Tangaroa

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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Yes. Fascism and capitalism were separate in Italy, Germany, and Franco's Spain. "The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others" - Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism. http://www.worldfuturefund.o
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
"people decide to just blow themselves up for _no_ reason" = they have established a coherent subsect of Islam which teaches that Islam requires they forever be waging war against the nonbelievers and which celebrates dying in such a war as
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
> But, yes, your policies led to the 9/11 attackers deciding to attack you. Is this not blisteringly obvious? In exactly the same way that wearing miniskirts leads to rape. Take for example UBL's main grievance: the presence of the inte
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Netscape Communicator or Amaya, unless there was an earlier one.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
I was on various Linuxes for several years and went back to Windows. Why? * Buggy updates. About 1 in 3 kernel upgrades produce a crash or hang on bootup. About a quarter of those that survive booting fail to recognize my network card. A sm
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
To answer these questions in the order they were posed: Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Hugs are sexual harassment. Any unrequested contact with the opposite sex is cause for immediate termination (or expulsion if you're still in school) and may lead to criminal charges. Different cultures are different, but this is the standa
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
I would imagine that http gzip compression would cut transmission size just as well regardless of whether the file text is minified or not. And I would be wrong; this guy found that gzipped minified text can be 50% smaller than the original
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Ask HN: Is it normal for recruiters to ask for SSN and DOB?
1 points by Tangaroa 13y ago|4 comments
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
A relevant letter sent to the New York Times in 1975: --- Dear Sir: Your newspaper frequently uses the term "Palestinian" to describe a section of the Middle East population which is Arab, to differentiate it from Israeli Jews. As the holde
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Long-term unemployment is happening in the US too: http://blogs.cfr.org/kahn/2013/04/17/our-long-term-unemploym... Unemployment in the US is near 15% including U6, or near 23% if using pre-1994 counting methods: http://www.shadowstats.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
It is not only the confession that may be rejected, but everything based on information that he gives about co-conspirators. Imagine that it was not only him and his brother, but that there is a cell of a dozen people getting money from an
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
<blockquote> Well after consulting with people behind some of tech behind OWS, I doubt something like this would be effective.</blockquote> You could try doing it without calling for a war to kill everybody who disagrees wit
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Every criminal case could be similarly described as one in which allowing the defendant their legally guaranteed rights (to remain silent and have legal advice) could (through strengthening the defendant's case and allowing silence on the q
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XForms is dead(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
1 points by Tangaroa 13y ago|0 comments
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
The frictive responses are unhelpful, but for the sake of courtesy an employer is entitled to a well-written introductory letter (even if only a paragraph) and an employee is entitled to a response (even if only a line). For both workers an
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Hell no.
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Previous HN discussions of Qubes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796384 https://news.ycom
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An overview of the Qubes VM management system(theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
1 points by Tangaroa 14y ago|1 comments
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
According to the article, the judge created a new standard that it is copyright infringement for a one-sentence clipping to be on a website that is a substitute news source in the sense that people go there to read the news. Any news and op
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
According to the article, the judge decided that news reporting -- what blogs do -- is not transformative but is competitive with the AP. Taking enough of an excerpt to get the gist of the story -- what reputable blogs do -- is taking "the
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
This is a hugely important decision. Any blog that excerpts a bit of a news story is now guilty of copyright infringement, and it will be seen as infringement for profit (hampering a fair use defense and increasing penalties) if the blog ha
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
The first two examples are examples of incompetence on the part of web developers, not Firefox developers. A website breaks with images turned off? It's a broken website. Websites are supposed to work with images turned off. That's one of t
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The end of system administration: "What would you say you do here?"(bemyblog.com)
3 points by Tangaroa 14y ago|0 comments
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
100-1 might be an exaggeration, but the knowledge of different tools, methods, and patterns and how to apply them gives the experienced programmer the ability to produce code that does more, more quickly, and with fewer side effects than th
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
Did everyone here skip US History in high school and college? One of the main reasons for creating the Constitution was that the Articles of Confederation made it too difficult for the government to use military force against US citizens on
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
How about asking the adult black male whether it is legal for the army to fire on enemy soldiers during a war, the question which is the subject of this discussion. Let's stay on topic.
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
That linked video shows US forces firing on an armed force carrying at least one AK-47 and at least one rocket-propelled grenade launcher which was tracked from a previous encounter with US forces. http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201878.ph
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
US copyright law considers a performance of a work to be a copy that must be authorized by the copyright holder. For example, a songwriter is entitled to royalties if an orchestra plays the song, and singing Happy Birthday at a birthday par
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by Tangaroa 14y ago
The French Resistance and Warsaw Uprising were not entirely irrelevant, even if they were defeated.

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