Drakim

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by Drakim 4y ago
If the government doesn't like your criticism of their policies, can they simply sanction you to disable your free speech? Where does the line go?
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by Drakim 4y ago
I agree with you, but let me offer an opposing viewpoint. If HN's moderation and censorship becomes unbearable in some manner, I might indeed set out to find myself a different community to engage with. But if it's the governmenta
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by Drakim 4y ago
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by Drakim 4y ago
I just have a hard time believing that's really what's gonna happen. I'm a 34 year old man living in a western country and I have not gotten one robot spam call nor spam text message in my life. I've gotten 5 fake Micros
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by Drakim 4y ago
I'm banned for life from using adsense because my brother thought it would be a fun prank to repeatedly click the ads on my blog. I reported it myself before the next payout and received a generic "you have violated our policies&q
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by Drakim 4y ago
I'm confused, if Apple opened up to other browsers and software, but then started bullying AT&T to not pre-install chrome or firefox, then they would be in trouble? But locking the possibility out on hardware is acceptable? Isn&#
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by Drakim 5y ago
Even if you are correct, the point is moot because the GPL isn't there to protect business owners, but users. A business can't just grab a bunch of free GPL software, modify it, and then sell it with a whole bunch of restrictions
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by Drakim 5y ago
Modern society would collapse if insider trading was legal. It would about as well as making bribery legal.
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by Drakim 5y ago
In the world of cryptocurrency, even the wrist slap isn't a given. To me, cryptocurrency has been a very cool social experiment in what pure unregulated free market capitalism would work like in practice. Supposedly in place of regulat
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by Drakim 5y ago
I'm not sure I agree with those ways of thinking about introvert and extrovert. It's not simply if whether you like hanging out with others or prefer being alone. You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because
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by Drakim 5y ago
I agree that you can't really make this feature bulletproof against workarounds, but does it need to be? How many times will a user block somebody who is stalking them or just being a nuance, and this person happens to not use such an
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by Drakim 5y ago
One advantage is that your game can work on any device that can support an emulator. An electron app aint got nothing compared to the portability of a NES or Gameboy game. Secondly, simply imposing limitations on yourself is not the same as
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by Drakim 5y ago
Quick question, if encrypted data looks like noise, how can you tell apart 256-bit encrypted noise and 512-bit encrypted noise?
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by Drakim 5y ago
How exactly does that work, what if the plugin was created before the program?
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by Drakim 5y ago
I've already right clicked your UUID: 6f50fde3-a7f0-433b-a9b1-8ef6d665905b Without a blockchain to formally prove that you own it, can anybody even own anything at all?
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by Drakim 5y ago
A relationship or marriage is something personally that you decide to commit to. You are making a promise to them, a commitment to that person, on the very deepest level. You are implying that the national indoctrination is the same, but it
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by Drakim 5y ago
The YouTube channel can arbitrarily delete comments on their video.
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by Drakim 5y ago
There are unions that behave badly, therefore unions as a concept is broken and should be abolished. Funny enough that logic never applies to corporations. If some corporations behave badly, murdering people, overthrowing democratically ele
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by Drakim 5y ago
When bad politics hurt business, what choice do you have?
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by Drakim 5y ago
Finally version control for Famicom BASIC, it was about time.
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This type of view of things is extremely hard to maintain considering that the last 20 years where wages have stagnated, yet productivity and profitability has been growing like crazy. Minimum wage earners have actually been dropping in pay
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by Drakim 5y ago
> Unions would provide no benefit to their members if they negotiated collectively for the national workforce. It's the zero-sum rent-seeking that they engage in that benefits their members, when they force an employer to negotiate
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by Drakim 5y ago
A valid concern, but I'm not sure the cat is out of the bag completely. There are different degrees of everything, and simply pushing for a new set of image hashes to be added to the database is a lot smaller in scope compared to pushi
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by Drakim 5y ago
We compel businesses to all kinds of speech, for instance, they have to specify what kinds of ingredients their products contain, and their nutritional value. Regular everyday people are allowed to lie in their private lives if they wish, b
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by Drakim 5y ago
To unsubscribe you have to talk to a sales representative and send in a fax.
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by Drakim 5y ago
Wages has roughly stagnated while inflation has driven up the price of goods for a long time in America, yet we didn't do anything to help those who had less and less buying power. They simply had to get another job, or if they couldn&
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by Drakim 5y ago
A fair point, but lots of market situations are "artificial", it's not like a natural disaster caused any of the recent recessions.
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A lot of this is because there has traditionally been an imbalance between employer and employee, where if they stop exchanging labor for money the employer suffers a mild inconvenience while getting a new person hired, while the employee f
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by Drakim 5y ago
Wages in America have actually been going down the last ten years due to inflation, while the number on the paycheck has stayed roughly the same for a huge segment of society. Yet nothing was done about this because that's just the mar

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