TheGhostOfBoris

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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   > democracy in desperate times survive on Wi-Fi, AirDrop’d screenshots, and dozens of single port phone chargers Democracy is utterly dependant on a well informed population. If the fair and balanced media fails (or access to it fails)
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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   Au contraire After reading that article, I do think they qualify for the epithet "nutter".
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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   Here in Blighty, paying a ransom is legal per se ....... .....but making payments to a sanctioned country or a terrorist organisation is very illegal (as I suspect it is in most of the world). For this reason, any organisation obeying the
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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   Would you like me to draw a map for you?
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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   Its disappointing on HN to see posts like yours voted down, presumably because somebody disagrees with it, rather than them taking the effort to post a sensible rebuttal.
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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   > my employer demands that I take the cheapest flight to attend a conference. WTF! Several of my employees bowl from the pavilion end . Is utterly unthinkable to insist on them transiting through a territory so hostile to their very exi
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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   > It's data about the US Posted on the internet with a worldwide audience. (Including this HN audience of engineers and scientists). > where such units are the default. All the more baffling!
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   by TheGhostOfBoris 4y ago

   Seconded...... The insistence on displaying data only in units the majority of the world has condemned to obsolescence is baffling.