santacluster

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by santacluster 12y ago
Climate change denial is a mainstream conservative belief. And no, we don't need diversity in all its forms . We can do without the moronic, hateful and extremist.
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by santacluster 12y ago
Tribler has a very long history of making high profile claims and never being able to follow through with actually usable software, so I'm not really surprised by this. The entire project is a combination of TU Delft publicity stunt an
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by santacluster 12y ago
"Let's not provoke them" is a survival strategy, not a winning strategy. I don't think mere survival is the goal here.
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by santacluster 12y ago
> when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing This part alone shows how much superficial BS this is. You cannot produce anything without using the earth's resources. They do not
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by santacluster 12y ago
The really major f-up is that of online sellers (it's a major pain for sellers of physical goods as well, it's just easier for them to at least know which country they're selling to) who did absolutely nothing during the en
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by santacluster 12y ago
Amongst all the rationalizations I miss the one thing that is typical for the US as a young immigrant nation with little history: a desperate need to cling to any kind of custom or tradition to create a sense of identity. Especially if thos
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by santacluster 12y ago
> The Kindle is trying to reduce friction for reading a whole book. It’s working. Yes, yes it does. At least it does for me. I haven't read as much and bought as many books in decades. A considerable part of my media consumption tim
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by santacluster 12y ago
Typical content-free FUD and link bait from ZDNet (who still reads that crap anyway?), stopped reading soon when I encountered the utter BS: > If you don't have a license, you're leaving the door open for people to fool with yo
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by santacluster 12y ago
UberPop are unlicensed taxis in private cars masquerading as ride-shares. Which they obviously aren't, since the paying client decides the destination. I would be surprised if UberPop is still in operation anywhere in Europe by the sum
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by santacluster 12y ago
Has been done in many European cities in the 60's and 70's. Those are now places nobody wants to live anymore, and many of them have been torn down. The only people who want to live "higher" are the people who want high
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by santacluster 12y ago
Because the vast majority of people that are young and ambitious prefer to live urban areas with all the advantages that come with it. And with the high level of gentrification in many successful cities, unlike 25 years ago those urban cent
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by santacluster 12y ago
It's easy to blame politics, but those politics are based in social reality. "Keeping the costs sane" for tech workers would mean putting the housing out of reach of many ordinary people. There is a finite amount of space, an
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by santacluster 12y ago
I like to think hackers are equally interested in the human story. I certainly think we could use more interest in the human stories, because a lack of interest is the primary reason for the growing anti-tech backlash.
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by santacluster 12y ago
I see tourists wondering into oncoming traffic every day in Amsterdam, and most of them are not even high. Seriously, if you take anything that inhibits your natural sense of danger and alertness, you should not be out on the streets. This
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by santacluster 12y ago
Similar story, although I wouldn't call us "poor" for not being able to afford such things. My dad however managed to get his hands on an obscure failed home computer called COMX 35[1]. Not much software, BASIC, same story. [
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by santacluster 12y ago
There is no "Europe", especially not in these matters that are so strongly, if not almost exclusively, determined by cultural and economic factors in sovereign nations. Please stop doing that, comparing the USA to some fictional
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by santacluster 12y ago
The more insane variant is "not available in your country". I'm in my country. You're serving me bits just now in order to tell me this. WTF? It's like sitting down in restaurant, see a wonderful meal being served
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by santacluster 12y ago
It's kind of confusing, they make it sound like a snapshot of TPB before it was raided, but it actually contains very recent torrents that weren't yet available when TPB went down.
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by santacluster 12y ago
You used the word "iTunes" twice in your first two sentences. You've also mentioned 2 audio formats and 1 video format, and that already exhausted your examples because that ecosystem supports nothing else . One application,
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by santacluster 12y ago
Being of mixed-handedness (write left, use mouse an throw right etcetera) I always feel left out of these kind of stats... Seriously though, I may be a minority, but it's not all that unusual to not strongly fall into either category,
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by santacluster 12y ago
> They just showed up. They sent the same banal workplace emails you send every day Yeah, no, I have a bit of a problem with this. There is a lot of stuff coming out of this hack that should never, ever have been on corporate IT systems