pmachinery

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by pmachinery 6y ago
> It is solving the problem of namespace collision when creating newsgroups that are not part of the main Usenet hierarchies. Thanks for the reply, but you are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. If you run nntp.example.co
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Thanks. Interesting, though I'm not exactly sure what problem it's solving or what improvement it's making to Usenet.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> None of those companies ever came near the global reach of FB. A quick Google search gives a peak user count of MySpace of between 75 and 100 million, for FB it's 2.7 billion. None of those browsers ever came near the global reach
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by pmachinery 6y ago
What is "Unusenet" supposed to be? All I can find by searching is you casually referring to it here on HN[0], on Wikipedia[1], and on Usenet[2], as if it's actually a thing. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> Dozens? I would assume that there are millions on the internet that grew up with these 8-bit computers or even punch cards. They mean not many people will have recorded the sound from this record and then loaded it on to their C64. I d
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by pmachinery 6y ago
There's also i.reddit.com, which I find the least unpleasant of all. I never liked old reddit that much even before it was old, and I'm almost impressed that they somehow managed to improve it into something even worse.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
You've rented your property out to someone who one day tells you the floor has collapsed. You don't know what happened, only that since the guest was staying there your property is now seriously damaged. Would you approve of the p
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Welcome to Making America Great Again, buddy. The state that took on the British Empire, Geronimo, the Confederacy, Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, the USSR, pissing its pants over a mindless phone app for 12 year olds.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
If you can't visit a country without shouting at the locals in your own language and waving your hands at them, while acting like it's their problem you're just another dime a dozen ignorant asshole tourist, and not the VIP y
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by pmachinery 6y ago
To be fair, Thailand didn't lose a single war under Fufu's watch.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Do Italians appreciate tourists in Italy angrily raising their voices and waving their arms around at them because the tourist didn't bother learning the language? That's what the other poster seems to be describing, rather than l
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> raising your voice and gesticulating in their culture is really frowned upon. Where do people not frown upon that? Would you like someone raising their voice and waving their arms around in front of you? > It can get pretty frustrat
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Yes, you could be right with that. I guess not enough kids are playing Risk. Although it can seem pettily nationalistic (and probably is to some extent), for quickly illustrating "You Are Here", and the relative positions of other
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Yes, that is how it 'works', splitting up Russia/Asia. I was downvoted simply for suggesting another poster who hadn't seen it before, and was it really a thing, do a search so they could see different examples it. Other
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Centring on GMT is conventional and probably makes more sense than anywhere else. Australians may beg to differ though: http://img.memecdn.com/australian-world-map_o_1081710.jpg (I quite like that map, actually.)
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Search map with United States in the center .
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> I didn't use a present tense. Corbyn et al had a proposal to take control You didn't say Labour proposed to "take control" , you said Labour proposed "shills" "took control" . Took. Why you&#x2
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by pmachinery 6y ago
For one thing, as other people are trying to explain, opposition parties are not "unelected". It's also unclear, to me at least, what you mean by "proposed" and by "shills" and who these people are, specif
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Possibly because: "The unelected Labour opposition proposed activist shills" is difficult to understand.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
That seems quite a contrast to the early 80s, when they sponsored/commissioned their own branded home computer, promoted it on half the TV channels in the country and got it into every school in the country.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
I don't know who/what "happymag" is (took too long to load so I gave up) or where they ranked yesterday but they're now the second result (after the link you posted) for BBC sound effects. The power of HN? Judging b
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Craig Murray doesn't seem particularly right-wing to me. Meanwhile, here someone describes not seeing several dozen left-wing sources on Twitter for weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24578659
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> I’ll also note that they definitely have changed some UX stuff over the past 10 years. The mouseover popup/tooltip for links showing a brief snippet of other articles is so great that I find it irritating when other sites don&#x2
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by pmachinery 6y ago
A site blocking non-payers from accessing the content is a subscription/members only site. There's nothing unfair about that. If a site wants to block people who block ads, and take the resulting hit to their traffic/rank&#x2
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by pmachinery 6y ago
The rest of the public is also having its remote access revoked?
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Maybe people can be critical of the way Assange is being treated and/or the way the US/UK regimes are behaving, while not necessarily supporting what he did or liking the guy. Edit: In fact prefacing with "I'm not an Ass
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by pmachinery 6y ago
> I am baffled to see that the majority of the comments here are at best showing no support for what Assange did and at worst are trying to find excuses not to be disturbed in their belief that since we are in a democracy hence everythin
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Just for the record, I wasn't trying to deny the racial element in drug 'warfare', which certainly exists (how deliberately is another matter). And when people 'recast' things it's sometimes because new evidenc
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by pmachinery 6y ago
The motivation for fictitious wars against bogeymen is to empower and bankroll law enforcement while diminishing the civil rights of citizens. Like the war on terror, the decades long war on drugs has been a roaring success.
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by pmachinery 6y ago
Media in states that are on the permanent UN Security Council, that aren't Britain, France and the USA. Twitter claims their rule includes them, but if Voice of America doesn't count as "state-affiliated media" then what

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