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by Meekro 5y ago
Does anyone know a good dumbphone that supports 4G/5G in the US and would work on Verizon? I know an older person who was recently forced to get an iPhone by the lack of dumbphones, and hates it.
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> But of course you can also make your own cloud company and your own domain registrar as well. Until your upstream network provider decides to drop you (this happened to Epik, temporarily killing the whole company until they dropped 8ch
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I agree, and my reading of Substack's content guidelines is that this would be allowed. A sex worker could write on Substack about issues important to their community, and then link to their Onlyfans for the porn. That means people who
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by Meekro 5y ago
I guess you're right that I'm less upset about pornography because I'm not a consumer of it. But let me give you my best attempt at a principled answer, too.. I'd say that porn producers have lots of places to go that wi
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by Meekro 5y ago
Censorship happens when a writer is de-platformed, and has nowhere to turn to re-platform themselves. People on HN then give snarky, insincere advice about creating your own web hosting company or whatever. On the other hand, there are lots
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by Meekro 5y ago
Both sides are silencing the opposition, one side with government power and the other through media distribution monopolies. RT America (a Russian TV station) just declared bankruptcy after being dropped by DirecTV and Roku at the same time
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RT America (Russian TV station) just filed for bankruptcy after being dropped by DirecTV and Roku at the same time. [1] Does that count, or does it have to be the government doing it? [1] https://deadline.com/2022/03&#x
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The Rittenhouse shootings were in Wisconsin, not Michigan. The jury instructions[1] have no law like what you're describing. The self-defense standard explained by the judge is simply that the defendant must believe that the level of f
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So PG thinks that someone has good taste if prefer "better" art and bad taste if they prefer "worse" art. He knows some art can be better than other art because when he started painting, his art wasn't very good. Th
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by Meekro 5y ago
Agreed. I ran across SomethingAwful when I was quite young (maybe 12-14?) and it was rather upsetting. I kept seeing calls to action that sounded like "Hey guys, let's go be mean to _____ for entertainment! Bonus points if we make
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by Meekro 5y ago
Is it ordinary for Federal Judges to speak of "grave statutory and constitutional issues"?
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I love my laziness, and won't give it up. =) I've already switched to this. Installing and configuring it was a lot easier than learning vi would have been.
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I agree that debs that were audited and distributed in the package manager are better in that way. I guess my objection is that "curl https://getmic.ro | bash" often gets a hostile reaction here on HN whereas "wge
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by Meekro 5y ago
Why is this more dangerous than installing a deb, which can also run arbitrary code as root?
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by Meekro 5y ago
Since several people are asking why the ACLU isn't what it once was, let me answer that. In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish town of Skokie, Illinois. This action reflecte
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by Meekro 5y ago
A piece of paper in a safe deposit box is, unfortunately, not risk-free. There have been some incidents where, for example, the owner of box #1343 loses his key and asks the bank to drill the box, so they drill box #1434 and give him the co
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Let us know how the results compare to your previous laptop! =)
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I wonder how the fan noise is going to be. My old (late 2013) MBP is dead silent unless I'm running something heavy like a video game.
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I'm wondering what kind of check would be good enough. Who decides which governments are corrupt? Even if you limit the customer base to democratically elected governments, who is the final authority on which elections are genuine? If
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The lab leak theory was "misinformation" until it wasn't. They say "listen to the experts" and then censor actual doctors and scientists who say the wrong things. An "expert" is apparently someone who has
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by Meekro 5y ago
There was also a rather creative argument based on the Third Amendment (quartering of troops), assuming at least some of the tenants were soldiers.
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I get what you mean, and I agree with you that Discord shouldn't be a company's primary support system. I also haven't heard of any companies that do this. The issues I described come up when you have a community that occasio
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by Meekro 5y ago
If we're talking about formal support for a paid product, I agree with you. But I don't actually know any companies that use Discord as their primary support system, usually it'll be email or some sort of ticket system. Somet
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As someone who runs one of those Discord servers, let me say that the rules have a purpose. Lots of people will jump in and post their question in the first channel they happen to see without looking into which channel would be appropriate
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People's opinion of the trustworthiness of authorities wasn't a blank slate when COVID began. Some people already believed (based on their life experience) that authorities are untrustworthy, and therefore chose to be skeptical of
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by Meekro 5y ago
Here's the discussion of this Electrum vulnerability from back when it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18770577 Looks like this guy installed an old and vulnerable version. Electrum has a history of seve
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by Meekro 5y ago
Interesting! When HN discussed that story a few months ago[1], the common notion was that the driver had enabled autopilot and climbed into the back seat. Your take seems a lot more plausible. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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You've made much of the $179 price in your various posts in this thread. I think the answer to that is that you're on a forum for highly paid professionals who can afford an extra gaming device at this price point. I don't th
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Playdate preview: You won’t believe how fun this dorky, $179 game system is(arstechnica.com)
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by Meekro 5y ago
I agree with your point about Nintendo, I always thought they should release their own Steam clone that requires a $100 per year subscription before you can even buy the games. That would replace the hardware revenue and free them from the

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