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Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

moo — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 03:25:05 +0000

Article URL: https://searchenginewatch.com/2016/02/25/say-goodbye-to-google-14-alternative-search-engines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14084590

Points: 138

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New comment by moo in "Indecipherable Medical Bills Are One Reason Health Care Costs So Much"

moo — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:49:05 +0000

A woman's hospital bill for delivering her baby showed "SKIN TO SKIN AFTER C-SEC $39.35". She could of saved some money if she refused to hold her baby right after he was born.

New comment by moo in "A map of America’s migrations using genetic data from 770K saliva samples"

moo — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:44:13 +0000

US gov't beats it into our heads at every opportunity.

New comment by moo in "As a software engineer, what's the best skill to have for the next 5-10 years?"

moo — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 18:20:01 +0000

Finding another career path.

New comment by moo in "Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS released"

moo — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:04:38 +0000

I've stopped letting these people lead me by the nose. For the community support and staying compatible I'm currently sticking with an Ubuntu upgrade path, but I've long left the default user interfaces behind. For a window manager I use openbox with tint2. I don't find much utility in the Debian/Ubuntu derived distros like Linux Mint, jumping from being based on Ubuntu,to Debian, then back to Ubuntu and breaking compatibility along the way.

New comment by moo in "Californians are paying billions for power they don't need"

moo — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 06:41:35 +0000

Early 2000s Californians were having rolling blackouts. Was it really bad planning or due to Texas energy crooks Enron?

New comment by moo in "The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed"

moo — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:40:04 +0000

Taino Indians got to Cuba from the Yucatan, which is a 135 mile sea voyage. The Galapagos Islands have pre-Incan pottery, and they are 563 miles west of South America. The Falkland Islands are around 200 miles from Isla de los Estados Island (reached by Fuegian Indians). So the Falklands (Malvinas) were very reachable. Very early Native American migrants were sea faring people who moved down along the North American and South American west coast then back up along the east coast. Haplogroup d4h3a found in bones at Prince of Wales Island on the Alaska panhandle, are 10,000 years old. Chumash who settled Channel Islands off southern California have haplogroup d4h3a, the Fuegians, who probably made it to the Falkland Islands, have haplogroup d4h3a. The Ainu people of Japan also built "lashed-canoes" -like the Chono and the Chumash (as well as dugouts), and they may have a link with the Amerindians. Like you say, oceanic transport is not trivial but Amerindians were doing it for distances over 100 miles for millennia.

New comment by moo in "The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed"

moo — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:31:34 +0000

I was responding to the assertion that European colonizers were discovering and claiming islands, specifically the Malvinas, from the backyard of indigenous peoples, of which they were totally ignorant.

New comment by moo in "The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed"

moo — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:19:36 +0000

I didn't say atoll. Migrate doesn't mean you have to colonize every way point.The op also said "fishing expedition" which doesn't mean colonization. You don't have to marry the first person you have sex with either. Tule reeds are common in North America. Totora reeds grow in South America. Chumash regularly traveled 22 miles between what is now Catalina Islands and LA. The Chumash are best known for their sewn-plank canoe called a tomol that ranged up to 30 feet long. Cuba is 93 miles from Florida. Pre-Columbian South Americans built reed boats. Heyerdahl went 5,000 miles across the Pacific in a reed boat. Falkland Islands are 300 miles east of South American southern Patagonia coast. Pre-Incan pottery shards found in the Galapagos by Heyerdahl and Arne SkjolsvoId during an expedition to the archipelago in January 1953. Galapagos are 563 miles west of Ecuador. Regarding the Galapagos, Incan oral history tells of king Tupac Yupanqui voyage to the west and discovery of two "Islands of Fire." The Galapagos were not colonized either. Not everything in Caribbean Islands is tropical paradise. From worldwildlife.org: "Caribbean islands are often portrayed as lush tropical paradises, but Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao are better described as desert scrub. The three islands, known locally as the ABC’s, are located 40-80 km off the coast of Venezuela just 12 N of the equator. Due to their leeward location, the islands receive only 350-550 mm of rain per year."

