there's any added risk at this point.

skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
No, it has nothing to do with the fact that the DNC is corrupt and willing to kill people to rig elections.

That's not the problem here.

The problem is that attention has been brought to this murder which highlights the corruption.

We can't let anyone know that the DNC is corrupt!

skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
Yes, being cooped up in an embassy for years while state actors hold phony charges against you threatening your arrest must be for the thrill of it.
skylan_q··on WikiLeaks offers $20,000 for information on former DNC staffer's murder
I come to HN and everyone is all about transparency on everything until HRC is attacked. Then it's all "Wikileaks are bad people because I like Hillary."
skylan_q··on Foreign residential property buyers to be taxed at 15% in Vancouver
Vancouver is tight and they aren't building/aren't allowing more building in the immediate area. Housing is for people to live in, but far too many have been speculating.
skylan_q··on Foreign residential property buyers to be taxed at 15% in Vancouver
This tax won't do much to impact the market directly as foreign capital makes up about 4-8% of the purchase activity, which is elevated but not outrageous. Foreign funds also buy at the same average price as local funds so it's not about rich buying mansions.

The larger impact will be on locals thinking "this is the end of chinese money, so the market will tank!", which will scare them away from the market.

skylan_q··on Foreign residential property buyers to be taxed at 15% in Vancouver
A bubble is inflated by speculation that isn't rooted in anything except the rising price.

It's been like that for the last 8+ years.

skylan_q··on Ecological Wealth of Nations
"We are fucked" For constantly being alarmist and crying wolf? Yes.

Anyways, what happened to the editorial rule here where the title was supposed to match TFA's title?

EDIT: Title has been appropriately edited. Thank you.

skylan_q··on The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires
You would prefer if there was not such an insurance system required for home owners putting less than 20% down?

I know I would. It would be like the 90's again where banks had to only loan out to people who they thought wouldn't default.

skylan_q··on The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires
If you think this insurance can cause Canadian banks to be more risky in their lending - I don't think that is currently the case.

This is 100% exactly how the US crash happened through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

skylan_q··on The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires
Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

They insure the banks against mortgage default. People pay a small premium on their monthly mortgage payments so that if they default, the bank is insured for the cash difference of the outstanding amount on the mortgage.

As a result, banks in Canada face no risks from mortgage default so there's no reason to deny a mortgage. Over 90% of mortgages made in the past decade are CMHC-insured.

skylan_q··on The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires
The Chinese buyers are paying on average $900k for a house, which is what the average Canadian is buying. The percentage of Chinese buyers is anywhere from 4% to 8% in the market.

What upsets me here more than anything else is that no one mentioned the CMHC. I suppose people would be more willing to believe that aliens are using mind control on people to drive a real estate frenzy rather than believe that there are institutions creating moral hazard within Canada.

skylan_q··on Turkish academics: Remain silent or risk all
You and I may not like it, but the vast majority of the population supports the views and policies of the AKP and Erdogan.

Yes, but that's un-american and therefore, evil.

skylan_q··on Harvard Study: Biggest Factor in Divorce Is Husband's Employment Status
Poor journalism, yet again.

Factor implies causal link. It's just a correlation in this case.

skylan_q··on What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
I strongly agree with this.

It seemed more like "playing CEO" rather than actually being CEO. I read many interviews over the years with her, and there was never any kind of thesis or anything I would ever take away from the conversation that was had.

I don't remember a single thing she has said or done aside from what's in the main headlines about Yahoo.

skylan_q··on Chomsky's ‘Galilean’ science of language (paywalled)
LOL! Journals are now resorting to clickbait tactics!
skylan_q··on Hard Forks
Adaptability?

If "adaptability" comes down to a popularity contest, this probably isn't a viable/stable/ethical currency.

Gold has had a long history of success and it wasn't able to undergo a hard fork. The fiat currency that we live with now has legitimacy due to the fact that you can generally expect its value tomorrow to be the same as today. Imagine a fiat currency hard-fork and what that would do to the credibility of it?

skylan_q··on Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech
If there is no gender parity, there is a problem.

No, there isn't. We don't have a "gender parity problem" in nursing, pre-k education, garbage collection, nor boilermaking. Just because it isn't 50/50 doesn't mean it's a problem.

skylan_q··on Western-style diet linked to state-dependent memory inhibition
"high in fats"

I never hear any specifics about how other cultures consume low amounts of fat. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that western diets are actually the lowest in fat.

skylan_q··on Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
Yes, it was the Franciscans who were a huge influence and kept record of these things.

Most people would remember relations as far as great-grandparents and relations to families/family friends that they knew. Literacy was pretty high in the region early on as well, but people continued to rely on the church for recordkeeping.

skylan_q··on Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
Where our family is from the priests wouldn't allow marriage between 6th cousins. My grandfather was 6th cousins three times removed from my grandmother. (so she was 9 generations away from common ancestors with him) They had to get written permission from the bishop to get married.
skylan_q··on A Scenario Where Brexit Does Not Actually Happen
the UK is still going to be controlled by Europe

No it won't, as the EU has become a legislative body governing aspects of people's lives in the UK and it will no longer be the case.

skylan_q··on JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions
I found this: http://www.cse.msu.edu/~alexliu/publications/Cookie/cookie.p... here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/7398/secure-sess... And implemented it. It was quick, cheap, and easy enough for me to assign a new token with most (if not every) request that required authorization/authentication. The only bits of info kept in the cookie were insensitive bits of data, so if a single token got cracked it wouldn't be a huge deal.
skylan_q··on Simple Contracts are Better Contracts: the Meltdown of the DAO
This is what it looks like to me. They couldn't see the problem happening because culture blinded them from thinking of things in such a way that would allow them to see this coming.
skylan_q··on How Canada Became a Greenhouse Superpower
I have been commenting to my wife about why are all the Tomatoes down here in TX from Ontario?

We in Ontario are still left wondering why all our tomatoes are from the southern US. We're stocked with GMO products these days that aren't nearly as good as what we were used to.

I guess our tomatoes sell better in Texas than they do here...

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