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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
Are we no longer differentiating between a blog and a blog post (i.e. an individual entry vs. the entire collection)?
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
It's not really a question of how many people are savvy enough to protect themselves from 3rd-party data collection. I don't know how you feel about the GDPR (or the data brokerage industry, in general), but if web developers want
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
I can't believe what I've read in this sub-thread. Thanks for sticking up for liberty and opportunity, as that is what the USA what founded upon.
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
Where on the US Bureau of Economic Analysis' site do you find 5% GDP growth? https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease... I keep seeing these overly optimistic GDP growth numbers, but
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
As someone who is even older and has seen these types of threads, I can say with some confidence that this is called nostalgia (phpBB was never good). Not to say the internet is not ripe for another decentralization of power. Lack of patien
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
There was actually a panel discussion on Friday about modernizing the USPS with many different stake holders (Union workers rep, small business owner, European logistics expert). You can check it out here: https://www.c-span.org&
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
I find many prolific, long-time contributors to HN do not live in SV. I'd also say there's a heck of a lot more stories on social issues and politics. On second thought, I think people from SV use pseudonyms (and throwaways) more
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
As someone that was considered hyperactive as a kid, my parents kept me away from sugar and enrolled me in a high-energy activity (which turned out to be swimming an hour before school and two hours after).
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
You seem like a good guy and principled person, but you should let folks know that you are the developer in question, no?
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
I haven't read the NREL report, but my father was involved with them for 10 years as an investor. For utility scale, they can use thin-film panels which are more efficient, but more costly upfront (FirstSolar is the big player).
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
Rather than linking to another insidious "social media platform," would it be possible to simply describe what is there? Many of us have sworn off Twitter, FB, Google, youtube, etc. because we don't care for the tracking, nor
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
The author is the same as uBlock Origin; here is the repo: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix From the wiki page, there are many useful FAQ/ guides/ docs. Specifically, there is a link to a decent guide: htt
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
My grandfather put himself through dental school at the University of Toronto in the '20s by doing traveling magic shows in the summer. I put myself through a state CS program in the '90s by bartending and selling pot, while guidi
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
Are you saying AT&T bribed Cohen in order to have the Justice Dept. sue AT&T over its acquisition with Time Warner?
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
I hope you revisit the comments here. >But I think I know the answer. Isn't this called confirmation bias? Anyway, as a classical liberal who probably shares your beliefs, the topic is pure flame war territory, which is toxic for HN
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
12 years ago, I was getting quoted for $100k/ injection mold in Colorado, and $50K in China.
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
I don't think the word 'targeted' has as narrow a definition as you are proposing (at least in the common vernacular). In writing laws, as in code, one has to be very specific and define things properly, but not in frank disc
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
Go ahead and make your case, but 5-word throwaway pot-shot comments are cancer for HN. Am I pretentious for changing my own oil, rotating my own tires, and other minor repairs to my car? I'm not going to defend the tone or all of the o
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
>The end goal is to keep those people away, right? The end goal is to make sure absolutely nothing changes, right? This is not a charitable way to interpret the actions of others. Because of the unfortunate treatment of certain people in
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
>I've never seen a plausible explanation of why a health care system would work for 60 million (UK) but not for 300 million Scaling advanced systems to large numbers of users is very difficult and is the reason Facebook is worth ~1&
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
>>You can't start any economic argument by saying that paying any cost is a must. You will get fleeced. >Paying taxes isn't getting fleeced. I think it's fair to accurately address the arguments being put forth, rath
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by 18pfsmt 8y ago
Actually, this has changed: "On April 23, however, the US government gave Rusal's American customers "more time to comply with sanctions", even saying it would "consider lifting them if United Company Rusal Plc’s m
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I believe the perception that the immigration policy is "as much as possible" doesn't reflect reality. Many in the west feel it is the humane thing to offer immigrants in war torn ME an opportunity for a better life consideri
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
The US is set up to be regulation-lite and litigation-heavy. As such, contracts tend to be rather encompassing, lest they be vulnerable to litigation. You also seem to be missing that your parent and the GGP are not the same account. The or
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I don't have any Google experience, but from what I've gathered over the years, there are always unwritten rules. Not everyone follows the spec. Often times, the spec even seems intentionally incomplete in retrospect.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
The way I see it, the authoritarians in the US hijacked the word liberal and want to conflate it with progressive, despite the derivation of the word itself. If one is a proponent of liberty, forcing people to do things/ not do things
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
Some people are interested in designing systems where no central authority can control anything, while others are more interested in determining which entity should have control over everything.
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
Yes, that's similar to what I had in mind. Have you all looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerocoin ? My understanding is that Zerocoin eventually developed their own protocol/ blockchain, but originally
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I'm curious if you all could implement some sort of "mixing service" so as to minimize metadata?
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by 18pfsmt 9y ago
I'm not a gamer at all, so this would normally escape my view, and I don't know if what you say is true and I can't evaluate yet. But, to me, it sounds like you are saying this potential bad actor is intending to use the GDPR

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