Nicksil

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by Nicksil 5y ago
Why is this here? Submitted by a 7-minute-old account no less.
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by Nicksil 5y ago
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28596259
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>There’s an obvious distinction between... To whom, exactly? This is where things begin to fall apart because something "obvious" to you is such due to a number of factors -- the culture and society you grew up in being only pa
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>There are so many things wrong with your comment, I don't even know where to begin. We can trivially extend your argument to: >I really hope Google takes a strong stance and bans humans from all projects due to their bigotry. Wh
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by Nicksil 5y ago
You're being down-voted but you're spot on. >This is a good change. It doesn’t allow people to hide behind the shield of “good intentions” while refusing to change their behavior. Refusing to change your behavior after learning
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by Nicksil 5y ago
- Semantic HTML; not everything is a div; correct use of markup. - Search results are not overrun with commercial, SEO stuffing, "content" farms. I don't know what to say. This is such a refreshing sight. Well done.
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>Thanks, I've already reported abuse but no response from google yet. Just refreshed my memory on this company. It's just awful. I'm genuinely sorry you're being subjected to this abusive software. I wish you the best
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by Nicksil 5y ago
3,000,000+ users, 1 star. I kind of recognize the name; doesn't invoke a pleasant feeling. I don't have much useful to provide, but I see a "Report abuse" link next to the "Website" link. You can try that but t
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Disclaimer: I'm vegan. Why'd you feel the need to disclaim that? >I think this is awesome. "Vandalize" is a bit much as they just substitute sliced pig flesh photos with a plant-based lookalike. It's exactly
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>User generated content, comments, ratings. 3/3 would say so, yes. :-) That's not great criteria for determining if something's "social media". All those things you listed were part of websites long before social
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No, it's a forum.
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I think it's an automatic thing if the user is banned or suspended; like a shadow ban. So, there may very well not have been a number of down-voters and was simply dead from the start.
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>In this day and age, it is easy to get the actual degree and be called a 'scientist'. > >In these Internet days, it is even easier to claim you are a scientist when you are anonymous online, and make all sort of claims.
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>Is there any details on what the current flagged/dead threshold is? No idea. I suspect the details are kept so as to avoid abuse, but I've not read either-or from an authoritative source.
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>The "downvote due to disagree" thing really annoys me. Absolutely. I agree with everything else you bring up as well. I would love to see down-voting vanish completely and the flagged/dead threshold increased dramatically
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by Nicksil 5y ago
This sort of argument is heard the world over. - When I worked construction: "Why is the foreman paid more when all he does is lean on a shovel?" - When I worked as a line cook: "Why does the back-of-the-house manager get pai
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>But am I the only one that thinks this was also chosen for a political statement? A lot of notable and iconic photographs are political.
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>HN has a very split mind when it comes to deciding exactly when Google is entitled to ignore the local government. HN is comprised of a great many individuals. The differing perspectives and worldview are a good thing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpositivism
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>Like monasto pesticides causing cancer. Has this been determined?
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>But mostly it's just a bunch of crying & whining by huge online babies with 16GB+ of ram. Mate, I don't know about that but the only belly-aching going on in this discussion emanate from your replies.
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by Nicksil 5y ago
>How unfortunate. They’re usually the first resource I go to for research when buying new products They aren't shutting it down.
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>"no one knows who he is" Except that's not been the case. There have always been some people who know who Banksy is.
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Yes, some phones have speakers.
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>2) The record label are the ones who ultimately profited off the image. Were the parents (or whomever consented) not compensated?
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>Everyone lives in a bubble and HN isn't representative of those everyday folks that learned on their own, or in some bootcamp. Sounds like a cop-out.
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>Time to broaden your horizons, I have met plenty of C advocates and UNIX books that tell the story before C there was only Assembly as system programming language. Without plenty of examples, one can only assume what you've experie
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by Nicksil 5y ago
That website's atrocious. Go directly to the NASA article: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9016/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-e...
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No, it's utterly insane.
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>We as in the public have not been told this is underway. Nor have we heard hints, leaks or anything of the sort. >This is not happening right now based on the available information. If we continue with that logic -- an apparent lack

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