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by sc68cal 12y ago
The problem with Bitlbee is that it does not support twitter lists. I had a project to add that support, but my C is very rusty :(
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by sc68cal 13y ago
As an amateur bread baker, I would love to know more about why industry bakeries do this. Do you have any links?
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by sc68cal 13y ago
It's hard to take this seriously when the headline accuses everyone who disagrees with you as being a "collectivist"
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by sc68cal 13y ago
Here is the full update: "• This article was amended on 20 March 2014 to remove statements in the original that the testimony by Rajesh De contradicted denials by technology companies about their knowledge of NSA data collection. It wa
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by sc68cal 13y ago
This reminds me of the same arguments that were made about Bitcoin and exchanges and how the mean old SEC wasn't letting the little guy get in on the action. The same thing would happen in the world of Kickstarter - big asset bubbles a
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Just like they denied they had no knowledge of PRISM or any other NSA programs? They got awful quiet about that when the NSA started saying that Google and other companies knew what the NSA was doing. So, Google has already demonstrated tha
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by sc68cal 13y ago
The optics of this are really bad, especially when the industry (as well as the front page of HN recently) has been discussing getting more women involved in the technology fields. Now we have a front page story where we're going to ne
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by sc68cal 13y ago
Because it's concern trolling - they do not offer these proposals to actually get the information - they are looking for ammunition to stir the pot.
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by sc68cal 13y ago
> The US, by law, is supposed to treat all people the same regardless of nationality. Not nationality - national origin . http://www.justice.gov/crt/legalinfo/natorigin.php That's at least what I believe
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by sc68cal 13y ago
I've pulled individual files from my tarsnap archives, and did a full restore of a server into a VirtualBox VM to verify that everything worked OK and can confirm that tarsnap works as advertised.
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Taxpayer Subsidies Helped Tesla Motors, So Why Does Elon Musk Slam Them?(motherjones.com)
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While reading this story, please keep this guide handy, which measures the political donations that his company makes: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000059478&cy... I should note that the latest F
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A Still Profitable Tesla Motors Owes Its Success to Government Subsidies(motherjones.com)
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Hopefully the OpenBSD members will reach out to the FreeBSD members, who can share a lot of knowledge about their transition from GCC in the base system, over to Clang/LLVM.
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This is currently done via scraping: https://github.com/divegeek/uscode The diffs are huge.
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Tom Friedman: A New Ayn Rand for A Dark Digital Future(blog.ourfuture.org)
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by sc68cal 13y ago
>Tech Freedom and the Progress and Freedom Foundation are think tanks, not lobbying outfits Think tanks develop policy proposals and other types of information, that is then used by political parties. The Cato Institute and the Heritage
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by sc68cal 13y ago
Is it a good policy that will benefit the citizenry, or is it a policy that is the extension of a political ideology that believes that government should not regulate anything?
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by sc68cal 13y ago
I'd strongly suggest looking into the backgrounds of the authors. One is a lobbyist and another is a former politico for Republican candidates. Berin Szoka: http://techfreedom.org/people/berin-szoka >Berin Szok
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by sc68cal 13y ago
And remember, the SEC then prosecuted him for insider trading. Coincidence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio#Insider_trading....
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Want to kill health insurers? This start-up is teaching hospitals how.(washingtonpost.com)
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Why “real journalists” hate Sean Parker’s wedding(salon.com)
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What I found interesting, was that this so called "contact chaining" (where they graph out who you talk to, and two degrees onward) was only approved after 9/11. Amazing how far we've fallen. The agency "analyzed n
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NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn’t anyone use it?(washingtonpost.com)
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Keynote: OpenStack at the National Security Agency (NSA)(youtube.com)
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I hate when people do that. I posted the story to MJ's report on lead in gasoline being linked to crime rates. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008285 Someone posted the "print" version and got 333 points for it a couple hours later.
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by sc68cal 13y ago
The long-term costs of carbon emissions will be a public cost. It follows a pattern that has become quite common recently in America, where the profits are kept by the company and shareholders, while the costs are borne by the public. So do
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You Need Phosphorous to Live—and We're Running Out(motherjones.com)
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Why the has the Table Saw Industry resisted skin sensing technology?(fairwarning.org)
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Mark Zuckerberg & FWD.US' Quid Pro Quo for incumbent Senators(salon.com)
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