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by mehwoot 13y ago
Weird. I just tried it then from a cold restart. Chrome is instant on my computer, firefox is near instant. Maybe because I have an SSD now I don't notice it.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Does anybody honestly think if this was a government agency doing it that this document would have just been Freedom of Information released?
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I switched from Firefox to chrome because firefox took ungodly amounts of time to startup. But I'm happy with Chrome so I don't go checking every month to see if firefox have fixed it yet. Maybe I'll try it again.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
It does, if what you're discussing is outside the realm of something that is clearly racist. If it's open for discussion, people get angry very quickly.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Because it is an attack on gender. Creepers and harassment are exceedingly rarely discussed in gender neutral ways- it is usually a man doing something to a woman, or sometimes a discussion of the reverse. It is not often both in a neutra
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by mehwoot 13y ago
What happened to innocent until proven guilty anyway? Doesn't mean you can run away and avoid facing trial. For example, in Australia, if you flee from a Breath test (drunk driving) without being tested, your punishment is guarantee
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Because people now realise that adding features is not necessarily a good thing. It adds complexity to both development and using the product. If there isn't a very good reason for it to be there, then it shouldn't be. Evidently
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I don't really think people should be promoting auto translated pieces like this. It doesn't provide much content other than "Somebody writing in spanish is introducing bitcoins".
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by mehwoot 13y ago
The fact is there are a lot of assholes on the internet. People will insult you no matter what, and in doing so they'll insult you using any way you are different: if you're a girl, if you're gay, if you're not white, i
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by mehwoot 13y ago
A FISA order really is a warrant Not according to the language used in this document it isn't. You can say it is similar if you want, but when they say "A warrant is not required" in this case they are not saying "no
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by mehwoot 13y ago
This document doesn't say that somebody in the U.S. can be targeted without a warrant. It says For these reasons, we hold that a foreign intelligence exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement exists when surveillan
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Because these are FISA requests for individuals "reasonably suspected to be residing outside the U.S.". Those have never required warrants. Before FISA existed they just did it to whomever they pleased; now it requires a FISA re
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by mehwoot 13y ago
They admitted that they copied Infininum's website specifically- http://kintek.com.au/blog/getting-egg-on-your-face/
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Eh, each to their own. In terms of endurance racing, 24 hours of Le Mans is the race. Whether you think endurance racing is the greatest of the types of motor racing.. entirely subjective.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Except this is exactly a first world rich boy problem. For the drivers who earned their spot on their team and who make their living doing that, striving to be the best is absolutely essential to what they do. Just because he created value
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by mehwoot 13y ago
You are using the total amount paid to songwriters for pandora ($42) but only the amount paid to him for AM/RM Radio ($1500). Your math is wrong.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
The point is you want journalists working in an environment where it is expected people stay neutral. Whilst one person will have a bias, you always have other people who read the piece and edit it to keep that in check. That sort of pers
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by mehwoot 13y ago
This is a problem with Hacker News. Maybe because most people can't downvote (or I dunno some other reason), it has a big big problem with duplicate stories. When Steve Jobs died for example, 30/30 stories were "Steve Jobs
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I don't understand why this is supposed to be so controversial Because humans in general have an extreme bias towards believing things they want to believe and not believing things they don't. It is very rare to find someone wh
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by mehwoot 13y ago
A government will declare whatever it can get away with as legal in order to advance it's agenda (in this case, not getting involved). Remember the Obama administration claims that all the NSA spying is legal anyway. Doesn't mea
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Seems to be what he is suggesting. So perhaps a small percentage of people (myself included) have increased sensitivity in the S cones to light around 400nm (or shorter) ... but normally, the natural lens would filter that out - mine is no
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by mehwoot 13y ago
I think we all know that the true intentions of the countries involved in this matter and the public statements are not going to line up here. They would be absolute fools if they came out and said "we stalled to let him leave the cou
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by mehwoot 13y ago
More like they wanted absolutely nothing to do with any of this, and just let him get on the plane whilst panning off whatever excuse they could think of ("um.. your paperwork isn't in order"). They really didn't want to
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by mehwoot 13y ago
Aaron Swartz was a whistleblower?
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by mehwoot 13y ago
He says "No digital communication is secure" (this is obviously an embellishment; this is trivial to show unless the U.S. government has broken every major encryption scheme), "and so these communications will be found out&qu
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by mehwoot 13y ago
This is not proof at all. It's a theory, based on the phrasing used, but nowhere near conclusive.
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by mehwoot 13y ago
The less money they have, the less stuff they can do. Iran-Contra, anybody? And the president that was in charge was a small government hero. And since radical downsizing won't happen voluntarily, as both political parties are corr
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by mehwoot 13y ago
There's a lot of skeptics in this thread whether the US immigration would actually snoop through social networking sites. But if these two cases are true as reported, it seems there's some level of semi-automatic filtering of soc
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by mehwoot 13y ago
We already know that the NSA has access to information specifically requested by an individual either by showing probable cause if they are a U.S. citizen or using some other specific request if they aren't. It doesn't seem likely
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by mehwoot 13y ago
It's totally tubular. The new OS is called mavericks ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location) ). Did apple suddenly become a bunch of surfers?

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