stronsay

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by stronsay 5y ago
They're all gone.
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by stronsay 9y ago
How about switching to reasonable alternatives when you can (and use the Google product as a fallback)? For example, OSM is fine for daily navigation, there are plenty of cloud storage solutions and email providers. Obviously there's g
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by stronsay 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13698105
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by stronsay 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13698105
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by stronsay 10y ago
From the tweets and http://outage.report/youtube this seems centered on the UK and/or Benelux.
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by stronsay 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/5vd47e/500_interna... https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/5vd4ty/youtube_dow...
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by stronsay 10y ago
This website is essentially 6 lines of text and a web form. This could be implemented in, say, 25 kilobytes of PHP code. Your website took around 6 seconds to load, weighs 3.5MB and requires my machine to pull data from about 17 different d
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by stronsay 10y ago
I don't think it necessarily has something to do with there being more appetite for those sites here, but more with the prevalent hyperliberalism. Personally, I find them disgusting and don't want them to be broadcast at daytime.
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by stronsay 10y ago
Sociology isn't maths. Social groups almost always have some internal diversity. That doesn't mean they aren't meaningful categories. Christianity shares a common core of beliefs. It has a common narrative. It has a large set
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by stronsay 10y ago
A Muslim is a follower and believer of Islam. A non-Muslim from a Muslim country is not a Muslim, while a Muslim is. I really don't get why you're asking this. I assume the answer would be obvious if we were talking about Christia
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by stronsay 10y ago
Site is a mess while using Tor Browser. Double Esc doesn't work. Messages aren't going through.
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by stronsay 10y ago
This is exactly the kind of thought terminating cliché that makes people despise the Left and vote Trump. Of course Muslims are people. So are Buddhists, murderers, mothers, Nazis, and so on. In fact, literally all people are people. A kind
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by stronsay 10y ago
"He isn't so bad after all. Just an unpolished diamond forced into scamming by his environment!" Running these scams doesn't require any kind of above average intelligence or rhetorical and technological skills. All this
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by stronsay 10y ago
I don't get how you can be so cognizant of the problem of misaligned values while at the same time having an unquestionable faith in the value of diversity. How can you avoid cognitive dissonance here, except through a very shallow und
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by stronsay 10y ago
Already submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727091
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by stronsay 10y ago
They accept Flattr, Bitcoin, bank transfer and credit cards (through PayPal, but not requiring a PayPal account). https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Donations
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by stronsay 10y ago
Ever wondered about the popularity of foot fetish? Why would you associate such a relatively dirty body part with sexual arousal, right? Guess what, the feet and toes are on the same gyrus as the genitals.