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It is a politically fraught issue because there is a long-running independence movement,[1] which the parent comment may have been obliquely referring to. 1. https://en.wikipedia.o…

It sounds like "proper gander", where gander means "a look".

Main discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19035834

Apparently[1] it was the July 1, 1978 edition: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1978/07/01/iss... (NYT subscription reqd) 1. https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014…

> being illegally indefinitely detained and denied due process This is a mischaracterisation. If Assange wanted due process, he could leave the embassy and face the British (and th…

I disagree: I think there is a reasonable case to hold WikiLeaks and the NYT to different standards. I think WikiLeaks holds itself out as a much more anarchic news organisation th…

In fact Merriam Webster [1] very explicitly advocates for "gauge": > The verb gauge, which refers to measuring or estimating, also has a variant gage. This variant appears to show …

Page 2 (or p. 12 of the PDF): > In July 2015, Russian intelligence gained access to Democratic National Committee (DNC) networks and maintained that access until at least June 2016…

It's still around for some things, eg Jetstar. You used to be able to do a manual online transfer to pay for flights but now POLi is the only way you can avoid the $5 credit card s…

You cite Breitbart as an example of a website that is "less vulnerable to being co-opted or politically motivated." How is that even remotely accurate, considering the Chairman of …

I think "forced means of talent retention" is an unfairly harsh characterisation. It's a pretty reasonable policy considering taxpayers have to service the debt, and people who go …

That's from May last year, when he resigned and then un-resigned after failing to win his seat in the last election. Of course, possible a similar thing could happen again.

They probably use the email address of the registrant of the domain name as the sign-up address for their own website.

> it's clear they this leak is planned But you haven't produced any real evidence for this claim. The ICIJ has co-ordinated the reporting on the leak, sure; but that's not the same…

> Real leaks don't have fancy websites with responsive vectorized portraits and a full on content /social media structure. I don't understand this. Don't newspapers always make sto…

Per the Guardian[1]: > Six members of the House of Lords, three former Conservative MPs and dozens of donors to UK political parties have had offshore assets. I expect we'll hear m…

No: data held on Apple servers (iCloud) can be provided with a warrant, but this is about data held on an iPhone but not saved to Apple servers. As a result, neither Apple nor the …

To quote from the screenshot you linked of a typical Wikimedia Foundation advertisement: [1] "We ... have costs like any other top site: servers, power, rent, programs, staff and l…

I think you mean ordnance [1] :) 1. http://grammarist.com/usage/ordinance-ordnance/

Be careful about relying too heavily on Hersh's article. It makes some pretty bold claims about a conspiracy of eyewatering proportions that have never really been backed up. There…

Look, I agree that the union jack is a poor representation of NZ, and that it should probably be changed, and that it's unfair to represent a colonial legacy and little else, inclu…

That's ridiculous and not at all analogous. The British Empire is not without its faults, but countries such as New Zealand were enthusiastic British subjects for decades. The Thir…

Also, how come on the slide they are selling iPad Mini 2 & 4 but not iPad Mini 3? This is so confusing

National has never really been a classical liberal party. Muldoon ran some of the most interventionist economic policy in NZ history, and Bolger and Shipley passed the Resource Man…

> Whether insult hurts or not is your choice. This is nonsense. If you are subjected to continuous, vitriolic, realistic rape threats on Twitter then this is inevitably going to st…