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by ordinary 13y ago
There has been a deluge of news reports about Indian rape culture during the past few months. If you haven't noticed, you haven't been paying attention. See, for several horrible examples: http://www.huffingtonpost.com&
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by ordinary 13y ago
The same thing happened in Germany. The top level guys were tried at Nuremberg, but Nazi 'middle management' ruled West Germany for decades after the war. This, in turn, was an important motivation for the formation of the Rote Ar
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by ordinary 13y ago
I think the fundamental principles behind release early, release often are sound. I doubt Minecraft would've been as big a success if it'd been released as a fait accompli. The continuous addition of new content is certainly what
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by ordinary 13y ago
Your post is misleading. You're not providing counter-evidence for the 'failure for decades' claim, and are in fact confirming the 'one of the first' part. Yes, it has been approved, but only very recently, in late
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by ordinary 13y ago
While I agree with you in principle, that sites often use China to score easy Freedom Points, I disagree that we're dealing with an instance of such behaviour here. Wikipedia has long had a principled policy of opposition to censorship
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by ordinary 13y ago
cycling is a life-style This is exactly wrong. Cycling is common in the Netherlands but it's not a life style. I intentionally do not say 'popular' there. You just buy a bike and you're all set. You don't need a
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by ordinary 13y ago
Useful tip: with HISTCONTROL=ignorespace in your .bashrc, if you start a line with a space, it won't be entered into your history.
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by ordinary 13y ago
So your implication is that going after child pornography is a wasted effort? The article linked earlier in this thread concludes: "after adjustment for response rates and definitions, the prevalence of child sexual abuse was not fou
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by ordinary 13y ago
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by ordinary 13y ago
Sufficiently strange behaviour actually enables tracking; 'strange' is almost a synonym for 'unique' in this context.
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by ordinary 13y ago
The most recent 46 5 star reviews were written after the Techdirt article was posted, and many of them refer to it: JakeI: The ONE STARS reviews posted here are actually people who WORK for these TELECOM companies and want to keep making f
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by ordinary 13y ago
There is no such thing as a liberalism gene. Cultural evolution plays a much larger part in the development of human society than traditional biological evolution does. "Caucasians", insofar as that term has any scientific basis i
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by ordinary 13y ago
See here for yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6095152 There is no new information in this article.
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by ordinary 13y ago
Not just copyrighted. Microsoft claims a whole bunch of patents related to exFAT. This means you can't legally implement exFAT without a license to those patents, even if you've never even seen the Samsung code. This is the reas
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by ordinary 13y ago
For the record, the above is a (real) letter sent by the PM's office to the UK's 4 largest ISPs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23312579
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by ordinary 13y ago
While the definition of the term 'war crime' is fairly recent, the murder of civilians (only one of many types of war crime) during times of conflict is hardly a new phenomenon. The only thing that's new to us who have not l
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by ordinary 13y ago
I'm not a vi user, but wouldn't you shift your hand one key to the left when navigating?
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by ordinary 13y ago
Seven Year Old Girl Wanders Into White House, Sworn In As President Of The United States
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by ordinary 13y ago
My person is sensitive.
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by ordinary 13y ago
You've either misinterpreted the quote (stripped from its context as it was) or I'm misunderstanding your point. Here is that context: In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine market
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by ordinary 13y ago
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074...
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There is no need for that decryption to occur server-side.
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by ordinary 13y ago
While I see and agree with your point (you can derive a lot of information from just meta-data), this is where you go overboard: The conclusions which can be drawn from that meta-data are far more solid than can be drawn from listening in
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by ordinary 13y ago
An apology in advance is not worth much. Either stand by what you say or don't say it.
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by ordinary 13y ago
I think it's a mistake to read this (or the book) in order to understand this one person's reasons and motivations. Look at it more generally. It is important to understand what drives people to commit atrocities, if we are to prevent it ha
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by ordinary 13y ago
Laughing at some one is the last ditch attempt to make the person stop doing what they are doing. When you know you are incapable of doing something, and wish to stop others from doing so in the fear they will get ahead. When I laugh at s
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by ordinary 13y ago
Yet your user name contains the words 'for hire'. ;)
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Some of the most celebrated artists in history barely made enough to pay for their rent and were utterly unappreciated in their time.[1] More recent examples abound in the music industry, in which you can be wildly successful, yet make less
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by ordinary 13y ago
Example.com is the third party. (Example.org and a human user being the first two parties.) I disagree. When you click a link on a page that you retrieved from example.org, one that leads to example.com, there is no communication between
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by ordinary 13y ago
Similar: The Machine Stops, a short story by E.M. Forster, predicting the Internet, written in 1909. The full story is now in the public domain, and can be found here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

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