martey

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by martey 10y ago
Atom has a large number of dependencies that need to be added to Debian as well. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747824 .
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by martey 10y ago
I think this story buries the lede - it is pretty clear that this is not about creating TSA checkpoints at train stations and bus depots: "A bipartisan bill introduced Thursday by Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) would require the TSA to u
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by martey 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=inside.com shows that this is actually the 11th time that awwstn has submitted inside.com as a "Show HN".
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by martey 10y ago
> Are we only learning about this because it's become recently declassified? The only classified part of this story is the relatively uninteresting part - that this was to be a nuclear missile base. From https://en.wiki
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Photographer sues Getty Images for selling photos she donated to public(arstechnica.com)
16 points by martey 10y ago|1 comments
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by martey 10y ago
Just as worrisome as the content of the review is the fact that the company tried multiple avenues to make him remove it: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/747612713786847232 > Incidentally, now up to three sep
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First Wave at Omaha Beach(theatlantic.com)
5 points by martey 10y ago|0 comments
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What’s your (sur)name? Intergenerational mobility over six centuries(voxeu.org)
3 points by martey 10y ago|0 comments
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How a Startup’s Culture Saved My Life(medium.com)
1 points by martey 10y ago|0 comments
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by martey 11y ago
" [Thomas Pfeiffer] acknowledged that the GNOME project has gained some credibility after the controversial 3.0 release by "constantly providing great releases." But, he said, one of the things that makes it easy to produce t
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New evidence of Viking life in America?(bbc.com)
3 points by martey 11y ago|0 comments
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by martey 11y ago
The instructions in that blog post look like a good way to break your system: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_Frank...
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by martey 11y ago
I think the one you're thinking of features a little girl being sued for benefiting from colonial-era crimes in the Belgian Congo (among other micro-lawsuits). This is Paul Ford's "Nanolaw with Daughter": http:/&
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by martey 11y ago
I think if Google decided to sell the Chromebook Pixel (2015) with Linux instead of ChromeOS, OP, I, and a horde of other developers would all buy it. In reality, it doesn't seem very easy to install Linux on the 2015 Pixel or any othe
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by martey 11y ago
Purism/Librem looks extremely similar to System76 - they are rebranded laptops from an Asian ODM running a variant of Linux. None of their marketing materials make reference to better build quality, battery life, or support, just &quot
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by martey 11y ago
That's because their Kickstarter (linked from the bottom of the website; [1]) ended in November 2014 . The original shipping date for customers was March 2015; they now claim that they will ship by March 2016, but they also started a
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Chilling Effects Announces New Name and International Partnerships(lumendatabase.org)
65 points by martey 11y ago|13 comments
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by martey 11y ago
I remember reading this article about how newspapers have started tailoring their online headlines for Google/SEO in 2006: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/weekinreview/09lohr.html More specificall
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Your Relative’s DNA Could Turn You into a Suspect(wired.com)
7 points by martey 11y ago|0 comments
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by martey 11y ago
From the wiki page you mentioned: > People who participate in Oppression Olympics tend to ignore the fact that it's possible for multiple groups to be oppressed, and necessary to address all those problems, without choosing a singl
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1st Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email(propublica.org)
14 points by martey 11y ago|1 comments
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by martey 11y ago
Could a [2014] be added to the title, since the article is explicitly about an exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Institute that took place last year?
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Canonical's deliberately obfuscated IP policy(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
22 points by martey 11y ago|0 comments
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A Radical Plan to Save the Big Music Labels: Shrink the Big Music Labels(recode.net)
4 points by martey 11y ago|0 comments
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by martey 11y ago
> My guess is that it happens when people dive in to fix something that they "know" is wrong, and feel strongly about - and then get upset when it's reverted because they provided no evidence. I think that it is more inter
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by martey 11y ago
I already explained this in my reply to bsbechtel's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10045388 ). The amendment makes retrieving disclosure reports more difficult, but does not repeal the STOCK Act's e
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by martey 11y ago
The amendment makes it significantly more difficult to detect insider trading (since financial disclosure reports are not available online), but I wouldn't describe it as a repeal of the law's "key provisions". See http
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by martey 11y ago
Doesn't the STOCK Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act ) explicitly ban Congresspeople from insider trading? The only study on the performance on Congressional stock portfolios is from 2004 [1]. Do you know
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by martey 11y ago
The original poster mentioned that they did not want to have to deal with maintaining self-installed open source firmware. Even if an open source firmware was the preferred solution, OpenWRT or another libre firmware would be a better choic
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The Uber-ization of Activism(nytimes.com)
2 points by martey 11y ago|0 comments

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