wonks

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by wonks 9y ago
Only if we accept that racism is dead. To find proof to the contrary, we need only look to popular responses to videos of unarmed black men being killed by men with guns. And that's just scratching the surface.
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by wonks 9y ago
That Murray was attacked during an unrelated talk is uncontested. My objection is that you referred to the defenders of centuries-old superstition as unorthodox simply because the cultural tide began to turn against them in the 20th century
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by wonks 9y ago
Orthodoxy is not a few people (correctly) arguing that we should STOP stating that black people are inferior. Furthermore, a Nazi who happens to be against a particular war is not "peaceful but unorthodox".
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by wonks 10y ago
I think The Intercept can be a really good antidote to pro-government sensationalism. I like The Guardian, too.
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Press release for proposed law to ban warrantless GPS tracking in US(chaffetz.house.gov)
2 points by wonks 10y ago|0 comments
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by wonks 10y ago
"The Cliqz anti-tracking technology is a truly revolutionary solution that uses algorithmic blocking that doesn’t require a blocklist..." That sounds an awful lot like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Privacy Badger.
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by wonks 10y ago
Pretty spooky stuff. I couldn't find a list, though. Are there any good ones other than F-Secure?
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by wonks 10y ago
The lack of federation is unnerving, but the main server-less alternative I know of is PGP or maybe OTR, and PGP is way too hard for most people IMO. Also, OTR doesn't trust the fingerprint from first messages, so even that introduces
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by wonks 10y ago
Thank God you posted this; my office ordered Indian food today.
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by wonks 10y ago
Well, it sounds like they're working with Linux in some markets and going their own way on others.
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by wonks 10y ago
Please consider removing "Very wow" from the homepage. That joke is old now and if anything you'll lose sales.
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by wonks 10y ago
Either way, this rule doesn't apply to Hacker News, right...?
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by wonks 10y ago
I wanted to write something like this in Haskell a couple weeks ago but didn't know where to start. Thanks for the help!
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by wonks 10y ago
Exactly. That's what I use.
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by wonks 10y ago
Hmm. I guess many developers use just the right amount of MacOS specific tools to justify this now. The git client Tower is something I've eyed before, but most tools I use are available on Linux, and I say that as someone who uses a M
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Four Great African Empires That Astonished the World(medium.com)
4 points by wonks 10y ago|0 comments
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by wonks 10y ago
I also had to do this. Keep in mind that ```brew update``` might take a while to output anything when you do this (it did for me), and then it will ask you to wait while it migrates to a new directory.
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by wonks 10y ago
Opening up your customers' traffic to third parties makes things less secure? Whoulda thunk?
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Government Surveillance Poses Cyber-Security Threats, ISPs Say(eweek.com)
1 points by wonks 10y ago|1 comments
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by wonks 10y ago
"That's it for us monkeys." http://www.theonion.com/article/dolphins-evolve-opposable-th...
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by wonks 10y ago
I feel like this is a good argument for taking another look at projects like Diaspora and Friendica Red
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by wonks 10y ago
I can access it. Also, Down For Everyone Or Just Me says it is up as well.
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by wonks 10y ago
I've been telling people to use correct-horse-battery-staples for years. Glad to see I'm not the only professional thinking this.
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by wonks 10y ago
cringes Well, I admit there are only a few things they don't have the full rights to, and they're shows I don't watch, but I still find this grating. They said "ad-free" and I pay for that. Not "almost ad-fre
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by wonks 10y ago
And we wonder why they keep gaining weight...
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by wonks 10y ago
I think I read once that in Japan they animate first and then record voiceovers afterwards?
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by wonks 10y ago
The only TRUE way to watch anime. ;-) The anime club at my college was so adamant about this that they put a no-dubs rule in their constitution.
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by wonks 10y ago
I see it uses busybox. Does this mean it's for low-spec instances and embedded devices, or did they base it on busybox because shellshock only affected GNU Bash and they felt the GNU tools couldn't be trusted anymore?
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by wonks 10y ago
As opposed to the current situation: "In other news, John Spinnerman of Conglomerate News Network has stepped down after fabricating the story of the latest major scandal, in a sequence of events Beltway insiders are now calling Gatega
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by wonks 10y ago
With more and more businesses using stuff in-browser, I have been wondering for a while if people will bother to continue paying for Windows seats

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