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by patrickk 13y ago
Ireland rejected both the Nice Treaty originally[1] and the Lisbon Treaty[2]. Our considerate government had the stupid, uneducated electorate have a second attempt at both referendums until we came up with the "right" answer. Tal
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by patrickk 13y ago
The "12 industrial capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there" line gets me every time.
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by patrickk 13y ago
AFAIK, that can be somewhat problematic for windows. Why windows you ask? Most poker clients are windows only. It's probably possible to boot windows from a LiveCD, but when I looked at it in the past, it wasn't straightforward.
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by patrickk 13y ago
> So if bitcoin will one day become "THE" currency... That's the big question isn't it? Will bitcoin take over, or will another digital cryptocurrency conjured out of the ether take over? (bitcoin 2.0) > So there i
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by patrickk 13y ago
The rationale I've heard for Manning is that he was military and betrayed his oath.
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by patrickk 13y ago
Indeed it's happened before. The Bush-era 'Total Information Awareness' program (someone really dropped the ball branding that one), got shelved supposedly, but in reality was changed or continued under different programs or
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David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'(theguardian.com)
323 points by patrickk 13y ago|363 comments
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by patrickk 13y ago
I like this explanation, which comes from a reddit comment[1]: " There are two kinds of journalism that get emotional reactions out of us. One has to do with exposing the 'puppet-masters' of society and their stranglehold on
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by patrickk 13y ago
Absolutely. He leaps from topic to topic, often with a weak link between each one. For example: " A hundred years ago, at a time very like ours, a small group of journalists did just that. And the person who takes you back to that time
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by patrickk 13y ago
I bet quite a lot of that growth is down to the NSA news. I switched to Dropbox sync because of it. The NSA is really hurting US based SaaS businesses.
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by patrickk 13y ago
Ryanair was heavily influenced by Southwest airlines in the past. Of course, Michael O'Leary took Southwest's model, and took it way further than the originators did. " To turn Ryanair into the profit-making machine it is tod
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by patrickk 13y ago
I'll second that article. I bought the Asus RT-N16 on the back of that recommendation. Funnily enough, I never bothered installing any firmware, I found the default to be excellent (despite the reviews on amazon trashing the Asus firmw
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by patrickk 13y ago
> Bank robbers typically walk away with a few grand if they're lucky, and it'll almost certainly have a dye pack and a tracker in it. Bank robbery is a fool's business. Exactly. It's all fraud now - much higher reward
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by patrickk 13y ago
Bitcoinwisdom lets you change the chart style under settings.
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by patrickk 13y ago
Bitcoin is a asymmetric bet[1], your cost of buying is known (price you pay relative to local currency when you purchase BTC), and it will either go to 0 or could return x100 or x1000 in the longer term. It's somewhat analogous to spot
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by patrickk 13y ago
Could you imagine if Amazon started accepting Bitcoin. The price would skyrocket.
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by patrickk 13y ago
Social democracy isn't the same as socialism[1]. It's an interesting problem to grapple with: can you have a dynamic economy with a vibrant entrepreneurial sector, that encourages innovation and growth, and yet have a social floor
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by patrickk 13y ago
Power law distribution in search engine market share. It also explains why Coca Cola is the dominant cola to name another example. I particularly like Peter Thiel's explanation of the power law, used in relation to VCs fund performance
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by patrickk 13y ago
> It should be no surprise that every time you buy something from Gamestop they try to upsell on your "protection plans" and strategy guides, items that actually have high margins. And second hand games. They give customers a l
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by patrickk 13y ago
Not to mention refusing an app, then ripping off the idea: http://www.dailytech.com/Apple+Accused+of+Ripping+Off+Develo...
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by patrickk 13y ago
> You can download a lot more. Not to mention seedboxes running 24/7 at blazing speeds.
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by patrickk 13y ago
"Death of Bittorrent"? What a terrible linkbait title. Somehow, "File-sharing through sites such as BitTorrent has plummeted in North America " = Bittorrent dead. Meanwhile in Europe and elsewhere, Bittorrent usage cont
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by patrickk 13y ago
Agree with most of what you said. > It's also a lot safer as there are a lot less head injuries... There's a bit of debate about that point, there isn't enough data on concussions in rugby as the professional era of massiv
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Domain-Specific VPN Router(github.com)
55 points by patrickk 13y ago|27 comments
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by patrickk 13y ago
It would be a massive boon to companies like Amazon, as the cost of anything delivered by road would decrease dramatically. Actually, everything would drop in price, including your basic weekly groceries.
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by patrickk 13y ago
Cork, Ireland.
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by patrickk 13y ago
I'm using a poor internet connection (because of geography) and my experience is that the usability of Youtube has gone down dramatically. They made a change a while back where the video will only buffer a few seconds beyond where you&
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by patrickk 13y ago
I would say having the big tech giants in Ireland has virtually no impact whatsoever on the Irish tech scene. There doesn't seem to be any movement of staff from tech giants to startups for example, or any investments by tech giants in
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by patrickk 13y ago
> If DropBox's sync system wasn't so simple/unobtrusive I'd use something else. Perhaps consider using Bittorrent Sync[1] for synchronisation. For practical purposes, it's similar to using DropBox, the key differ
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by patrickk 13y ago
I think reddit is way ahead of you. The amount of fanboyism there is ridiculous (I'm an admirer myself but some of the worshipping is crazy there).

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