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by hexis 13y ago
Welcome to Texas! The winter will be a lot more fun than the summer was.
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by hexis 13y ago
This is actually "[a] periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C." It turned out to be more interesting than the HN title made it seem.
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by hexis 13y ago
Today's serving of feudal security is brought to you by...
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by hexis 13y ago
I know some bits about campaign finance, but I also know that most people I meet in the US care much more about physical security than they do about privacy/civil liberties/etc.. They vote for people who implement nasty policies a
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by hexis 13y ago
Yes, true. It is also true that sometimes citizens knowingly choose nasty policies and then sleep soundly at night with those policies in place. Like you, I also do not approve of the way the US has changed, but I try to avoid tricking myse
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by hexis 13y ago
It isn't, as far as I can tell. But I think that happened a very long time ago, to great acclaim.
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by hexis 13y ago
"My sense is that the people who make these policies really are "Beyond Elections". They are constants in our government." Yes, these people are our fellow citizens. There is no conspiracy, merely functioning democracy.
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by hexis 13y ago
Amazon collects sales tax here in Texas and it hasn't changed my buying habits at all as far as I can tell.
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Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before(wired.com)
383 points by hexis 13y ago|275 comments
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Use AdSense on your HTTPS sites(adsense.blogspot.com)
2 points by hexis 13y ago|0 comments
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by hexis 13y ago
They write some great ads over there at O'Reilly.
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by hexis 13y ago
I think he was only off by a year - http://www.milanworldsfair.com/
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by hexis 13y ago
This puts you against Thoreau, Gandhi, and King among others. Are you sure you'd like to hold this position?
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by hexis 13y ago
Just the first one that popped into my head. I'm not really a word processor kind of guy, so I am not surprised I picked the wrong one. :)
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by hexis 13y ago
Give her Abiword, or one of the many other FLOSS word preocessors. - http://www.abisource.com/
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by hexis 13y ago
"Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one." Are you folks willing to hire people from the US, too?
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by hexis 13y ago
Seconded, especially with Calendar sharing with specific other people.
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by hexis 13y ago
Tell it to Aaron Swartz.
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by hexis 13y ago
On some days, I wish companies like Pandora, Spotify, and Rdio would just voluntarily shut down. If the music industry thinks streaming companies are ripping them off, the music industry is welcome to build their own streaming business and
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We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement(wired.com)
3 points by hexis 13y ago|2 comments
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by hexis 13y ago
> Oracle, your engineers know exactly what will happen. Why don't you? I think Oracle knows what they're doing. Oracle likes paying customers and I suspect that they don't make much, if anything, on MySQL users. I've
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by hexis 13y ago
I think Amazon.com has a similar authentication scheme, where lots of stuff is accessible while logged in, but destructive stuff, like making a purchase, requires another log-in. It's a great model, especially when you think of it more like
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by hexis 13y ago
"The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that..." The United States, like the past, is a different country. We do things differently here.
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by hexis 13y ago
Fear is the mind killer.
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by hexis 13y ago
Furthermore, Mapquest has an Open Street Map layer, if that suits you - http://open.mapquest.com/
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by hexis 13y ago
Thank you.
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by hexis 13y ago
What are the names of those funds?
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by hexis 13y ago
Neither is everything about safety or land use efficiency.
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by hexis 13y ago
It's a convenient way to regulate an industry without having to pass any additional laws.
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by hexis 13y ago
I have been very happy for the past few years using fastmail.fm.

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