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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
> I question starting people on Ruby for web development. news.ycombinator.com and its various tentacles runs on Ruby and Arc
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The Real Reason Behind Ford's Move into Bike-Sharing(fool.com)
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
I hate GDP statistics but it is generally understood that the Donbass' mining and heavy industry account for about 1/4 of Ukraine's GDP and 10 percent of Ukraine's population. You may think it's a backwater but peop
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
> So sick of seeing these paywall links. What's wrong with paywalls?
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ESR analyzes Modafinil(esr.ibiblio.org)
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The Moscow Times closes print edition(themoscowtimes.com)
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
If I were China I would point out the HK's entire existence is because Britain needed a staging area from which to wage war upon China so that Britain would have a market to sell all the opium it was producing in the Raj, which set the
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
I doubt that would satisfy the anti Whatsapp crowd. It's impossible to know what binary Facebook/Whatsapp runs on their servers.
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
> Hasn't the same thing been said about Walmart? I completely agree with it. My hometown's retail business all goes to the Walmart super store on the outskirts of town. It's weird to be living in a Bruce Springsteen song.
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
A US government agency quietly tweeted about it. What more do you want? https://twitter.com/HistoryAtState/status/875473063156084736
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
I don't base my life on them but I think tpacek and ryanlol know more about computer security than I do.
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
> Is that how you prove something - by reading comments on HN? I enjoy the comments of tpacek and ryanlol
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
> Tor has probably saved more than a few CIA agents' lives Tor's main purpose is to allow agents of US intelligence agencies to communicate back with the home base. "Giving free access to the Internet being a powerful tool
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
I hate to pedantically bore people but Moxie does not work at Twitter. He did for a short period of time after Twitter acquired his 2 person startup.
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
> Even wikipedia say it's founded by the governement ... I bet you meant to type "funded". Most of the funding for the foundation that funds Wikipedia comes from small donations from users.
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
for people like me who don't understand how the fees work http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/European_Union
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
Prepaid wireless plans in America are marketed as being cheaper than long term contracts. San Francisco tacks on a 23 percent fee to prepaid wireless plans. http://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2016/03/california-boe-re
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
I love Chrome but I'm sure in some way it reports what I'm doing to Google. Why not just use Firefox?
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
do you suggest I should be running Firefox in Tails?
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I Almost Worked for Hyperloop One(pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com)
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
This article goes into the supporters and detractors of the research https://www.newscientist.com/article/2132026-our-common-ance...
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
Will this let me play Shadow Of The Beast or Blood Money or any other Psygnosis games?
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
Gas stations in the US make very little, possibly zero, from the sale of gasoline.
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
The Marxist hidden in me says * listen to Richard Wolff's views on Puerto Rico http://www.rdwolff.com/tags/puerto_rico * listen to David Graeber https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/d
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
The Hulu series is well written. The colors are amazing. I think it's perfectly valid to see some parallels in current society with the dystopian society in The Handmaid's Tale. The US has a vice president who doesn't allow
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
I decided to explore what else this blogger blogs about, who I believe blogs from Arizona: "Take the Pledge: Let's Take A Year Off From Giving To Our Universities" http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/20
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
I love anecdotes! When I was an IT admin at a major UC Berkeley university, all of the admin staff that supported our group worked super hard from 9am to 6pm, then they went home. There was an extremely old clerk who as far as I can tell h
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
Maybe he just read this book and decided to short all malls http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/06/22/seph_lawless_ph...
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
> I'm all for engineers getting paid, but in this case the guy didn't even have to do what most wealthy engineers do: deliver an actual successful product to market. Anthony's efforts led to Streetview and Maps improvement
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by WillyOnWheels 9y ago
https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/857662627496906752 "“EBITDA profitable”, n. Technical term used in accounting for companies running at a loss"

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