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by noarchy 14y ago
>I think we need another president as bad or worse as Bush again (perhaps Romney or Palin) to put enough pressure on citizens to become actively engaged again and take to the streets. You're all but saying that you don't think that peop
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by noarchy 14y ago
They didn't do much customization at all. They used an already-existing Wordpress theme. Compare the site to the theme: http://www.londonthemes.com/themes/londonlive/
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by noarchy 14y ago
I use Sublime Text, Intellij, Eclipse, along with LibreOffice, Firefox, terminal, and a handful of other things. I'd be doing the same if I was using a Mac or Windows machine.
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by noarchy 14y ago
VPNs, possibly. I don't know, for sure, how many use them for work, versus those who use them to evade governments. In the latter category it could encompass things as varied as pirating tv shows, to circumventing the Great Firewall of Chin
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by noarchy 14y ago
They might, but as many HNers can no doubt testify, many of us use VPNs for remote work, and I know a fair number of government workers who do this, too. It isn't optional; it is a requirement.
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by noarchy 14y ago
I live in western Quebec, home to two of the worst hospitals in the country (those in Hull and Gatineau). Getting a family doctor here requires years of waiting, and many will go across the river and pay out of pocket to see a doctor in Ott
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by noarchy 14y ago
By "everyone" do you include the government? This always seems to be the big exception. We've moved in the direction of secretive government that wants to know everything about you, which is the opposite of what I'd prefer to see: open, tra
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by noarchy 14y ago
I was thinking that this will revolutionize cycling. Instead of looking down at your mounted cycling computer, you could simply have this built into your glasses (cyclists are almost always sporting sunglasses as it is). Speed, heart rate,
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by noarchy 14y ago
Being arrested is way different from having been convicted of a crime, but it seems that border agents across the world don't want this pointed out. I've been asked a similar question often enough at the US-Canadian border("Have you ever be
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by noarchy 14y ago
Cases like Uber aren't just pushing governments to rethink regulations, but these emerging businesses are routing around regulations. This is an encouraging trend, I think. As government stifles certain industries (like taxis) with regula
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by noarchy 14y ago
>Governments do not take your money by force. So everyone pays taxes voluntarily? Glad to hear we can get rid of the threatening language used in tax forms... clearly superfluous. Back to reality, with a thought experiment: imagine that
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by noarchy 14y ago
>Yes you do, you have a vote. Each party standing for election presents a set of policies some of which include spending policy. The elected party then has a mandate to spend as per the policies outlined. That's how democracy works (wel
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by noarchy 14y ago
I don't think that we can classify government programs as being charities. Many of us believe in helping those who are in need, but for this was can give our money and time freely to organizations that address certain issues. Governments ta
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by noarchy 14y ago
I am sure that I get 25 hours of real work done per week, if that. Once I factor in the meetings and phone calls that knock me out of the "zone", it is certainly less than 40.
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by noarchy 14y ago
It probably wouldn't bring in as much money to the local coffers.
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by noarchy 14y ago
Once a recruiter decides that you're of no use to them, they'll stop answering your emails and phone calls. I've seen this happen to others with astonishing regularity, and had it happen to me some years ago. The initial contact is cordial,
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by noarchy 14y ago
I'd almost respect this effort more if it were part of a plan to get diplomatic immunity, as suggested by others. But otherwise, this should spell the end of Assange as a "folk hero" in some corners of the digital world. I suspect that he c
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by noarchy 14y ago
The increase in margins is huge for them. With a PC desktop, and with most laptops as well, you can simply upgrade the hard drive or ram yourself and save a ton of cash. But tablets have changed how easy it is to do this, and Apple is also
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by noarchy 14y ago
>Essentially it boils down to "we as a government can't trust you, so we have to enforce these laws and you must comply or else you will face our enforcers". That's really the essence of everything that the government does. >Trust i
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by noarchy 14y ago
>When I've been hiring, I would generally, cut at the first pass people who don't have degrees. I hope this was for junior-level positions, where I can understand that education might make a difference versus people with no experience o
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by noarchy 14y ago
All of that advertising still boils down to choice. I can refuse to purchase the goods that they're constantly peddling. The system is voluntary. Meanwhile, I cannot refuse the taxes/fees that the government decides to levy. In my own count
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by noarchy 14y ago
Whether the term used is "tax" or a "fee", it won't make a difference to the pocket that just got picked. If the difference between those terms comes down to the whim of government and its laws, then it remains out of your hands anyway.
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by noarchy 14y ago
There are those who really believe that because something is funded by taxes, that it will be impartial. By this thinking, the old Radio Moscow was perfectly legit. After all, it was free of corporate influence, and the need to cater to adv
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by noarchy 14y ago
>It's not a tax. It's a fee, required to pay by law to fund independent channels of opinion free from government and/or private funded influence. Distinction without a difference. Would I be wrong if I tried to argue that an income tax
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Walmart plays the same game that its competition plays, it just plays it better. I am sure that if it were not them, we'd be talking about some other Big Retailer doing these things, some of which are indeed rotten. And there are definitely
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I understand that. Retail jobs don't tend to be high-salaried positions, with superior benefits packages. They're not the six-figure jobs we read about here on HN all the time, with catered meals and other embroidery. Nonetheless, the compa
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by noarchy 14y ago
This reminds me (I'm in Canada) of the tax that we have on blank media, like CDs. Anyone who purchases the blank media (doesn't matter why they bought it) is made to pay this tax, which is then distributed to whoever is deemed worthy: http
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by noarchy 14y ago
Wal-Mart has over two million employees. What would you propose to do about this? Given that it didn't get to that point overnight, one might suspect that it grew because of its success, rather than it being any kind of threat (it is a thre
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by noarchy 14y ago
It must be a "Valley" thing (and the associated cost of living), because depend on one's location, 100k would be a good figure for a project manager. Someone straight out of school? Not a chance.
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Hellbanning seems to be very passive-aggressive, for better or worse. The person being banned not only doesn't know they are banned, but they won't necessarily know why they were banned to begin with. To be frank, I'm not even sure what get

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