MartinCron

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by MartinCron 5y ago
And I just want to get my hands on a new graphics card so I can, you know, play video games.
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by MartinCron 5y ago
Claims like "transform your business" or "best pizza in town" are generally considered non-specific puffery and aren't subject to fraud or false advertising enforcements. Something like "perform n lab tests wit
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by MartinCron 5y ago
My wife and I collect cookbooks and cocktail recipe books. There are a handful of writers who have a compelling voice where I read more than just the ingredient list and instructions. But for some random blog that I find while googling? Nev
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by MartinCron 5y ago
A big part of the best wire cutter reviews are the “why you should trust me” introduction. Some of their reviewers really know their stuff, others obviously less so. You can calibrate your expectations accordingly.
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by MartinCron 5y ago
Cooks Illustrated is the name of the magazine, and I recommend it to anyone who ever spends time in a kitchen. Some of the purchases I have made with their guidance have been (trivially) life-changing.
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by MartinCron 5y ago
Don’t let the gatekeepers get you down. Enjoy your ebike.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
I honestly did not expect that either. It was a throwaway line about contrarianism.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
I distinctly remember my childhood when someone once told me that the U.S. civil war was “not about slavery” and how damn good it felt to think that everybody else had it wrong and that I was so smart for my contrarian views. It does feel g
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by MartinCron 6y ago
Once my preferred political team is doing things like violently storming the US Capitol, I'll be happy for them to get this treatment.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
You do understand the difference between opinion journalism and news reporting?
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by MartinCron 6y ago
So your smoking gun is... an opinion piece from 2015 where the host didn’t contradict or challenge the opinions of the guests? I’ve heard lots and lots of unchallenged opinions from guests on NPR, many of them from conservative perspectives
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by MartinCron 6y ago
I didn’t downvote, but I am wondering if this happened. A quick search of NPR transcripts makes me think the last time the mismatch hypothesis was discussed on All Things Considered was in 2012 and it was actually taken seriously (it was th
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by MartinCron 6y ago
A lot of people conflate "NPR" with "public radio" in general. So your local public radio station may air some things that are "clearly aligned with the Democrats" but as an actual news organization, NPR News i
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by MartinCron 6y ago
Imagine for a moment that you agreed, as a matter of objective reality, the conservative media did stoke baseless election-fraud claims and that those claims motivated D.C. rioters. Would that headline still seem outside the bounds of centr
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by MartinCron 6y ago
So what is your alternative? Do we need to bend over backwards to appease the guys in “six million wasn’t enough” shirts? How much political legitimacy should we give to people who are all-in on ridiculous conspiracy theories? How much atte
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by MartinCron 6y ago
Regardless of how well the Capitol is guarded, inciting violence is still a crime. If I orchestrate a criminal conspiracy to rob Fort Knox, it is still a criminal conspiracy when it eventually fails.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
You have the notion of “protected class” backwards. Everyone in this country has the right to equal protection under the law, but private companies are allowed to discriminate except in cases of protected class. AWS can say “we don’t want P
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by MartinCron 6y ago
Unless you're WAY outside the political mainstream, you aren't pigeonholed into platforms like this. And if you are that far outside the political mainstream, holding thoughts and beliefs like "six million wasn't enough&
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by MartinCron 6y ago
Parler chose to use AWS for their hosting. When you build your company on someone else's platform, you're explicitly giving them that market power.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
Of course, I was responding to the sentiment of "You can't discuss conservative views on (platform x)!" which is generally untrue.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
If you're within the mainstream of political debate, you have no problem existing on mainstream social networks.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
You can't really "mute" a murderous mob that shows up at the capitol. This isn't about seeing stuff you don't like, this is about a platform being used to directly incite political violence.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
I don't really care to try to "solve the problem" that white supremacists have.
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by MartinCron 6y ago
Communicating with the community like this is exactly what a developer advocate should be doing.
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by MartinCron 7y ago
The right term for that would be MockBook.
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by MartinCron 7y ago
“Sprints” are, pretty much by definition, a non-sustainable pace.
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by MartinCron 7y ago
If I had a time machine, I would send this comment back to myself a few years ago. Would have saved me a lot of pain from “winging it”. Thanks for sharing
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by MartinCron 7y ago
There is a beautiful irony of an anonymous account complaining about ad-hominem arguments.
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by MartinCron 7y ago
Thanks so much for sharing.
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by MartinCron 7y ago
...in the TV adaptation anyway, it is one of the best bits of dark humor.

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