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by LV-426 9y ago
Poor white men arguably have more in common with poor women of other races than they do with rich white CEOs or presidents, but, you know, divide and rule .
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by LV-426 9y ago
> foreign companies Companies that operate in the UK and make vast amounts of money from operating in the UK.
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by LV-426 9y ago
> I still heed the advice of the 90's: NEVER use your real name. Where was this advice given? In my experience, people online in the 1990s routinely used their real names, and emails (in the late 90s obfuscated or removed due to spa
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by LV-426 9y ago
As someone with a generally cynical/pessimistic outlook I too, like blunte , want to see something positive in this. Hopefully, since it can't be stopped, it becomes so routinely used against so many people that everyone stops ca
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by LV-426 9y ago
Possibly, yeah. I was also under the misapprehension the re-analyse button came up (randomly) immediately after a review, but it seems it appears on old stored reviews. Anyone who uses this site really needs to do a re-analysis, because o
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by LV-426 9y ago
> But after running the analysis on the page again, it changed its mind about that review and decided it was now legitimate. This doesn't sound very reliable. If nothing had changed on the review, what's the basis for it changi
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by LV-426 9y ago
> "dictatorship of proletariat" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletaria... ) You'll probably argue that this kind of dictatorship isn't to be understood in the common sense I
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by LV-426 9y ago
Lenny being 'just' a bunch of unchanging messages in unchanging order made it all the funnier and more amazing to me (and it was completely brilliant before I realised). I remember first seeing it a while ago, posted here, ironica
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by LV-426 9y ago
> Well, no you can’t make that equivalent reasoning And yet I seem to have done it. > People blaming communism makes a lot more sense You're entitled to your opinion. > because it does deal with what the political regime shoul
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by LV-426 9y ago
And mass murder had a long history before communism. Are you even disagreeing with me?
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by LV-426 9y ago
> Capitalism [...] doesn’t aim at making the world a just or better place I didn't say it did. I pointed out that if you're going to insist that mass murder under a few decades of communist regimes = real communism, then mass m
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by LV-426 9y ago
Millions fewer than died under centuries of global slavery and imperialism, which I'm sure you're not going to now claim is "not real capitalism".
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by LV-426 9y ago
You're probably right; I've read of people's Google ranking being trashed by rivals using spamming tools, so maybe my world view is too dark. OTOH, I seem to be naive about how credit card scamming works.
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by LV-426 9y ago
Ah, okay, makes sense (in an evil way). It just sounded like it was a sudden wave after the site had become more popular, but it maybe just appeared on the radar of scammers as well as the competition.
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by LV-426 9y ago
Interesting article, and good to know you're still operating despite the problems. > All those new subscribers beyond the first 800 were actually fakes who had subscribed with stolen credit card numbers [...] a lot of shipping addre
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by LV-426 9y ago
Yes, it's sad that while so much is discouraged here, far-right/racist comments or voting by certain users is tolerated. Seems like I have at least one such user following me around now, downvoting my comments (my anti-racist comm
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by LV-426 9y ago
Hah. The pro hate-speech brigade are trying to bury my free-speech now, but still too spineless and (quite rightly) ashamed to put their names to it.
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by LV-426 9y ago
The definition of "free country" is not zero passport controls on exit, and: Robeson declared that it was “rather absurd” that he was not “allowed to travel because of my friendship - open, spoken friendship - for th
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by LV-426 9y ago
I've seen some strange downvoting here, but what's this about? They simply argue that hate speakers should not be given as much time as their targets/potential victims/people not advocating hate, and their post is virtua
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What is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ lived and died?(theguardian.com)
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by LV-426 9y ago
> The few reports of a football match between forces have endured for a century, but what has contributed to the focus on this part of the story? Because it's passed down through generations, told in schools, appeared in the video f
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by LV-426 9y ago
Doesn't anyone know how to use the three seashells? (Somewhat disappointingly) there is now an explanation for this: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6688/how-did-the-t...
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by LV-426 9y ago
> This article reminds me of Clifford Stolls 1995 article You should remember this then, from 1994: "It's not only going to revolutionize the Net, it will change the global economy." https://www.wired.com/1
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by LV-426 9y ago
Leaving Tiananmen Square aside - since nobody can disagree it was a terrible, indefensible crime - can you explain further how you think China is threatening democracy and freedom "worldwide"? They're certainly a threat in Ho
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by LV-426 9y ago
Ugh. You know, I don't expect the Motherfucking Website framework, but here are some of the external domains (excluding numerous subdomains) accessed when viewing this text article with a few images : cloudfront.net stripe.c
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by LV-426 9y ago
I've heard that some forums which are dedicated to linking to copyright violations are owned by the file hosting site they use for the files.
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by LV-426 9y ago
If they're running sites receiving 20+ million hits a day (how do you know this, btw?) there's no way that the movie studios, or the people they hire to deal with piracy, aren't aware of it, if not the FBI. If your real issue
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by LV-426 9y ago
Given the state of the front page/s of HN now, and lately, I expected the answer to be coin-hive or some other crypto-currency related thing. Instead the answer is simply the rather more mundane "advertising".
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by LV-426 9y ago
To be fair, it probably will be pumped to $50k some time in the future (before crashing again). It's what Bitcoin does. After ten years, it's all it does. In 2011 (or something, I'm going by memory) it rose to $30 before cr
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by LV-426 9y ago
> When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy. I've read Bitcoin is like email, Bitcoin is like TCP/IP, Bitcoin is like the entire Internet. Now I've read Bitcoin is like Linux. At one time few people had hear

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