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by psutor 13y ago
This thought crossed my mind as well after I spent some time thinking how a president could still get things done with how little power they actually have vs. entrenched entities. I still think it is extraordinarily unlikely though.
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by psutor 13y ago
What you describe in your edit has been happening between the US and UK for decades. They spy on each other (using the more permissive "foreigner" spying privileges) and then share the data.
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by psutor 13y ago
Does Google pull links from Gmail and attempt to index them? I am wondering how they knew to index these pages with random URLs (the "security through obscurity" employed by ClickBank and defended in the support ticket referenced
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by psutor 13y ago
"Land of Lisp" is actually what turned me on to PG/HN/startups a few years ago. I believe there was a passing mention of PG somewhere near the beginning and that got me started reading essays. I am very excited for this
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by psutor 13y ago
He would be able to deny this unless he has already been disappeared.
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by psutor 13y ago
How about grep -irn <identifier> . ? -r recurses and since it is multiple files implies -H.
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by psutor 13y ago
I use perl for this as well. perl -e 'chdir "/var/session" or die; opendir D, "."; while ($f = readdir D) { unlink $f }' It is very efficient memory-wise compared to the other options as well as being much faster. It is also ea
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by psutor 13y ago
It's actually anti- urban -intellectual posturing, suggesting that the comment author is on a higher level intellectually. I had a good laugh at both the joke itself and that the telling of the joke is an act of "verbally humiliating the du
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by psutor 13y ago
I believe his "—or geekishness, if you prefer—" is referring only to "intellectualism", a way of broadening the scope rather than redefining "geek".
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by psutor 13y ago
I actually just watched those back episodes of Top Gear two days ago. I thought they conveyed most of the things said by your parent fairly well. They expressed extreme disgust with the gearbox, demonstrating clearly how non-functional it
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by psutor 13y ago
Link to full zine: http://straylig.ht/zines/HTP5/
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by psutor 13y ago
Hi Ajay - I just sent you an email.
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by psutor 13y ago
This is a great way to put it. I agree, this is only happening because administrators see a way to use their "book." Disclaimer: the same thing happened to me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637272
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by psutor 13y ago
I am glad to see that this is getting proper attention, probably enough for Kiera's life not to be totally ruined by it. The exact same punishment was given to me for doing the same thing in 2004: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56372
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by psutor 13y ago
No, I am not, I am very white and nerdy. I am surprised at how much of the discussion here has focused on race and racism. I don't see that being a factor here; this is simply how public schools in America work. I did not, however, have a p
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by psutor 13y ago
Yep, it used up most of what they had set aside for college though, which contributed in large part to my not finishing college, but that is something I am also glad turned out the way it did.
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by psutor 13y ago
That is what happened in my case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637272 There wasn't a news article about me so I don't have to worry about being Googled. I do feel bad for the girl because of that. However, so far employers have f
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by psutor 13y ago
This EXACT same thing happened to me. I had some liquid Nitrogen for a science experiment at school, put it in a 20oz Coke bottle. Of course that's not something you do without knowing mostly what will happen, as I suspect was also the case