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by johnea 9mo ago
It seems the article and most of the comments here are nonsense. The focus on http versus https in allowing surveillance of fetching the tracking pixel are all but completely irrelevant. In any case, the domain name of the tracking pixel lo
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I don't see how your claim of lack-of-contribution is correct. I'm stating, to quote you "I disagree with the article's claims as poorly founded happy talk". Additionally I'm stating that it really vastly depen
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by johnea 9mo ago
Put it in the middle of the living room and use it as a space heater!
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by johnea 9mo ago
So what? After living with parents, roommates, spouses and others for most of my life, I'm super happy to live alone. Has anyone stopped to think that possibly people live alone because that's what they want to do? I can only thin
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by johnea 9mo ago
So apparently, even when a web site is for users who can't form mental images, you still have to put a picture at the top of each article?
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Yea, the mineral globe of the earth might be fine, we probably won't change it's orbit around the sun, but every other life form on the planet WILL be in great peril. Like so much else, this assertion that earth will be fine, is t
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by johnea 9mo ago
That sounds like total bullshit to me...
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This just reinforces my old saying: If you want to try to understand why the US is so fucked up, just look at England...
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We're not "water bankrupt", we're massively over human populated! Every natural resource is under strain. Every animal and plant not serving as a revenue center for some rich prick is be pushed into extinction. But for s
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California is already the 4th largest economy in the world, how much boosting is necessary?
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I always preferred the theory of joining with Oregon and Washington and merging with Canada...
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Sure, just go fetch the sabotage manual from cia.gov! That absolutely will never ever get your IP on a watch list or anything 8-/
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by johnea 9mo ago
I agree, HN is the only place I make comments on the WWW. The only gripe I have is that a certain segment of the community feels compelled to flag comments on topics that don't align with their personal vision of what HN should be. If
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by johnea 9mo ago
I feel the need to point out a phrase that was very popular among my dev peers: The difference between theory and reality, is that in theory they're the same, but in reality they're not... While any new feature, or bug fix, introd
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by johnea 9mo ago
So, you know a lot of "programmers" with $10M in the bank?
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Has mozilla ever hired a CEO on the premise of "Our top priority is resolving the long standing bugs in our web and email clients"? I'm still bitching, years later, about thunderbird failing to update IMAP folder contents (i.
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by johnea 9mo ago
This brings to mind one of my all time favorite quotes. Paraphrasing madd scientist, Dr. Frankenfurter, from the Rocky Horror Picture Show: I didn't make it, for you!
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No, capital NO. And I think people who do continue, are engaging in a sociopathic mental illness, that is the primary cause of income inequality, and authoritarian hierarchies in general. Some people just feel driven to dominate others...
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All right... science for hikikomoris... I always felt like one of the primary motivations to pursue science was being able to bail out of the office for the entire summer for "field work"...
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Max Headroom?
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by johnea 10mo ago
I have a number of plants that I inherited from my Mom. Some I remember from as far back as my early childhood (and I'm over 65!). Maintaining these living legacies has a lot of meaning for me. These same living plants were nourished a
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by johnea 10mo ago
Fuck Gnome and Mozilla! Middle button paste is one of the greatest day-to-day, click-to-click, UI efficiency improvements offered in a *nix environment!. Of course, the "copy" part is also important: That is, the text only need be
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by johnea 10mo ago
> The notion that Americans can afford less than they used to is essentially false To use my, now standard, tagline: This is total bullshit... The Economist often has insightful writing, but the premise of this article is just wrong. Lik
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> actually own your PC It's funny they would choose this phasing. This is exactly the way I described my decision to abandon windoze, and switch to linux, over 20 years ago...
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I didn't see any of that. I highly recommend disabling javascript in your browser. Yes, it makes many sites "look funny", or maybe you have to scroll past a bunch of screen sized "faceplant" "twitverse" an
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"May rise"? Prices are already through the roof... https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/ram-price-crisis-updates
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We should've asked Terence McKenna... It could be a subspecies of the "machine elves"...
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> Retired You and me both, and for many of the same reasons. I would point out that in your OPs comment, Luddites get the stereotypical dismissal as anti-tech, which is far far from the reality of demanding good conditions for workers. F
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I couldn't agree more with the sentiment. If you, the development engineer, haven't demonstrated the product to work as expected, and preferably this testing is independently confirmed by a product test group, then you can't
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This is exactly the situation we're in with new automobiles...

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