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New comment by cancancan in "When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners"

cancancan — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 14:17:41 +0000

There was a lot of shaming of men who were not soldiers. One particularly interesting example of it is The White Feather[1] campaign against men in England during WWI. It was orchestrated by women, including prominent feminists no less.

[1] http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/151/the-white-feath...

New comment by cancancan in "When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners"

cancancan — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 13:57:22 +0000

Indeed, especially in the 1850s. You could always sell your Negroes and start a new exciting career.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/the-wee...

New comment by cancancan in "The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could Walk into Soviet Russia"

cancancan — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 11:35:24 +0000

Never miss a chance to be racist and sexist towards white male.

New comment by cancancan in "Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – no connection to Swedish security"

cancancan — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 19:04:32 +0000

Perhaps you should move to northern Stockholm suburbs like Rinkeby and Husby where violent riots have become somewhat of a norm. Just a few days ago there was a five hour riot that included torching cars, throwing rocks at the police, looting shops and businesses, beating up journalists. The reason for riot? Police arrested a suspect on a drug charge. Same thing happened last August in the same part of Stockholm. Violent riots and 47 torched cars. Same suburb where more than 100 cars where torched during riots in May 2013.

Was there a single riot like that in Sweden that did not involve immigrants? How about honor killings?

Those are completely new categories of violence for Sweden.

> I saw nazis demonstrating in the local town center yesterday, which shocked me.

That's what you get when you bury your head in the sand and choose to ignore the reality.

New comment by cancancan in "Facts about migration and crime in Sweden"

cancancan — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:26:47 +0000

Car burning seems to be a hobby in Sweden these days. A few days ago police arrested a suspect on a drug charge in Rinkeby and five hour riots erupted. Torching cars, looting businesses, throwing rocks at police, beating up journalists. How Swedish of them.

Same thing in August last year in Husby (a suburb in northern Stockholm), 47 cars torched. Same suburb that saw the same violent riots and more than 100 cars torched in May 2013.

Was there a single riot like that in Sweden that does not involve immigrants? Were there any honor killings that don't involve immigrants from specific part of the world?

Simmilar pattern can be observed in France too.

New comment by cancancan in "Facts about migration and crime in Sweden"

cancancan — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:45:25 +0000

That's just an ad hominem. Try addressing his arguments instead of his lifestyle.

New comment by cancancan in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

cancancan — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 01:21:41 +0000

That may not necessarily work. Example:

  $ host -t NS okcupid.com
  okcupid.com name server nameserver2.okcupid.com.
  okcupid.com name server nameserver1.okcupid.com.

But if you check the response headers you'll see 'CF-RAY:...' and 'Server: cloudflare-nginx'

New comment by cancancan in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

cancancan — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:58:38 +0000

Both should be there, as well as 'Set-Cookie: __cfduid=...'

  $ curl -I okcupid.com
  Set-Cookie: __cfduid=...
  Server: cloudflare-nginx
  CF-RAY: 335f033b77742b76-AMS

EDIT: Better yet, make that 'curl -IL domain.com' to follow redirects because it may not show in the first response.

New comment by cancancan in "US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile"

cancancan — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:06:10 +0000

Indeed, what was the question? "Does your mother know you're a terrorist?" or something more subtle? :)

New comment by cancancan in "Show HN: Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page"

cancancan — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 19:24:21 +0000

Of course, but you don't share those papers with us :) I like those kinds of comments a lot. In a good editor it's so easy to just scan a lot of code and understand what's what. You could look at something you or someone else wrote years ago, in different style, different paradigm, different language, ... and still have a perfectly clear picture of what code does in no time.

To each his own I guess.

New comment by cancancan in "Show HN: Generate a quiz from a Wikipedia page"

cancancan — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:41:50 +0000

One of the purposes is to write down what you need to do as comments, and then implement each part. Like pseudo code. Saying you don't have time for it is like saying you don't have time to think through what you're trying to do.

