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by vertis 7y ago
The article didn't really make that argument though. It could have gone into things like your strip mining example and that would have been better than a lot of the arguments used.
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by vertis 7y ago
This is what this article says to me. A poorly researched piece. I'm not unsympathetic to the need to run computing from renewable energy, but this article seems like a stretch, especially when it tries to link in government surveillan
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by vertis 7y ago
Brief mention of Meta in that article. I had missed that they shut down, though I can't say I am surprised. Their first headset was uncomfortable and lacked the field of view or functionality of the Hololens. It was a cabled only exper
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by vertis 7y ago
I didn't need to click through to know it was an article by Cory Doctorow :D
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by vertis 7y ago
Briar looks very interesting, however it lacks the broadcast mode that Bridgefy has, which I suspect is a major feature for coordinating a protest. It also lacks the ability to use existing contacts (you have to do a QR code exchange).
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by vertis 7y ago
The first time I read about Monsanto being evil it was in the fiction novel Freedom(TM) by Daniel Suarez (sequel to Daemon). Daniel Suarez had neatly integrated Monsanto suing farmers[1] into the storyline. It's a great (neo)cyberpunk
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by vertis 7y ago
It's the principle more than anything. I gave LJ my address so they could deliver my magazine (that I paid for) not so they could sell it to someone else.
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by vertis 7y ago
I used to be a loyal subscriber to Linux Journal and would await every issue. Then I started getting junk mail from (if memory serves me) ACM. When I pressed them about it they revealed that they'd gotten my physical address from Linux
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by vertis 7y ago
The Cockatoos and other parrots love to get in rooms at various resorts in Australia as well. We had them destroy a packet of chips and spread it around a room while staying on Hamilton Island.
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by vertis 7y ago
I don't understand the requirement to have either a link or text. Surely it would make more sense to allow someone to explain WHY they're posting something and still have the link be clickable.
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by vertis 7y ago
A few years ago I got a ~$3500 Amazon bill when someone broke into my account (through keys I'd inadvertently added to GitHub)[1]. I had no expectation of that money being waived, but Amazon did anyway. Since then I've had billing
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by vertis 7y ago
Without trying to minimize this experience, I can't help but wonder if newer tools and techniques have mitigated some of this problem. For example GitHub pull requests make it much easier to collaborate on one version rather than an up
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by vertis 7y ago
I got really confused when I first saw this and though it was something for consumers not IoT devices (Sorry twilio team for the application for access shrug ). I really wish someone would nail this for consumer phones. I'm coming up
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by vertis 8y ago
I can't fathom open source projects and communities using slack as a communication platform. I like slack, it's a great product for business, where you can pay $X for each user in your org. However, OS and non-profit communities q
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by vertis 8y ago
The article does conflate the meta tag and the robots.txt though (which means very little in the broader context).
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by vertis 8y ago
Really makes me appreciate the ATO (Australia). Free online tax filing has been a thing for quite a few years. You end up with an accountant only if your tax is somewhat complex, which tends to correspond with higher income.
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by vertis 8y ago
It's offensive and frustrating. I don't understand why people have to try and pull holes in this kind of celebration like there is some conspiracy to promote Katie at the cost of others. If I read it right, she mentioned and prais
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by vertis 8y ago
If I remember correctly the soviet union had SU at one point so that might have something to do with why finland is fl.
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by vertis 8y ago
I've found twitter not to be a good forum for this kind of thing. Leaving the current pair alone, I've had a few times where more public figures can't determine easily that you're not one of the trolls, that and the fact
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by vertis 8y ago
What could have been good feedback is ruined by tone. This is someone who has in good faith decided to show the HN community. The fact that he's 13 doesn't even really enter into it. Here is someone who has created something new a
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by vertis 8y ago
Amazing, I hadn't seen that.
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by vertis 8y ago
I'm surprised those are the only two given it's from the 1960s. There really needs to be a section for timeless content like this.
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by vertis 8y ago
I think the nail in the coffin for me was lack of support for Linux (this was years ago). I know that Linux is a tiny subset of their potential users, but I needed my notes to be everywhere, not just on the main platforms. Ironically, I&#x2
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by vertis 8y ago
I definitely agree with your reasoning about sending things back. I've been a vegetarian my whole life, but I don't see the point in making a stink if people didn't know or made a mistake. I've eaten meat a few times jus
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by vertis 8y ago
It's currently 4:25am on April 1st in NZ and 2:25am in Sydney. I'd say they timed it to start pretty well.
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by vertis 8y ago
This is a great story, and I've read some of it before, but the UX is just terrible. I was a quarter of the way through before I realised half the story was hidden in the photos.
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by vertis 8y ago
In a similar vein. Anti-adblock measures will pretty much guarantee I never come back. I'd love to be able to filter them from my search results. Plenty of domains I would blacklist.
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by vertis 8y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't played with this since 2016, so may be out of date. Having played with the Alexa and Google home. My take on why there are no hits is that it's very clunky to invoke apps, especially for one-off queries. &quo
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by vertis 8y ago
I get so much of this. I actually have a couple of newsletters that I enjoy, but every tech product I sign up for has a newsletter attached that I haven't asked for. I found https://leavemealone.xyz just before the end of l
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by vertis 8y ago
I understand the privacy concerns, but for me, if I'm prepared to outsource my email to Google then how different is it to let other SaaS scan my inbox to provide their service (I accept size is one factor). The Privacy Policy of Leave

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