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by Nicksil 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Having an Eclipse release sit on HN for 3 hours with zero comments seems like the most accurate depiction of the market's current feelings towards Eclipse... This is a really strange observation. Do a search here on HN for the Visu
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Yet another sad attempt to impose your narrow focused view of the world on it. >The author seems to have forgotten: There are people outside of the US who work in tech. >As shocking as it might be to him, they don't wake up i
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by Nicksil 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>If a truck full of solar panels crashes on the highway, that highway doesn’t become a superfund site. It doesn’t cost hundreds of millions to clean up, the local community doesn’t see a massive spike in cancer. >You cannot say the sa
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by Nicksil 6y ago
Perhaps because most people don't know what we know. I don't think about my car's airbags all that often because I'm not a mechanic or frequently in contact with sources of the latest airbag news. Two weeks ago I take
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by Nicksil 6y ago
OK, there it is, I see it now. Here's why you're having difficulty understanding: >Google listens to your complaint and re-architects it's entire trillion dollar business to give you privacy
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by Nicksil 6y ago
Browsers aren't supposed to be neutral. Browsers are the user's agent ; they're supposed to serve the user and nothing else.
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by Nicksil 6y ago
I caught this as well. Fixed it by deselecting "Sponsored Top Sites" option from within Options > Home > Firefox Home Content > Top Sites. Even though I had "Top Sites" already deselected, I had to temporarily s
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>I make $15/hr This is a dishonest statement.
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by Nicksil 6y ago
It looks like someone ripped-out the section you're referencing. Here's a link to a previous version of the linked Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raspberry_Pi_OS&d...
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by Nicksil 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
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by Nicksil 6y ago
HN discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25916513
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by Nicksil 6y ago
HN discussion, as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25916513
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by Nicksil 6y ago
dupe, top of front page, 294 comments and growing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993
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by Nicksil 6y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25696511
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by Nicksil 6y ago
Additional discussion from a little earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25615186
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>That's not debunking ... That was the point.
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by Nicksil 6y ago
None of your links back up your claim. >Maybe the people around your tables are just really rude? Maybe, but you certainly are.
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>The problem is that people under the age of 40 or so don't communicate via phone calls in the first instance. Where on Earth are you getting this information? You've made an unsupported claim that I was able to debunk by talki
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by Nicksil 6y ago
This is good news. Good on the developer(s) for not just laying down and taking it. I'm disheartened the top comment in the HN topic[0] -- while made with good intention -- suggested to capitulate to Apple's poor argument to remov
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Lol, so your argument is the silent majority is doing the upvoting on the story but for some reason a different silent majority is upvoting the comments in these threads. No, that isn't my argument. My argument makes no mention of
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>Highly doubtful as HN doesn't have downvotes on stories. Given the comment threads, I find it much more likely that a small minority of folks with a similarly curmudgeonly outlook as the author upvoted the story, and the majority i
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>It’s not negative to call out someone else’s negativity. That's not what I was referring to. I was referring to the actual negative statements you made about the author: >Some people just want to find negativity in the world. &g
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>This negativity is a disappointing and growing trend among some grumpy old men in our field as that generation approach retirement. It disrespects people working today and I don't like it. Your contributions thus far in this thread
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by Nicksil 6y ago
>How on earth does this post have this many upvotes? A silent majority? There may be more people than you think who generally agree with the author's thesis and this strikes you as perplexing because you hold a different view.
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by Nicksil 6y ago
> LLVM alone is responsible for a Copernican revolution in compilers and program analysis This is hyperbole
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by Nicksil 6y ago
And if the client didn't insert the necessary HTML, the thing wouldn't render at all.
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But the CSS rules expect there to be a body element. Regardless of who/what inserted the HTML it's necessary.
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Actual title: At least 140 House Republicans to vote against counting electoral votes, two GOP lawmakers say Please don't editorialize titles. Also, these sort of stories are usually off-topic here: https://news.ycombinator.

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