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PlzSnowon Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

"I live in a place where the echoes of tyranny and the heinous information-apparatus it depended on still ring throughout the land."

But that place only exists in your head. It's not real. It's spring outside - take a walk amongst the flowers, clear your head and enjoy life a bit.

PlzSnowon Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

"a heinous apparatus has been constructed in order to control us all"

Sorry, I don't think reasoned debate is possible with you, you're on the fringe extremes with your beliefs. Hope you're feeling more positive today. Take a walk and end enjoy life.

PlzSnowon On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe

It actually boggles the mind that a 12-pixel image has more combinations than atoms in the universe (!!!).

PlzSnowon Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

"I am sure government will also target the Libertarians and anti-authoritarian people."

This is a wild and extreme accusation with no evidence whatsoever. Welcome to HackerNews.

PlzSnowon Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

There seems to be a wholescale hysterical neurosis around the entire issue. The narrative on HackerNews is that every piece of electronic communication is monitored and stored. The majority of HackerNews contributors actually believe this.

PlzSnowon Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

"I fear that if I use the wrong words or visit the wrong websites, I'll trigger some automated system and will be put on some kind of watch list that will change my life"

I'm afraid you've got caught up in a modern-day hysteria. Nobody is watching you or cares anything about what text messages you type or websites you visit.

PlzSnowon Snowden Seeks Assurance from Norway It Won’t Extradite Him

Why would Snowden get assurance from the the Norwegian government? There is nothing special about him.

PlzSnowon Norway's $860B Fund Drops 52 Companies Linked to Coal

That is demonstrably nonsense, Jeremy Corbyn has among the lowest ratings ever seen for the leader of a large political party, because he is a far-left political extremist.

PlzSnowon Visual Studio Code 1.0

Download page says required MacOS 10.10, but working fine on 10.9 here.

PlzSnowon Web Scraping to Create Open Data

Can anyone tell me which cloud provider they are using? I want to make sure that scrapinghub are on the list. I block the IP addresses of all the major cloud providers to prevent parasites such as this.

PlzSnowon Atom 1.6 Released with Pending Pane Items, Async Git and Top and Bottom Bar API

Agreed, and the sluggish problem can't be solved because the Atom team chose a developer stack which benefited them, and not one which benefited the actual users of the software.

There is a massive gap in the market for a native speed open-source SublimeText clone.

PlzSnowon A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers

I'm in the comments looking for an answer too.

PlzSnowon Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses

Your suggestion that non-US people shouldn't have .com domains is a fringe-extremist position, and is likely to be ignored by most people.

My business is on a .com domain and that will never change. I'm a businessman, not an extremist idealist.

PlzSnowon New SourceTree is here

Why make it require MacOS 10.10?

It's not compatible with OSes over a year old?

This is absurd developer laziness.

PlzSnowon The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal

And so the "it's not real metal" arguing begins...

PlzSnowon UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'

Welcome to HackerNews, where people actually believe that Sweden would extradite Assange to the USA where he would be executed.

It's so braindead I can't even begin to respond.

PlzSnowon UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'

It's not worth arguing with Assangers on HackerNews, it's like trying to argue with a Scientologist. Their beliefs are faith-based: facts and logic are of no interest.

PlzSnowon UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'

You forgot to mention the rape stuff.

PlzSnowon UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'

Why would "we" want Assange to go free? He's wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault.

PlzSnowon SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold

Good question, and I'm curious to see if anyone can provide an example.

PlzSnowon Atom text editor 1.4 released

Try doing a find/replace/syntax highlight/multiple cursor/anything productive. Actually don't, your computer will explode!

PlzSnowon Atom text editor 1.4 released

It's not technically possible for Atom to catchup with SublimeText in terms of speed, unless their is a big leap in quantum computing.

PlzSnowon Atom text editor 1.4 released

It's better, but it's still not useable at a professional level. For example, a simple task such as CMD-D to create multiple cursors in a file. Sublime text screams through the file creating the cursors. Atom is like swimming in syrup. I wish Atom well, it's an amazing piece of software. But the developers chose a dev-stack that suited them instead of one that suited the end users of the software. So it will never take over the world as it could have. See also Discourse.

PlzSnowon Atom text editor 1.4 released

"i've had it handle 5mb+ files with no issues."

Wow! It's so exciting living in the 1990s!

PlzSnowon Show HN: Ampache – Self-hosted personal music and video streaming server

Do you refuse to use any website written in PHP? How do you manage to have a normal internet life in the year 2015?

PlzSnowon Obama Signs CISA Bill into Law

Cringe

PlzSnowon Ask HN: What is a way of making residual income with $5K a month?

I'm a bit horrified at the naivety of this post. I think the best thing you can do is just try it, with the presumption it will fail. Then learn the lessons why it didn't work and try and try again.

At some point you will realise that the notion there's a "sure-fire way to $5K" is completely absurd.

Some random notes on your idea anyway:

- No-one buys from independent websites, only Amazon, eBay, etsy etc

- You will get no traffic to your website

- Phone cases are a commodity, there is no chance you can charge higher than Amazon

- Buying Facebook traffic to sell $10 items doesn't work economically

- Justin Beiber will close down your website with cease and desist

- You will end up with a 1000 cases that you can't even sell for 99c

- The real money is in value-added high-price items, or in selling services

PlzSnowon Japanese government dismantles freedom of the press

Indeed, we live in a time of unprecedented democracy. But confirmation bias reigns supreme, people read from news sources which confirm their preconceived notions of the world. The Hacker News community is as susceptible to this as anyone else.

PlzSnowon How Finland's Basic Income Experiment Will Work

This story is so vague, it is basically meaningless. The limited experiment may or may not happen in x years.

I understand that people here WANT it to happen and therefore discuss it as if it WILL happen. Unfortunately reality is going to get in the way.

PlzSnowon Finland Is Considering Testing Giving Every Citizen €800 per Month

Just to clarify, Finland is NOT going to give every citizen €800 per month. It is NOT going to implementing basic income.

People read what they want to read, if it fits their political narrative.

A tiny administrative section in Finland is trialling it, but it's only being pushed by a minority left-wing, and it has no chance of being implemented in reality.

This story can be filed along with the "Sweden implements 6-hour working day", which was also arrant nonsense.