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by antoko 13y ago
why are people upvoting this? it is quite literally nothing
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by antoko 13y ago
Yes it is... http://gs.statcounter.com/#resolution-ww-monthly-200903-2013...
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by antoko 13y ago
Thinking about it, they may be talking about readership rather than sales. People can pass around a paper in the break room or family members may read the same paper. I'm not sure how well they can estimate those numbers though. Sale
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by antoko 13y ago
I'm sorry, but that's absolute rubbish. I rarely post on HN, but I feel compelled to do so here. Thanks for this, you should post more, a community is only as good as its active members.
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by antoko 13y ago
The Guardian is a broadsheet, not a tabloid. If you want compare it something on the right use the Times or the Telegraph. The tabloid equivalent of a left newspaper (though the terms make much less sense since the tabloids aren't nea
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by antoko 13y ago
The Sun has consistently been the biggest daily in the UK for a long time, and I would suggest at least some of the parties have a majority buying that paper, historically the Mirror which comes in 3rd would be considered a more leftist pap
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by antoko 13y ago
...who is rallying an increasingly unified Democratic caucus to his side, as well as 61 House Democrats who voted no on Wednesday but are now publicly signaling their discontent. That's HUGE. Does anyone have any more details on thi
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by antoko 13y ago
You don't seem like an idiot but all your comments in this thread seem to be making the same obvious error. "Being raised in poverty" is a broad term that means all kinds of things, you seem to think it is merely a measure of
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by antoko 13y ago
These aren't politicians they're staffers. Many people enter the political realm to affect policy change. Many of these people are driven by a desire to do good. You are painting with too broad a brush and your comment doesn&#x
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by antoko 13y ago
you're not a "rich person" by your definition of whatever that means, but how do you live on $250/mo when just rent is $300/mo? You're short $50/mo and you didn't eat or travel yet. For other people&
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by antoko 13y ago
Speaking for myself, but I'm sure others share the sentiments, its not that i think google is somehow "good". They're obviously not, the difference is that they're still a cool tech company doing cool things on a m
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by antoko 13y ago
You know its just a peaceful protest to show support for the 4th amendment, right? Its not a call for armed insurrection. I think you need to Chill the fuck out .
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by antoko 13y ago
you've already made up your mind so I'm not sure there is much point in continuing but feel free to read this. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arrestin...
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by antoko 13y ago
err is your google broken? https://www.google.com/search?q=free+speech+arrest I'd also argue that having speech consigned to these places[1] when the whole country is supposedly a free speech zone doesn't follow t
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by antoko 13y ago
Apparently Clapper is lying about lying too[1]. According to Wyden[2], the question he asked was actually given to Clapper in advance so the idea that Clapper didn't understand exactly what Wyden was referring to seems like a load of
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by antoko 13y ago
I absolutely didn't downvote you, I fully agree with your point, and was equally confused by the use those terms in that context.
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by antoko 13y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5952176
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by antoko 13y ago
Correct, on re-reading the article the $23m is the value offered for HR training, which is apparently somehow equivalent to the value of the economic benefit Ecuador gains from the agreement - so presumably they already did the relevant mat
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by antoko 13y ago
Currently the 2nd comment on the page of article addresses that. Actually, supersonic simply refers to anything moving faster than the speed of sound in a particular medium. The Earth's atmosphere has a particular speed of sound but s
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by antoko 13y ago
I'm getting it from the article... In a cheeky jab at the U.S. spying program that Snowden unveiled through leaks to the media, the South American nation offered $23 million per year to finance human rights training. The funding would
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by antoko 13y ago
Obviously we don't know the details of the agreement so we can't actually know much of anything. Presumably the government itself isn't buying the flowers so I'd assume its more of free trade kind of deal so no tariffs
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by antoko 13y ago
The US didn't demand him back (and he isn't even there yet). They are threatening to remove some economic benefit that is completely unrelated to the issue at hand to coerce the Ecuadorean government to fall in line. That's
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by antoko 13y ago
You seem to be assuming that if the US doesn't buy those flowers then no one will and they'll just rot. That seems unlikely. Given that they've also offered $23m for Human Right's training It seems likely they can affo
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by antoko 13y ago
Did we read the same article? It turns out the FBI had mislead the local authorities about their purpose on the country. According to a timeline (.pdf) later released by the National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police, the FBI contacted
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by antoko 13y ago
Exactly! Couldn't agree more, humor is definitely one place we need strict guidelines, otherwise how we all know what's funny and acceptable and what isn't?
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by antoko 13y ago
I am not denying the possibility that there was fowl play. So you think chicken sabotage is a possibility then?
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by antoko 13y ago
You're right - I'm making assumptions when imagining the situations described in my head and jumping to unfair conclusions about your point. When I imagine a person in the water trying to help it seems obvious that if you're
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by antoko 13y ago
did you mean to contradict the article or did you not even read it? Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the su
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by antoko 13y ago
I doubt I'll ever willingly include spaces in files names and I avoid punctuation too if I can. If you've got a directory system that goes many levels deep though those long file/folder names won't fit on your screen and
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by antoko 13y ago
I totally agree, I don't read the comments for an explicit summary. I read the comments to see what opinions people have of the article, on the basis of the comments I determine if the article is worth reading. I don't do this fo

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