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Thanks. I'm well acquainted with Hacker News' proclivities for mob censorship, but I didn't know a ton about this specific incident.
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The _actual_ trouble with Bluesky is that it's just a retread of Twitter with only a few minor tweaks, right down to the inevitable moderation and governance problems from shoving every user into a single shared social space and having
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Could you link to some of those analyses? I'm sure that Hacker News would love to delve into the arguments instead of trying to downvote or flag your posts into non-visibility because they disagree with you.
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It's one of those "attractive distractions" that us nerds like to bikeshed over. Honestly, after "tweet" caught on as a verb, I've given up on thinking that we have any sort of crystal ball when it comes to nam
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In my experience, the largest predictor for how often you run into homeless people isn't city size, how much money the local police have, or how the residents vote, but how walkable the area is. Homeless people go where traffic is, fo
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> I hope your assumption isn't projection, but I think it is based on the rest of your comment. You appear to be making an effort to organize violence, so I'm going to step out of the discussion here. The domestic use of ICE an
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> Try hailing a cab at midnight in the middle of Mexico before declaring the US to be ultimately lawless. I've been to Portland, does that count? > I hope you'll change your mind before that happens. I don't think you d
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> Maybe HNers are more tolerant of addictive substances and activities than the American average because addictive substances and activities tend to be interesting experiences. I think the more accurate lens would be that Hacker News lik
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On the contrary I would not call Zig very C-like at all, and that's what makes the interoperability so impressive to me. Zig feels like a small yet modern language that lacks many of C's footguns. It has far fewer implicit type c
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The value proposition in Zig is that it has far and away the best C interoperability I've seen out of a language that wasn't also a near-superset of it. This makes migrations away from C towards Zig a lot more palatable than towa
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Being law abiding in a society run by lawless and violent thugs isn't contributing to a social fabric. It is a survival mechanism at best.
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I suppose I am fortunate that I don't know anybody who is that far gone that cares deeply about me. However, the people I use this trick on aren't strangers. They are regular acquaintances that have conspiratorial views, but thin
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> But they willingly and knowingly undertook an expensive endeavor for a greater good. Let's not go that far. They joined the war because of literal decades of politicking done beforehand in order to secure an alliance with France
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I think it's simpler than that. They believe in what they believe specifically because it contradicts the views of people they dislike. I guarantee you that the person you were talking to got a real kick out of you wasting so much of
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It's clear from your posting, here and elsewhere in this comments thread, that you believe that the EU should back off of the pressure on Apple. What is driving your motivated reasoning? Why are you so invested in the ability for Appl
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His supporters want to believe it is war-ravaged as pretext for oppression. I wish I could tell you why they want to believe this, but I cannot imagine the depths of the craven and anti-social mindset of someone who desires to inflict the f
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Quotas that didn't work, or quotas that worked perfectly fine, but blew up your system in an unexpected way? The reason I ask is because I'm trying to tease out if you have architectural problems with the way the filesystem is des
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Speak for yourself, but filling out a web-based form that asks for your desired username, password, and e-mail address is much easier than crafting a special registration request private message to an IRC services bot. You solve the problem
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I'll be completely honest, as someone who remembers the internet before social networks, I have started caring less and less about being crammed into a single shared social space with every other person on earth.
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> Opening an account on Mastodon was a pain even for me, a long-time Internet user and a nerd. I was in the same boat as you, and my experience was completely different. Mastodon's federation model reminded me of IRC, except nowher
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> Therefore your choice of server may very well prevent you from seeing content you'd like to see. How is this any different than users of different IRC networks being unable to communicate with each other? If I'm on OFTC, I ce
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A Mind Forever Voyaging was the first time I ever realized that video games could aspire to more than just being a fun pastime or distraction.
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> It's so popular because it's the only data structure that is easy to use in C. Is this reasoning really true? A quick search reveals the availability of higher-level data structures like trees, flexible arrays, hashtables, a
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> Btrfs is also a clusterfuck. In what sense?
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> I just also believed that we had a shared system of fundamental values enshrined in the constitution and when push came to shove, we would all rally behind it. The US had a Civil War in the 19th century over the fear of the southern st
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> This year has been a devastating blow to my confidence in our democracy and the ability of people to govern themselves generally. The latter has been on my mind for quite some time. The logical conclusion of "people can't gov
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When I choose to pull funding for an organization that makes decisions I disagree with, I'm exercising my discretion to spend my own money in the ways I see fit. When you do that, you're cancelling someone. That's the differ
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I get this is a rhetorical question, but I'm still unsure where your hangups are coming from. Most of my friends are some flavor of Christian. They use my pronouns around me. I don't take their Lords name in vain around them. S
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People who pay for YouTube Premium are already tracked by virtue of the fact that they are a logged in user who has a credit card associated with their account. Google has to do no legwork here to figure out who you are and what videos you
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> Better idea: instead of bending the entire internet to "protect the children", how about we just ban minors from the internet completely? "Think of the children" laws are a useful pretext for authoritarianism. It&#x

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