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ApplaudPumice··on WebExtensions in Firefox 48
Why don't you? instead.
ApplaudPumice··on Bill Gross – Banking/finance “permanently damaged” [pdf]
This interesting! Never thought of it this way. Is there any kind of research showing that electric power to run the servers and hardware (which gets old and must be replaced) has a lower impact than boxes and vhs tapes?
ApplaudPumice··on $17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address
Don't forget that the Chinese (or any other country) are terrorists.
ApplaudPumice··on Does anybody find this Scheme code readable?
I want to learn scheme but that is too much for me. So either

1. That is badly written code. 2. I'm a bad programmer. 3. Scheme's syntax is ugly.

What do you think?

ApplaudPumice··on Oden: experimental, statically-typed functional language, built for Go ecosystem
What I don't like about Haskell is repeating the function name.

yeah :: Num yeah = 3

repeating yeah two times is ugly.

ApplaudPumice··on Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
> I can launch a smart contract with 20 lines of code in Ethereum.

Have you done this before? I tried to learn Ethereum (as an average developer) but it was over my head.

ApplaudPumice··on WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
I know. But you can't expect countries and people to be ok with it, just because the USA wants it. In an ideal world there would be no boundaries or wars and we would live in peace. But fact is that I don't like being spied by NSA. And while this may be expected by a government, what pisses really off is the way HN, eff.org and USA-oriented blogs speak about non USA citizens. From their point of view we are either terrorists, non-humans or some kind of evil, deprived of all kind of rights.

From the point of view of democracy the USA is the worse.

ApplaudPumice··on WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
Well, the USA should mind its own business and fuck off. Too harsh? Ops. You spy and start wars in others countries and expect it to be ok?
ApplaudPumice··on WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
Hacker News is too USA-centric. What if Italy spied the USA? Including the metadata of all citizens' calls? It's that ok?
ApplaudPumice··on WikiLeaks reveals the NSA spied on Berlusconi and his closest advisors
And what are his personal motives? Provide some sources.
ApplaudPumice··on Ask HN: What is the single best addon for privacy?
Do you think it would better to link to that site? Instead of suggesting an addon my self?
ApplaudPumice··on Ask HN: What is the single best addon for privacy?
Yes, I was thinking about uBlock origin, but would an "average" user be comfortable with it? That's the problem.
ApplaudPumice··on The Unsuitability of English (2015)
In english words change meaning just by slightly changing accent.

Ship, sheep buy, by sheet, shit

see also http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/homophones-sam...

Also english doesn't (compared to italian) is filled with exceptions.

ApplaudPumice··on Ask HN: I see discussion of Apple and FBI but little talk about non USA citizens
Yeah downvote me fauckeradf'sjpoisgf
ApplaudPumice··on Camlistore – open-source personal storage system for life
I started using it today and seems nice and lean. The only problem I have is the amount of projects trying to fix data permanence.

IPFS Tent BigChainDB etc.

Right now I'm starting to use camilstore, what if in the future I want to move to another project? I hope there will be tools to do help with migration. See: http://indiewebcamp.com/monoculture

ApplaudPumice··on Ask HN: I see discussion of Apple and FBI but little talk about non USA citizens
Makes sense, thanks.
ApplaudPumice··on Tell the White House to stop asking for encryption workarounds
I don't understand. Isn't the court's right to access useful proofs? To me all this seems paranoia.
ApplaudPumice··on Ask HN: Best way to receive payment? No bank account or PayPal
Everything outside of USA is called a terrorist.
ApplaudPumice··on Justice Department Calls Apple’s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a ‘Marketing Strategy’
> While we might believe in the integrity of the US government

It seems here that nobody here is concerned about non USA citizens.

ApplaudPumice··on GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter
It's possible with hubzilla.io you can also have your account data on two different servers for redundancy.
ApplaudPumice··on Curl -4 http://wttr.in/London
Where does worldweatheronline.com takes its data from?

EDIT: just found this http://reference.wolfram.com/language/note/WeatherDataSource...

ApplaudPumice··on The Never-Ending Story: Europe’s Banks Face a Frightening Future
I'm not good with economics, do you have any link which explains alternative models sans banks?