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    Comment #16238389

    Please fix the submission url to point to the article, not to google. That is http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/09/10/the-hoba-meteorite-...

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    Comment #16238058

    > Plain JavaScript I don't agree this is a feature. An Javascript implementation of a command line tool is a terrible idea performance wise. There is good reasons jq is written in …

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    Comment #16177707

    MS-DOS shipped with QBASIC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic#History

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    Comment #16174453

    It sounds like her use case is badly suited for raw binary transmission due to the high possibility of data loss, much like the internet used to be when base64 was originally intro…

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    Comment #16172671

    You seem to be confusing encoding (base64 for example), and encryption (AES for example). Where a side channel attack studying the decryption speed/power use can reveal information…

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    Comment #16160548

    Did kde sandbox the file preview thing yet?

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    Comment #16094084

    > i personaly only would use go for very technical, low-level middlewares. Care to extend upon why you don't feel go is a good fit for other programming?

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    Comment #16093915

    static file server in go: package main import ( "fmt" "net/http" "path/filepath" ) var ( host = "0.0.0.0" path = "/var/www/public" port = 8080 ) func main() { path, err := filepath…

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    Comment #16049577

    I'm confused, what makes you think the AMD and Intel cpu internals are the same?

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    Comment #16015120

    Indeed. This seems to be the most common fallacy when looking into ancient astronaut claims.

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    Comment #16015077

    > I'm personally unconvinced that there weren't ancient civilisations with advanced technologies, yet undiscovered, which moved mountains for their own purposes. This idea is so ol…

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    Comment #16014999

    > And even if it encodes the sounds of a language, if that language utterly died out and is unknown to scholars today, then even if we know what the sounds were, we probably wouldn…

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    Comment #16014582

    Well, Pythagoras should maybe not be remembered, since he didn't actually discover the theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#History

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    Comment #16014521

    When people no longer remembers who Einstein was, such saying would lose popularity and eventually die out of the language. https://www.virtuescience.com/etymology-how-words-change…

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    Comment #16013994

    I guess you have not heard about the Venus figurines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines

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    Comment #16013976

    Technically, history begins with the writing system, around 6000 years ago [1]. Before that is what we call "pre-history". 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_script#Proto-l…

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    Comment #16013961

    No, that is not even remotely resembling what you claim.

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    Comment #16003709

    Also, what is the ties with Russia Today here? RT is one of the government controlled propaganda machines of the Russia info wars. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_netw…

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    Comment #16003519

    How would a open www.change.org petition be any indicator of the current state of things? Or even indication of the 2013 state of things? For christ's sake, anyone can start a peti…

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    Comment #16000755

    > git.cypherpunks.ru uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because it was signed using a signature algorithm that was disabled because that algorithm…

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    Comment #15929160

    The pixelmator pro move was a real dick move, though

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    Comment #15781945

    This is what we have CDN:s for

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    Comment #15775254

    I were in your situation, too. Quit drinking about 4 years ago now. Used to drink 6-7 days a week for about 12-14 years, while working in IT. Getting sober was the best thing I cou…

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    Comment #15732618

    Yea, bad bad windows for following standards. The SI prefixes are well established before 1998 and the cause for this brainmelt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix