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by gasull 14y ago
Real US unemployment is way larger than the official numbers: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart... The numbers in the EU are also manipulated, but not by such a wide margin. When Europeans talk about unemployme
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The myth of the bird flu deadly pandemic(boingboing.net)
1 points by gasull 15y ago|0 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
Add Spotify to the list.
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US plummets on World Press Freedom Index, from 27th to 47th(yro.slashdot.org)
92 points by gasull 15y ago|45 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
In Fascism they are private enterprises. That's what the link says. In Communism they aren't private.
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The perils of polyglot programming(alexgaynor.net)
2 points by gasull 15y ago|0 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
Not according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism#General_c... > "the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise... Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social."
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by gasull 15y ago
In Communism (Stalinism), all the enterprises are owned by the Government. In Fascism the Government is owned by (some of) the corporations.
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by gasull 15y ago
tl;dr: "General-purpose networked computers, free and anonymous speech, and sustained civil liberties make it impossible to maintain this distribution monopoly of digitizable information. As technical progress can't be legislated against,
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by gasull 15y ago
For the next time, have your blog at blog.example.com, and point it to another hosting provider different than the one for example.com. That way at least you prevent the blog from going down.
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by gasull 15y ago
The challenge is on a) challenging US domination of the space b) China might (and probably will) deploy weapons in the space, just like the US does.
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by gasull 15y ago
Yes, but interesting anyway. The title of the article should be "What the US House bittorrents the most"
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by gasull 15y ago
It's a Google Translate link because I can't find any article in English. If someone finds it, please submit.
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Now GoDaddy requires written authorization to transfer domains(translate.google.com)
6 points by gasull 15y ago|4 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
> I see you mark them as needing confirmation. It is a crowdsourced list I found on Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/24/0035250/crowdsourced-... I didn't take part on compiling it. I think all this info is public and a
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by gasull 15y ago
I'm just pointing out that some people consider Stratfor a source of propaganda, and probably that's the reason why Anonymous attacked it. Stratfor looks interesting. I bookmarked it and I'll decide on my own if it's propaganda or not afte
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by gasull 15y ago
Some people consider Stratfor to be a source of disinformation and propaganda: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stratfor
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Companies supporting SOPA: their web address, Twitter, contact email and phone(docs.google.com)
115 points by gasull 15y ago|22 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
OPEN act is also bad. Why do we have to choose from the lesser of two evils? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/the-open-act...
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by gasull 15y ago
You're claiming victory way too soon.
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by gasull 15y ago
Why do you think the OPEN act is good?
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by gasull 15y ago
> these donations have all been made prior to SOPA becoming an issue so there's really no legitimate reason to make any connection here. What proves that bribing politicians is an endless game. > To draw an analogy, the CIA once
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by gasull 15y ago
Please don't copypaste as code. It forces us to scroll from left to right (at least on Firefox). Same copypaste but more readable: > Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), the only member of Congress present at the hearing with any tech experience,
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by gasull 15y ago
All you can do throwing money at the problem is buying time. The MPAA/RIAA/etc. will throw more money than us, because they can. It will be endless. They can create a new bill that is almost the same as SOPA, and then we would need to th
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by gasull 15y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383891
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by gasull 15y ago
I think GoDaddy is outright wrong. SOPA/PIPA won't benefit GoDaddy at all. It will actually hurt them because less startups means less people registering their domain, and therefore less profits for GoDaddy.
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by gasull 15y ago
I've used http://name.com too. It's cheap and I like its simplicity and usability.
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Bitcoin vs. Western Union: It’s About Strength in Numbers(siliconangle.com)
1 points by gasull 15y ago|0 comments
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by gasull 15y ago
Pure speculation: AmEx probably sees that SOPA will be bad for the economy. A bad economy means less profits. Visa and MasterCard... maybe, just maybe, they understand that Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency might succeed in the future,
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by gasull 15y ago
> I just don’t like bullies. It isn't bullying. It's tit-for-tat. Companies that support SOPA will hurt, economically, all of us. It makes sense to hurt them back.

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