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by sverige 8y ago
Is there any reason to think that the palms of Chinese politicians are not being greased?
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by sverige 8y ago
Seriously, why is MS doing this? Internet Explorer died years ago, Edge never took off, and Google isn't about to give up their market share for spyware without a fight. It's like MS thinks this is Browser Wars 3.0. Heaven help me
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by sverige 8y ago
Back in ancient times, scammers placed small ads in the back of comic books and computer ad catalogs and gardening magazines and the like. I remember one case where a guy placed an ad that said, "Send $1 to [his P.O. box]" and mad
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by sverige 8y ago
I checked out a few "influencers" out of curiosity when I first heard the term. It's far worse than Cokie and Cramer. I mean, at least they are mildly interesting to watch or listen to. The new sort seemed invariably dull and
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by sverige 8y ago
It has been at least twenty years since I read anything by him, so my cliche statement is based on the conclusions I came to over time (I had another period of reading him about 35 years ago) and the judgments I made about those conclusions
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Well I had a hard time finding those parts, but maybe I was too young when I read him in my late teens / early 20s. He seemed more dolorous than most to me at the time. Perhaps he's worth revisiting.
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by sverige 8y ago
I've always thought Nietzsche was the only funny (hilarious more than strange) modern philosopher. Compared to dullards like Kierkegaard, he's a barrel of laughs. I also think he's also the perfect example of the old saw &quo
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by sverige 8y ago
I think they do, but I suspect that their goals are bad, which is why we have the world we have now.
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by sverige 8y ago
Thanks for this! I used to listen to this regularly but fell out of the habit a couple years ago.
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I don't know. We've got a lot of the main writers, and we've got references to some of the books that were lost forever in the fire. I agree that there was some valuable information lost in the fire. But in the main, I thi
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by sverige 8y ago
Ahem. You're all missing the point. But that's probably because you're all reading this using Emacs.
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Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication(undeadly.org)
317 points by sverige 8y ago|84 comments
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Interesting perspective. With regard to the historical value, though, I think that the volume of information cheapens the value of most of it. The kinds of things that move people and events so that future generations can understand what ha
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by sverige 8y ago
I misread your comment, of course! Yes, pictures were a calculated luxury. If you asked me to click to download a picture and it wasn't worth the five minute wait, you went on a certain list.
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I actually convinced the guy who founded Deja News to delete most of my early posts in 1996. They still lived on in some quotes, though.
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Well, sure, but I was still pretty immature 25 years ago. And for younger people, the norms are shifting so rapidly that it's not certain that something posted in jest today won't be considered career-ending heresy in five years.
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Not really, no.
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I agree with everything you said except the part about rich content today. Maybe I'm nostalgic, but I think there's a much lower percentage of that today. Unless celebrity gossip and political self-promotion is considered rich con
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by sverige 8y ago
> Does someone high up in Google have an embarrassing usenet history? I don't know if that's true (it probably is), but personally I am glad that almost all of my old Usenet posts have vanished. I was horrified when Deja News s
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by sverige 8y ago
That's the best feature of vim, it works even when you're away from the computer!
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by sverige 8y ago
Michael Lucas wrote up a nice piece about setting up an Unbound DNS Server on OpenBSD eight years ago.[0] It might need some updating, but probably you could do that by reading the man page.[1] [0] https://mwl.io/archives&#x
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by sverige 8y ago
By 1996, price inflation for housing in Seattle was in full force, as was NIMBYism. It was unaffordable enough by '92 that I got out then. I have friends who bought around that time and were paying what I considered to be ridiculous pr
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Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?(mercurynews.com)
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If "news" involves reaching conclusions, isn't that really "editorial" content? For example, it's one thing to report what AG Barr's letter on the Mueller investigation says, and maybe also what it doesn&#
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by sverige 8y ago
Why worry about pissing off the kind of person who scans for open SSH ports for no apparent legitimate reason? Are you concerned that the Chinese are going to try even harder to hack your machine, like they're not already doing everyth
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The old school version is my aged mother finding birth announcements from the late 50s and early 60s handwritten by my aunt for each of her four children. My aunt passed away five years ago. She sent the originals to each of my cousins by s
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I'm far too jaded to be "upset" or even "disappointed" that, whenever they have a way to do so, Google reads everything that everyone sends to each other. But perhaps it seems perfectly normal and ok to you that a t
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by sverige 8y ago
It depends on what you mean by "process." https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...
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The title made me think Google was announcing that they won't read my email any more. Alas.
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Honestly, I don't understand why the U.S. is basically still responsible for the defense of Europe 75 years after the end of World War II. I think we should withdraw all our troops and equipment in a controlled drawdown and let the Eur

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