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PlzSnowon Flexbox Froggy: A game for learning CSS flexbox

Just another comment to say the same thing as the others: great idea and really well done. Congratulations!

I'm not sure it's pan-European. I would say that France and the french speaking Belgium share similar problems of exclusion and segregation, much more so than other European countries.

PlzSnowon How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU

I didn't say Basic Income should be written off without trying. I said it should be tried so that it can fail and be seen to be utopian nonsense.

I didn't say that unemployment increasing over time was nonsense, I said that blaming automization was nonsense.

PlzSnowon Behind Rising Inequality: More Unequal Companies

Absurd nonsense.

PlzSnowon African Innovators

There may be interesting content here, but the website is so badly designed and difficult to use, so no-one will ever use it.

PlzSnowon IPFS Pics

It seems to be a huge problem that random people can store crazy pictures on your computer.

Maybe it would have been better if the images were stored encrypted in some manner, and decrypted on the client.

However I applaud the initiative and newness of this!

PlzSnowon IPFS Pics

There's nothing wrong nor insecure about choosing not to use prepared statements. There does seem to be a very conservative/cargo cult streak amongst some tech people that there are only pure ways to do things. For example there is nothing wrong with building a SQL statement as a string and passing it to a database. If it's programmed correctly then it is exactly as secure as a prepared statement.

PlzSnowon IPFS Pics

It's 2015, there are not "security issues around hosting php applications" otherwise half the internet wouldn't work.

There does seem to be a "cargo cult" attitude to PHP amongst a large part of the tech sector.

PlzSnowon Of kimono and cultural appropriation

In this example, it seems that Indian/Chinese people told Japanese people that other people are not allowed to wear Japanese clothes.

Unfortunately the protestors names are logged forever online, so their stupidity will follow them for their entire lives.

I almost think that it is worth creating a disposable username for use in real-life and not just online.

PlzSnowon The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

Your supposition that "there may as well be no laws at all" is very extreme and no credible person would support it.

PlzSnowon The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

Nobody is going to engage with you if you use the word "shill". It is the rhetoric of conspiracy theorists, and debate with conspiracy theorists is not technically possible.

PlzSnowon The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

"it is extraordinary for anyone to not belief America is a police state"

But the vast vast majority of people disagree and think that your opinions are extremist nonsense.

Where are all the conspiracy theorists coming from on HackerNews recently?

PlzSnowon The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

Unfortunately your text largely uses the rhetoric of conspiracy theorists. You even use the word "shill". I don't think reasoned debate is possible with you, because your opinions are so extreme.

PlzSnowon The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

"I don't know how anyone can argue that the US doesn't fit the definition of an electronic police state"

Unfortunately the vast vast majority of people disagree with you, including basically every single social commentator. The only people agreeing with you are those on the fringe extremes.

I'm sorry, but I don't think reasoned debate is possible with you.

PlzSnowon The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

The number of respected social commentators who think America is a police state is essentially zero.

If you believe America is a police state, then you are on the extreme-fringes of opinion. So you'd need extraordinary evidence to back your claim up.

PlzSnowon The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets

"Americans live in a police state"

Americans do not live in a police state. Not by any sane interpretation of the definition. That's just absurd nonsense.

PlzSnowon The Problem with Tying Health Care to Trade

The UK still has a free, universal healthcare system. Where are you getting your facts from?

PlzSnowon The Problem with Tying Health Care to Trade

Don't be depressed and angry. The NHS isn't going to be sold off. No-one thinks that, outside a few extremists on the fringes of the political spectrum.

PlzSnowon OpenSSH for Windows update

That's not true at all. I question it when people post conspiracy theory stuff with no evidence whatsoever. HackerNews is not that type of website, and I hope it never degenerates into it.

PlzSnowon OpenSSH for Windows update

No.

PlzSnowon Inside Britain's Secretive Bullingdon Club

Apparently because they're the "elites" or something.

Something something lizards something.

PlzSnowon How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH

It is magical. There is a magic 36000-core (?) computer that has been running for years (?). Well no, the paper just invents it. On the hearsay that an "anonymous nsa official" said they'd cracked something.

It astonishes me that people are running about like rabbits in a headlight on such flimsy nonsense.

But I understand. It makes us feel important. The new James Bond movie is coming out. And imagine! We're like a superhero secret agent. We can protect from the big bad government by increasing all the keys to 2048 bits! And we get to feel special and important.

Sigh.

PlzSnowon How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH

"It seems that the NSA (and possibly other state-level actors) can access encrypted traffic that uses 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman that use commonly-used prime numbers."

How does it "seem this"? There's no evidence, no plausibility, no sense here whatsoever. Someone hypothetically conjectured a magic all-powerful computer that could magically crack a prime, and that would magically make us all vulnerable to the government who want to steal the data from my recipe startup and the church newsletters documents on my laptop.

And therefore, system admins are all recommending upgrading to 2048 keys?

I can't see the sense or logic here. It just seems hysterical conspiracy nonsense to me.

PlzSnowon How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH

"Because this particular military spy organisation is being deployed by the US government against its own citizens, en masse"

But it's not. That's the problem. There's no evidence whatsoever of it doing that.

PlzSnowon How to Protect Yourself from NSA Attacks on 1024-bit DH

I don't think the government wants to know about your private family life neither. I mean, it's edgy to imagine that the government has a secret file on all of us. But they don't do they? It's just very silly nonsense.

PlzSnowon How Facebook knows who you might be dating online

No that's not happening, it's just conspiracy nonsense.

PlzSnowon Clef's company handbook

Requiring a 50 hour week would be illegal in most of the developed world. Not at this company though. What a dismal state of affairs.

PlzSnowon Clef's company handbook

An expectation of 45-50 hours work is illegal in most of the developed world. This company is legally free to require that, and prospective employees are free to work somewhere else, that treats their staff like normal human beings.

PlzSnowon Libertarian communism

Fascism: kill millions of poor people for their race.

Communism: kill millions of poor people for their politics.

Fascism and communism are the same thing, if you define them by how many poor people they torture and murder.