Gunax

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by Gunax 5y ago
Is helicopter money a term for additional spending?
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by Gunax 5y ago
He's wrong. Contempt will always beat love. Humour will always beat logical soundness. Pithy arguments will always beat correct but intricate arguments. I dont have any hard proof of course, but this is how it is. No one cares if you&#
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by Gunax 5y ago
It's not that much different than what happened to weev 10 years ago--a leaky url which was secured in the sense that it was unlinked and 'secret' (one had to guess the user's id). The legal conclusion was simple: weev d
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by Gunax 5y ago
A few years ago I did a MOOC called 'programming languages' which teaches languages like racket and ML. In one of the intro lectures, the professor remarked that (paraphraaing here) 'now I am not naive--I know you will probab
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by Gunax 5y ago
I am a bit sympathetic to them because that's what the market asks for. I am looking at the prices of rokus, and my guess is they are losing money on the hardware. And yes, we should have a completely free (as in speech) device. But if
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by Gunax 5y ago
I have always been of the opinion that it's the schedule, not the clock! You need to change the schedule if you don't like the hours. Changing the clock does nothing! If the point is that business are closing too late so we lose t
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by Gunax 5y ago
I would prefer just making users pay some fee.
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by Gunax 5y ago
There are degrees of conspiracy theory, and as a term it's been highly undermined and politicized, sort of like 'fake news'. I think that it's easy to fall into a false dichotomy between 'believing that everything c
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by Gunax 5y ago
I think there's an aspect of whether it's expected or not here. If the culture of the delivery drivers was that this was a perk of the job that everyone sort of knew about, then I think it's reasonable to call it a type of co
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by Gunax 5y ago
It's not about using a pen name. They are free to write under a feminine pseudonym (reverse George Elliot style). I am not sure if the prize is intentionally limited to women --it sounds like it isn't--but I dont think we want peo
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by Gunax 5y ago
This is exactly what happened to weev. He found that information that was intended to be private was made publicly available by AT&T. Weev went to prison for typing in URLs that he should not have. They were criminal URLs, just loke the
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by Gunax 5y ago
I don't think it's the record's duty to keep you from being employed. That's the employer's decision. Even if I agree that it's a dumb practice, you're proposing a world where employers are free to refuse
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by Gunax 5y ago
But I also don't approve of apple's control over what I install and I think it's stance on browsers in anti-competitive. Now I feel stuck.
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by Gunax 5y ago
So what were the lies? I guess I just stop not see it. Surely we can agree there is a difference between lying and jist being wrong.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Oi too many. I keep a few as favourites in my HN (favourites are public, mine are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=Gunax ). There was another OS guide from a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.c
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by Gunax 5y ago
Another guide to save and never complete!
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by Gunax 5y ago
It's not that I disagree, but I think you'll find that trend has followed campaigns in general, not just the internet. The arguments have gone from inspiring, generic, and slogan-esque to cynical, underhanded, and accusatory. Birt
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by Gunax 5y ago
The brokeness is that deplorables are using Facebook and being successful at it. When Obama's campaign used the internet in 2008 it was hailed as revolutionary. "A new age for democracy" yadda yadda yadda. Facebook is our s
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by Gunax 5y ago
Like many things, it has a legitimate use that is in reality not the primary use. Sort of like bittorrent. I think the reality of it is that intangibles like privacy are difficult to measure and justify paying for. And yea, i am guilty of i
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by Gunax 5y ago
Are you sure you cannot define it that way? Not saying youre wrong per se, but the problem with these sorts of loose definitions is that one can bend the definition to make whichever point one wishes to.
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by Gunax 5y ago
Maybe? All I can say is that there are a lot of things i didnt think I wanted until I tried them, and now I cannot live without. "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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by Gunax 5y ago
This is required if the concept is abstract. No one needs to be told what a flying car does and why it moght be useful. But things like PDF or REST are too abstract to understand just by the definition. Really we don't know what we wan
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by Gunax 5y ago
Very fascinating, but as they said cannot be compared because they rely on different requirements. It only works because the model allready knows what a 'giraffe' is. It's pre-stored. But if one had to describe a giraffe, one
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by Gunax 5y ago
Thanks for the response. One difficulty of claiming a double standard is that often there isn't a perfect parallel. The Obama and Trump campaigns were different, but I sorry--i dont believe the backlash is because of their campaign str
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by Gunax 5y ago
I think this all just a continuation of how society wants everything safe and made of foam. We cannot have danger at the park because someone might scrape a knee. We cannot have contact sports because someone might break a tooth. And we can
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by Gunax 5y ago
Well I don't see it. No one thought Facebook was evil until Trumpnwas elected. Funny how Facebook was hailed for being a paragon of access after Obama's win. Is anyone actually reading these leaked docs? No, they're just seei
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by Gunax 5y ago
This was stated on a Ford all-hands meeting September 29. I also cannot find an external link, but the meeting was attended by tens of thousands of Ford employees and contractors.
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by Gunax 5y ago
After a train crash destroyed a few dozen Ford trucks, they sent an engineer who was also handy to pry the chips out of the smashed trucks. They were hand delivered back to the factory. Normally this would be ridiculous--there are many othe
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by Gunax 5y ago
I don't think that should be a joke. The publication conflates being foreign with trolling . It seems they care more about the speaker than the content. At this point, trolling as a term has lost all meaning. It basically means anythi
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by Gunax 5y ago
So it seems like this is something anyone can do. As in, I can go and buy or make a license plate scanner all I want. I can publish the data if I choose to. I can sell it or put in online for free. And of course a cop can do the same thing,

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