Jiro

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by Jiro 5y ago
>The "crime of the other families" being "censorship" elides the reality that Facebook is doing the censorship. I The whole point of having a media blitz about Facebook censorship is to force a crackdown on Facebook c
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by Jiro 5y ago
The "other families" is Facebook. The crime of the "other families" is censorship. "Turning other families in to the police" is cracking down on Facebook censorship. "Turning other families into the pol
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by Jiro 5y ago
No, the analogy is that censorship is criminal. We have one set of criminals (people complaining about Facebook) wanting to turn in another set of criminals (crackdown on Facebook censorship) so that they're the only criminals around
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by Jiro 5y ago
Of course Facebook censorship is insane and incoherent. But pretty much no widely publicized complaint about these ever says "Facebook censorship is insane and incoherent, so Facebook should stop censoring". They just want to be
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by Jiro 5y ago
When one Mafia family turns another one in, they're doing it to get back at the other family--they're not doing it because they think that crime is a bad thing. They're perfectly happy with crime, as long as they are the one
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by Jiro 5y ago
This is just another case of "police cracks down on Mafia" when it's one section of the Mafia turning in another disfavored section of the Mafia to the police. I've yet to see a recent complaint about inconsistent and di
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by Jiro 5y ago
I tried Epsom salts as a kid, since there was some around the house. They were a lot easier to grow than table salt.
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by Jiro 5y ago
The fact that you see middle schoolers coding certainly shows that those specific middle schoolers can code, but that's a far cry from 99.99% of everyone. If only 1% of all the middle schoolers in existence could code, there would sti
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by Jiro 5y ago
>I have a vision of software literacy- where 99.9% of people can write their own. I Most people are incapable of writing their own software. And not just a driver for an iphone screen, but anything substantially harder than 'printf
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by Jiro 5y ago
This amounts to "having cameras to catch thieves is bad because it catches too many black thieves". Thievery is a crime for good reason.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Long option names are more difficult to remember because a long option name can be spelled multiple ways and it is difficult to remember which spelling is correct.
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by Jiro 5y ago
You can get the missing certificate from the links in https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=342186&uid... .
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by Jiro 5y ago
News reporting tends to leave out nuances. We need to see the text of the regulation to see if it actually has exceptions for situations like that. (Or rather, someone who speaks Portuguese needs to see it.)
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by Jiro 5y ago
This is nonsense. It's not 183, it's 138 (see https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/gross-... ), but that's not the error. The big error is that the $138B they make is gr
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by Jiro 5y ago
Wouldn't he be at a loss doing this, after income taxes and fees?
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by Jiro 5y ago
The things that people can do inside a bar are sufficiently limited that they will not normally impinge on their beliefs, so a good comparison is hard. It would be something like "you are not permitted to use this bar for the purpose
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by Jiro 5y ago
"Pay money to get the data from the user" doesn't mean "pay money whether the user wants it or not, and take the data whether the user wants to or not". It means that the user has to engage in a voluntary transacti
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by Jiro 5y ago
>But what does that have to do with the work she does? She's doing something that makes it look like she's gaining fans for reasons unrelated to the quality of her work. People will be skeptical of the work of a person who tra
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by Jiro 5y ago
A pool is a social context in which a bikini is expected. Investigative reporting isn't.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>She’s not appealing to males. Calling yourself "sexy" and dressing in a bikini appeals to males, and males greatly outnumber lesbians, and that will lead to lots of male twitter followers who would not follow her if all she ha
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by Jiro 5y ago
Having that name and wearing the bikini means that much of her popularity will be because of sex appeal, with relatively little being because of the merits of her actions or her writings. As this is Hacker News, not Virtual Idol News, this
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by Jiro 5y ago
It hasn't been mandated at all. A number of years ago, Microsoft made headlines by changing their policy to get rid of that mandate. See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windo...
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by Jiro 5y ago
It's not literally part of the definition of "whistleblower", but it's evidence that you should be really suspicious. If your whistleblower has too much backing, odds are that there's actually someone to gain from
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by Jiro 5y ago
They don't want to nuke it, they want more censorship in it. The nuking is just the threat.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Blaming the developers is blaming the guys in the trenches. Developers are not lawyers, and the law is so complicated and so divorced from any sort of common sense that I don't think if I were in the position of one of those developer
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by Jiro 5y ago
We've seen how in the 2020 election, social media worked to prevent Trump from winning. So of course, most of the emphasis on Facebook being biased will be on the 2016 election. In the 2020 election, well, Facebook tried to be a good
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by Jiro 5y ago
The problem is that people who become prostitutes are often people who have no other choice. So you'll get a bifurcated distribution: people who will only take the job at some incredibly high multiple (because prostitution is really
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by Jiro 5y ago
Many jobs are somewhat like that, but it's a matter of degree. Compare the market price of the job to the price that would lead people to want to take the job. A lot of people would be willing to become a janitor at 3 times the market
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by Jiro 5y ago
People in the industry tend to laugh at having to work late as some sort of standard practice in the industry. But if the time allotted to program it is not enough time to program it in a properly tested manner, that's a management pr
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by Jiro 5y ago
Yet another "because Facebook censorship is terrible, we need more censorship ". Nobody ever looks at this sort of thing and says "maybe this means Facebook shouldn't be censoring anything".

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