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xingxiong

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xingxiong··on Stockholm terror attack
If only press said idiots instead of terrorists when they covered stuff like this.

Why give any kind of credit to these idiots?

Don't blame some religion for what idiots do, don't blame people from other countries for what idiots do.

Education and general life improvements can help idiots to become non-idiots. Closing borders or checking body cavities seldom help with that.

xingxiong··on Cohort – A New Professional Social Graph
Is this collection of information on non-users even legal? It is not okay here in Sweden (PUL) and as I understand it the same laws apply in the whole of EU. Is this a US service only?
xingxiong··on Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide
No more bizarre than Ent Rails (you know, railways for Tolkien Ents) is the same as entrails in English.

Just as you can't actually say inriver and pretend it means something in the river in English, you can't say inälv and mean something in an älv in Swedish. But as a pun it is okay, everyone gets the word play.

xingxiong··on Report from the VMware GPL court hearing
One should make a graph showing man years put into each part and see how big the kernel would be compared to the wmware parts. It would most likely paint a completely different picture and also show the importance of that 1 percent of the plaintiff.