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by rolux 11y ago
Guardian article: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/berlin-group-be...
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Refugees Welcome(refugees-welcome.net)
208 points by rolux 11y ago|290 comments
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by rolux 11y ago
> It is important to note here that Einstein was not being translated from German properly into English. 'Spuk' has a meaning akin to spook in the sense of a remote observer; Rather than 'spooky', which is an adjectiv
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North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone(nytimes.com)
2 points by rolux 11y ago|0 comments
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by rolux 11y ago
Ah, thanks for the pointer! keyboard.type('foo'); keyboard.press('fn'); ... makes much more sense.
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by rolux 11y ago
//Type "Hello World". robot.typeString("Hello World"); //Press enter. robot.keyTap("enter"); Whoever designed this interface didn't think much about consistency.
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Hacking Team and a case of BGP hijacking(blog.bofh.it)
171 points by rolux 11y ago|30 comments
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by rolux 11y ago
Didn't find the "Download All" option... but this should do: import json import os import re import requests url = 'https://earthview.withgoogle.com/%s' def get_data(slug=N
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Welcome to Earth View(earthview.withgoogle.com)
2 points by rolux 11y ago|1 comments
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by rolux 11y ago
> just start talking about the history of time And lets not forget: 3. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_...
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by rolux 12y ago
> There seems that people living under regimes with limited freedom often fail to comprehend that people living in other countries might produce something without the explicit approval of their government. Ironically though, there are re
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by rolux 12y ago
"If the choice is between a tacit pardon and a formal one, a formal one is better. An explicit pardon would lay down a marker, signaling to those considering torture in the future that they could be prosecuted." Now that's a
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ACLU director: Pardon Bush and those who tortured(nytimes.com)
2 points by rolux 12y ago|2 comments
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More from the Sony Pictures hack(fusion.net)
56 points by rolux 12y ago|29 comments
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by rolux 12y ago
While I generally agree, note that you can already trivially video chat with anyone who has a WebRTC-capable browser, without having to install anything extra, by simply sending them a link to https://chatb.org (or any other sim
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by rolux 12y ago
You may want to read the actual article. It says pretty much exactly that. > In the decades since, many Americans have come to believe that the wall fell thanks to President Ronald Reagan’s direct, personal intervention. In a 1987 speech
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by rolux 12y ago
Yes. My objection though was that in reality, in the overwhelming majority of cases, it's the wife, not the husband, who gives up her autonomy for "no good reason".
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by rolux 12y ago
Excellent article. This paragraph strikes me as a bit odd though: > When you aren't your own master, the rest of the personhood contract breaks down. This is true, but to a lesser extent, among e.g. husbands who are "whipped&qu
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by rolux 12y ago
Maybe take a look at OxDoc: http://oxjs.org/#examples/oxdoc_tutorial
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The Judges Approving the NSA's Surveillance Requests Keep Buying Verizon Stock(vice.com)
13 points by rolux 12y ago|0 comments
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by rolux 12y ago
I disagree. After more than a decade of "good vs. evil" and "either with us or with the enemy" propaganda, what the audience needs is the precise opposite of this type of chart.
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by rolux 12y ago
Either way, congratulations to Slate for reducing politics in the Middle East to three types of smileys. Their readers must love that kind of stuff.
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by rolux 12y ago
> I'm not sure why you cited... Because such leaks will be used selectively , against anyone the data collecting agencies see as a worthwhile target. And no, blanket recording of all phone calls is not the "valid and good pu
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by rolux 12y ago
> Your trivial counterexample requires blackmail on a large scale. Definitely not. See https://www.google.com/search?q=poland+recording+scandal for another trivial counterexample. (Other than that, the argument that the
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by rolux 12y ago
> However, the danger is really only to people outside the safe herd majority who might draw the wrong sort of attention. So I don't see it being a huge danger. Unfortunately, you're wrong here. The first trivial counterexample
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by rolux 12y ago
> It makes me think that eventually there will be illicit torrents of all the worlds music, plus the index, plus the metadata, and plus the interface/app for browsing it. It seems to me that the a-grade private torrent trackers are
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by rolux 12y ago
Ironically, with version 7, Inform itself switched to natural language syntax. The following is valid Inform 7 source code: `The iron-barred gate is a door. It is north of the Drawbridge and south of the Entrance Hall. It is closed and open
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by rolux 12y ago
Can you provide some evidence that he does that? I'm pretty certain that Döpfner composed his critique of privacy violations (with a strange emphasis on cookies) while being logged in to Google+, Facebook and whatnot -- but using Googl
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by rolux 12y ago
Yes, you got the essence of it. I understand more than 3 words of German, and the money quote, by Döpfner, appears at the 6 minute mark: "What I would hope... that we do not try now to play from now on the cliché of a super cool Silico
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by rolux 12y ago
Very good point. Döpfner's position is truly schizophrenic. He admires Google's success as a business, states that his news sites depend on the traffic Google provides (for free), but still wants the European Commission to regulat

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