The Toilet an unspoken History

cancancan — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:40:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZHm3vkavgM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668156

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

UAE to build first city on Mars by 2117

cancancan — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:55:54 +0000

Article URL: http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/general/uae-to-build-first-city-on-mars-by-2117-1.1978549

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652385

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by cancancan in "Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords"

cancancan — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:27:04 +0000

> (vi) Trump openly used white supremacist imagery and symbolism ("88 generals, fourteen three-star or higher") throughout his campaign. [4][5][6] Noted white-supremacist website Stormfront celebrated the release of his September 6th, 2016 press release depicting multiple white-supermacist symbols.

White supremacist with a Jewish son in law and adviser. I'm sorry, now you're just being ridiculous.

New comment by cancancan in "Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords"

cancancan — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:19:24 +0000

And a chance of getting killed by an atomic bomb before 1945 is zero :)

New comment by cancancan in "Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords"

cancancan — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:07:41 +0000

> But to generalize that to a total immigration ban based on religion

> or even more insane, a travel ban from some arbitrary selection of countries, makes no sense whatsoever.

The ban is not based on a religion, if it was it would apply to 50, not 7 countries. Each of those 7 countries at the moment is riddled with terrorism and or has an active civil war going on. Yes we are talking about islamic terrorism, but the keyword here is the terrorism, not islam. Terrorist organizations active in those countries have made threats to and and already committed terrorist attacks by infiltrating migrant/refugee flows. Given this, why is it entirely unreasonable to temporarily stop immigration from these countries, for 90 days until the new vetting procedures that will attempt to address the terrorism threat are in place? How do you vett people coming from de facto failed countries using normal procedures? Why label someone as stupid, racist, islamophobic, and what not for disagreeing with you on this issue?

New comment by cancancan in "Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords"

cancancan — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:00:29 +0000

The right wing sentiments have been on the rise long before the recent terrorist attacks. Anyone not living in an echo chamber could see it, you don't really need that survey.

> To me it seems the idea of democracy and asking people to choose their own government and policy is starting to fall apart by the stupidity and ignorance of people...

I would argue that this kind of reasoning is precisely why many people are turning to the right. Instead of allowing them to voice their concerns and trying to understand them even if you end up disagreeing with them, they are shunned and labeled as stupid, ignorant, racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, etc. Just put anyone you disagree with in the basket of deplorables and call it a day. Job done, right? Well it isn't. And if Brexit and Trump are not strong enough signals, there will be more and stronger.

This picture captures the sentiment quite well: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2Bx5bUcAAV2Of.jpg

The longer the high-horsing continues the more the pendulum swings to the right and society becomes more divided and on a path to catastrophic collision. Unfortunately, no lessons have been learned so far. The arrogance continues, and so will the response to it.

New comment by cancancan in "First they came for the Iranians"

cancancan — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:18:26 +0000

The more things change, the more they stay the same.[1]

In his 2007 interview[2,3] general Wesley Clark spoke about the plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran). Bush went to war with Iraq. Obama ravaged Libya and Syria. Six of those seven countries are on the Trump's visa ban list. At least he has no plans for new wars, for now I guess.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd6vR1J0_6A

[2] interview transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2007/3/2/gen_wesley_clark_weigh...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfx2vtq_HDM

New comment by cancancan in "Letter From Human Rights Leaders Asking President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden"

cancancan — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:02:37 +0000

US government believed he was trying to get out of Russia enough to ask 3 countries to close their airspace and ground the Bolivian president's plane to search it. But hey, feel free to keep living in denial.

New comment by cancancan in "Letter From Human Rights Leaders Asking President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden"

cancancan — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 18:32:36 +0000

I passed no moral judgment. He certainly can lie, he's a human. But that's quite irrelevant. Evidence suggests he was trying to get to Ecuador.

Ricardo Patino, the foreign minister of Ecuador, confirmed they received a request from Snowden for political asylum. The plane of Bolivian president, flying from Moscow, was grounded in Austria on the on the suspicion of Snowden being on board. The plane was first denied access to airspace of Spain, France, and Italy. Spanish foreign minister Jose Garcia-Margallo, stated publicly on TV that they were told Snowden was on board.

Snowden didn't revoke his passport. He also didn't made three countries close their airspace and land the plane of Bolivian president in the fourth country. There's only one address with power to do that.