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Re:UK votes to leave EU on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:25AM (#11967816)
When left-winger insults right-winger, it's not against TOS, but when right-winger insult left-winger, it is. Curious, really...
Re:Ars Technica founder on the AR-15 on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @07:24PM (#11912874)
Handguns do not qualify.

"Assault" weapon has never been used as in "assaulting" someone, but as in "a squad assaulting an enemy position", implying weapons capable of fully-automatic suppressive fire. Which really is nowhere what civilians can get access... unless you want to spend >$20k on a pre-1986 firearm.

Re:Tell HN: Unicorns aren't ad-supported on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:10AM (#10372976)
Though, I haven't heard of approximately 95% of the companies listed...
... but technically, weed is still a schedule 1 drug, so he is a criminal.
...but the police is less likely to go through all your immaterial belongings for just a smell of weed.
Re:Wego: a weather app for the terminal on Thursday May 14, 2015 @04:59PM (#9547550)
It might... The wikipedia article for http://openweathermap.org/ (a commercial service) seems to point out they are using NOAA datas.
It's not a fully-proven vaccine, it's still being researched on. And it has side effects...
Maybe he just liked her...
Because in today's USA, dating should be done in front of lawyers...
He uses "Taliban" as an image for extremism, where some other would say "nazi". In this case, he refers to "fair use" extremist who want the latest episode of their favorite show never to buffer, even if this mean slowing down other.
Re:Ask HN: Canadian demographics data on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @12:53PM (#9108220)
Could you please define "useful data" ?
Government have plenty of way of doing covert thing perfectly legally and covertly, after all, they are writing the rules.
I'm surprised they had to hack it, I would have expected every Government to mandate a copy of these keys long ago in a more "direct" manner.
Well, RMS shot his own foot with the GPLv3. While the GPLv2 is making its way in corporations, the GPLv3 is generally a show-stopper in itself, even if the licensed software is the best.
Yet another RMS power-trip, I guess...
Re:Letter to a startup, from an employee on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:22PM (#8963536)
Pretty much the same idea here. Startup didn't mind me fixing bug at 3 am, but wanted me at the office by 9 am. I left.

The worst part is probably the fact that I got a raise when I stopped caring about the company altogether, and took 2 month for a 15 days job...

Re:Clang-format for JavaScript, awesome code autoformatter on Thursday January 15, 2015 @12:46PM (#8894031)
Too bad, it fails to handle properly non semicolon terminated code...