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by fosco 9y ago
Anyone have thoughts on exams that require a passing grade to serve in Congress? I.e. demonstrate certain levels of knowledge in order to participate in certain conversations with new bills listing requirements at top thereby eliminating th
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by fosco 9y ago
whataboutism. we need more competition between ISPs _and_ more ISPs to select from (I have 1 with speeds that would allow me to successfully work remotely on Long Island NY). I cannot see any other way for the consumer to win in any situati
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by fosco 9y ago
I stand corrected, I am very interested in this. my mother in law escaped from Romania under communism and has quite an incredible story. I also had a great opportunity to visit and drive those most of the northern (mostly Hungarian) areas
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by fosco 9y ago
I think he accidently replied to you rather than post to article. See his other CO.ments in context. 5 years...3comments...2 today. My two cents
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by fosco 9y ago
I think ankhkare is referring to the other discussion thread about this situation. can be seen here [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790687
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by fosco 9y ago
Do they all use javascript? If they do try using no-script and see if you get same result?
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by fosco 9y ago
Filetype: is also a favorite of mine. One thing to note when using filetype in bing by specifying xls it also catches other file extensions (xlsx) while google in my experience only would find xls. Yes I use bing sometimes and especially wh
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by fosco 9y ago
I have overwhelmingly big hopes for postmarketOS [0] and Debian Mobile [1] [0] https://postmarketos.org/ [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
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by fosco 9y ago
has something similar ever happened in history? (serious question) I see every loss that occurs as a step back and no progress only side stepping afterwords...
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by fosco 9y ago
I find it odd the amount of points this has in a few hours but this is not in the front page? If anything happens I hope the result is to encourage more competition in everything under the purview of the FCC.
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by fosco 9y ago
I am hoping postmarketOS will be a good alternative. Still being developed and not ready for prime time yet.
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by fosco 9y ago
To add to this definition. Facebook is a large conglomerate business that grows by purchasing young successfull social networks in multiple areas of services.
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by fosco 9y ago
I have UC that is mostly under control but have a relapse ever couple years, not a programmer but if you are looking for input maybe I can assist. Thanks!
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by fosco 9y ago
another way is to increase defensive skills by starting with Damn Vulnerable Linus (DVL) and trying to close all holes and having someone try to crack it. for fun of course :-)
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by fosco 9y ago
I did not know gawk had networking support I wonder if it could be used on network traffic on the fly. Sort of like irules on an f5. Thank you for sharing!
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by fosco 9y ago
Out of curiosity can you elaborate?
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by fosco 9y ago
I think I am just shocked someone is okay with saying they make a living off screwing others yes, that is a low amount of money in the US but in a place like greece, you would be doing pretty well. (only know because I visited this past sum
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by fosco 9y ago
Can you elaborate on the last sentence? Serious question, unsure of the seriousness of statement.
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by fosco 9y ago
I am interested to see where the librem phone goes but I am not sold on it yet. I am excited about it, but do not like the idea of asking for donations/funding without having design completed yet... my concern is I give money then do n
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by fosco 9y ago
I find myself dreaming more and more about PostMarketOS [0] and it's potential. I cannot wait to try this out after cell and data have been integrated (I have not checked in 30 days in case it anyway had but I suspect it is at least a
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by fosco 9y ago
I must say I remember reading Blink[0] by Malcolm gladwell which spoke of Sylvan Tomkins[1] looking at people's faces (and animals) and have extremely high success rates of describing their personalities to such a degree that by lookin
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by fosco 9y ago
I want to change the OS, but lineageOS is based on android, I specifically am done with google. I will see what I can do in my extremely low knowledge in how I can contribute to postmarketOS as I think that is the best route and will hopefu
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Medicare for All: Leaving No One Behind(live-berniesanders-com.pantheonsite.io)
25 points by fosco 9y ago|21 comments
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by fosco 9y ago
pretty neat, having ability to 'block' would be pretty cool. some terrible one line advice: total damage counter total kill counter total death counter spin knight seems too strong/fast grenader seems too weak aura master doe
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Ask HN: How to secure an old android phone that is no longer supported
6 points by fosco 9y ago|5 comments
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by fosco 9y ago
Dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15187001
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by fosco 9y ago
as other sibling threads have commented I agree. I am really rooting for them and hope they get this right, being able to hack my phone like a desktop/laptop has been a dream of mine. I really look forward to what the end result is and
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by fosco 9y ago
I do not know where the names for these acts come from, but I think a fair judge of thinking the name of it does the exact opposite of what it actually does is a good way to understand what a new act is doing. what I am interested in, is if
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Building America’s Trust Act would amp up privacy concerns at the border(arstechnica.com)
1 points by fosco 9y ago|0 comments
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by fosco 9y ago
Thanks for sharing I will look into this further. I noticed no one mentioned sailfishOS, any reason why? will my phone work with tmobile and still make calls with my sim card by using lineage OS?

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