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by KPGv2 9mo ago
> proving that both you voted and your vote counted for a specific candidate while keeping that a secret is a much more difficult task Just have a code show the truth (for you to verify) and a second code to show a lie (in case of threat
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
> This shouldn't be a big deal. This was the norm for decades. We need to hire more professors, then, as the ratio of FTE profs to FTE students is significantly lower, even over just a decade. Edit: But I agree. I've mentioned
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
> What are these rednecks going to do when MAGA goes into bed with Ruzzians! Cold War warriors gonna flip out. I'm assuming you're from outside the US, because literally everyone in the US is well-acquainted with MAGA wearing s
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
so 100% of your savings are in foreign companies that don't have US as a client, plus BTC, and you have dual citizenship already plus don't own your own home?
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
Yes, in my undergrad government policy classes twenty years ago, we were talking about a "basket of currencies" that would replace the USD as the global reserve.
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
> It's never going to happen, but I felt we solved all of this with forums and IRC back in the day. I wish we gravitated towards that kind of internet again. IME young people use Discord, and those servers often require permission t
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
I feel like you people are intentionally misconstruing what "Luddite" means. It doesn't mean "avoids specific new tech." It means "avoiding ALL new tech because new things are bad." A luddite would refuse
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
> Its odd to me to still use "luddite" disparagingly while implying that avoiding certain tech would actually have some high impact benefits They didn't say to avoid certain tech. They said to avoid takes and news headline
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
This reminds me of the old scheme where if you just bet against ND football you'd make money because ND fans were so rabid that the "ND is good" positions became overpriced.
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by KPGv2 9mo ago
I'm a NO on AI that replaces artists (there's no such thing as "AI art"). I'm a YES on pretty much everything else.
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
No it doesn't. Nothing about what you're responding to indicates they're ignoring these things exist. Unless your argument is "lobbyists exist, so we should ban all regulations and go back to the wild west," then th
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
It doesn't seem like you're trying to have a good faith discussion when your final sentence reads like a willful conflation of an academic and Alex Jones's comments, which were that atrazine is being intentionally put into th
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> The person deciding to use nonstandard "GSM" as a unit instead of the proper "g/m²" needs to feel stupid... mph, kph, cps, etc
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> There is no actual international law. There is, of course, both private and public international law. You don't know what you're talking about.
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
This was a nuisance lawsuit, and Netflix only settled to make it go away. They would've crushed the Estate if it actually went to trial.
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
Metaphors and beautiful language don't change the plot. The Great Gatsby can be summed up rather easily: A man named Nick moves to town and is fascinated by his wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby. As they get to know each other, he discovers
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
No one even talks about GOT anymore bc the ending was so bad. > No ending was going to be good Why do you say that? Plenty amazing shows have great endings. And GOT isn't some uniquely incredible story. Killing MCs is not new to GOT
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
"they really liked pedophile vampires for a hot minute in the 2000s"
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
Gatsby isn't supposed to be bad. He's supposed to be tragic. The bad guys in Gatsby are Tom Buchanan and, to a lesser extent, Daisy. One might make a case that Nick is not a good person, but he's telling the story as a salve
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> 50 years from now, flash emulators will still work on swf files I'm not sure 50 years from now there will be flash emulators. Who is going to write on for the XP3.12345235 Fruity Ununpentium Silicon x256^2 neuralink devices. Didn&
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> Or is there a way to archive sites like this? A couple days ago, someone published their archive of HN that works in any browser. Archiving sites is easy anyway. I wrote a Scrapy app that archives everything within the a specific fando
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> That seems asinine to me Until you realize that child pornography would be protected by the First Amendment without obscenity carved out. The Miller Test is what defines obscenity, and it seems pretty reasonable to me: is it about gros
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
It will if you have had four children after 28yo.
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> Trust has eroded so much over the last two decades that most forums are either full of bots or full of annoyed and toxic people. It's very rare to find welcoming communities to newbies, and most of the ones I have discovered were
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
"I am the only arbiter of how words ought to be used" is the totality of your argument.
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> isn't HN more like professional news/discussion place? I see enough racist and misogynist comments here to know that isn't true. And that's not even considering the low-knowledge comments offered up as expertise. I
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
There's way more good content available than an employed adult human has time to consume. I have watched five great seasons of TV this year (Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, Dandadan, Blue Box, Stranger Things, all on Netflix) and zero mo
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> I’d say there is better evidence to suggest the fall in birth rates is predominantly caused by telling women they should prioritise education and career over children I'd say the evidence is inconclusive and could just as easily b
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
> I genuinely can't understand why you suppose that has to do with the implementation language at all. Languages that attract novice programmers (JS is an obvious one; PHP was one 20 years ago) have a higher noise to signal ratio th
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by KPGv2 10mo ago
I think in 2025, it is naïve to think the Supreme Court is apolitical in its rulings. =

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