New comment by moo in "The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed"

moo — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 04:22:41 +0000

The parent is talking about visiting and you warp it into colonizing. Aboriginals probably knew about these places but had better places to live than a craggy, barren island with salt spray in their faces. If the aboriginals had the foresight to predict the land grabbing empire builders they may of dug themselves in but then some other fanciful justification tale like religious freedom would have been created to justify aboriginal displacement and land robbery.

New comment by moo in "Fidel Castro has died"

moo — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:59:22 +0000

A wonderfully productive life and human example in service for humanity.

New comment by moo in "People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity"

moo — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:40:08 +0000

I still don't get the point you are trying to make. In 1830, 3,776 free blacks owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the entire United States. Many of those slaves owned by blacks may have been treated as slaves but many were also bought to be freed, as they were family members. Whites could be indentured servants but they were not slaves for life. By the 1700s indentured servants were scarce.

New comment by moo in "People from Mexico show stunning amount of genetic diversity"

moo — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:15:00 +0000

What can we infer from that? Did the black slave owners own whites? For a short period, whites were even indentured servants. Are you going to equate white slavery experience with black slavery? How many blacks owned slaves, were they really black or mulatto, did ruling whites only accept that practice during a short early colonial period or did that practice proliferate until the Civil War? Could freemen be buying slaves to free a family member, where they actually were not subsequently treated as slaves?

New comment by moo in "I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £75 (2015)"

moo — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 07:07:14 +0000

Quit your crocodile tears, gusano!

New comment by moo in "I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £75 (2015)"

moo — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 06:47:20 +0000

You want the return of Venezuela to its former status as oil colony and wholly owned subsidiary of the United States. Tired argument? The 4 million dead in Middle East is the fault of the US and the Western allies. One need only look at the conspicuous reappearance of goods in the immediate aftermath of the right wing Unity Roundtable (MUD) victory in the December 2015 elections to see how connected the food supply problems are with political agendas. The oil collapse is an orchestrated assault on oil-producing nations targeted by the US.

New comment by moo in "I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £75 (2015)"

moo — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 05:58:38 +0000

A lot more sources than Telesur but you have to look beyond Western news media. I hope the Venezuelan military does take control away from the US backed gusanos who are withholding food from the poor in an economic war to sabotage the Bolivarian Revolution. US orchestrated attacks can also be seen with the USAID fake 'Twitter' in Cuba to destabilize the government. ABC News even reported Peace Corps volunteers and a Fulbright scholar were asked by a U.S. Embassy official in Bolivia "to basically spy" on Cubans and Venezuelans in the country, according to the Peace Corps personnel and the Fulbright scholar involved. US interests can be seen with Brazilian vassel elites tied to US, orchestrating the impeachment of Brazil's Dilma Rousseff after NSA spied on Rousseff and discounting the 54 million-plus Brazilians who reelected her. You can see how the West respects Latin America with how Bolivia's Evo Morales had his government plane force landed and he was detained in Vienna. You can also look at how Venezuela's President Chavez, Honduras' President Zelaya, or Haiti's President Aristide were all kidnapped with Washington's blessings. Former covert agent John Stockwell says U.S. has killed 6 million in covert operations in the Third World. All this information does not come out of Telesur, and if you were half honest you would see a pattern here.

New comment by moo in "I Lived Like a Baller for a Month in Venezuela on Just £75 (2015)"

moo — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 22:47:24 +0000

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Rich-Eating-Well-in-Ve...

Rich are blocking food to the poor in attempt to scare them from supporting the Bolivarian Revolution. Youtube videos also show Venezuelan stores hiding food to cause shortage.

New comment by moo in "How a modest contract morphed into the CIA’s brutal interrogation program"

moo — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 04:41:55 +0000

Charles Graner, who supervised torture at Abu Ghraib, was appointed due to his experience as a prison guard at super-maximum prison SCI-Green in Pennsylvania. Graner was already involved in the SCI-Green prisoner abuse scandals and abusing his wife before his prisoner abuse at the center of the Abu Ghraib scandal.

New comment by moo in "Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings in the United States"

moo — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:21:04 +0000

They don't matter equally. Should they matter equally? Yes. Saying all lives matter obfuscates that they don't matter equally.

State Dept-Google-Al Jazeera Plot Against Assad

moo — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 06:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/337269-clinton-google-aljazeera-assad-plot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11364670

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