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maaark··on That sinking feeling
No government here, lad.

https://howlonghasnorthernirelandnothadagovernment.com/

34 days until the record!

maaark··on That sinking feeling
Hard brexit isn't an alternative to a customs border between NI and ROI either. The only way to avoid putting a customs border somewhere is to stay in the customs union, which both major UK political parties have ruled out.
maaark··on That sinking feeling
The Lib Dems went into a coalition with the Conservatives in 2010 and still aren't forgiven for failing to deliver any of their campaign promises.
maaark··on The physics of infinity
Doesn't load for me either. Stuck at 'pay us money'.
maaark··on A record-breaking microscope
Don't fire electron beams at live brains, they don't like it.
maaark··on Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
And when you consider them as a manifestation of mental illness and jumping to conclusions, it exists again!
maaark··on The street art collective taking back Dublin’s walls
Can they come up to Belfast and paint over the horrible paramilitary murals? Cheers.
maaark··on An entomologist rates ant emojis
Odd, that pistol article seems to include revolvers. It's almost like you're being needlessly pedantic.
maaark··on The Children of Anaxagoras: Did hands make us human?
Really? Proselytizing on Hacker News of all places?
maaark··on How Browsers’ Explanations Impact Misconceptions About Private Browsing [pdf]
...right? ...RIGHT?!

Nah, they're probably saving it.

maaark··on Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected
Yes, but the new EU versions would be just as vulnerable to being sued for copyright infringement for user content as Google, HN, Github, Facebook and Twitter would be.
maaark··on The cold blue light of modern touchscreens poses health problems
IDK about iOS, but Android's built-in night mode barely changes anything. Try Twilight.
maaark··on SICP Goodness – Why you don't need looping constructs
Imagine "Those UpStairs" is angry, panicked and shouty. Imagine "Senior Software Person" is put-upon and long past arguing with "Those UpStairs".

I can see it.

maaark··on Carbon monoxide alarms removed from Amazon and eBay after failing safety tests
How do you know it ACTUALLY triggered at 25, then 50 ppm, rather than some other higher threshold?
maaark··on Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
White people like weed now though
maaark··on Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
America started the war, and pushed it on all its allies.
maaark··on The Machine Fired Me
I think you misread the article.

The author's contract hadn't even ACTUALLY expired. The end date was wrong on the system. That doesn't actually affect his contract.

maaark··on The Tapplock IoT padlock has multiple security vulnerabilities
Taplock claim that was an exceptional unit and a spring loaded pin normally prevents this. Another researcher couldn't make it work.

Still fucked tho

maaark··on Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
>They did my brother seven years later without their permission

In the UK, in the late 80s or 90s? I'm not saying it didn't happen, but HOW?! Did your family attempt to complain or sue?

maaark··on Researchers find IQ scores dropping since the 1970s
4 points on a score that high just sounds like noise.
maaark··on Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?
I thought you were supposed to do "+ImportantWord LessImportantWord". Neither seems entirely reliable.
maaark··on Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
Nah it's fine, just upgrade to Win10 and buy your license through the windows store! UWP isn't using electron!

What's that? Win32 a second class citizen? Never!

maaark··on Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random
Canada's not doing "I cut, you choose."

It's doing "I cut, he chooses, you don't get to eat."

maaark··on Intel demonstrates a 28-core processor running at 5GHz
>duct taping together multiple CPUs

IIRC, according to Intel's slides, AMD used glue.

maaark··on The last known unidentified marking on the Saturn V S-IC
Then you'll just need to get a newspaper to write an article on it, so you can have an 'authoritative' citation. /s
maaark··on America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
Sid Meier

It's Sid Meier's Civilization, not Sid Mayers' Civilisation.

maaark··on Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Have Stars
>it's unethical to create new life and choose to go extinct.

I don't get this. What use are ethics when everyones dead and gone?

maaark··on How a domain registrar can kill your business
-1. Choose a domain registrar & TLD not known to be fishy or incompetent (so not .io)
maaark··on Moving Fast and Securing Things
C'mon dude, it obviously doesn't require everyone in the company to spend 10 minutes for each deployment, it takes one person 10 minutes to deploy one thing.
maaark··on What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
Same, and I'll be encouraging others to do so.
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