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by cJ0th 10y ago
I am no expert on this topic but I think HTTPS prevents ISPs from seeing the complete URL you've entered. For instance, if Wikipedia were http only your ISP would see that you visited http://en.wikipedia.com/really-bad-
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Shareholders want to make money now! But you're right. I am also curious as to how this will turn out for them in the long term.
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Rosetta also tweeted an update ;) https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/772818246059823104
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by cJ0th 10y ago
re: suggestions: After submitting the form it crossed my mind that I'd like to be able to identify (sub)comments in a thread that have been made after my last visit. It's a bit time consuming to scan the comment section every time
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Slow thinking is a luxury you mostly can't really afford if you find yourself working in a hierarchy.
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Got a wire account a few days ago. While my experience on linux was alright a friend of mine went through a lot of trouble. After the activation he couldn't log in using the browser. It said "no connection" even though that w
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even academics do have to eat occasionally.
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What's more Interior Minister de Maizière is pushing an anti-encryption agenda.
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Just made an account. Looks pretty good so far. A huge plus, imo, is that they don't require a phone number at all. However, I am afraid I won't be able to convince anyone to use it :(
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many folks on HN consider "being mediocre" and "being happy" as mutually exclusive. The article is thus thought provoking for this audience and could be considered interesting according to the guidelines. That said, I ha
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<rant> everything means everything. lately i am starting to become really mad at high schools and universities for teaching this "x implies y" mentality as a tool to look at real world phenomenas. thanks to this kind of &quo
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woah ... this is cool. only knew the more traditional teletext website: http://www.ard-text.de/
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Perhaps it's even a boon for science. Necessity begets ingenuity they say. It would be interesting to know (and impossible to find out) how many research projects failed because a surplus of available funds led to bad decisions. In oth
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> I realize that this is common UX jargon, but is it literally "painful" to click "File->Export" rather than "File->Save"? I found it mildly annoying at first but then I learnt that the luckily export
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by cJ0th 10y ago
I hate to be negative but I am slowly beginning to believe they're completely loosing their minds at Reddit. Not long ago they had this epiphany re turning links into affiliate links. Now they allow companies to purchase user posts in
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Reddit Introduces New Ad-Type: Promoted User Posts(reddit.com)
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yes and no. there is dvhs. But even though the medium looks like a standard vhs cassette it is a different technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS Here is a video recorded on a dvhs in 1993. It aged rather well
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by cJ0th 10y ago
On a serious note: They original link looks okayish when you switch to article mode in Firefox.
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yeah, Dr Sarno's book(s) are worth a look if you suffer from back pain. Helped me to start running again after years of trouble.
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Suicide and young men who are not mentally ill (audio interview)(abc.net.au)
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I don't mean to be snarky but I guess I am genuinely 'out of the loop' as they say: What user base is reddit trying to attract atm ?
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Apparently the book is available on archive.org https://archive.org/details/SurrealNumbers By the way: does any one know whether all downloads on archive.org can be considered legal? It is amazing how many old books wh
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> Another thing for engineers or anybody at a station to do is to go into the studio, turn the microphone on, crank it to 11. Don’t talk — so you don’t blow your ears out — and listen to the sounds of all the fans that you have in the ro
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by cJ0th 10y ago
> So if you practice being a new you, you will become good at being that person. Yes and no. According to my subjective perception of life you only know in hindsight whether you were practicing or not. Sometimes you feel really enthusia
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by cJ0th 10y ago
to make sure that even the most idiosyncratic choice of characters can be displayed everywhere according to the intention of the person who picked them.
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Fair enough but there is no common fallback font that is used by all systems (win, osx, linux, android ...) as a default. Take this page for example: http://emojipedia.org/faq/ Only a fraction of the emojis is displaye
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True but I think that is also problematic. The more symbols there are the less likely it is that every font covers all the symbols that someone might find important. For instance, I often get e-mails with characters that can't be displ
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by cJ0th 10y ago
Oh I see. Must have misread your comment above. Good to hear it is working for you :)
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You frame this as a false dichotomy. Spending time with obnoxious people is not the only option you (theoretically) have besides being alone. I, too, can spend weeks/months without interacting with other people and I stay content. I ca
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They were recently merged: https://ixquick.com/eng/ixquick-merging-with-startpage.html

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