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alexsemanon The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

Thanks Fredrik, will actually be switching to Mullvad.

alexsemanon Substack: How We Approach Moderation Decisions

Thanks for sharing these books, will buy them immediately.

Maybe they can bring some light on why the lunatics are running the asylum in the west.

alexsemanon Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

As an European this is really cool and unlike others self-loathing Americans here in the comments I understand the idea, humor and originality. Happy 4th USA, you are great today due to the greatness of your forefathers and the men that built this nation.

alexsemanon New research links soybean oil to metabolic and neurological changes in mice

It may help explain the soyboy epidemic happening all over the West.

alexsemanon Male and female brains are built differently (2013)

no shit Sherlock??

alexsemanon Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?

Why not Percona?

alexsemanon A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab

WaterFox 56 ESR is out with the security patches from FF 57: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/waterfox-56.0-release-d...

alexsemanon A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab

I've also decided to stay on 56.02 for a while longer.

But have a look at Waterfox 56: they made it an ESR release and ported many of the security patches from FF 57.

https://www.waterfoxproject.org/blog/waterfox-56.0-release-d...

alexsemanon Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark released

I agree with Cinnamon being polished and deserving much more attention than it currently gets - but what stops me from using it is the impossibility of arranging the virtual desktops (workspaces) vertically Gnome style and the refusal of the Cinnamon devs to implement that - I for one cannot get myself to horizontal workspaces, especially after using Gnome. Some extensions did provide this in Cinnamon but the functionality appears half-baked and the extensions break after each Cinnamon release.

alexsemanon Productive on six hours of sleep? You’re deluding yourself, expert says

I would bet Eastern Europe, maybe Romania.

alexsemanon A day without JavaScript

Privacy Badger is what you're looking for.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

alexsemanon In 2015, Allegiant Air jets made unexpected landings at least 77 times

You can check here how they manage to do that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=069y1MpOkQY

alexsemanon IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 RC Introduces Sublime Text Style Multiple Selections

For me PHPStorm 7 works fine with OpenJDK on Gnome 3.10.

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Free speech isn't protected any longer in any so called democracy: FUCK THE N.S.A!

alexsemanon Coding style and undoing indentation hell

I also find the second style much more readable.

alexsemanon Don’t show me the money: Why eliminating cash may be the secret to prosperity

No way I would be ok with this in my country. I'm not going to break any laws soon, but I don't want to be obliged to leave a paper trail.

alexsemanon Romanians are Smart or How to Change the Google Autocomplete Suggestions

As a Romanian myself, yes you are mostly right. But another thing to notice is that most of the Romanians that leave the country aren't well... the cream of the society so to speak :).

alexsemanon PHP 5.4.0 released

Media Temple for one. For a domain or subdomain you had to explicitly choose PHP5 instead of the default PHP4.

alexsemanon CyanogenMod Needs Your Help

To this day these guys have put a huge amount of effort into making our handsets awesome. They deserve even our most humble help.