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by vacri 9y ago
Reddit didn't even change their banner announcement - it's currently promoting signing up for Reddit Gifts. The slow-loading logo only has a clue to what it's about in the alt-text; the link hasn't changed.
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by vacri 9y ago
It doesn't solve the hidden cavity problem very well, though.
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by vacri 9y ago
Ubuntu is a checkpoint distro, Fedora is a rolling distro. There are benefits to both styles. Ultimately I don't think either will particularly affect your productivity, unless they interfere with the software you use. Fedora, as a rol
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by vacri 9y ago
People don't have to consciously want to change the language for it to change. It's not like the differences between modern English and Victorian-era English are all because someone willed it. Usage dictates meaning, and I'd
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by vacri 9y ago
So many people use 'begs the question' as 'raises the question' now that it's a valid meaning for the phrase. EDIT: To the downvoters: I don't think you understand how human language works.
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by vacri 9y ago
With the setting sun just right, you wouldn't see the red, just reflected sunlight. There's no guaranteed solution for all cases, and aerospace visuals are some of the most heavily studied of any industry.
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by vacri 9y ago
"Interesting - this user is downloading gigs of data from a single IP over https, and zero data from anywhere else"
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by vacri 9y ago
> and possible Arab spring I'm sure that the powers-that-be in China aren't overly scared of a failed popular uprising.
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by vacri 9y ago
A friend of mine used to be a QA at a prominent children's hospital. The departmental interoperation was terrible[1], and every department used its own software. There was no hope of unifying the software, because every head of departm
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by vacri 9y ago
journald by default doesn't keep logs from the previous boot, which is extremely annoying. What's the point of having a logging system where you have to keep the old one around to read old logs? I've also had it seemingly not
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by vacri 9y ago
Or it could be that MacOS doesn't run on servers, where Things Just Have To Work. MacOS has the luxury of always having a ready pair of hands right there to fiddle with things. The people who care about systemd one way or the other are
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by vacri 9y ago
> Just because it's useless without the kernel doesn't make it a derivative work. What's your definition of a derivative work?
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by vacri 9y ago
Good to see the 'fiscal conservative' party is really serious about being fiscally conservative.
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How is having a small dependent colony of tunnel-dwellers on Mars going to give us a post-scarcity society?
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by vacri 9y ago
This is a very long-winded way to say "We tried one tactic, they didn't take the bait, so we suckered them by buying their product". It's painted as an Apple victory because there's no sticker on the laptop, but not
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by vacri 9y ago
Adams - killed three Aguayo - killed one, tried to kill another Alcala - unknown, eight known Aldana - killed one None of these are "a criminal with dozens of murders". When you said that, you were mocking the efforts of people tr
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> The United States justice system, as well as that of most common wealth countries, is based not on safety or rehabilitation but on vengeance and systemic racism. Whoah, don't tarnish everyone else with the fucked-up brush of the
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by vacri 9y ago
> on the tragedy of the criminal on death row than the dozens of people they killed. Most people on death row didn't kill "dozens of people". It's a bad way to make an argument.
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by vacri 9y ago
How do you miss the monthly-odd posts of Yet Another Prisoner Jailed For 20 Years Found Innocent here on HN? Again and again and again it's shown that the justice system can get it wrong. The death penalty doesn't reduce the crime
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by vacri 9y ago
The article is talking about a situation with a clear power imbalance. The concept of 'at work' is much broader than this. Does 'at work' mean 'in the same office'? 'in the same department'? 'in
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by vacri 9y ago
If you think that 10% is worthy of the appellation 'only', then just watch the froth appear when you tell any HNer that their income will be cut by that amount.
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by vacri 9y ago
> You wouldn't expect the same dynamic on a going forward basis Who gets together with someone thinking "Hrm, in 10 years time I'll probably be lower management and she'll still be regular staff"?
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by vacri 9y ago
Not everyone works in an office. Or in a professional setting. If you work in a factory or a road crew, you may not see anything like a 1:1.
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> because there's only one way for a stand-up fight between a regular military and a guerrilla band to end. In a political victory for the guerrillas? This kind of absolutism was killed by the Vietnam War. And the Vietnamese succe
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by vacri 9y ago
The US and Russia both have claims to sovereignty there!?
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by vacri 9y ago
ISIL's actions in the war zone are acts of war and have fairly standard military objectives. ISIL's actions against uninvolved countries by directly attacking their citizens is terrorism. It's not an either/or situation.
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Every time I read one of these articles these days, it reminds me of Frankie Boyle's comment: > American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's
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by vacri 9y ago
I remember at 19 having a summer job picking orders for a school book supplier. Order comes in, you pick it, then you laze around until the next order comes in. Now, I like to laze around a lot, but it still blew my mind the level to which
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by vacri 9y ago
The author is wrong in saying that the testes are not protected, though. They're quite well-protected, with a leg on each side. Simple proof of this is that it's clear when these are damaged due to the pain, but most men will only
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by vacri 9y ago
> and good luck making marketing material that excludes people that want to give you money. You're completely missing my point. Web pages are the way they are because they pull eyeballs. You are a single data point. You don't

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