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by rmc 11y ago
> in a contemporary legal setting it's difficult to find footing. Freemnan-on-the-land is totaly quackery in a comptemporary legal setting. It's like homeopathy, but for laws. It's Creationism, it's snake oil. Funda
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by rmc 11y ago
> Suppose they were a mail order company based in Brazil but serving customers internationally by post. If a US judge issued a court order in the US requiring the company to hand over business records stored on paper in Barzil, he would
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by rmc 11y ago
Well sounds like they basically ignored the court[1]. If you don't bother turning up to defend yourself in court, you'll almost certainly lose. WhatsApp should decide how much they care about Brazil. If they care, they could have
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by rmc 11y ago
Higher wages for dirty jobs would certainly spur innovation in labour saving devices to reduce the amount of manual labour. "Dirty" jobs being paid more certainly does sound a little more ethical than today, where those with littl
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by rmc 11y ago
Or maybe WhatsApp could comply with the law?
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by rmc 11y ago
> WhatsApp is a US company and... I always feel like many large US tech companies want to have their cake and eat it. They want to be a global company, they want to have 2 billion users, and are valued at having that many users. But wh
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by rmc 11y ago
> A currency where a single individual owns 4.7% of all currency isn't going to end well Funny story. Although the UK has one currency, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different designs for banknotes compared to England & W
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by rmc 11y ago
> This applies to computers outside of the US. No US law applies outside the US (or US flagged ships etc). The USA might like this to apply, but that doesn't make it true.
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by rmc 11y ago
And it'll come in a generic Amazon box. Buy a few DVDs and condoms. You can tell your parents about the DVDs. Better than a box from "Condoms R Us", or a generic box, which will still require explaination. An amazon box requi
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by rmc 11y ago
You can buy a prepaid amazon gift card. Or a prepaid credit card.
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by rmc 11y ago
Or: Teens are having more sex, but contraceptives are stopping more pregnancies.
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by rmc 11y ago
> I think maybe you're engaging in a ridiculous level of paranoia. One of the interesting effects of the Snowden revelations was how what is considered "paranoid" changed. Pre-Snowden, if you thought that the USA govern
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by rmc 11y ago
> Every generation is mad at the generation before it about something, and argues the previous generation could have solved the problems but now the current generation is left with the problems. I mean, the canonical example is the Ger
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by rmc 11y ago
> Hey, don't let negative comments get to you. Always happens on HN. Best example being DropBox launch, top comments said something along the lines of "this will never work". Nothing beats the Slashdot review of when the i
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by rmc 11y ago
> The quality of the subreddit is directly proportional to the moderation. The Ask subreddits (/r/AskHistory, /r/AskScience) are consistently cited for having high quality due to actual, transparent enforcement of th
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by rmc 11y ago
> I think it's groupthink, extremely low quality/uninformed discourse, and brigading. I wish that there was a site with an hn-level of moderation that covered issues like bikes, local news, etc. Maybe that's just not poss
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by rmc 11y ago
info@bostonglobe.com in this case
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by rmc 11y ago
And don't forget the Channel Islands and Isle of Mann. Lots of sorta-British tax havens there.
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by rmc 11y ago
There are several advantages of Facebook over Tor. One of them is that your ISP is unable to see who what site you are talking to, and that Facebook is unable to see your source IP address.
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by rmc 11y ago
> if pretty much every website uses jQuery, perhaps we should ship jQuery with the web browser? There's a firefox plugin that does just that! DecentralEyes - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon
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by rmc 11y ago
I thought everyone already knew this?
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by rmc 11y ago
> A US company (or individual) should absolutely ignore court orders from a non-US court; such courts have no jurisdiction. A "valid" court order necessarily must come from a court with jurisdiction. Remember: US privacy prot
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by rmc 11y ago
I've often seen people propose things like that, such as congress being paid the average salary or maybe even no salary. However they're much more likely to take kickbacks if they have the power and not the money.
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by rmc 11y ago
Yes, it runs arbitrary code. But checkinstall avoids other downsides from curl|bash
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by rmc 11y ago
> This is what the Debian guys standing in a circle holding their passwords are doing at your Linux event. Passports, surely? :P
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by rmc 11y ago
If you use checkinstall(1) it'll see what `sudo make install` would do, and create a local package that would do that (e.g. a deb on ubuntu). This package can then be installed in the usual manner, which gives you uninstallability, tra
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by rmc 11y ago
Kindles could store, locally, the pages that are displayed, and then upload to the server when they have internet connection
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by rmc 11y ago
Diseases which kill immediately upon contact don't tend to spread. It's the ones that sit silently and don't harm you that spread everywhere (e.g. HIV)
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by rmc 11y ago
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C Mann is a great book about the Americas before Columbus (who arrived in 1492). One of the things it covers (with evidence), is the disease outbreak which killed millions a
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by rmc 11y ago
"Everybody uses homebrew" until the new intern or college grad roots your production database.

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