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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> I wonder if Chomsky would have that liberty of critique in any other country... Yes, he would have. And in many, he would not need it.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Yea, I ain't reading an interview done with a political leader by someone who is starstruck. How will someone like that ask questions that a proper, professional, well-prepared investigative journalist would ask? Bah.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> Right now, she's trying to justify them. But most people can only do that for so long before attempted accommodation turns to anger and resentment. Or before they meet someone new and interesting. No, I don't mean that old an
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
1. Everyone has the right to deny being treated without stigmatization or punishment. 2. Everything the article depends on in its interpretation of the chart, mostly summarized by the 2nd paragraph, is based on unwarranted assumptions.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> decided by how pretty the webpage to create pull-requests is i.e. whether the gui is well designed.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
>> yes, it's a shame, but it really means that nobody values the work of a true journalist (especially investigative journalism) > I find your fatalism disheartening. It's not fatalism but rather a political statement. OP
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Redshift source code: https://github.com/jonls/redshift
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> I think organised labour sounds too 19th century to most people in the business. Just wanted to note that this is an eccentricity specific to the US.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Uhm, so... thanks for the advertisement?..
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Why are we looking at the twitter feed? Just so there is some kind of graphic? The way I'm reading this, the write up should have been an imgur submission of ad snippets posted on reddit.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> Not only are they collecting information on millions of innocent Americans, but now it appears that they are not properly securing that data. I cannot tell whether you're being paid for by these folk, or just plain politically nai
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
I don't suffer from anxiety. In the last 8 months, I have submitted 270+ job applications, received 3 interviews, got rejected by all three, none of which were high reputation companies. Great to hear you had a success! :)
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> these dudes (or girls I dunno) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Initiative
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
C-c C-e fig TAB RET C-c C-e means "give me a new environment"
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> 3.5 I've gotta be missing something here The Senate report on CIA torture is what you're missing.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
AFAIK Dropbox is an untrusted computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleeza_Rice#Role_in_author...
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> completely dependent on that Software-as-a-Service. Indeed, that was disappointing for me. People on the look out for a similar tool might want to check graphviz and its emacs mode. http://users.skynet.be/ppareit/p
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> cut and past. I cannot tell if that's a pun or typo..
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> May be for western people it's hard to believe how can it be possible to support this crazy regime. ... Russia is a pure soviet country ... Drones, mass surveillance, jailing and exiling of whistleblowers, court decisions fixed in
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Also check out system76.com offerings. (I am not affiliated, just a happy customer.)
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> "Compared to the other ones you're probably using"? mpd, vlc, rythmbox. all of them are "blazingly fast" tbh...
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> There will not be a Linux version of Butterfly, please don't ask about it. WTF? This simply tells me that the developers are not actually skilled in programming.
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> It may be tempting to dismiss the problems plaguing this region as being self-inflicted, a mere product of backward ways and a collective refusal to catch up. Neoliberalism and individualism are too popular(ly convenient) in this count
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Yay! Org-mode for notebooks :)
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> That's pretty surprising given how incredibly conservative/Republican the state of Utah is. Isn't it conservatives that are for guns and their reason is the anti-government militia amendment in the constitution? I'd
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Interesting pattern. All the top first responses are critical of Comcast while responses to them are Comcast apologists. I suspect there is a strong Comcast-paid presence in HN?
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
A little bit familiarity with the US ways of congress tells me that this comment is most probably right about this and that the voters need to be categorized qualitatively ("Why did you vote against?) rather than quantitatively ("
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
Getting off the hook by simply discarding the evidence is quite questionable. For all we know, they had tortured someone to get to that evidence and the torture method was the subject of that 'non-disclosure' arrangement. (I belie
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
The best all-around resource I have come across thus far is https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
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by pXMzR2A 12y ago
> For niche professional documents, like research papers, I'm sure it's accepted and expected, but you're probably already using LaTeX for those anyway! I think by LaTeX you mean Microsoft Word. For social sciences, at lea

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