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by sandov 8y ago
As a kid, I hated poetry because school teachers recited (and forced us to recite) poems in an overly dramatic, inauthentic way. I saw poetry as pretentious and frivolous. Last year, I started listening to a Spanish rock band called Extremo
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by sandov 9y ago
I don't use social networks, unless you consider Reddit, HN and Youtube social networks.
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by sandov 9y ago
In my case, I don't care about the "privacy protection" of a given social network: I assume that everything I post is public (except private messages), so I filter what I upload based on that assumption. Things I do care ab
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by sandov 9y ago
Ultra-liberal, in the USA meaning of 'liberal'. Originally, the word referred to classical liberalism, which has freedom as its primary value. Modern 'liberals' — the one's you're referring to — have values ver
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by sandov 9y ago
I feel that leftist movements are leaking much more than T_D. Comments which — without being racist or sexist — go against the popular & politically correct leftist stance are downvoted to oblivion. Meanwhile, extremely statist stances
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by sandov 9y ago
How money does it cost to apply for a patent?. Because if the cost is negligible, then an exploit would be to flood the patent system with dumb patent application until one of them is accepted. Hell, maybe a machine learning algorithm could
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by sandov 9y ago
Some people think the kernel is the OS, some people think of the kernel as part of the OS, and apparently slimsag thinks of the kernel as something different than the OS. They're just different naming conventions.
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by sandov 9y ago
You'd be surprised if you knew the amount of things that aren't obvious to the tech-ignorant average citizen.
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by sandov 9y ago
And people downvoted me when I said the EU was an enemy of freedom...
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by sandov 9y ago
As shitty as Facebook is as a service, I don't think they should have any legal obligation to 'protect' users from their own neglect. I don't use facebook, because I think a free-software based & decentralized social
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by sandov 9y ago
>trusted sources, basically Google or Apple. I'd say open source apps are more trustworthy that Google or Apple.
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by sandov 9y ago
>It is allowed to matter And we don't know when it will matter and when it won't matter, therefore we have to assume that it does matter unless we are sure it doesn't for our specific case.
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by sandov 9y ago
I really like the concept of the website, but don't approve spamming ask hn. show hn is the place to show your projects.
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by sandov 9y ago
If I send an email to John@company.com instead of john@company.com and the server of company.com is configured to be case sensitive, then john will never see my email.
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by sandov 9y ago
The case in an email address does matter. Look it up.
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by sandov 9y ago
No one's saying that they aren't spec compliant, the writer is complaining that google doesn't tell its users that their inbox will include emails for more than 1 address.
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by sandov 9y ago
The article is wrong: The number of email addresses is NOT INFINITE. The 'user' part of an email address (before the @) has a maximum length of 64 characters. If n is the number of non-dot characters in the user part, then only (6
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by sandov 9y ago
He'd be selling drugs by now.
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by sandov 9y ago
How difficukt would it be to port it to linux?
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by sandov 9y ago
http://n-gate.com/ Some dude makes fun of Hacker news posts and comment sections.
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by sandov 9y ago
Almost all operations I command are executed instantly by my computer, so I see no need to use more RAM. I think a good SSD and GPU are much more important than having a lot of RAM if you want to improve general user experience.
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by sandov 9y ago
>disappointingly small 8GB. In my world, I consider 16GB a bare minimum My main computer has 8GB RAM. I don't know why I would need more than that. Right now I have firefox with 15 tabs, qt creator and 3 terminals open and I'm
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by sandov 9y ago
Isn't it kinda obvious that fb 'secretly' stores everything that may be beneficial to the company?. Who is still so naive as to believe that they care about your privacy?
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by sandov 9y ago
>I know in the online music community that developing tinnitus is a fear/paranoia akin to fear of surveillance in the tech community I wish I was in the online music community before getting tinnitus. My tinnitus doesn't bother
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by sandov 9y ago
Also. It's disheartening to see that no one wants to discuss if population growth is actually something desirable in the long run. Everyone cares only about the immediate economic necessities.
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by sandov 9y ago
I think it's a circular logic People think voting with your wallet doesn't change a thing -> they keep buying from unethical companies -> nothing changes -> voting with your wallet doesn't change a thing. The problem
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by sandov 9y ago
You don't hate facebook. You hate people who think facebook = life.
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by sandov 9y ago
What a crappy website. Autoplay video and whenever I click on the text below the image, the image comes up and covers what I was reading.
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by sandov 9y ago
-A wordpress blog. -A self-hosted site or a VPS.
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by sandov 9y ago
How can anyone read that website with all that crap around the text?

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