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by fortythirteen 8y ago
The majority of those lost languages are spoken only, so we lose the culture's verbal history. Imagine if nobody ever decided to write down the Iliad.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Get a metal base keyboard with MX browns or clears. That'll have the tactile feel, but a fraction of the sound.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
You're operating off the assumption that open source foundations aren't mainly a racket themselves.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Do you use your email list to send third party promotional content?
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Ultimate hypocrisy is that their profit model is probably built around reselling their email list.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
The headline of your linked article is: > 2 Dalits caned, paraded naked in Maharashtra for swimming in well of upper caste man and you said the two were boys, so is it true that this guy caned and paraded two boys naked around the villag
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
So... try/catch?
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Why not prosecute the telecoms under current anti-trust legislation? I'm as troubled by the zeitgeist's two proposed solutions, more big companies or more big government, as I am by the merger.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
In other news, water is wet.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Look at TechCruch's[0] weak argument against this (#4). They even have have to admit that it "potentially" does hinder competition, but claim temporary exemptions negate this. They use a single small ISP from SF (which has
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Think about how many households subscribe to Netflix and/or Amazon. Imagine how John Q. Public can be persuaded to complain to his ISP when Netflix puts a big banner in the app that says "your internet provider is stopping us from
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> and has no say in the matter apart from finding a new ISP And that has nothing to do with NetNeutrality™. In fact NetNeutrality™ put in place an expensive regulatory process that often priced out small competitors.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I think that dystopian vision falls apart when you factor in porn, because that's the #1 use and no ISP is going to add a porn tier. People will flip their lid when they can't get to pornhub.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I'm interested in whether one of the two extreme sides of this debate will admit they were wrong when their prediction doesn't pan out. Either we wind up with a tiered, cable package style internet or we don't. I'm in th
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> We want to be clear that while we are not developing AI for use in weapons... we will be developing AI for things that have weapons attached to them. We hope our lawyerly semantics are enough to fool you rubes for as long as it takes u
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Would you rather have <$1k in savings in America or have a decent savings in a 3rd world country? Equating income to quality of life is 1st world centric.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Money is not ethnicity. It's the metric by which you stereotype people. You're just making my point for me.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> people who live in extreme comfort and can afford tremendous amounts of power because of their money You do realize that the first half of your sentence is identical to a extreme nationalist argument against an ethnic group, don't
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Are most of those 7m moving to Brockenhurst? No, they're piling into London, and new domiciles aren't keeping up, so prices are skyrocketing and pushing up the "national average".
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
1. Real income is adjusted for inflation. 2. Property prices have multiple other factors affecting them than just GDP. For instance, if you have a large increase in population without enough new housing to account for it, then property pric
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Real pay going up 1% per year for 18 years means that it has gone up 19.61% since the year 2000. Another great example of statistics being framed to elicit a certain response.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
And they're still way off. The only reason Detroit's number is so high is because they're counting the $1k condemned houses for sale, all over the city, that nobody wants to move into.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Anyone with industry knowledge can look at those median salary numbers and instantly tell that the data set is faulty.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects. The problem with Reddit's toxic user base is that they're only concerned with blocking
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Pravda for the People Is there a reason you're associating yourself with the propaganda arm of mass murderer, Joseph Stalin?
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Propaganda talking point. Can you link to a single item that put a single military person in danger? Even intelligence officials couldn't when asked by congress.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I have comrades who have, and it's a mixed bag, like everything in life. You're giving a prime example of how binary thinking ruins the human mind.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> HN mods have shown a strong pro-authoritarian sentiment SV has long leaned that way. YC's success depends on the financial support of upper echelon SV people. It's no surprise that what is considered "too political"
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
And here I was, on HN last week, getting downvoted to oblivion for mentioning that each Google embedded service is a cog in a much more nefarious machine. It's getting like reddit around here, where the most controversial comments abou
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Every now and again, at some huge auditorium, a senior staff member at one of the big firms based in northern California – ordinarily a man ... Absolutely irrelevant to the topic. I already ignore the hype, but I think I'll also

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