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by hobin 14y ago
I don't know, but there definitely should be. (Given that we vote for these people, who should at least know what they're actually doing. In any case, the parliament is still in session, ( http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/ )
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by hobin 14y ago
A teacher tried to teach me that particular hypothesis in high school. It subsequently became much harder for me to be a scientifically inclined person in a religious school. Bad memories.
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by hobin 14y ago
Hm. True enough. Let's not forget that this is one of those results that will be under great scrutiny, of course. Not because the results are controversial - far from it - but because they're so important. Committing fraud with these result
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by hobin 14y ago
I'm very happy about this. Not only because ACTA was bad, but also because this shows the views of the parliament were fairly congruent with the views of the public - and that's always a good thing in a democracy. Of course, the battle ain'
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by hobin 14y ago
"The only thing that matters is the person using it." Well, sure, I guess if you're really strange, you can be as efficient with Brainfuck as you can be with Python.
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by hobin 14y ago
I don't think it's necessarily creepy. There is a whole list of classes depending on what 'type' of developer one is, found here: http://search.cpan.org/~ishigaki/Acme-CPANAuthors-0.19/lib/A... But I know that I'm not known for my extreme
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by hobin 14y ago
You raise a valid point. If that were the case, though, then I would argue the article should've been posted under a different title. The current title suggests that I'm going to see mr. Hawking say something profoud about time travel, M-th
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by hobin 14y ago
"France is too egocentrical, Britain (as much as I love the country) has a government hell-bent on recreating 1984, the Scandinavian countries are dying a slow death of too many paper-pushers and most of Eastern-Europe cannot rightly be cal
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by hobin 14y ago
I believe this is where I point out that the USA is not the only developed country in the world worth fighting for.
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by hobin 14y ago
I don't really see how this is news. Don't get me wrong, I think Stephen Hawking is a very smart man, and he has definitely done his fair share of work to help people understand science - not to mention that his scientific accomplishments a
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by hobin 14y ago
Ahem. I am somewhat disappointed that you have not presented one solid argument in favor of this new 'person to blame' field. The whole idea seems to hinge on the following quote: "so why not throw in a small dose of public shaming for goo
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by hobin 14y ago
For many tasks, I would even prefer working on a solution for an hour instead of doing grunt work for half that time. Most often, I simply can't stand that kind of work, so I have no problem at all with taking some extra time to do things m
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by hobin 14y ago
Is this true? (Do you have a source?) I have never heard such a thing before, and it sounds incredibly stupid.
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Ask HN: What's wrong with Ebay?
7 points by hobin 14y ago|15 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
I think it means registered at the PPI.
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by hobin 14y ago
Well, from a purely consequentialist standpoint, it would very likely be much more cost-efficient to donate the money you could use to make the data centre green to charities. Then again, I'm plenty cynical to realize that going green is mo
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by hobin 14y ago
Given that such systems already exist , I would hope not.
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by hobin 14y ago
EVE Online actually has a very well-working economy. Regardless of whether such an approach would work be optimal in real life, it very closely resembles what a free-market economy is supposed to look like. The news item you linked to isn
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by hobin 14y ago
But are such people breaking the law? To my knowledge, being a douchebag on the internet is not a crime (nor do I think it should be). Could you perhaps point me to one of those posts that explain this in more detail?
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by hobin 14y ago
How about, "do what makes you happy?" It's true that for the great majority of people, going out and having a ton of social relationships correlates with increased happiness. For me, not so much. I'm a very happy and optimistic person, yet
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The Oatmeal reaches over 200K USD in donations. 7 days left to go.(indiegogo.com)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
Did you not read the whole comment? It's not that long. The second line states "But, yeah, it's still a terrible idea." You may have missed that I wrote that comment because mtgx's comment implied that only bad ideas can come from these cou
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by hobin 14y ago
Here it is: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00 About the subtle aspect, this may very well be because they genuinely believe it's a good idea other governments may agree with.
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by hobin 14y ago
Contrary to popular belief (especially among people from the west), not everything from Russia and China is terrible, oppressive and meant to destroy everything freedom-ish. But, yeah, it's still a terrible idea.
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by hobin 14y ago
On the other hand, selling firearms to people without doing a background check or when you know they're mentally ill or any such thing can be illegal (in some places, at least; I of course can't be familiar with legislation everywhere). I e
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FBI Ordered to Copy 150 TB of Seized MegaUpload Data(geekosystem.com)
1 points by hobin 14y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 14y ago
Ah, yes. Now we can all experience the wonderfulness that comes with these parties: http://thedoghousediaries.com/1242 I'm (partially) kidding, of course. Interesting feature, and interested to see how this is going to work out for them.
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by hobin 14y ago
I admit it, I chuckled. Sometimes I think this kind of news is the soap opera for geeks.
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by hobin 14y ago
What would happen if I were stressed out? I'm quite I'd pull the trigger differently then.
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by hobin 14y ago
... Then perhaps you shouldn't visit the Oatmeal. His site is full of that kind of thing. Some people like it, some people don't. You're apparently in the second group. ;)

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