LordFrith

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   by LordFrith 10y ago

   I think it might be embleer rah, but it's been a while since I've read the book.
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   by LordFrith 10y ago

   dammit
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   Uber offered self-driving rides to state lawmakers days before illegal SF launch(sfexaminer.com)

   2 points by LordFrith 10y ago|0 comments
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   Film made up entirely of US movies scenes where Ukraine is mentioned(vimeo.com)

   4 points by LordFrith 10y ago|0 comments
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   by LordFrith 10y ago

   You can use Twitter's website to search Twitter without being logged in. Go to https://twitter.com/search
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   by LordFrith 10y ago

   I'm glad you didn't announce this last week. Then it would have been AWS articles only!
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   by LordFrith 10y ago

   Varg got out of jail, moved to France, changed his name, got married, makes weird videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/ThuleanPerspective/videos
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   by LordFrith 10y ago

   Before the rise of the Internet, traditional media like magazines and newspapers got the majority of their revenue from advertising. It's nice when people pay money to subscribe but it wasn't enough then. It's probably not
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   by LordFrith 10y ago

   So I suppose this means storing data in Postgres RDS is HIPAA compliant now by default? I am not an expert in this, but I do have to sit through a day of training every year for this. You should probably be doing a bunch of other things to
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    I believe it was already HIPAA compliant (or else I need to go into hiding). The path to HIPAA compliance in AWS is just arrange to get a business agreement with Amazon.
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    The Leduc ramjet(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

    53 points by LordFrith 10y ago|8 comments
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    One of the issues of Murder Can Be Fun was on the great flood https://www.amazon.com/Murder-disasters-Boston-molasses-floo...
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    I have read that unreinforced concrete structures can stand for thousands of years, which you confirm just by noting some Roman structures still standing. You can build much higher and bigger with reinforced concrete, but they will only be
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    A Albanian speaker tells me "Ysolo doesnt sound like a Albanian word, that's probably made up"
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    I recently listened to a podcast where Jeremy Scahill (the author of the book Dirty Wars) claims Saudi Arabia has been belligerently bombing Yemen to show unruly groups inside of Saudi Arabia that they have the ability to bomb people too.
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    i have been reading lately how the direction of Saudi Arabia changed dramatically after the seizing of the Grand Mosque. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    Go through the comment histories of frequent posters to /r/The_Donald . It would be extremely hard to make any of them look 'bad'. They relish being as... deplorable as possible.
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    How the Iranian-Saudi Proxy Struggle Tore Apart the Middle East(nytimes.com)

    27 points by LordFrith 10y ago|22 comments
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    Annual revenue for El Salvador's biggest gang is only 31M US dollars(nytimes.com)

    1 points by LordFrith 10y ago|0 comments
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    Snopes claims Nov 25 is not the biggest shopping day of the year. When I first moved away to college, I found a copy of Adbusters in a bookstore and I thought it was one of the most amazing things ever. Eventually I decided it was too smug
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    I hope Trump works effectively on the issue of fading working class employment in America. He's been busily appointing billionaires(not 1 billion, plural billion!) to his cabinet. I think this shows what his policy focuses will be.
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    Have you read Ted Rall's 2006 book Silk Road To Ruin? I'm interested enough in the opinion of a Central Asia local that I would mail you a copy.
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    > Ask who was behind it ? and you will get name , who funded cold-war, .. just the same b.s again .. I am pretty sure Ted Rall will agree with you that meddling from foreign empires, like the US, causes violence in Central Asia.
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    This is the oddest consequence of the pizzagate thing I could have dreamed of. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    The Karakoram Highway, between Pakistan and China, is an amazing engineering achievement. The cartoonist and author Ted Rall has visited Central Asia many times. http://rall.com/2009/06/04/the-karakoram-highwa
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    I would be pretty annoyed if a good chunk of the paranoid pizzagate believing Internet spent all day calling me a pedophile.
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    I recommend listening to all 200+ episodes od the Russian History Retold podcast, by Mark Schauss. Here's a link to the Rasputin episode http://podbay.fm/show/370995272/e/1387515600?autostart=1 Unrelated
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    In SF I keep seeing flyers titled "Can The Bolivarian Revolution be saved?", and I think to myself probably not.
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    by LordFrith 10y ago

    Here's a recent, long New Yorker article on Venezuela, Maduro, Chavez, Polar industries, crime, China, oil, inflation, Cuba, America, Colombia, taxi drivers, Halliburton, and a bunch of other things I don't remember. https:/