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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Obama was the one who changed the rules about reporting civilian casualties. And none of these articles include any detail about Obama's track record. They seem to be ignoring his stats in an effort to pitch their story against Trump.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Unfortunately, the CIA has its tendrils deeply planted within the American publics' minds .. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-long-forgotten-cia-docume... Obama was used to sell war to the American public - and
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
>Though he has yet to start a new war, he had drastically increased bombing and drone strikes leading to far more civilian deaths than Obama. Got some source data that backs up this claim?
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
America wasn't going to let Libya establish the African Dinar.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
cough Yggdrasil cough
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
The point is, Australia could move off fossil fuels quicker than most other countries, and has one of the biggest motivators for doing so - its environment. However, the will of the people is not there. Or at least, the technology to disru
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Yeah, the use-case for rPi's is not just to 'function as a hackers toy', but also serve as the basis - a platform - for a great deal many other industry standard applications. The Compute Module is rapidly becoming an embedde
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
In case its not clear, this is the killer app for Raspberry Pi: https://www.acmesystems.it/CM3-HOME And this: https://revolution.kunbus.com/ Please note, this puts open source home automation in the forefro
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I dunno, I think this is a pretty draconian imposition by a state known for its decadence in a country that used to like to think it was a leader in building new infrastructure in tough conditions. With all the energy resources at Australia
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Although my Macbook is my main personal interface for a lot of things, I've stabilized on Ubuntu for my workstation machines, and they have been rock-solid stable desktop systems since 2009, at least this generation of hardware. I hav
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I've been running Linux since forever, and had an investment in Apple hardware since even longer. I've not used any laptop but an Apple since 2000, but consider Linux to be my primary professional realm. MacOS has been a 'dec
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
In the early days, yes. Now, not so much: https://github.com/JF002/Pinetime/blob/develop/bootloader/RE... .. there are so many interesting projects to run on the PineWatch, I just bought a couple ex
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I categorize that situation as mass hysteria, personally, another mutation of the 'red-baiting' McCarthy'ism that hasn't escaped American culture, which needs enemies to justify its trillion dollar investment in death ma
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I've read the guidelines, but I'm pretty sure that American warfighting is relevant to HN. Especially apropos the info-/bigdata- sphere. But okay, lets forget the subject and never mention it again.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I can think of hundreds of examples of HN-appropriate discussions involving privacy, the NSA, military technology, Big Data and the military, where it was strictly verboten to bring up the ongoing wars, which are still very relevant to th
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
It factually doesn't matter which citizenship one holds. An under-utilized protest mechanism exists in the fact that citizenships can change. Most modern republics allow for this. >It’s completely unacceptable and should be prosecu
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
One should only trust named, identified sources. The age of anonymous sources in mainstream media needs to end, because an anonymous source is not a source. Yes, sources should be protected. But there should be mechanisms in place to prot
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Its easy to seal the watch in a way that produces water-tightness .. but I still wouldn't want bother wearing it in the shower. Maybe okay in rain, though.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I have two kits - one which I hack on with Rust, and has wires hanging out, and the other which has the pinewatch python project on it, and I have sealed it shut. When I get my personal little watch application built and ready, I'll ge
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Does this plan include differentiating at the Casks as well? (Thanks for the work on homebrew, I live by it - its key to my use of MacOS ..)
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
This feels like Apple is trying to rally the small-business developer corps against its much larger platform supporters, who are probably feeling a bit parasitic (i.e. legal sticks being swung at the high end) to Apple management, at the mo
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria .. all set a very damning precedent of the West not quite having the terror-liberating forces it proclaims to have. >A thinking that they can win The only way to talk about war is to be prepared t
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
>A single, and final, shot. There are few circumstances where this refrain, so often repeated, would be so stupidly ignored by any of USA's enemies. Presumably, a feeble opening shot such as this would be a precursor for a counter
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I agree .. I've been hacking away on the PineWatch as a platform for the last few months, mostly to teach myself baremetal Rust, and it is an extraordinarily satisfying circumstance to be able to tell time on a watch running my own cod
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
.. where nobody else can access it.
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
Yes indeed, I imagine a situation where some natural resource is modulated such that, 20 minutes later here on Earth, 1000's of Petabytes of data is received such that, if re-transmitted, it will be reliably received across the distanc
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I've always wondered about the feasibility of using space for temporary/short-term storage needs. I remember a time when, as a junior developer, I'd log into operations, and hand the operator my tape reel with my work for the
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I regularly feed my family of 4 with delights from the garden. Its a lot of fun to get things working, and then when you do: the plants do all the work. No, doing it the first few times on a balcony - this won't be efficient. But, goi
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
>What are your damages from the NSA collecting all your metadata, or even from recording a conversation? Well, here we have the argument of the 'little man'. If I am wahern, the answer to your question is: probably not much. If
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by somesortofsystm 6y ago
I have a friend who has made an entire album with the OP-1 and as well full tracks with his Operator collection. As always, its not the instrument - its the musician.

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