Tech-Noir

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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> That works out at around 25% of the population voting for it. Correct, newborn babies were denied a vote. What percentage of the British population voted to Remain in the EU, out of curiosity?
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
A few years ago I experienced something similar at Heathrow. According to Heathrow's website[1] it's because: airports that operate common departure lounges[2] must comply with UK Border Force conditions that are necessa
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Yup. “The tech is there” is just the cowards’ excuse for not doing anything. The tech doesn’t make the difference. I feel like you and the parent of your post are misinterpreting what sho said. I didn't read it as him trying to
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
I may have to give this a miss then. I made the mistake of installing CM0102 (free download since 2002) recently for old time's sake and kissed goodbye to a solid month before finally managing to go cold turkey. Alongside original Doom
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
I too am somewhat confused about Cloudflare. They provide an SSL option called "Flexible SSL", about which Cloudflare itself states : [Flexible SSL] is less secure than [even no SSL], and could even cause you trouble wh
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
This article is about students protesting a humanities course at Reed College in Oregon. Why does it have a huge image depicting protesters against "Nazis in Berkeley"?
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> I strongly recommend the book "Reclaiming History" by Vincent Bugliosi. I haven't read the book, and have no opinion either way on it, but if anyone is interested, Bugliosi was apparently inspired to write it after takin
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Television programmes can be asked to censor everything from expletives Not only does this happen in the US, it's legendary, and can lead to comedy gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4koLWPq2qDY (Warning: clip
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Israel is not in Europe; nor is it in Africa.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Interesting that this B BC article doesn't mention that the concentration camp was arguably a British invention in the first place Probably because the BBC knows that's not even remotely true. The very term "concentrati
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Kaspersky has [...] actively pursued state actors that are hostile to Russian interest, for example The Equation Group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group ), which wouldn't be an organic part of the
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
But by arguing/accepting that you're essentially saying all a state has to do to prevent a secession (however popular) is disrupt the election/referendum process.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Yes, we all remember the time Hungary and Czechoslovakia behaved illegally. Quite right that the Soviets lawfully, according to their own laws, shut that down.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
His comments are so flawed and extreme I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's merely trolling.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Europe, as we know it, is a set of "large" nation-states that made enormous contributions to humankind. These contributions wouldn't have been possible if Europe was a number of small fragmented states with their own lan
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> there wouldn't be much left of Europe Only if you believe "Europe" = "nation states" or an EU super state. Independence for smaller states - ie, taking back control and power from a greater/globalist state
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> It is worth remembering that DS had claimed that Cloudflare's management secretly supported DS ideas/worldview/etc. Where/when did they claim that?
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Pointing out an apparent contradiction in policy - claiming one thing but doing another - isn't whataboutism. Whataboutism would be, for example, CF attempting to defend retaining dodgy/illegal sites by attacking ALS for its dodgy
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Really? The reason she was napalmed was to create that photo? You're sticking with that?
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
The highest temperatures ever recorded for (tropical cities) Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur are still lower than this San Francisco temperature.
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> I prefer that people reply instead of downvote I agree. I don't think downvoting is particularly conducive to good discussion (there's already a way to flag posts that may be inappropriate or spammy), but most people who down
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
> if I get downvoted I like to understand why and ask How many times have you misunderstood why you were upvoted and had to ask? > you call it complaining. "If downvoters keep on this hypocrisis I will delete the pos
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
Is this how you have almost 600 positive karma in just six months, by complaining so much about downvotes? Three posts in just the last hour, in this thread and another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15142269
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by Tech-Noir 9y ago
I think what people are saying is nobody owes you a living (this isn't meant to sound rude, I mean you don't owe anyone else one either, do you). If something isn't working the way you want, that's a sign to do something
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What NASA could accomplish with the US military’s budget(businessinsider.com)
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