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by renholder 8y ago
It didn't use to be this way, to be sure. The darkest "shade" thrown even thirty years ago was child's play compared to today's vitriolic rhetoric. I think it has to do with the polarisation (radicalisation?) that h
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by renholder 8y ago
Does my workaround[0] work for you? [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367789
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by renholder 8y ago
They have a "Flag" feature, so I'm assuming that that they could do something . They're not saying that they don't log your IP address and what-not, so they can - at the very least - action on it (which probably co
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by renholder 8y ago
Seems to be a bug where after you post, you can't see any posts until you Ctrl+Refresh (Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS).
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by renholder 8y ago
I'll take the d...
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by renholder 8y ago
> I want the early 90s Internet back. Here, here! Save for the whole part where we could only connect via dial-up out in Feckall, Nowhere. Could you imagine trying to download the latest Ubuntu ISO, for example, over dial-up?
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by renholder 8y ago
> Are there any operating systems that let you explicitly run CPUs in parallel? That's a good question. I don't have the answer, to be sure, but I would think part of the problem is conflicting priorities and who would "w
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by renholder 8y ago
> it is not 100% guaranteed that threads will perform their operations truly in parallel, that is at the same time: it really depends on the underlying hardware. I thought it really depended on a lot of factors, most predominantly thr
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by renholder 8y ago
> Only available on x64 Windows and captures tracing info only for 64-bit processes Does that include Wow64[0]? [0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/WinProg64/w...
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by renholder 8y ago
Since they're geopolitically separate and have their own infrastructures, the distinction is quite apt for understanding the "who" of who is impacted when the specific cables are cut. In other words, based on your assumption
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by renholder 8y ago
> You also become acutely aware of cable breaks. Somehow this happens quite often under the English Channel. You're not lying. :) When the internet is down in the ROI (Republic of Ireland), it's always because something was
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by renholder 8y ago
> It seeks to route Russian web traffic and data through points controlled by the state and proposes building a national Domain Name System to allow the internet to continue functioning even if the country is cut off from foreign infrast
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by renholder 8y ago
uMatrix[0,1] automatically blocks that element. =] [0] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ [1] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/umatrix/ogf
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by renholder 8y ago
The Orloj is something worth seeing but it does get pretty crowded in the square every hour on the hour. One thing that I didn't see mentioned, which I think would be pretty cool to know, is how accurate is it (e.g.: quartz versus at
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by renholder 8y ago
> So who should pay for it? All taxpayers instead? Let's compare/contrast your own countrymen. The Department of Veterans Affairs (colloquially known as "the VA") is entirely funded by the US budget[0]. Guess where t
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by renholder 8y ago
Despite the fact that the United States is not a Schengen participant, so that doesn't equate into their rationale for the visa process with those countries, the work that you say the EU should do (otherwise it's hypocrisy) is nig
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by renholder 8y ago
> Working from home on occasion certainly isn't unusual. Occassion and modus operandi are two entirely different precepts but you know this, yeah, and your trying ever-so hard to be pedantic. It's cute. > Paid sick days is
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by renholder 8y ago
> In other words, you're out of touch with ordinary, less privileged workers. Just because I'm "out of touch" with ordinary, less privileged workers doesn't equate to my experience and observations in the sector
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by renholder 8y ago
> ...rather than the formation of the baby bells.. which pretty much all failed. The general premise is that the smaller companies allows competition to enter the market. It is precisely because of this competition that the smaller bell
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by renholder 8y ago
Upboat for rationalisation. Also, from the European perspective (and specifically speaking of the technology sector, as that's what I have first-hand experience with), taking sick leave to take care of a child at home isn't a thin
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by renholder 8y ago
> Splitting territorial monopolies into smaller territorial monopolies is unlikely to help. It seemed have helped in the Ma Bell[0] days[1]. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System [1] - https:/&#x2
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by renholder 8y ago
I think the OC certainly could've framed it better but declining birth-rates are what drives certain policies[0,1]. One can look at Germany's perspective on migrants as a direct consequence of that (more people working and contrib
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by renholder 8y ago
> ...manufacturing, and support staff... Aren't those outsourced (to different countries, no less), so they wouldn't actually be counted as US employment statistics?
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by renholder 8y ago
> And the old blood is getting tired - tired of failing in some cases or just tired of working so hard and now ready to enjoy life. I think that this is, perhaps, the most apt quote that will live-on in a state of permanence throughout
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by renholder 8y ago
Cheers! Just trying to help out. To quote Hackers [0]: " We demand free access to data, well, it comes with some responsibility. " [0] - https://youtu.be/Rn2cf_wJ4f4
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by renholder 8y ago
The information for Ireland isn't entirely accurate. There's two separate lists for the availability of the Critical Skills Employment permit and the second list requires a minimum annual salary of €60,000[0]: Occupations with a
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by renholder 8y ago
Whilst I agree with the underlying premise, there's a touch of what the kids are calling "privilege" these days in the blog post that's entirely unrealistic for the predominance of the world: " It is way better to s
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by renholder 8y ago
> ...hard work if you're a murphy, kavanagh, ryan... Might I interest them in some grossly unfair life insurance? :)
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by renholder 8y ago
> Many of them say their goal is to settle in the US despite warnings by US officials that anyone found entering the country illegally will face arrest, prosecution and deportation. You're conflating the word "goal" with
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by renholder 8y ago
> Aiding and abetting a criminal is itself a crime... Bold move there, Cotton, got anything to back this claim up? As far as anyone's aware, these are just reporters who were reporting on the story.

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