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Comment #49221106
Anyone have a non-paywalled source?
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Comment #49191102
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Comment #49191041
Just to clarify, do you "indeed" that links can't be stolen, or do you "indeed" the idea that we should all just adopt the ironic detached tone of the dirtbag left to discuss Curre…
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Comment #49142565
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Comment #49142429
Did I wander into Reddit for a moment? We can do Reddit on HN if we want -- hell I'm jonesing for it, I bristle at restrictions on my literary tone... but obsessing over who "stole…
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Comment #49140115
>The discs have been a formality for longer than most gamers understand or want to admit Sony is discontinuing disc sales as a response to how gamers are buying games not the other…
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Comment #49139284
When I used it, it was popular among folks who would do photography as a hobby when attending academic conferences. Tom Anderson liked one of my landscape photos, which briefly mad…
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Comment #49138207
It was a great example of being evil -- they reduced user choice while pushing an inferior product.
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Comment #49136642
I'll throw it on my list, I've got a pretty big backlog right now.
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Comment #49135954
Wasn't there a Defcon or Derby talk about this years back? (The insecurity, not the Persian angle) Struggling for a source. Guy had the energy of that one Simcity 2000 character wh…
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Comment #49135865
>dominance of the Bloq Quebecois has over Quebec preventing the establishment of any lasting NDP influence So the social democrats won't play nice with the social democrats who wan…
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Comment #49135631
Aha, thanks for this.
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Comment #49135324
Do you have any thoughts on the bill? One thing we can do is try to upvote the citizens of the country being discussed. Or calls to action -- who does someone who's Canadian call t…
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Comment #49135284
>With all the libertarian millionaires and billionaires swirling around silicon valley and the venture capital space, why can't we make that happen? Maybe because they're full of s…
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Comment #49130533
does tim getting lost in the donut count as being "disrupted"? (to be fair, i heard that one when said donut was fresh, and to be fair, they rightfully don't let me anywhere near i…
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Comment #49115057
if they kill old reddit i will post like it's reddit here, so i am sure dang has a team of lobbyists peeling out from a philz like they're the men in black to make sure that doesn'…
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Comment #49058332
I think the idea is that you don't keep sending just one F16, but the problem is long before an age of drones we built up some catch me if you can bullshit where we expect smaller …
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Comment #49058277
How much red tape is there to do this in the age of the Euro? A more realistic idea may be they could pledge the funds for moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at the Crown an…
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Comment #49057978
>What does this have to do with startups? You know, I used to have this style view when reading and commenting Slashdot, pre-9/11 about anything other than "the tech". Afterward, i…
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Comment #49047682
>The main benefit of Brexit is that the EU is now able to use English as a neutral universal language which is both commonly-known and doesn't favor any individual member state. Ir…