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"I live in a place where the echoes of tyranny and the heinous information-apparatus it depended on still ring throughout the land."
But that place only exists in your head. It's not real. It's spring outside - take a walk amongst the flowers, clear your head and enjoy life a bit.
"a heinous apparatus has been constructed in order to control us all"
Sorry, I don't think reasoned debate is possible with you, you're on the fringe extremes with your beliefs. Hope you're feeling more positive today. Take a walk and end enjoy life.
It actually boggles the mind that a 12-pixel image has more combinations than atoms in the universe (!!!).
"I am sure government will also target the Libertarians and anti-authoritarian people."
This is a wild and extreme accusation with no evidence whatsoever. Welcome to HackerNews.
There seems to be a wholescale hysterical neurosis around the entire issue. The narrative on HackerNews is that every piece of electronic communication is monitored and stored. The majority of HackerNews contributors actually believe this.
"I fear that if I use the wrong words or visit the wrong websites, I'll trigger some automated system and will be put on some kind of watch list that will change my life"
I'm afraid you've got caught up in a modern-day hysteria. Nobody is watching you or cares anything about what text messages you type or websites you visit.
Why would Snowden get assurance from the the Norwegian government? There is nothing special about him.
That is demonstrably nonsense, Jeremy Corbyn has among the lowest ratings ever seen for the leader of a large political party, because he is a far-left political extremist.
Download page says required MacOS 10.10, but working fine on 10.9 here.
Can anyone tell me which cloud provider they are using? I want to make sure that scrapinghub are on the list. I block the IP addresses of all the major cloud providers to prevent parasites such as this.
Agreed, and the sluggish problem can't be solved because the Atom team chose a developer stack which benefited them, and not one which benefited the actual users of the software.
There is a massive gap in the market for a native speed open-source SublimeText clone.
I'm in the comments looking for an answer too.
Your suggestion that non-US people shouldn't have .com domains is a fringe-extremist position, and is likely to be ignored by most people.
My business is on a .com domain and that will never change. I'm a businessman, not an extremist idealist.
Why make it require MacOS 10.10?
It's not compatible with OSes over a year old?
This is absurd developer laziness.
And so the "it's not real metal" arguing begins...
Welcome to HackerNews, where people actually believe that Sweden would extradite Assange to the USA where he would be executed.
It's so braindead I can't even begin to respond.
It's not worth arguing with Assangers on HackerNews, it's like trying to argue with a Scientologist. Their beliefs are faith-based: facts and logic are of no interest.
You forgot to mention the rape stuff.
Why would "we" want Assange to go free? He's wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault.
Good question, and I'm curious to see if anyone can provide an example.
Try doing a find/replace/syntax highlight/multiple cursor/anything productive. Actually don't, your computer will explode!
It's not technically possible for Atom to catchup with SublimeText in terms of speed, unless their is a big leap in quantum computing.
It's better, but it's still not useable at a professional level. For example, a simple task such as CMD-D to create multiple cursors in a file. Sublime text screams through the file creating the cursors. Atom is like swimming in syrup. I wish Atom well, it's an amazing piece of software. But the developers chose a dev-stack that suited them instead of one that suited the end users of the software. So it will never take over the world as it could have. See also Discourse.
"i've had it handle 5mb+ files with no issues."
Wow! It's so exciting living in the 1990s!
Do you refuse to use any website written in PHP? How do you manage to have a normal internet life in the year 2015?
Cringe
I'm a bit horrified at the naivety of this post. I think the best thing you can do is just try it, with the presumption it will fail. Then learn the lessons why it didn't work and try and try again.
At some point you will realise that the notion there's a "sure-fire way to $5K" is completely absurd.
Some random notes on your idea anyway:
- No-one buys from independent websites, only Amazon, eBay, etsy etc
- You will get no traffic to your website
- Phone cases are a commodity, there is no chance you can charge higher than Amazon
- Buying Facebook traffic to sell $10 items doesn't work economically
- Justin Beiber will close down your website with cease and desist
- You will end up with a 1000 cases that you can't even sell for 99c
- The real money is in value-added high-price items, or in selling services
Indeed, we live in a time of unprecedented democracy. But confirmation bias reigns supreme, people read from news sources which confirm their preconceived notions of the world. The Hacker News community is as susceptible to this as anyone else.
This story is so vague, it is basically meaningless. The limited experiment may or may not happen in x years.
I understand that people here WANT it to happen and therefore discuss it as if it WILL happen. Unfortunately reality is going to get in the way.
Just to clarify, Finland is NOT going to give every citizen €800 per month. It is NOT going to implementing basic income.
People read what they want to read, if it fits their political narrative.
A tiny administrative section in Finland is trialling it, but it's only being pushed by a minority left-wing, and it has no chance of being implemented in reality.
This story can be filed along with the "Sweden implements 6-hour working day", which was also arrant nonsense.