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931.
by jkot 12y ago
> No, in the developed world it's probably not. You could even argue about developing world. Children usually have a strong motivation to learn, and unless there is civil war, they do.
932.
by jkot 12y ago
Carbon fiber dust is nasty stuff, something like asbestos. It can not even go to landfill, so lets make children playgrounds out of that. Lovely.
933.
by jkot 12y ago
This laptop will most likely get official support for Ubuntu 14.04.
934.
by jkot 12y ago
Move along, nothing to see here. Lenovo said there are no security concerns.
935.
by jkot 12y ago
Dell sells laptops with Ubuntu, its $100 cheaper. Most awesome is probably XPS 13" 2015, but it does not have official support yet.
936.
by jkot 12y ago
> It charges between 3% to 5% interest, depending on the quality of the cheese, and a fee for making sure the cheese matures properly in their air-conditioned, humidified vault.
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Kaspersky Lab: A virus in HDD firmware is real, what's next?(blog.kaspersky.com)
3 points by jkot 12y ago|0 comments
938.
by jkot 12y ago
I meant to remove offending profile, not just links. Impersonation with malicious intent is probably crime in most countries.
939.
by jkot 12y ago
read the link I attached
940.
by jkot 12y ago
> Where do you see hate against capitalists in Marx works? The need for proletarian revolution. And I am talking about marxism, not Marx works. Marx himself mostly hated local socialists (they wanted practical stuff and found him ridic
941.
by jkot 12y ago
> You really exposed the bug. typo, but it fits.
942.
by jkot 12y ago
Did you even read that stuff? Landless peasants were remainder of 'feudalism' and needed to be 'saved'. If peasants owned even small farm, that made him capitalist and enemy. It does not say anything peasants should have
943.
by jkot 12y ago
No true Scotsmen fallacy. I read Capital and some other bugs. Problem is that Marxism defined as 'class struggle' is essentially hate movement, they are defined by their enemy. Once they come to power and the 'class struggle&
944.
by jkot 12y ago
As someone from post-soviet country I find this bit offensive. Something like 'how I become erratic Nacist' and bunch of hogwash how modern nacism can learn from mistakes of the past. But do not be mistaken, this guy is not stupid
945.
by jkot 12y ago
Long time ago there was post on HN from guy who was harassed online. Someone pretended to be him and created fake blog, twitter account, social profiles etc.. It had serious impact on his life / job / family. Every other company r
946.
by jkot 12y ago
I often criticize US army, but this article is just b * t. And not single word about what is actually wrong with US army (F35 and similar projects) > More than three-quarters of Americans in Iraq didn’t fight. A ridiculously large numbe
947.
by jkot 12y ago
$80 for 5 hour flight seems like reasonable price. Ryanair has similar distance for $40 (London Athens). 1 hour flights are often for $12. Edit: NY to London is actually 2x distance between London and Athens
948.
by jkot 12y ago
What sort of heat bomb? All arsenal we have would melt only few cubic kilometers of ice, raising oceans by a few micrometers.
949.
by jkot 12y ago
> Nomm agreed that the harm caused ... exceeded $400 million... group obtained at least $175 million ... Megaupload.com ... it accounted for four percent of total Internet traffic, having more than one billion total visits, 150 million
950.
by jkot 12y ago
There are only a few chars, so urls grow huge, once click count increases. JS is probably better
951.
by jkot 12y ago
> San Quentin state prison in California has begun a ground-breaking programme to teach prisoners how to code. What is so ground-breaking on that? Any normal country will some sort of education to their prisoners.
952.
by jkot 12y ago
How about wireless? It is good enough for many cases. Especially on country side without interference from other users. I would like to offer two stories: - Czech Republic before 2005 had really bad internet service. Single telecommunicatio
953.
by jkot 12y ago
Good catch. It does not seems like solitary confinement. I found this doc from Nevada: http://www.doc.nv.gov/sites/doc/files/pdf/ar/AR734.PDF
954.
by jkot 12y ago
All providers in Europe will unlock your phone if you spend enough credit or for small fee. Also US devices have locked some features (voice calls on tablets).
955.
SN1997bs’s True Identity: Impostor or Not?(astrobites.org)
1 points by jkot 12y ago|0 comments
956.
by jkot 12y ago
I am former Java maintenance programmer and I hate C++ with passion for over decade. But I recently started KDevelop IDE and was very surprised how nice is C++ with QT lib. I am even considering to join an C++ opensource project.
957.
by jkot 12y ago
I read some books 100 times, but mostly technical manuals. It is good to have some basic stuff in long term memory of our brain Author is writer and should put disclaimer "...because it is good for my job and I like it". Hamlet d
958.
by jkot 12y ago
Still better than other desktops, which do not even allow changing background color. > GTK apps: They look bad in 99% of KDE themes ??? There is GTK engine which uses QT to render widgets. I really do not see any difference. I use Chro
959.
by jkot 12y ago
> KDE - They just don't care about beauty of ... anything. Perhaps it is just different aesthetics. Too often 'beaty' means: cut features to half, remove all icons and make huge empty dialogs.
960.
by jkot 12y ago
Jessie has not been released yet... And if you like good documentation, you should go with Redhat anyway.

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