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That sounds much less simple than an unblocker script like this. ;)

wjkon Germany is turning on its monster stellarator

Whats wrong with its GDP? The PPP per capita is right around Sweden, a little above average for a first world country. Why should it be higher?

I agree that internet should be much better than it currently is though, yet still far from bad. Australias internet made me really sad when lived there... maybe everything feels good in comparison to that.

wjkon [dead]

"but I really didn't mean to harm people"

More like didn't mean to get caught. Terrible person.

wjkon Early Posts From Tech Founders Who Changed The World

http://xkcd.com/1497/ Accurate.

wjkon iSIGHT discovers vulnerability used in Russian cyber-espionage campaign

And their map suggests that poland is in the middle of russia. What the hell.

wjkon Square Raises $150M at a $6B Valuation

That couldnt be more incorrect, from my own experience at least where i live.

wjkon Write every day

Everyone is different. Most people don't feel the need to be productive and improve every hour of every day.

My co-workers are all nice and fun people, I enjoy working my 7-8 hours a day. But when i get home I don't want to keep working, learning new work-related skills and such, I haven't contributed to open source projects since I started where I'm working now.

I couldn't be more happy about how separate my work and non-work life is, I have a ton of fun with my own hobbies during my free time and have no stress whatsoever. If you are very ambitious and have large goals, of course you do have to work hard for it though. That goes without saying.

wjkon How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'

There is no law which bans it. Just an agreement among several countries which Norway isn't a part of as far as I know.

wjkon How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil'

That's just sensationalist clickbait. The whale species hunted are not endangered and there is no ban on hunting these whales. There are many species of creatures which actually are and which you should spend more time caring about though. These whales are not among them.

wjkon Today is The Day We Fight Back

Thats what it seems like to me too. Can someone explain how this is not just another slacktivism thing? Hashtags and banners on a website...

wjkon Ask HN: What else besides writing code or managing people?

"passion never fails"... you are being incredibly optimistic and have heard way too many success stories i think. There's a massive amount of passionate people working incredibly hard for many years straight who haven't achieved even medium amount of success.

wjkon 92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account

0 have access to my facebook, how disappointingly satisfying.

wjkon Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers

Please explain why you seem to think that this is less private than not showing images.

wjkon China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions

Apparently not... not yet at least, still going down :p

wjkon Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets

Just because crime is up doesnt mean crimes that you go for prison for are up. Especially since they have become way more lenient with the sentences the past years.

wjkon Google in 1998

You cant be serious. I mean, it's nice that duckduckgo tries, but compared to google their "innovation" is basically non-existent. The amount of special cases and functionality google has added to their search engine the past couple years is massive[1]. They have become just fantastic at giving the user what they were searching for right away without even having to click on a link [2]. The use of space by google is so far ahead of DDG it's not even fair.

That which i have mentioned doesn't even touch the search algorithm itself, which I probably don't even have to say anything about because it's common knowledge how far ahead google is in that aspect too, not to mention all the search related settings you can configure if you have a google account, which also are quite massive.

Competition is good, but at this point there is no competition yet.

[1] - http://www.google.com/help/features.html [2] - http://i.imgur.com/rN0Vge0.png

wjkon Google timer

Doesnt work in my Nightly 27.0a1

wjkon How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique

Whats up with the column width of the blog? Am i getting sent to the mobile site on PC by mistake? A column is 1/5th of my screen, it looks quite silly.

wjkon Spain raises age of consent from 13 to 16

Sexual predators could easily seduce 16-20 (hell, even higher) too. Why not increase the age of consent even more if you're going by with that argument.

wjkon Spain raises age of consent from 13 to 16

What would we gain by raising the age of consent?

wjkon We Need To Talk, Google

I haven't been asked for years. I have the same username i had in 2006.

wjkon Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years

Any US president. Not just Obama.

wjkon Ditch Your Passwords? US Gov To Issue Secure Online IDs

The java applet version isnt used anymore (or shouldnt be at least). The one that we have now is great and i haven't had any problems for many years actually. It works on all browsers ive used. What youre saying is very outdated i would say.

wjkon Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

http://10minutemail.com/

is what i use, much simpler.

wjkon I cannot afford to go back to engineering school

In a lot of first world countries people get PAID to go to university. Expecting 17-18 year old's who finished high school to have tens of thousands of dollars to be able to go to good universities is beyond stupid.

wjkon Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

The tabs are nice and all. But is there a way to have both the tabs and a button so i can see all emails at once in 1 tab? Been clicking around with no success.

wjkon Minute 53, very emotional moment by Elon Musk

Did all car manufacturers try to get a $500 million loan to build electric cars?

wjkon Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing

Even with caked makeup and extremely photoshopped pictures they dont even look that similar.

wjkon What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

That one is much more convincing than the one in OP.

wjkon What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

On the 2nd picture he has sunglasses, but not on the 1st or 3rd...? Completely different guy ?