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by noarchy 13y ago
>Yeah, when you've been here more than a year you can lecture me on "courteous discourse". I've been around here for more than a year. More than a few years, actually. It looks like you're throwing a temper tantr
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by noarchy 13y ago
The context you've mentioned is important. I'm not a fan of Rand's overall philosophy (sympathetic to parts of it, perhaps, but that's not terribly important), but surely one can appreciate this quote in the appropriate
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by noarchy 13y ago
Chrome has a some nice developer tools. OP probably right-clicked the popup and got the element name, and from there knew exactly what to target.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Don't be so sure about balancing the budget on the back of drug users: http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/10/smallbusiness/marijuana-taxe... I've always thought that the tax argument was less than st
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by noarchy 13y ago
People have grown so cynical regarding government that they can chalk this stuff up to "business as usual". Governments have been spying on us (or trying to) for as long as we've been alive, but their ability to do so is vast
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by noarchy 13y ago
>1. You also chooose your participation in government. If I don't want to be subjected to any country's taxes or laws, let me know how I can opt-out of this. You can relocate to a different country, but it is up to them to allo
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Eve Online down due to DDoS(facebook.com)
2 points by noarchy 13y ago|0 comments
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by noarchy 13y ago
I may move to the US if that can be established :) Message boards are fertile grounds for thought experiments.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Should being voted into office give you a free pass on everything? "Democracy has spoken", shouldn't mean that democracy stays quiet for the next X years until the next election... though this often happen, to be fair.
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by noarchy 13y ago
Quebec laws are very generous to renters, so this is indeed an interesting question to ponder. As much as one can argue that AirBnb renters are "getting away" with not paying certain taxes, they also may be getting lucky that they don't fac
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by noarchy 13y ago
What is illegal is objectively-defined by looking at the law. That doesn't mean that you agree with said laws, or mind them being ignored. This is where things like civil disobedience come into play, though I am not going to make such an ar
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by noarchy 13y ago
The establishment hotels/motels want protection from competition, which governments are often only too happy to provide, sure. But don't forget the taxes that Quebec no doubt hungers to collect, whether the $250 permit fee, or unreported in
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by noarchy 13y ago
And? Unleash the IRS on them because you don't like the Kochs? You have to be able to do better than this.
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The Market Shall Set North Korea Free(nytimes.com)
1 points by noarchy 14y ago|0 comments
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by noarchy 14y ago
That kind of laying down for these kinds of measures just makes it that much easier to pull off next time. While the article isn't something you'd find in the comparatively-sanitized pages of the New York Times (or similar papers), it makes
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by noarchy 14y ago
Craigslist has been out of this game for a few years now, after gov't pressure. http://www.wired.com/business/2010/09/craigslist-adult-congr...
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by noarchy 14y ago
This may seem overly pedantic (or ideological) to point out, but needing a license at all indicates the need to cater to at least one, major piece of centralization. Otherwise, yes, radio is a technology that still works. My point may have
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by noarchy 14y ago
While I agree with you, can you think of a US president that hasn't committed an impeachable offence? We almost expect them (along with prime ministers, premiers, etc) to do rotten things, once in power. They are rarely held accountable for
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by noarchy 14y ago
I think this as well. Why did Linode describe themselves as being the ones advised, rather than Linode being the one to inform law enforcement of the breach?
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by noarchy 14y ago
Probably not. I do think that an effort can be made to follow the trail (logs, etc), and come to the best guess possible. I'm not saying they haven't done this, though.
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by noarchy 14y ago
That's the part that makes me wonder. The email that I received said, "We have found no evidence that any Linode data of any other customer was accessed." I suspect that they aren't 100% sure, and that this is a precaution. I can live with
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Nvidia Has Major New Linux Driver: Optimus, RandR 1.4(phoronix.com)
5 points by noarchy 14y ago|0 comments
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by noarchy 14y ago
What you've described is what cultural fit should be, I suppose. It is just that I've seen it too often degenerate into how the company can control your non-work hours. But yes, it is certainly important that the work environment be compa
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by noarchy 14y ago
It is nice to have interesting problems to solve, and I wouldn't discount that as I motivator. But while I might code in my spare time for free, I sure as heck don't want to trudge into an office and deal with a company for free. It is inde
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by noarchy 14y ago
The "cultural fit" stuff is a sore spot with me. If you have any kind of life outside of work (or want one), this can be a real stumbling block. Maybe I want to take a walk during lunch, and relax, and not be forced to talk about work durin
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by noarchy 14y ago
I'd love it if I could get Alberta liquor stores to ship to Ontario or Quebec, but every one I've checked online won't do it. The same tends to be true for US dealers. There isn't an easy way to get around the price-gouging by the provincia
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by noarchy 14y ago
Nixon didn't exactly end it overnight. He had thousands of tons of bombs to drop on neighbouring countries like Cambodia, first, killing untold thousands, before things wound down.
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by noarchy 14y ago
>I've clashed many times with folks here on HN who are super-pro-government liberals. Since we're talking about the surveillance state, we shouldn't be leaving the super-pro-government conservatives out of this. In the US (where these
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by noarchy 14y ago
Jump to conclusions much? You'd be wrong to assume that people who can successfully read (and comprehend) documentation are going to be the first to Google their way to an answer. Quite the opposite, in my experience. Computer science? Sure
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by noarchy 14y ago
In this era of wikis, online docs, and the like, I definitely find myself reading very few books on programming. And if I do have a problem, Google is faster than thumbing through a book (even if the book is sitting beside me, and how often

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