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I don't know... I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're from a country where football isn't very popular. I don't think you realize just how many fans there are. H…

I'm most certainly not a football fan, but I definitely know that a match consists of two 45 minute (and then some) halves. It's pretty much equivalent to a non motor enthusiast kn…

Is it completely unthinkable that we just don't want to be spied upon?

I've seen people argue, with a straight face, that they prefer to get ads that are "relevant to them". Including here on Hacker News.

Of course it is. I have no idea why you'd suggest such a thing.

> And maybe there are even fewer people to worry about this, because when the moved to the city, those people stopped having children. > Who is this good for? Is it good for you? W…

Foreigner from the socialist Nordics here, so perhaps I'm brain washed or something, but I don't get it. After some brief Googling it appears that you mean they have proposed a tax…

An alternative take is that we've endured thousands of years of propaganda aimed at keeping women as child bearing, house keeping slaves, and we're finally starting to see the end …

Both priests are assumed to understand Latin. The situation they want to avoid is starting up a conversation with someone in a language they don't know. So the options are: 1) Use …

> But unfortunately these addresses are hard to remember and "nobody" recognizes them when reading examples. How does that matter? The point isn't that the reader should know that …

Perhaps. But these ones have been around a while. Here's the new HN story, seven years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263264 Not sure how long you're a startup...

Well, TRAMP was preceded by ange-ftp, which let you edit files remotely over ftp. I was using that in 1995, and I didn't get the impression then that it was brand new, so it had pr…

Alright. I didn't know that. "Just call them" did not sound like it included any kind of authentication procedure. But giving birthdate (available to anyone via a single query in a…

Not sure how that's relevant. There are computers now . Regulations change with the times. Green lasers weren't controlled in the 1700:s either. Are you comfortable with anybody be…

Fairly sure that would be considered a breach of patient confidentiality where I live, at least.

Odd point to raise in a thread about a family killed while waiting at a bus stop in broad daylight. Do you think reflective clothing would have changed the outcome of the event sig…

I guess there's a difference between talking about how many requests a system is capable of handling, and how many they actually get. At least when i encountered the discussion ini…

I've got 6.19.8 in stable-backports. I don't know. I don't feel massively outdated.

> Gaming stuff needs a bit more bleeding edge packages. Not sure I agree. I've been gaming on Debian since 2005, and while it certainly was some work in the beginning, it's been pr…

Fair enough. Point taken :)

Well, yes, that sentence definitely simplified matters a bit. The fact is though, that those who expressed concerns about Microsoft - in that particular thread, and in others - wer…

"You're just a bunch of fanatic, Linux obsessed Microsoft haters living in the past. Microsoft are the good guys now." -- ca. everyone here, during the GitHub acquisition

I once saw this pattern referred to as a bashtag, which I think was an excellent name (no matter if you actually run bash as your shell or not).

> The ~foo as backup convention is not part of any standard. Emacs does foo~ by default, not ~foo. In either case, you're not really supposed to edit files in sites-enabled. That d…