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by chippy 10y ago
I like one of the quotes that say "Can you resist the urge to splurge? Or will Black Friday bully you into buying things you probably don’t need. "
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Adbusters: 25 Nov. Buy Nothing Day(adbusters.org)
3 points by chippy 10y ago|2 comments
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Buy Nothing Day(en.wikipedia.org)
27 points by chippy 10y ago|2 comments
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by chippy 10y ago
The article and in case you didn't read it, title of the article as shown above is about the new CIA Director. That's Not Trump. This is Rep. Mike Pompeo. So whilst your point is that "oh Trump says stuff and doesn't mea
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Something Weird Is Happening at WikiLeaks (Hashes not matching)(nymag.com)
3 points by chippy 10y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 10y ago
Typing this regardless of the thread being flagged and disappearing - but I've a comment on Twitter generally. This, to me, seems the result of a Western tech company meeting the world. It's a result of growing and enlarging the p
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by chippy 10y ago
page 5 now with 125 points, 16 mins after the above comment.
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by chippy 10y ago
>I don't understand how any man can be offended by the killallmen hashtag You say don't understand. Do you want to? They clue to your lack of understanding is in the first part of the sentence > As an able bodied straight ma
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Drawing the planet in brushstrokes(medium.com)
1 points by chippy 10y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 10y ago
I'm curious: > I have never been able to properly explain the rationale to a liberal Have you ever had explained the liberal rationale to you and did you understand it? I'm wondering if it works one way, or everyone struggles t
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by chippy 10y ago
Note: when reading in Firefox's Reader View, it picks up the right title and author but the story is the one underneath "A life behind bars"!
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by chippy 10y ago
So it looks like they are planning on adding the map editing tools directly into Google Maps - ETA March 2017 And in the meantime, all the existing editors are being asked to be what I imagine is more of a local content writer. Would it be
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The Closing of the Liberal Mind – Folly of the Masses vs. Wisdom of the Crowd(newstatesman.com)
2 points by chippy 10y ago|1 comments
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by chippy 10y ago
You need to provide the data. You should also specify the terms of contributions and a license of the data. People will be more encourage to contribute if they know that their free work is benefiting others, and not just the project owners.
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This global map shows where the internet lives(cnet.com)
3 points by chippy 10y ago|0 comments
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What Do the Scary Clowns Want?(nytimes.com)
1 points by chippy 10y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 10y ago
I suspect that this is due to a human psychological flaw based in living in the present. Consider this: We all think, right now, that this time is the most important time that has ever happened in history. Right? Consider this also: Everyon
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by chippy 10y ago
TLDR; He said that leaks create a chilling effect in organizations up to no good and thereby reduce their effectiveness.
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When the World Is an Arcade: The Psychogeography of Pokémon Go(theatlantic.com)
1 points by chippy 10y ago|0 comments
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Walking Simulators: The Digitisation of an Aesthetic Practice(digra.org)
2 points by chippy 10y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 10y ago
Chapter eight is refreshing. I hope it makes it into print.
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by chippy 10y ago
The question "would I do this for 10 years" or "Do I see myself doing this in 10 years" allows for the possibility that they don't see themselves continuing for that duration and it allows the person to not look tha
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by chippy 10y ago
I thought it important as this is a direct bit of official information from the libreboot.org website itself, and libreboot is often mentioned in many other threads on HN with regards to privacy, laptops, and Free alternatives. I imagine it
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Libreboot left the GNU project(libreboot.org)
41 points by chippy 10y ago|34 comments
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Ask HN: Does asking “Why am I being downvoted” get upvotes?
1 points by chippy 10y ago|6 comments
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by chippy 10y ago
> Contrary to what people on HN believe, advertising is not inherently evil. Most people on HN make their living off advertising I would wager!
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by chippy 10y ago
The key part of my comment was the "embracing the _whole_ ecosystem" (whole) In other words, if you are with Apple 100% it is actually much harder to buy a Thinkpad again, because it hurts your investment in the brand.
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by chippy 10y ago
In writing some replies to a couple of comments, I think that the article is referring to cultural privilege. Americans have the privilege as being the most powerful western culture, Facebook comes from an educated, technological, rich, Am
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by chippy 10y ago
The difference (that mgleason_3 was saying) is that Americans cannot see that other's have different viewpoints. Other countries are able to see that others have different viewpoints and can justify their own decisions in comparison w
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by chippy 10y ago
Agreed. It's not Liberalism at all - if anything, from the article, thinking about this on a global scale - it's a cross between a Silicon Valley tech mindset, American puritanism, and the current flavour of rich, white, universi

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