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poshlion Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover

The flight cost is almost negligible!

British Airways, and possibly other airlines, offer packages where you do a short layover in Keflavik or Reykjavik, then they provide you transportation to Blue Lagoon, then get you to your plane from Blue Lagoon.

Hotel and Airbnb and hostel costs are very high compared to everywhere else in the world.

Last time I went, I brought a small tent.

poshlion Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover

I'm not sure how this would benefit Iceland. Just about everything needs to be imported.

If the Grapvevine is to be believed, they're importing ice cubes!

http://grapevine.is/news/2016/10/20/imported-ice-cubes-in-ic...

poshlion Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover

The Mark Ames Media Empire are not big fans of Johnson

https://pando.com/2016/01/08/interview-weed-nazi-mark-ames-a...

poshlion Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover

The PP is a fringe radical party that if they somehow become the majority party in Iceland, they're not going to retain it for very long. I would not recommend that famous dissidents like Snowden move there immediately.

I like visiting Iceland too, the few Icelanders I know can't wait to move though. The winter weather and high price of everything is a bit of a drag.

I am not an expert on Iceland but I have read that it's really controlled by interests behind the two main industries of fishing and smelting. Iceland is really pushing tourism these days, since flights to Iceland are incredibly cheap.

I recommend reading The Grapevine

http://grapevine.is/

poshlion A New Real-Estate War in Silicon Valley

No mention of Prop 13?

poshlion ‘We Care Deeply About Diversity’: Zuckerberg Defends Thiel’s Ties to Trump

Replacing "black" with "all" in the statement "black lives matter" reveals an astounding lack of knowledge of history. I'm not sure if it's racist. Maybe 'totally ignorant'? I hope the totally ignorant are on a different team.

poshlion Russian Hacker, Wanted by F.B.I., Is Arrested in Prague, Czechs Say

well if you're going to go there... there's a great Bill Hicks sketch about how we knew the Iraqis had WMDs, we had the receipts!

poshlion Shame on Y Combinator

I was one of those "I loathe your opinion but I will defend to the death your right to say it" people when it came to Trump right up until now.

He's started claiming that if he loses the election, it'll be because of voter fraud, which is indefensible.

poshlion What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake?

Let's revisit this thread on January 20, 2017!

poshlion Russian ship loitering near undersea cables

I have read some translated-from-Russian media that the recalling's stated purpose was to reduce the ability of foreign intelligence services to recruit young college age Russians.

I am not fluent in Russian so I can't confirm.

poshlion A Russian Spy Ship Might Have Tapped Syria’s Internet

This article is a repackaging of a Vice article:

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-theory-about-a-russia...

The Vice article is low on actual maps and photos.

Someone posted to HN a link to a similar article with a lot more visual data

http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12696753

poshlion Background on Attempts to Frame Assange as a Pedophile and Russian Spy

As the previous posters have stated, it's complicated.

If Assad's regime falls, the Al-Queda and ISIS affiliated groups move in. I'm not sure America wants that. Do we want that? Hard to say!

Saudi Arabia supports the Assad regime falling because the Assad regime is not Sunni.

If we set up a no fly zone in Syria, we are then in direct conflict with Russia's forces. It's no longer a proxy war.

I hope there's a way to be against US intervention in Syria(if only because of grim realpolitik reasons) and simultaneously not defend Assad.

I fully recognize that the Assad regime is terrible(I can pummel you with New Yorker articles). I don't quite believe the Assad people used poison gas, I think the jury is still out on that.

poshlion Shame on Y Combinator

> As far as I know, Thiel has done nothing but make a donation

He had the speaking slot right before Trump at the RNC convention, if I remember correctly.

poshlion London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211

trial by combat was formerly abolished by Parliament in 1819

poshlion Major Investor Sues Theranos

Forbes recently decided the company had a value of near zero.

poshlion Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone

WSJ's reporters and servers are funded by money, not nice words on HN. I don't understand everyone's obsession with bypassing paywalls on news links. I occasionally buy paper copies of newspapers.

poshlion The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored”

Resident of San Francisco here, a global leader in amazing bike theft stories.

I look my steel cable through my bike helmet straps or I insert my u lock through the helmet. The only way to steal the helmet would be to saw it in half.

poshlion The CIA Says It Can Predict Social Unrest as Early as 3 to 5 Days Out

This must be incredibly new technology, given the CIA's long history of incorrectly forecasting just about everything.

poshlion UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

I wonder how https://twitter.com/taviso feels about yet another Chromium fork

poshlion An Era in Hong Kong Is Ending, Thanks to China’s Tight Embrace

HK only exists because the British needed a way to poison I mean sell the Raj opium crop to the Chinese. Maybe the Chinese have very long memories.

poshlion VR Devs Pull Support for Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down

I wonder why FB didn't pull Luckey aside at company purchase time and say "ok you're worth a LOT of money now, time to delete the reddit account."

poshlion To do in San Francisco this weekend: the first-ever roguelike celebration

Direct link in stream to ADOM talk

https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con/v/89873769?t=351m

poshlion To do in San Francisco this weekend: the first-ever roguelike celebration

Direct link in stream to Dwarf Fortress talk

https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con/v/89873769?t=278m

poshlion Vulnerabilities Induced by Migrating to 64-Bit Platforms [pdf]

not as bad as ".... considered harmful"

poshlion Twitter: It is too late for it to become the giant people expected

being the CEO of even a small firm is a 150 percent time job.

I still find it hard to believe the Twitter board couldn't find anyone who didn't already have a job.