mad_tortoise

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by mad_tortoise 3y ago
We should not pillory other countries, especially not coming from a First World perspective. However the First World had a head start, through various factors being colonialism and the industrial revolution. Putting the traditional Third Wo
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by mad_tortoise 3y ago
Can you provide an email with which to contact yourself?
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by mad_tortoise 3y ago
Is there a psychological term for people with immense power having the most fragile ego's?
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by mad_tortoise 4y ago
I would ultimately say he is top one hundred (probably top 20 for me), but that's a personal opinion. If we look at the impact his ideas, beliefs and teachings had on the first half of the 20th century then he was a giant. Anarchism, a
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by mad_tortoise 4y ago
If you consider the ideological philosophy of anarchy as 'leftism terror', then you only serve to out yourself as having no idea of the tenets of anarchism itself. He is also not saying HN readers should lean that way, but having
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by mad_tortoise 4y ago
As a long time professional mobile engineer, that has worked on all three of Android, iOS and Flutter. This is plain wrong. Flutter is a brilliant framework, despite what hardcore native devs of either platform might tell you. It has it&#x2
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by mad_tortoise 4y ago
Except most of the places that they took artefacts from are not warzones, or under threat of war. Egypy, Greece, Nigeria, Turkey, the US, India, China, South Africa etc etc all have the capabilities to take back and house their treasures sa
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by mad_tortoise 4y ago
The British Museum, the biggest collection of stolen goods in the world.
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by mad_tortoise 4y ago
This is half-wrong. You are right about cigs, but not booze. Booze is the single biggest cause of trauma admissions in all hospitals in SA. Banning booze was highly effective in creating a significant drop in those ER admissions, allowing f
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by mad_tortoise 5y ago
Again you're predominantly talking products, Orkut was killed off in favour of Google+ which failed for its own reasons. Your example of Noop is weak, at its peak (which you couldn't even really point to) it had a minute fraction
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by mad_tortoise 5y ago
This is one of the most pathetic answers possible. You give nothing on user bases and adoption of both dart and flutter, internal adoption within google, it's use of Dart and Flutter for the frontend of Fuschia, googles desire to contr
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by mad_tortoise 5y ago
What risk is that exactly? Dart and Flutter are one of the fastest growing languages and frameworks around.
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by mad_tortoise 6y ago
This is very interesting taking the carbon at the source of one of the most polluting transport industries. Which immediately made me think of one of the most powerful facts I know. That the largest 15 cargo ships in the world produce more
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Ask HN: How to decide ownership of an idea that you bring to your company
2 points by mad_tortoise 6y ago|4 comments
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
How many innocent people must die for the USA to end 'tyranny' in the Middle East? In Iraq alone it's over a million, then we can look at Yemen, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Lebanon before we even begin with Iran. And what then?
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Maybe if they hadn't been killing women and children with depleted uranium then maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't be getting cancer today.
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Surely this is sarcastic?
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Damn I should have googled that one.
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Man stop drinking the kool-aid. You're lapping up your countries propoganda left, right and center. Apparently according to you, art, science and the humanities wouldn't exist if not for the USA? Get out of here, this is hackernew
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
The US is in afghan for one reason only, opioids. It's no coincidence that US opioid addiction rates skyrocketed in the years following the Afghan invasion. The big pharma companies benefit from the US controlling the worlds major popp
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
So essentially what you're saying is that it's ok to kill million's of people in Iraq and Afghanistan as long as it fit's into a ratio that they're killing enough enemies to make civilians inconsequential? What utte
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Isn't it a funny coincidence that the invasion of Afghanistan coincided with the sharp increase in opioid addiction across the USA? I think not, and it wouldn't be the first time that the US government has caused drug addiction ep
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
How many "error's" does the US make? Far too many for them to be called "error's" anymore. How many kids were radicalised by the US going into Iraq and killing millions of their people? Tens of thousands of orp
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Fellow South African here, you'd be very surprised then with the capabilities of our spy agency. Very secretive by hugely funded. The former apartheid spies went on to consult for the current government, and they were all very highly t
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Yes but if I have client's that aren't startups, and want to use a product like this, I'd much more easily recommend a cheaper alternative.
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
It looks really cool, but I feel your 'Live' pricing @ $1000/m is highly prohibitive to developers not in the first world. Although I suspect that's not your target market. I wouldn't be able to recommend to anyone
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Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
2 points by mad_tortoise 7y ago|0 comments
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
Monetary sovereignty is an ambiguous concept here in Africa. Many countries use the Dollar as acceptable forms of payment, and countries surrounding South Africa are susceptible to the strength of the Rand compared to say the Namibian Dolla
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
As someone newly with tinnitus, and with fading hope that it will go away at some point, I've been playing around with ideas of doing something like this. I was thinking of using frequencies to cancel each other out, but I think this m
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by mad_tortoise 7y ago
I'm not disputing your heritage or what you do, I'm disputing the content of your comment. You can challenge any points I made but that is a Third World perception of the USA.

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