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by CivBase 5y ago
> I'd be interested in hearing from a down-voter on what their objection is. Firstly, you alleged the mod team was engaging in a "power grab" by resigning immediately. Others have pointed out that is illogical. At best a r
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by CivBase 5y ago
Yeah, but warnings like that confuse owners about what their rights are. I'm starting to think there should be a penalty for businesses who assert rights beyond what they actually have.
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by CivBase 5y ago
Is there any reason to believe a DIY EV conversion is any more dangerous than significant modifications to vehicles with traditional combustion engines?
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The only exception is Google – we don’t make money when you search with Google. However, we know that some of you use this search engine daily, so we include it in Vivaldi. Interesting. I immediately wondered how Vivaldi can fund devel
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by CivBase 5y ago
How unfortunate the certification process for a safety-critical system simply has to be designed such that one bad actor can cause so much damage. And I'm sure he was motivated purely by spite for the FAA and potential 737 MAX passen
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by CivBase 5y ago
It's kind of weird. After all, it's not like the governor is directly responsible for the flaw. Even if his opposition could have indirectly linked his administration to the flaw, his response has certainly done far more damage to
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by CivBase 5y ago
The weird thing is even if this was a conspiracy to discredit an administration... it's a really bad one . Perhaps you could link the security flaw to a budget issue, but I can't imagine something like this seriously affecting a
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by CivBase 5y ago
> "A hacker is someone who subverts computer security with malicious or criminal intent," the statement continued. “Here, there was no breach of any firewall or security and certainly no malicious intent. [...]" Then I gue
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by CivBase 5y ago
How so? The internet makes it easier to hide your identity, automate attacks, and reach a large audience at practically no cost. For example, if I want to influence Skippy peanut butter's review score online I can just leave fake revie
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by CivBase 5y ago
I understand the desire for powerful anti-cheat, but this is such an intrusive way go go about it. And it's increasingly pointless since you can't detect cheats which are running on a second PC [0]. Instead, this sounds like a gre
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by CivBase 5y ago
I imagine large-scale slander campaigns in the form of fake reviews was probably much more difficult, costly, and risky prior to the internet.
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by CivBase 5y ago
There are still many people - especially in the US - who are concerned about (or adamantly opposed to) receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. While this is often framed as a conservative-vs-liberal issue within the US, that doesn't line up wi
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by CivBase 5y ago
> General tip: If HN is being laggy and you're determined you want to waste some time here, open it in a private window. HN works extremely quickly if it doesn't know who you are. Saw this from a user by the name of bentcorner
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by CivBase 5y ago
Are there any credible studies demonstrating a strong link between genetics and motivation/drive/work-ethic? I don't doubt that DNA plays a part, but I'm hesitant to accept claims that it's 100% genetic.
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The Catholic Church teaches that contraception is immoral as it frustrates our natural sexual powers, thus your position would never be able to be adopted in the Catholic Church. Technically, yes. The official stance of the Catholic Ch
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by CivBase 5y ago
Then Musk and Bezos should be laughing since they'll likely be getting more customers for Starlink and (eventually) Kuiper. Hopefully low earth orbit satellite internet will put an end to ISP monopolies in the US since the government w
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by CivBase 5y ago
Looks like you could mail them a CPU and pay them to upgrade the thermal compound under the IHS and optionally test it to determine maximum stable overclock parameters. It looks like they also binned high-end CPUs. For those not familiar, t
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The unvaccinated are showing an extreme lack of empathy. I see this sentiment a lot and it indicates to me a fundamental misunderstanding what is driving people to avoid vaccination. There is a very strong correlation between vaccinati
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by CivBase 5y ago
When the "good speech" has devolved into dunking on people with social media posts using fax and logic, I can see why it no longer works as a counter to bad speech. Confirmation bias is a helluva drug. It encourages people to agre
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by CivBase 5y ago
> I can scarcely believe that any reasonable person would argue that blocking propaganda or misinformation that harms the war effort would be an egregious imposition on free speech. Count me as one of the unreasonables, then. Anti-war pr
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Sounds like she has already made up her mind If that's the case, did she make up her mind before or after consuming the anti-vaccine content? In my experience, most people who are hesitant about the vaccine are that way becaus
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by CivBase 5y ago
Here's the full quote.: > less community spread and concern about COVID My more charitable interpretation was that less community spread would result in less concern.
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by CivBase 5y ago
Somehow authenticating every user with a "real ID" doesn't help much unless you engage in content moderation. A system like that would be complex, costly, a major barrier for growth, and would likely still be vulnerable to fr
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Advocating for [...] an increase in “acquired immunity” (read: let COVID run rampant and employ whoever survives) is incredibly ghoulish. He doesn't advocate for that anywhere. He only mentions that it is playing a part, in aditio
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by CivBase 5y ago
> In addition to the need to point out that "shortage" just means "I don't want to pay market rate" I'm not very familiar with the trucking industry and I wont question your assertion that the shortage is (a
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by CivBase 5y ago
As romantic as the US gallantly defending Taiwan from the Chinese invaders sounds, let's be honest. The US could do little more than buy the Taiwanese some time to escape. If the CCP ever decides it's time to take control of Taiwa
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by CivBase 5y ago
> They just take what they hear as fact because they believe the source is trustworthy. No, they take what they hear as fact if they believe the source is trustworthy. So how do we determine which sources are trustworthy? Who decides
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by CivBase 5y ago
We should be careful about accepting any solution in the absence of a good one. Some problems are difficult, but that doesn't mean any attempt at all to address them should be welcomed without criticism. The potential harm caused by th
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by CivBase 5y ago
Here's the WSJ article mentioned in the first paragraph, although it is pay-walled: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-wants-iphones-to-help-det...
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by CivBase 5y ago
> I almost never see the EFF propose better ways to solve those problems. Why does their need to be a better solution in the case of the Apple CSAM phone scanning debacle? The solution is to just not do it. If Apple is so worried about i

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