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by Rumperuu 7y ago
True, which is why it needs to start with people choosing to be called ‘it’. It's yet to happen, but I'll do my bit if/when I'm ever asked for my preferred pronouns. Also, as someone currently leaving in a place rich wit
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
For my money the best thing that ever happened to English was abandoning grammatical gender/noun classes centuries ago - no more masculine, feminine or neuter, everything is ‘the’ or ‘a’.[0] Based on that, I propose we push for ‘it’ as
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Semi-relevant anecdote: Back in my first year of university (in the UK), I remember coming back from the Christmas break to find my Chinese flatmate, disheveled. Turns out he had spent the holiday in the library reading up on Tiananmen Squa
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Creating the world citizen parliament (2013)(interactions.acm.org)
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Abstract: A proposal for building an index of the Web that separates the infrastructure part of the search engine - the index - from the services part that will form the basis for myriad search engines and other services utilizing Web data
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The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an open web index(arxiv.org)
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Recorded on the 20th anniversary of WIRED 's publication of the 1995 piece “The Curse of Xanadu”[0] (and adding onto his previous rebuttals in the same[1] and online[2]), Ted Nelson announces his creation of a feature-length rebuttal
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Ted Nelson's Pre-Final Reply to “The Curse of Xanadu” by Gary Wolf / Gory Jackal(youtube.com)
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Brian Will of “Object-Oriented Programming is Bad”[0] fame presents ‘a positive case for an alternative’, or a ‘prescription for how code should be written, rather than how it shouldn't .’ [0] https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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Object-Oriented Programming Is Good*(youtube.com)
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Sounds like TrackMeNot[0], which constantly searches for random things on various search engines, or AdNauseum[1], which clicks every ad it sees. [0] https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ [1] https://adnauseam.io&#
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Add the following to your bookmarks and click it when you come across a paywall: javascript:window.location=%22https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=%22+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
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Ask HN: Free software for UK digital taxation?
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Surely each executed prisoner could be expected to provide multiple organs, the transplantation of each being recorded as a separate operation? Although obviously that's a pedantic quibble rather than a defence of the practice, as even
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
>I spent a while following blogs of the IT / radio support guys who were working down South Any that you particularly recommend? Or have all the ones you followed then now all finished up and gone home?
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
I thought this was one of the most interesting of Swartz's writings collected in the book The Boy Who Could Change the World , particularly now that Congress, um, isn't . More information about the seminar at https://
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“How Congress Works” – Aaron Swartz (2011)(books.google.co.uk)
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Consider this story about a man stabbed on the NYC subway and the police who locked themselves in the train cabin whilst a bystander provided first aid [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
For a different perspective, in the UK the approach taken to policing is (in theory) governed by the Peelian Principles [0]. None of the principles explictly mention protection of the public, but 5/9 of them do refer to the police forc
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
What happens if you decline the millimetre scanner in a UK airport? Gov't guidance states that ‘...the individual must either be screened by an alternative method which includes at least an enhanced hand search in private...’ [0]. Is t
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
I'm a latecomer to HN and I remember wondering at first how such a 'basic' site could possibly be so popular. After a while, it was clear that something was really very right about the design of the thing, but I hadn't e
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Ignoring whatever views you may have about him and those he associates with, at the end of one of Carl Benjamin/Sargon of Akkad's recent videos on his Patreon removal [0] he starts talking about 'alt-tech' (Gab, Voat, wh
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Not _quite_, although it's a fairly pedantic technical distinction. As I understand it, an organism that reproduces sexually (rather than asexually) has a sex dependent on the gamete it produces. There _might_ be some insects with more
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
>I wasn't as ambitious. I was less social. In other words, it made me feel fine just hanging out in my apartment doing nothing. Incidentally, this echoes my experience with romantic relationships. Have you considered that you may ha
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
It looks like that can only be triggered if the user interacts with the extension in some way. Presumably, then, it won't work if there's a script that should run on each page load. EDIT: I had a look at the manifest.json[1], and
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
This is really interesting, I'm not sure how I didn't find it before. What I'd like to know is whatever happened to the CSS-selectors-as-fragment-identifiers movement and why it didn't take off. The proposal that inspire
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
If you mean what I think you mean, you can already send a link that specifies a valid element ID on the page to anybody and have their browser focus on it — that's what fragment identifiers are for. However, if the page designer has ne
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
As yoklov said, I had to have a small script[1] run a quick check on every page you visit to check if the URL is a Pinpointer URL. As far as I can tell there's no way around this (and I'd say breaking backwards compatibility with
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
As far as I can tell the Mozilla addons page doesn't like addons running on it. I'll add a more explanatory error message though. I hadn't thought to test it on HN, so that's intriguing. I'll look into it, but I&#x2
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by Rumperuu 8y ago
Good point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#aHRtbCA%2BIGJvZ... (I wasn't kidding about needing to shorten those links.)

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