BrailleHunting

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Black Patch Tobacco Wars(en.wikipedia.org)
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
The status page should work with just IPv4 or IPv6, BGP and round-robin on a bunch of location-diverse, simple, real metal, web-boxes that only serve status.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
This is a problem of "monoculture" dependencies and failure to implement HA by using multiple services. All Github releases are down, atom downloads are down and so on. Companies, including Amazon, should be using other CDNs for H
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
The posting of the story seems like a duplicitous barb against single-payer healthcare that almost the entire civilized world enjoys. Un/fortunately, both DJT and Sanders are both suggesting single-payer with private optional extras is
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
The price good people pay for indifference to public affairs (ie populism, corruption and Electoral College ineptitude) is to be ruled by evil simians. -Plato
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Vlad also showed off his bling to The Donald that he stole from Robert Kraft.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
This is exactly why journalism today is mostly lacking in integrity: journos having to cozy up to and not offend officials to maintain access. Without viable, advarasial news, society is headed towards a precipice of greater corruption and
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
If a popular story doesnt have a STEM, privacy or startup aspect, it likely belongs elsewhere. Otherwise, HN becomes more of a generic news thread app than a startup community.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Wars are often used to distract from domestic inadequacies. Another million dead world citizens to make the MIC rich because a whiny despot doesn't have a clue. Also anecdotally, DJIA closed up on another numerical record, so a deep re
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
AI and sustainable energy lead to sustainable transport. Many people, especially Americans, have an unhealthy, cultural fixation on freedom tied to piloting killing machines that algorithms can do better. If someone can do their work, live
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
PLBs/ELTs are much more scalable, at present. Someday, maybe AI will "watch" every m^3. Just don't voice any "treasonous" opinions verbally, in the future, because Palantir Panopticon Next will bring SWATings,
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
That's a given. Google also needs to control the hw platform to be successful. Open platform equals shoddy service/product because it would require adding a Microsoft-sized operation.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
To capture more corporate wealth, also raise corporate taxes to previous levels when unions functioned and the middle-class flourished. Doing so would capture more gains which can pay for vital social services like healthcare, food security
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Student unions should encourage "welcome committees" to make sure no one whom wants to participate in the social scene is left out. (dorm life was the best.)
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Job security and Apple-ish custom OS may long-term reduce support burden because Linux is like OpenSSL: a giant refrigerator, stove, oven, typewriter, glass kiln, laundromat kitchen-sink. It will take a very long time to reinvent the wheel
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
NIH syndrome plus large organization people looking for job security, and rough, fat FLOSS full of maintenance and security vulns hell equals "Emperor's new clothes."
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Privacy implications are non-tinfoil, rationally-numerous: which homes are abandoned/rarely visited, who's cheating on whom, which homes throw the most parties, parking lot monitoring and so on. Eventually (say a century, if we m
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
I still have a German-made The Doors - The Doors CD with orange silkscreening and uncommon metal layer from edge-to-edge with a date of 1982.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Cheap bootleg DVDs from China often experienced rapid rot because of poor quality control.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
I've family in Chico and we've toured the Oroville dam... it's massive, tallest in the US, of the riskier earthen dam type and holds back a great deal of water (3,537,577 acre feet (4.36e9 m^3), Shore length: 167 miles (269 k
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
This is either a joke or a bunch of conspiracy theorists of the trippy-dippy sort.
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Apple's warming up to do a full Fonzie shark jump on the iPhone 8 series. If throwing out nearly every peripheral standard weren't enough, they gotta roll out an M.C. Hammer phone, to you know, justify raising prices of everythin
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
If modern fuel-injected cars had automagic engine running management a-la hybrids, mucho idling gas could be saved. Modern engines apparently can save gas by shutting off if expected to stop for any more than 10 seconds. http://w
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
ToR was not allowed in all states until the late 70's, especially back East. It's not like pedestrians have enough dangers to worry about. Popular expedience != sensible policies. Curiously also, only California allows motorcycle
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
About 3 years ago, I went to the old Palo Alto store with a defective (internally-shorted/overheated) MagSafe 65W charger still under warranty from original MBP purchase and a group of blueshirts tried to browbeat yours truly into purc
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
One has to wonder about the logic of unemployed lute players (people like most armchair anchor "journalists" without a shred of topical understanding) given power to referee edits on highly-scientic topics or judging vital concept
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Marketing 101: bullshit repeated consistently enough with a large reach wins a broadcast-modality "contest of wills" where consent/attitudes/preferences can be manufactured to accomplish almost any aim, from the sinister
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
People reading this might be interested in an Canadian industrial turbine repair shop YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
"Describe, in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother."
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by BrailleHunting 10y ago
It's kinda ironic Rule 19 can be gamed as a SJW/PC-like dodge deployed by turtleman to censor Warren. I think ultimately it backfired in political algebra (it sure aint even precalculus, because it didn't help) for garnering

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