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by botverse 8y ago
This is so much what the web should be that I almost forgot about Article 13, GDPR and so on.
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by botverse 8y ago
> You tried to airbnb in India ? It’s probably barely passable in LA yeah, rookie mistake, my first Airbnb, but probably the last too :) > Hotels in India would be quite cheap with the American dollar A good hotel (or BnB) in India is
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by botverse 8y ago
correction: did the conversion wrongly, total was around $717, more than the half of it was laundry, they were expecting me in the lobby already. I was arriving with a new set of clothes and a new backpack with my laptop and chargers and ga
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by botverse 8y ago
Same, bedbugs in India, had to go to a proper hotel costing me more than $1000 between room and cleaning all my belongings, I take bedbugs seriously and didn’t want to bring any bug back home. I had pictures of the bugs and the hotel and cl
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by botverse 8y ago
What happens if you are locked out of your Google account? This can happen for some silly reasons and some times without recourse. Will you lose your domains, effectively ruining your business?
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by botverse 8y ago
> One day I just did it and the change wasn't as big a deal as I thought it to be. This is so true, if everybody here thinks that should change but worried about this. It takes just a few hours, almos all features have an equivalent
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by botverse 8y ago
What about overpopulation as a factor? The elephant in the room. Every time someone suggest that we are too many, people tend to agree, but when what is suggested is that we should think about how to be less people, everybody halts in horro
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by botverse 8y ago
Living in UK I can tell this situation is even more extreme. I always wondered why decentralised payments apps in crypto aren’t a bigger thing. This would: workaround big player’s commissions for small payments and stop the tracking of the
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by botverse 8y ago
I think this is a step in the good direction, but I think getting rid of the time zones altogether is the right thing to do[0]. [0] https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-forget-the-day...
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by botverse 8y ago
No offence taken. > But there is simply no simple solution that anyone has for how to solve it. I think the problem can be less complicated if there is a sincere open conversation around it. Let's put some context. In 1948 lots of p
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by botverse 8y ago
EDIT Seen the backlash I’m getting with the comment, would like to clarify that what sparked it was this sentence: > "No nation has a monopoly on virtue – something that many people, including many of my fellow Israeli citizens, sti
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by botverse 8y ago
I would recommend to double check those links to the github orgs, I’m sorry to say they are small projects. Can’t compare with publishing the whole frontend, their image managing library and their text editor.
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by botverse 8y ago
Not mentioned in the article. Will be orbiting at 320 km from the surface of the earth, for comparison ISS is between 403 and 406 km. Edit, Orbital times: Aeolus 60 minutes ISS 92.49 minutes
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by botverse 8y ago
Also it’s very dangerous to stand in front of them, as they have people spending more tax payer money guarding their interests. Like it happened to Aaron Swartz
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by botverse 8y ago
We will do it “when we can because we can” is the conclusion I give to so many conversations about the future of the species where morality should be a deterrent: - modifying the genome of the species until unrecognisable - transfer people
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by botverse 8y ago
I think it’s very idealistic to think that the war was for helping the oppressed people of Iraq. Iraq War costed $2.4 trillion[1], figure out who pocketed it and then you will have a picture closer to reality. That picture tells me that the
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by botverse 8y ago
It says that the tech savvy bad actors may already have it
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by botverse 8y ago
Nice write up
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by botverse 9y ago
The 83A of the Extradition Act 20013. It allows judges to block extradition to the US and other countries if a crime was committed in the UK and if it is in the accused's interests to stand trial in the UK. Src: wired [0] [0] - http:&
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Hacking suspect Lauri Love wins appeal against extradition to US(theguardian.com)
10 points by botverse 9y ago|4 comments
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by botverse 9y ago
May be the word I’d “hoisting”
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by botverse 9y ago
He happened to be the fraud himself
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by botverse 9y ago
I think is because of the culture of the company itself, it’s all about creating worlds and leaping towards the next big contract with the user. Those things won’t happen for an Excel user that just want Excel in 3D. Haptic feedback, virtua
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by botverse 9y ago
Excel have been dethroned in every bank by bespoke software, unless you are talking about a tiny scale.
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Donald Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote(theguardian.com)
6 points by botverse 9y ago|0 comments
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by botverse 9y ago
The article from a point of view where the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel could create more problems to US and Israel than fixing any.
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Jerusalem and the Follies of Trump's Embrace(nationalinterest.org)
2 points by botverse 9y ago|1 comments
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by botverse 9y ago
I did play some RPG when I was a kid (born 1981) and I’ve been thinking about how to get back to it for the las 5 years. I was probably difficult not so long ago, but my friends are starting to freeze their fb accounts and restrict mobile u
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by botverse 9y ago
> “These electronic media searches have produced information used to combat terrorism, violations of export controls, and convictions for child pornography, intellectual property rights violations and visa fraud,” One thing people don&#x
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by botverse 9y ago
Thanks for the down-vote. More on this, computer were expensive toys, and traditionally boys get more expensive toys than girls. It's quite understandable the marketing decision there. https://www.theguardian.com/world&

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