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by nasredin 8y ago
Wrong. The Internet is fine. The more correct headline: ...Russia Breaks Its Intranet
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by nasredin 8y ago
I can just picture a NYC man with the most smug smirk on his face. He is the NYT reporter who penned this masterpiece.
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by nasredin 8y ago
Lots of "patriotic" hackers in Russia, one of North Korea's few friends...
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by nasredin 8y ago
Naming products is not a strength of the Web 2.0 Generation (2005+)
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by nasredin 8y ago
It was the UI. MySpace UI was terrible. You just can't allow regular people to edit CSS of their profiles. MySpace was like high school, FB was like college. More grown up and sophisticated. Exclusivity was part of it.
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by nasredin 8y ago
billions of products is more accurate. Products in developed countries is much more valuable than products in third world countries.
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by nasredin 8y ago
Some day The Year of The Linux Desktop is gonna prove all the skeptics and doubters wrong.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Nobody got hurt, so you are allowed to LOL: "...engaged in a standoff with police, all the while ordering his hostages to make him pizzas."
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by nasredin 9y ago
>Tours of the Hanford site are available to US citizens. Quick look at their website says it's not available to the general public. Only government officials, students, etc.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Plus there's no torrent of stories about mistreated Costco or Trader Joe's employees.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Next you gonna ask for something crazy like "sort by number of reviews" and "consistant UI on product pages"? The technology is not there yet man!
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by nasredin 9y ago
If you bug is longer than 140 (or 280 characters) it is a feature!
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by nasredin 9y ago
You can hear the fan from another room on my laptop! Thanks svchost.exe! I disabled updates, but it still does... something while I am sleeping.
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by nasredin 9y ago
"Everything" from VoidTools is a good alternative. Very fast too.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Wait, Google has customer service? The googleproductforum.com (whatever it's called) which is usually the #1 result in Google is absolutely worthless. I am not joking. It is infuriatingly worthless.
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by nasredin 9y ago
From memory: JFK: just have to transfer from AirTrain to regular subway in Jamaica (?) Queens. Newark: take the bus to Newark station and take PATH train to lower Manhattan. Plus you get to see real New Jersians and New Yorkers. They are no
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by nasredin 9y ago
In the 21st century this would be: kidnapped by terrorists and forced to read a statement. IIRC this was used in Homeland, the TV show.
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by nasredin 9y ago
From the recent El Faro sinking post here on HN: There's a General Alarm signal (above), but no Abandon Ship signal. The captain gives those manually. (I may be blatantly wrong!)
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by nasredin 9y ago
IIRC China recently bought a major Hollywood studio. Also notice the increase in token Chinese actors in recent blockbusters. Transformers even had some CCP pandering in the script. The self-censorship this brings is a real problem.
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by nasredin 9y ago
"Nobody is entitled to have millions and millions spent on keeping them alive..." I agree. The F35 cost has gotten way out of hand.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Fun Fact #3: There's always a Mercedes Benz in the parking lot.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Uwe Boll's "Tunnel Rats" is surprisingly decent BTW.
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by nasredin 9y ago
Aren't all lanes in US of a minimum width? IIRC only California allows lane splitting. So this is a legal issue as well.
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by nasredin 9y ago
MILC = Mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera
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by nasredin 9y ago
Eh? Poor choice of words? I know you meant well, but the wording just looks bad.
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by nasredin 9y ago
"...you should deeply understand the data(and importantly, it's limitations) you are using to make the decision." Very apt also for the Air France 447 crash this author wrote about.
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by nasredin 9y ago
IIRC TFA says some pilots are seeking whistleblower protection now. The helicopter pilot community is so small they were afraid of getting blacklisted. --- The company is gonna get sued out of existence. The NYT report made them look super
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by nasredin 9y ago
Eh, shouldn't be "actually-doesn't-trap-you-upside-down-submerged-in-the-river"?
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by nasredin 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
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by nasredin 9y ago
How sad. Seems like rockets are one of the few things Russia was still good at. Now the only thing I can think of is their new nukes.

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