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by tajen 10y ago
Part of the immature me wishes we don't invent new diesel trucks for developing countries, especially not with the goal of making it accessible to massive new markets. Doing so will extremely accelerate the global warming and local c
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by tajen 10y ago
> There is no question that our community too often can feel hostile to those who aren't white hetero men. Why this assumption? All the information about programming is on websites that are accessible to everyone independently on th
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by tajen 10y ago
As opposed to the illustration of the article, one needs to note that child pornography includes a photo, a drawing or a 3D CGI representing anyone below 18 years old. Given the recipient rarely has the ID card on file, it's hard to
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by tajen 10y ago
22 points on the comment above (which I can't edit anymore). As the 74th comment on a page (of 640 points), it's a pretty good score: I would say that gender justice is a feeling shared by many people.
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by tajen 10y ago
The position in your first 2 lines is entirely valid in my opinion. I was condemning the hatred, but it's entirely valid for each country to negotiate for their best interest, especially, I reckon, since the UK received preferential tr
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by tajen 10y ago
Credibility is another question entirely - Look, that's how democracy works. People vote, some are gullible in both parties, some have received fewer education, some newspapers will be biased until we mandate them to only publish infor
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by tajen 10y ago
> I'd argue that enough were to give Leave the win. In your document I read "48% people think that immigration is one of the most important issues facing Britain, just ahead of the EU referendum". The Remain camp proposed
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by tajen 10y ago
You think 52% of the UK voters are gullible?
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by tajen 10y ago
> ...without paying the dues, which is what the Brexit camp promised This assumes the voters are gullible. But what if they are grown-ups who didn't literally believe Johnson, and made a decision based on rational arguments, would
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by tajen 10y ago
> instill fear Is that how Europe is governed? I think any country should be allowed to leave without condescending comments by anyone. I prefer staying in Europe, but if the majority of my fellows prefer the opposite, then it's dem
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by tajen 10y ago
The quantity of white males who are removed from their position in a possibly career-ending way without trial or due explanation (e.g. Mozilla CEO, GitHub CEO, various conferences, colleagues), plus the quantity of government aid and help t
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by tajen 10y ago
We still need to account for the carbon emissions of such an explosion. A complete carbon study would include how much GHG we save thanks to the satellite we pace, how much we encourage emitting more GHG by making rockets ten times cheaper
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by tajen 10y ago
There is some time I spend procrastinating, but during my year with Ubuntu at work I was really annoyed by everyday things, enough to suspend my task and fix my configuration, so I wouldn't describe it as procrastination. I didn't
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by tajen 10y ago
A story split in 37 tweets. Are some clients supposed to display that better than 1/, 2/ etc? What happened with Twitter's experiment with the 10,000 characters limit? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1084
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by tajen 10y ago
It could also have been pillaged by a drug addict. The check list may be "Check the medical kit is in board", and only checking the contents every 10 flights. Quite a low probabiliy that this happens together with a myocard proble
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by tajen 10y ago
> How do you change the GUI theme on Mac? You see, that's the problem: Mac is opinionated, and this is the quality we most often praise it for. Changing the GUI is functionnaly useless for any job. That means some folks in the Linux
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by tajen 10y ago
On the one hand, it would really help if we all switched to Linux and paid for it (but I wouldn't know which B2C-oriented companies provides a good Linux support, plus I'm afraid that the recent multiplication of Linux distributio
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by tajen 10y ago
Someone asked 2 days ago how customers could be careful about their CA being revoked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12391308 > How? I've got no way to judge the security / responsibility of any CA. (...)
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by tajen 10y ago
So Apple/the bank/a warrant can return his name?
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by tajen 10y ago
Interesting question. According to https://developer.apple.com/support/certificates/ : >> If your membership expires, users can still download, install, and run your Developer ID–signed applications. However,
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by tajen 10y ago
Is Keychain Access from OSX a safe password manager? Also, how comes all security-aware people trust 1Password and LastPass, even though they are not open source? Isn't that one of the rules of security, publish the source so we can tr
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by tajen 10y ago
Are you ironic? Do you see what's strange in that? Machine learning isn't exempt of racism. Google has a lot of background on people, but it's generally accepted as unethic to filter undesirable people based on generalization
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by tajen 10y ago
I can watch a Netflix movie in 3G at 320kmh (TGV, in France). So you're right, video consumes fewer bandwidth than we imagine. But it's common that I can't view a proper Youtube video on ADSL. ISPs are really being deceptive
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by tajen 10y ago
One sign is that if Symantec has issued rogue certificates, and Google publishes the problem, then it's time to leave. Of course, the CA would then be incentivized to publish their procedures and show how they intend to fix the breach,
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by tajen 10y ago
Next fight : That ISPs advertise the minimum guaranteed bandwidth and are banned from advertising the maximum theoretical number. Then only we could measure that they do offer the same bandwidth with Netflix and Vimeo as they advertise. Net
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by tajen 10y ago
Look at Atlassian... $6.2bn valuation on the stock exchange, after an IPO at $5.8bn. Self-funded.
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by tajen 10y ago
That's exactly what I wanted to demonstrate. You say nothing when Christians are attacked, because (you believe) Muslims have it worse. Yet, Muslims have all leftish French people on their side. > do you realize it's a reflecti
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by tajen 10y ago
> And how does terrorism factor into dress code, anyway? Here our opinions diverge. I think the dress code is like a flag (or a svastika, like @Rasco explained). You defend it isn't. I think a good part of Muslims identify with anti
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by tajen 10y ago
How do they source papers? I can't find this detail neither in the article nor in Sci-Hub's "about" page. Do they install a peer-to-peer client on the machines of volunteers, so that Elsevier can't make the differen
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by tajen 10y ago
The army gets interested in electric vehicles for troop transport because of their range. It happens that 1. A hybrid can basically provide the same range, 2. A hybrid can regenerate energy when the driver slows down, providing much bette

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