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elnate··on This site is down because the owner stiffed the web designer
I remember googling my professor at university one year to find out that he had been criminally convicted for hacking the site of client that never paid him. I would never have guessed otherwise, he was a jovial guy. Screwing people out of money quickly brings out an aggressive response in most.
elnate··on Micromort
Hence the 'accident' written in brackets next to it.
elnate··on Micromort
I have always struggled with log/db, can you explain your proposed system?
elnate··on SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it
Isn't a felony supposed to be for serious crimes like assault?
elnate··on Programmer's Dilemma
Is that an almost correct piece of code? What sort of situation would something like that come up in?
elnate··on Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns
"I'm not sure what can be done about it"

Employee protection laws. A lot of countries have them, mine did too before the neo-libs dismantled it.

elnate··on How Cold War nuclear testing once made orbit unsafe for Apollo
They needed to know what would happen. I don't see a better way to test it. The cold war was a different time and the threat was real; our view on events is shaded by hindsight.
elnate··on MSNBC Contributor: Debate over NSA is a 'Privileged' Discussion
This strikes me as making the good the enemy of the great.
elnate··on Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing
Which country?
elnate··on I need terrible female engineers
It sounds like she's asking for average people to be role models, but aren't role models supposed to be exemplary? To show us what we can achieve and encourage us towards that?
elnate··on 2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart
What does it mean?
elnate··on Kickstarter Project Canceled After Dude Spends All the Money
Have they considered open sourcing what they've done already?
elnate··on PEP 8 Modernisation
I don't understand what you mean by parsing if not what the interpreter does. Can you give an example?
elnate··on Soylent reaches $1M in pre-orders
You might not expect that, but people people still try. I can only speak of my New Zealand education but I didn't learn what a macronutrient was until I was 21 and researched it myself.
elnate··on Why I Left Medium
As a reader, my main complaint with medium is space bar scroll not working. I never realised how big of a part of my workflow it was until it stopped.
elnate··on "Australia Tax" is real: Infrastructure and Communications report
http://www.steamprices.com/ is a good place to see what's what and find the most outrageous examples.

Anno2070 DLC has a 700% markup in Australia.

elnate··on UK team designs human mission to Mars
Exactly. With a diameter of 4m on this, even if they could get 1g at the edge, would still leave the astronauts heads at almost 0g. Makes me wonder what kind of scientists worked on this.
elnate··on Trinity College experiment succeeds after 69 years
Then the other one would have said it. Everyone enjoys being proven right.
elnate··on Armchair air crash investigator
Is anyone else puking mad at those people carrying their luggage in the photo? I feel like getting off a burning plane should take priority over duty free purchases.
elnate··on Yes, there is a better search engine (1998)
I don't think becoming used to something novel counts as brainwashing.
elnate··on How can NodeJS be "non-blocking"?
How does this compare to say, php/apache?
elnate··on SolePower: Power by Walking
"This technology really changes everything"

No. It's neat, but why do people insist on ridiculous hyperbole?

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