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by nekopa 10y ago
This reminds me of an old piece of advice I heard along time ago: Never write down something you don't want to be read aloud in a court of law. I apply this to what I do online, and so far, it has treated me well.
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by nekopa 10y ago
I've found that recently, I've gotten people to understand the issues more by paraphrasing (what I think was Snowden's) the main point: The people doing this are not evil, nor do they have evil intentions. But they are settin
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by nekopa 10y ago
I have to kind of disagree. I think that the whole release was necessary to put it all in context. The capabilities to spy on terrorists is what made it all to easy to spy on our own folks. Where I completely agree with you is presentation
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by nekopa 10y ago
That JTRIG was an interesting read. But it formed an interesting question in my mind: As much as I feel these disclosures are great and necessary, are they not inspiring and informing other (unsavory) nation states on great strategies and t
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by nekopa 10y ago
I'll give it a try: Truck driver: Knowledge of the travelling salesman problem. Algorithms in general to find optimal routes. A little programming knowledge to help with automating their excel sheets to record expenses. Cook: OOP as it
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by nekopa 10y ago
I read through the whole thing, and honestly, that whole thing seemed really straightforward. What would you see the issue as?
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by nekopa 10y ago
Google Transfusion.
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by nekopa 10y ago
Can we somehow change UTF-8 to WTF-8? Over the last 12 years or so I have constantly been bitten in the ass by UTF-8. It first started when I moved from the US to Europe and decided to help people make websites in their native language. Mor
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First Friendly Contact with the Sentinelese(probashionline.com)
115 points by nekopa 10y ago|60 comments
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by nekopa 10y ago
That is an excellent, though fucking brutal book.
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How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization(medium.com)
1 points by nekopa 10y ago|0 comments
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by nekopa 10y ago
don knuth. Besides from his talent, I love the fact that he is still working on a project that will never be finished -TAOCP. I look up to him as a hacker, not an academic, in the way that hackers scratch an itch and write something cool. H
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by nekopa 10y ago
I don't understand why you say access beats ownership. Do you think this only about music? Or books? Or movies? If so, do you apply it to other things in your life? Do you own a car, or do you only rent? How about your home? Is it bett
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by nekopa 10y ago
Was the petition online?
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by nekopa 10y ago
I have to agree about the name. Here are some other ideas: CircleDo Taskround Ringdo Circler BubbleDo No idea if any of them are taken.
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by nekopa 10y ago
Well, I've had my account for over 2500 days, and my karma only yesterday broke 1000. But I read HN daily, and feel part of this community. I just only comment when I feel like I can add something to the conversation, and always pause
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by nekopa 10y ago
Maybe just Sir David 'McBoatface' Attenborough.
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by nekopa 10y ago
But it may make a 5 year old want to go into those fields. I think this boat has many decades of service ahead of it.
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by nekopa 10y ago
True, but, if we are being honest, only 150,000 odd people voted for it, so it might not represent the ordinary person on the street. But, for the UK at least, I think it would connect with a lot of people, and for a longer time. Unfortun
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by nekopa 10y ago
Well, this is the UK, and they probably didn't want to run the risk that the ship would be called RSS Shipfaced :)
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by nekopa 10y ago
I think the funny name would spark the interest. But then again, why not have both? I think a drone called Boaty McBoatface could get into all kinds of crazy trouble, only to be bailed out by the wise old mothership, Sir David Attenborough.
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by nekopa 10y ago
Regarding the good move, from the wikipedia article linked above: After their initial reluctance Greenpeace embraced the result of the popular vote and used the name at the center of its campaign. The added publicity, at no cost to Greenpe
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by nekopa 10y ago
Methinks your comment is misplaced. But I did have a moment of joy at the Monty Python-esque comedy it brought on :)
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by nekopa 10y ago
I saw this a little differently. Not so much that bit coin is useless. He seemed to argue against using his country as an argument. You framed it as "I can pay with Visa..." I think you may have projected your argument onto his
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by nekopa 10y ago
Maybe. But as a single data point (me) I used to read both those sites regularly, but now every time I go there I'm like 'oh yeah.. (back button)' Funny thing is though, the site 'The Atlantic' had a banner next to
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by nekopa 10y ago
Here you go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Greenland I suggest you just preface all your searches with wikipedia, then you won't have to hear a story. That way, nothing needs to be stopped, and people
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by nekopa 10y ago
Except for the one guilty party who somehow ended up uncovering more evidence that they did the crime.
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by nekopa 11y ago
You could go the way of a UK Ltd company, 4 hours to set up via an incorporation website. I've used it to set up companies - US Ex-pat living in the Czech Rep. Works all across the EU. (At least until the Brexit happens)
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by nekopa 11y ago
Not knowing how old you are, or where you hail from, but I was able to travel a lot when I was a young teen during the 80s (in the UK), just by having a different priority on my money than my friends. My mother was living on disability, so
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by nekopa 11y ago
The lower paying get jobs will have to start paying more. If, all of a sudden I don't need your $4 per hour job, I quit. If everyone else also doesn't need it they quit. Then you as an employer need to pay more to get people to wo

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