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rawTruthHurts··on China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts online innovation
"What is exactly wrong with having a physical wall which restricts illegal migration?"

That's exactly what the Berlin wall was for. It wasn't ok for the western powers. For the USSR, on the other hand, it was rather fine. Didn't it?

"Politicians often say ridiculous shit in order to create sensation and polarize"

Still, editorializing is deemed as a bad thing, even here in Hacker News.

rawTruthHurts··on Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87
They became cliches after him, but he did not invent them.

"and then they became clichés"

as per my comment

rawTruthHurts··on Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87
I'd say the clichés became so after Shakespeare.
rawTruthHurts··on Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
And I hope to be forgiven too for my poor wording, since I meant font readability :/
rawTruthHurts··on Learning a Manifold of Fonts (2014)
It's not an article about fonts. It's an interactive experiment on typography.
rawTruthHurts··on Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
And still...

http://static-media.fxx.com/img/FX_Networks_-_FXX/641/266/Si...

rawTruthHurts··on Bullet journal: A simple productivity system that just uses pen and paper
The future is the past.
rawTruthHurts··on Matt Damon's Commencement Address at MIT
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.

I choose yes it is.

rawTruthHurts··on Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been rising since the 1960s. Why?
"There's not much demand for it outside of Japanese cuisine."

Some Spaniards will beg to differ.

rawTruthHurts··on Esperanto: the language that never was
Navajos agree.
rawTruthHurts··on A New Age of Animation
Photography exists and still people insists on painting on canvas. How come?
rawTruthHurts··on “Facebook has destroyed the open web”
On "the open web", which is mentioned on the point, they still do.
rawTruthHurts··on Improving Angular performance with 1 line of code
You don't even need a mobile phone to prove that. Every Adobe desktop software iteration takes twice than the previous one to open and offers pretty much the same functionalities just arranged in a different manner. And buggier.
rawTruthHurts··on A majority of millennials now reject capitalism
They reject it in their 20's, they'll embrace it in their forties.

Nothing to see here.

rawTruthHurts··on Snowden Seeks Assurance from Norway It Won’t Extradite Him
Because sooner or later he'd run out of countries to hide in and he would have to flee to Alpha Centauri.

Still, blind guess, it's safe to say that he is more corageous than you.

rawTruthHurts··on ‘Where Is This Flight Going?’ and Other Basic Questions About African Travel
Or America for that matter!
rawTruthHurts··on Stopping All Stations – The Pyongyang Metro
> in order to approach full employment

Maybe Cameron could get some ideas from good ol' Kim

rawTruthHurts··on Amazon Echo Is Magical. It’s Also Turning My Kid into an Asshole
Still it looks like lot of people ignore that and have kids expecting them to be just some kind of home decoration.
rawTruthHurts··on Welcome to 'the worst job in the world' – my life as a Guardian moderator
And if you read it to the very end, it leaves some doors opened (to the tree-hugging argument I mean): "It’s the best one I’ve ever had."
rawTruthHurts··on Brutalist Websites
As opposed to neo-classical websites?
rawTruthHurts··on Medium is now blocked in China
Sometimes two wrongs make a right
rawTruthHurts··on Renderings vs. Reality: The Improbable Rise of Tree-Covered Skyscrapers
Not that you go up to the rooftop of a 2km tall building on a daily basis.
rawTruthHurts··on Velocipedia
Why should I feel threatened. Check tgb's comment for further clarification.
rawTruthHurts··on Velocipedia
We already had grammar nazis. I guess it's time for the semantics nazis!
rawTruthHurts··on The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy
US independence comes to mind. Too feeble I guess!
rawTruthHurts··on A week in Cuba was the most educational trip of my life
I was figuratively over there too. Great experience anyways.
rawTruthHurts··on The 1% hide their money offshore, then use it to corrupt our democracy
I can't come up with any sollution that does not include explosives.
rawTruthHurts··on YouTube-dl: Open-source YouTube downloader
> I can understand why many people will avoid using commandlines. The part I don't understand is how they're quite comfortable when those commandlines are surrounded by "Forward", "Back", "Stop" and "Reload" buttons; or when they have an "I'm feeling lucky" button underneath.

Are you sure you apprehend the differences between the look and feel of a browser and that of a command line?

rawTruthHurts··on Venezuela Declares Every Friday a Holiday to Save Electricity
This. So only the ones who can afford it can spend it. Capitalism at it's finest.
rawTruthHurts··on From Leading the Egyptian Revolution to Making Minimum Wage in San Francisco
Compared to Christianity in the XII century or compared to, let's say, Islam?
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