LexiMax

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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> Please do not imply I am somehow 'carrying water' for the Republicans, whatever might that mean. The implication was pretty clear to me, in that by reducing politics down to being things reasonable people can always disagree
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> Because I would bring value to their country by being a productive, taxpaying citizen? This has never prevented immigrants from becoming populist scapegoats.
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This is a non-sequitur. He didn't donate because it was the popular thing to do, he donated because it was consistent with his religious beliefs. Christianity has never been a popularity contest. It has steadfastness in the face of r
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> This, coupled with the fact that I will leave the country if abuses start to become more common, gives me a lot of confidence that I indeed have nothing to worry about. There's a lot about your post that seemed naive, but this one
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Exactly. It's one thing to be an idiot on Twitter, it's another for you to donate money to a cause specifically designed to deny rights to people - a cause that was actually successful for a time. That's something that spea
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Fair enough. I'd still be very hesitant to use it on account of it being a chrome fork. Moreover, I don't really understand how Brave expects to be a viable business without deeply betraying their userbase at some point. It admi
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Even in a compromised state, if given the choice between Firefox and Brave, I would choose Firefox 10 out of 10 times. A closed source chromium fork put out by a business that still isn't sure what its business model is and already ha
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> Aside from attempting to subvert democracies with botfarmed divisive politics, sure. When Twitter had its recent VPN reveal, what actually took me by surprise was how many divisive accounts weren't from China or Russia, but from r
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I like this idea, actually. A good chunk of HN is throwaways and accounts otherwise disconnected from any sort of person-hood these days, the messages from "forgotten" accounts wouldn't even particularly stick out.
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This is factually incorrect. https://developer.nintendo.com/faq Q: How much does it cost to develop on Nintendo platforms? A: Registering for the portal and downloading the tools is completely free. Also,
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> No one is likely to be looking up my license plate and looking at my movements, because I don't do anything that would warrant that kind of attention. What makes you so incredibly sure that you will never in your lifetime do a sin
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I wasn't aware that id software made Concorde.
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"Wait, you mean that someone will just...give me money for the privilege of gradually losing to my house edge?" It's very easy to see why it's such a tempting business model.
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Because Hacker News gamifies engagement, and they know that this kind of message tends to attract a lot of upvotes. The whole conversation tree is a carpet of land-mines, laid out in the hopes that someone steps on one so they can pounce.
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
To steelman the opposing view, sources from inside the company might hold a little more water. But that's just a steelman. If I were to guess as to what is actually going on, I would suspect that it's due some sort of automated
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Discord lacks the "capriciously moderated town square" that most other social media has, and this is a feature, not a bug. Instead, it harkens back to the older era of web forums and IRC channels where communities were siloed and
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Nearly all of the LGBT groups that I am aware of are primarily on Discord and other, similar services for this very reason. All of the other socials exist only as on ramps to the real community. The weirdos can shout into the void all the
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I think this is too simplistic of an outlook. The post-Napoleonic balance of powers was not uni-polar, it was a carefully constructed and negotiated settlement by diplomats and politicians who knew the cost of war, and it lasted a remarkab
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> Do I treat your post from an obvious throwaway account created 13 minutes ago as somehow representative of the C community or the Linux kernel community or for that matter as representative of any community at all? For all we know it c
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
> Frankly, the law should be "you can sue social media if you can link their service to a problem with you'r child's mental health" So you want to make it legally viable for religious parents to sue social spaces that
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It's always been an interesting mental exercise for me to try and measure the unknowable gap between what people say they believe and the motivated reasoning that might drive their stated beliefs. Putting your statement another way, if
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The fact that this discussion seems to revolving around a single axis of limiting social media time and mandatory identification is such a farce. When I was growing up, I had very limited access to real life social spaces that I actually en
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by LexiMax 10mo ago
Which projects are you referring to here? Because in my experience, the projects that I can think of that switch to open core are those that are started by smaller businesses when a large multinational tech company starts to mess with their
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> How does anyone "control" an OSS project in the sense that you are talking about, so the ability to insert backdoors or activate kill-switches? A government can control a piece of open source software the same way a big tech
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"Open Source" has always been a play for Free Software from a pragmatic and business-focused point of view, as opposed to a community-focused and moralistic one. https://web.archive.org/web/20021001164015&#x2F
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> But this kind of bad faith accusation is really disappointing to see on HN. The longer you stick around HN, the less surprising this is. HN does not punish commenting in bad faith, and the design of HN's gamified engagement system
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The way these sorts of things look to outsiders depends on the set of facts that are presented to those outsiders. Choosing to focus on the existence of drama and bullying without delving into the underlying reason why there was such a nega
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> I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc. I feel like an important step fo
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> I have not heard of the biased prompt and since prompts are constantly refined, how do you know it's still in use? The old adage of "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." We know for a fact that Grok h
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> Musk isn’t writing the articles, Grok is. The AI is necessarily biased based on what it's trained on, and the prompt it uses. Most of the time, there is a plausible deniability at play, which is what tech oligarchs rely upon to s

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