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by ColanR 6y ago
> I guess slavery is worth having since someone, somewhere, "chose" to do it... Are you suggesting that "someone, somewhere" chose to do something that intentionally made them worse off than they were before?
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by ColanR 6y ago
> these jobs aren't worth having Are you making that decision for yourself, or for others? Offer the job, and see if there's takers. If there aren't, then you'll actually know that the job isn't worth having.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> right wing conspiracy theory regarding the fact that the government is hiding information from the public You mean information like the existence of the surveilance that Snowden proved?
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by ColanR 6y ago
We'll probably come up with something similar to time zones once we become an interplanetary species. "Local seconds since 1970", vs. "Static seconds since 1970".
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Frankenstein the CIA Created (1999)(theguardian.com)
1 points by ColanR 6y ago|0 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
There's evidence Monsanto influenced the science behind the safety (or not) of Roundup [1], and even tried to manipulate public opinion of it online. [2] > According to the court documents, Monsanto started the aptly-named ‘Let Noth
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by ColanR 6y ago
So, if we ever manage to get proper open-source control of the cellular radios of random smartphones, would it be possible to use those cheap devices to create a GSM mesh network?
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by ColanR 6y ago
Do we know if it's the same guy?
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by ColanR 6y ago
> It'll be interesting to see the legal fallout from this, as purposely breaking customer owned gear is not going to end well. IANAL; I wonder if this would be grounds for a class-action lawsuit in the future. Something like suing
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by ColanR 6y ago
Sounds like their system works. If that 486 hardware lasted 20 years already, seems like there's a pretty good chance it'll outlast most of the modern stuff it would be replaced with.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I think the caveat may not even be needed. [Many] stereotypes have some truth to them.
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by ColanR 6y ago
> The toy in question is a neon green and black handgun with an orange tip with the words “Zombie Hunter” printed on the side. Pretty sure that's a nurf gun I've seen in walmart before.
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by ColanR 6y ago
If I understand your question correctly, then yes, people do that all the time and most bittorrent clients make it super easy.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Oppression is just as much a "way of life" as autonomy. Calling it that makes them of equal value as ways to live.
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by ColanR 6y ago
"Way of life"? Way to trivialize their loss of freedom and autonomy and habeas corpus .
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by ColanR 6y ago
950 EUR is from the first comment in the linked github issue. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/805#issu...
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by ColanR 6y ago
Better to make your question an Ask HN, or a blog post describing whatever it is you're talking about and post that on here.
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by ColanR 6y ago
It sure wouldn't hurt.
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by ColanR 6y ago
If we ever end of doing the deorbit, I really want to see a video of the impact. That would be intense.
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$13 ZeroPi is a tiny headless computer with Gigabit Ethernet (2019)(liliputing.com)
35 points by ColanR 6y ago|9 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
Wow. Quote: > But I can’t think of a prior case where the feds unambiguously acknowledged using Google search logs this way: to, apparently, zero in on people who searched the wrong word at the wrong time.
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by ColanR 6y ago
I think the magnetic shield would still be needed, though, since the solar wind would otherwise just strip away the new atmosphere.
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by ColanR 6y ago
Maybe a clearly published outline of where their language fits in the ecosystem of languages that are out there. e.g., it improves on these aspects of C++, gets these traits from python, fixes these weaknesses of C, but doesn't improve
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by ColanR 6y ago
Promising hardware, though this isn't looking like comparable hardware even to the Raspberry Pi Zero. Only has a quad-core 64-bit RISC-V (RV64GC) processor at 500+ MHz. RAM size not specified. If it was priced in the $5-15 range it wo
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by ColanR 6y ago
Credit to danvayn for finding. Noticed that they messed up the link so I'm resubmitting.
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USC Suspends Comm. Professor for Describing an Offensive Sounding Chinese Word(reason.com)
5 points by ColanR 6y ago|2 comments
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NASA proposes a magnetic shield to protect Mars' atmosphere (2017)(phys.org)
5 points by ColanR 6y ago|9 comments
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by ColanR 6y ago
> “rewrite it in Rust”...which many people in the Rust world acknowledge is a bad thing I've seen "rewrite it in Rust" mentioned plenty, even on HN; in fact, that meme colored much of my initial impression of Rust before I
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by ColanR 6y ago
Very clever, but off topic. :)
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by ColanR 6y ago
I'm sorry about your family. But extrapolating from their uninformed use of essential oils to say that the psychiatrist's recommendation is always right is just swinging from one extreme to another. As podgaj said elsewhere, >

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