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by LV-426 9y ago
Even in the 90s there was (for Windows) a basic, simple to use news proxy called Nfilter. I can't remember if it took multiple feeds or just one, but it allowed filtering on more headers than a Usenet client. Most Usenet clients would
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by LV-426 9y ago
The Easy Way to Set Up a Local News Server (1996) http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue09/newsserver.html
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by LV-426 9y ago
> The list goes on. The list of what? Different ways in which the North Korean economy legitimately functions? However "weird" you or the Washington Post think running a restaurant and remitting money back home is (or are they
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by LV-426 9y ago
> it's far more likely that it's easier to pretend to be from NK than for NK to do what they are being accused of For all the hot air about "analysis" and "evidence" and crimes NK committed when Kim was a ba
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by LV-426 9y ago
> But they also are not signatories to the Geneva convention Where are you getting this from? According to Wikipedia, every member of the UN is a party the GC, and North Korea has additionally ratified protocol I, something the USA refus
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by LV-426 9y ago
I think this quote is more telling (about a previous viral article months ago using the non-existent "estcoin" to promote E-Residency), since it's exactly what I thought even before clicking the link: Many people [...]
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by LV-426 9y ago
> In October, Microsoft officially blamed North Korea, I can see why Microsoft would want to deflect attention from its own failings to the bogeyman of the week, but I'm not sure what qualifies a private business to "officially
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by LV-426 9y ago
This article appears in the second top post of this (currently front page) thread, made 9 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940318 It was also submitted seven hours ago, here: https://news.ycombin
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by LV-426 9y ago
> I do not consider buying positive reviews with free items an ethical marketing strategy: it deceives people expecting unaffiliated opinions there... > Why should anyone take part in this? Where did I say buying positive reviews was
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by LV-426 9y ago
> offered me a pair for free. After I got them , they asked for positive review. I refused. So they were "very disappointing", but not "very disappointing" enough to refuse a free pair, at their expense? > That ma
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by LV-426 9y ago
I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645825 I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by LV-426 9y ago
Anyone who seriously and unironically bases any kind of world view on either: a) Memes, or b) Lines from The Matrix is probably not someone to take seriously. In a catastrophe like our whole economic system collapsing (presumably somehow le
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by LV-426 9y ago
> > Something being pirated 1M times never means 1M lost sales. > I've never said it did You didn't provide any specific numbers, but seemed to be arguing with your two anecdotes that piracy (as opposed to simply natural
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by LV-426 9y ago
Downvoted for asking someone a question/clarification? WTF.
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by LV-426 9y ago
> But I will note that the comment you replied to said nothing about IQ. I only spoke of a need for validation and that's it. I was quite careful to not suggest it had anything to do with intelligence or competence. What did you mea
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by LV-426 9y ago
> Are you from Philippines? From what I know people there Is his argument invalid if he's not in the Philippines, but yours isn't? > If you are in US I can't see how can you criticise him given that death penalty is qui
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by LV-426 9y ago
> Calling someone you don't like a "fake account" (as someone has already hinted about me in this very comment section!) I don't know where someone hinted that you're a fake account, but you are certainly disinge
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by LV-426 9y ago
I think you could achieve the same result (if not better, since fewer people are likely to sit through a video) with an image of a snappy fake quote next to someone. People who want to believe "fake news" will believe it, people w
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by LV-426 9y ago
The video claims it's to help people who have lost the ability to speak. Can someone explain how this is supposed to work? Because it looks more like, and is seemingly marketed as - if a video of Barack Obama saying things he hasn&#x27
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by LV-426 9y ago
> There's a claim (according to wikipedia and other sources) that Flappy Bird was a clone of another game (called "Piou Piou vs Cactus"). Haven't read the Wiki page, or heard of Piou Piou, but I always thought FB was
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by LV-426 9y ago
> https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=137.0 I'm not one for all that "if you bought $100 of bitcoin in 2013..." stuff, but wow, that first sentence... Though I guess if he had 10,000 to blow like that, he proba
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by LV-426 9y ago
> We all remember [...] people giving thousands of btc for them to buy pizzas. I've heard a story of one individual on a forum ordering someone two Papa John's online in return for another forum member sending them 10,000 bitco
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by LV-426 9y ago
Of all the things to grind an axe about "European nations", this is a pretty strange one, considering European countries have absolutely always led the way on this issue, providing limited rights to same-sex couples in the 1970s,