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by hackuser 10y ago
The EFF guides cover these questions; click the link.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> From a technical perspective I'm not sure what this means. I'm aware of the theoretical argument. The great majority obey the law because they want to. The threat of jail is actually minor; you can get away with quite a bit.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> you don't do those things because you will be sent to prison No, I don't do them because I don't want to, and because I respect group decisions. I want to pay my bills; I don't want to rip off other people. I don&#x
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by hackuser 10y ago
Couldn't they still pay extra and get it? Can't you do that in Canada?
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by hackuser 10y ago
These situations are common in the U.S., unless you are well-connected and can pull strings. > waiting over a year for joint replacement surgery 1) Remember that many Americans have no access to healthcare outside of emergency rooms; the
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by hackuser 10y ago
Government is "forcing" very few people. Most people participate in society voluntarily. For example, government doesn't force me to obey the law; I do it voluntarily. They don't force me to pay my bills, not shoot my ne
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by hackuser 10y ago
Another new account making a trolling comment which adds no knowledge to the conversation. > all I ever hear is people complaining about it Government funded healthcare is widely supported in the U.S., including Medicare, Medicaid, and t
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by hackuser 10y ago
> it sounds nice in theory I'm hesitant to believe the finances actually work out. Many places pull it off around the world, though at a national level. Probably few are as wealthy as California.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Key people left North Face over a decade ago, and some started Mountain Hardware Mountain Hardware was founded in 1993, per Wikipedia, and purchased by Columbia in 2003. Are you thinking of someone else?
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by hackuser 10y ago
You're right. I skimmed too quickly and misunderstood the role of the billionaire. Sorry, and thanks for pointing it out. I'd delete the comment if I could.
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by hackuser 10y ago
The narrative, the drama, of the heroic rich person with single-minded vision is getting old to me. There's even a TV show about a rich guy taking over a police district in a major city - those working-class people who've been wor
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Isn't the prototypical example of real world big data that Walmart learned to stock pop tarts before hurricanes? I've wondered about that too. My very speculative hypothesis: Walmart's tech and operations are designed f
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by hackuser 10y ago
> they actually did the opposite There have been massive cuts in large numbers of federal programs, and also at the state-level where the GOP has control.
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by hackuser 10y ago
This NY Times article covers the rollback of those rules in a much larger context of a mass reduction in public protections: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-deregul...
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by hackuser 10y ago
> bureaucratic complacency It also could be a problem of elected officials and public complacency. Not to be partisan, but one political party has staunchly opposed almost all government spending and has single-mindedly reduced taxpayer
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Data Firm Says ‘Secret Sauce’ Aided Trump; Many Scoff(nytimes.com)
5 points by hackuser 10y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 10y ago
Many people think this is a Google problem, not a Mozilla one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13763759
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by hackuser 10y ago
And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13763759
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by hackuser 10y ago
Trump has been aggressively critical of the CIA and has, to some extent at least, ignored their intelligence briefings. He openly opposes much of what they advocate. I don't think they like him.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> There is no hard evidence where the DNC/Podesta leaks came from. However, Julian Assange has repeatedly said ... Assange's claims are not hard evidence either, nor do I trust him. US intelligence agencies say the Russians wer
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by hackuser 10y ago
Can you provide some evidence? Links to articles?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Gracias
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by hackuser 10y ago
Excellent, thanks.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Does anyone know a good plugin that will provide faint vertical lines so I can see where the indents line up (as described below)? Someone I know used something called Cream, which they said was Vim with a simplified GUI-based interface (I
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by hackuser 10y ago
I was helping someone edit a book, and that syntax checker came in very handy. There were indeed many false positives, but it provided a much smaller search space for my eyes than 'every word on every page'. (I did read every word
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by hackuser 10y ago
> OpenBSD I think there is a miscommunication. OpenBSD is as complex as the F-35? I think the OpenBSD team would be very disappointed if that were true! OTOH, it would make the ~10 minutes it took to install it on the laptop to my right
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by hackuser 10y ago
Maybe, but plenty? What are you thinking of? Also, can you distinguish between those two scenarios (which was my main point)?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Mods: What is the current rule on political-related stories? The lack of them on the front page can't be coincidence. Users would like to know ... If it's was stated in a discussion somewhere, as has been the case in the past ...
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Tech takes a softer initial stance on Trump’s latest executive order(techcrunch.com)
2 points by hackuser 10y ago|1 comments
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by hackuser 10y ago
> the JSF project has been reported to have lots of software defects I haven't read anything that differentiates between these two possible scenarios: 1) Poor engineering, execution, etc. 2) The bugs expected in this software projec

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