DoctorNick

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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Just turn back now, this comment section is full of people who took this Dead Kennedy's song as a serious policy proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnaHDdvh5I
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
I don't know if you've noticed, but the political process is completely fucking broken. Good fucking luck getting any of that passed in any meaningful form.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Yes, that's correct.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Americans are more prone to this kind of thing because they're already used to overriding settler-colonial propaganda influencing their mindset; Zionist propaganda is just another flavor.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
"How to be successful" screeds like the one cited in this article from the Berkshire Hathway ghoul always seems to leave out a crucial step: "Come from a well-off, well-connected family".
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
uh, this is fucking horrifying.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
"largely supported by research" is complete horseshit. It's was just reheated biological determinism: https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-...
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Really; More bombs in tonnage were dropped in three months than the entirety of WW2. The devastation wrought by the US on Vietnam is still being felt today, particularly the use of Agent Orange. The birth defects stemming from exposure are
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Be very careful about this. App toolchains love to create dependencies on services like this without asking you, and then you'll be bombarded with support requests.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
It is incredibly disingenuous to frame this as a personal "slight". This is a real security threat to the users of Signal, not some vendetta. Celebrite sells their tech to oppressive regimes and they use this against their opponen
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Yeah, because it's not like this exact thing has happened repeatedly since the emergence of capitalism.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
The ecosystem for for node is literally this goddamn comic from xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/ Really, my advice is to start holding the node ecosystem hostage until you get properly compensated. Leftpad 'em.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
>Hell, even Chrome, technically an open-core project, is more or less entirely usable as Chromium (the Free part of Chrome) and projects exist specifically to remove all remaining Google services and telemetry (e.g. Ungoogled Chromium).
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
It's written more for the benefit of the author than anyone else.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Chased off all their users by reigning in all their free tiers until it became commercial-only.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
It's amusing to see all the little indicators that Docker is desperate for cashflow. At this rate, they're going to end up like Travis.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
there is, but nearly all of the ones I've seen are for reverse-engineering purposes.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Nice try, but we can tell that this written by GPT-3.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
So you'd prefer that farmers get screwed by the onerous IP clauses surrounding them?
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
X11 is a security nightmare. It is absolutely broken enough to justify a huge change.
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
I have to wonder if the upvoters realize I'm talking about the US State department...
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
I look forward to a bunch of HN posters uncritically swallowing State department propaganda.
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
Because cryptocurrency mining is now one of the biggest contributors to climate change. It is killing the planet. It is a moral imperiative to shut it down by any means necessary.
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
Wow, they're really assassinating his character here. They're taking a metaphorical interpretation of a painting that he made out of context, and spinning it so it seems like he's a religious nutcase. This is the paper in que
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
If "The Future" is widespread poverty and massive inequality, then sure.
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
"lmao you got wrekt, nerd"
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
Will he stop immiserating the warehouse workers that work for them?
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
The US has a uniquely exploitative work visa program and undocumented immigrants are hired at slave wages. I wouldn't call this an accomplishment.
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
>The conspiracy hypothesis might have legs if Citadel's asset management and market making arms colluded. Absent evidence, however, it's a suspicion at best. Yeah, uh, they do that all the fucking time. It's a Soviet ficti
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by DoctorNick 6y ago
thank you for emulating the experience of debugging distributed systems

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