OrangeMonkey

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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Would it be better to phrase it as "I believe that other people should be able to hear from people they want to" and "I believe that we should stop people from hearing from certain people"?
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I respectfully disagree. Internet residents can, quite successfully, remove people from the internet and silence their speech on the internet. Consider Kiwifarms. I am purposefully NOT going to talk about if something is deserved or not.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
There appears to be a recent shift on HackerNews no longer support freedom of speech. I don't know that its just HackerNews either - it seems like its 'internet residents no longer support freedom of speech.' I'm not s
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Thats true. Thanks, I was trying to think of the name.
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Amazon plans job cuts in health-care business after shuttering telehealth svc(cnbc.com)
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
You don't see a problem with the culture _because_ you have been there 14 years. If you had a negative impact of the culture, you likely would have left. Survivor bias. There are a significant amount of people who disagree with you (
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Cloudflare banned Kiwifarms (this ban is not justified), and Kiwifarms is still running their own servers. Which are ddos'ed by people who don't want others to hear what they say. Some people are thankful that they were able to
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Fair. I've edited the comment. Let me know if you think its still an issue. Thanks.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
The culture of our timeline is based around disliking someone online and bringing real world consequences to them. Whether that is by getting them fired or getting them banned from services its the flavor du jour. To quote the big short -
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Re speech - The government typically does not fare well when they try to restrict a persons speech. Re Swatting - because there was no proof. The forums actually had a pretty hard policy about anything that appeared to be swatting related
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I feel like we are at the tipping point where the ability to generate scenes/faces/houses/art that can reliably fool human senses becomes commonplace.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I don't know a great way to manage this data issue regarding children and teens besides disallowing them to sign up. But if you give an incentive to a child to sign up with an adult birthdate (actually getting onto the site), I don&#x2
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Is there a realistic way to manage children data privacy issues besides not letting children create accounts on sites with a social media ability?
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
For what its worth, I disagree with your statements but you are engaging in good faith and I appreciate the back and forth. Frankly, you are embodying desired HN behavior more than I am. Cheers.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
If this site and its users were transported back to the 50's, they would be begging ma bell and the baby bells to ban the phone calls of people they dislike. "They are too dangerous!" and "They are harming XXXXXX commun
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
The zeitgeist of the 2020's is about acceptable censorship and the "bad guys" who should be removed from "polite discussion." Everyone is very careful to explain "how the government shouldn't be banning pe
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
This seems unrealistic. The suggestion is to switch to 25 year contracts for a commodity? With current inflation uncertain and future inflation a pure guess and the consumption rate of these resources unknown in the future, I have no idea
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I had a conversation with a peer recently on AI Regulation. I assume its pointless to try to regulate it because the world is .. well.. big and there is no barrier to entry. We can regulate nuclear weapons because the average person can&#x
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
There is continued concern that USDT is still being used to manipulate the crypto space. Seems a valid concern.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Thats right - the fire departments should just stop protecting the houses of people you dislike so folks can burn them down in peace.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I agree - you have the right to not go some place where you don't want to be. You do not have the right to convince a fire department to stop protecting a house so you can burn it down in peace. To think this situation is anything BUT
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Careful - this group _IS_ the arsonist who are caring torches. Hacker news is not the place to rail against this hypocrisy unless you are fully anon. One target looks a lot like the other when you have a 'cause' you are fighting
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Oh, we are here but what can we say. I don't want to copy/paste another comment I made here so instead I will paraphrase: HN is getting upset (and likely should) about apple banning a guys account (likely algorithm) and last nigh
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
The hand-wringing is because folks were smiling and winking at each other while trying to convince a fire department to stop protecting a house, all while holding cans of gas and matches. Its horrible for Apple/Google to have this much
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
You are in a thread where most folks are celebrating convincing a fire dept to stop protecting a house (while holding matches behind their back). Everyone knows what you are saying is possible but nooone will admit it.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Sure, if they don't pay the fee. In this case, we all appear to have been cheering and begging the private firefighter to just walk away so we can burn their house down in peace.
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Look at what the banana farmers have done to try to prevent fungus spread - and they failed. I appreciate what NASA is doing, but I wonder if they have a chance in keeping us safe. They have to be vigilant every time they meddle with marti
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
I hope we can all join hands and say "DDOS'ing is a crime and we all hope that the FBI finds people participating in DDOS attacks and put them in jail." That shouldn't be controversial right?
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
You seem to misunderstand - or at least I hope you are misunderstanding. If a group is doing something illegal, the government should act. You seem to imply "Well if they are doing something illegal, people shouldn't have to work
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by OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Its so weird how everyone we don't like is a nazi. Your opinion appears to be popular though. Through enough pressure we have successfully removed ddos protection from a site that people on here hope gets ddos'ed. One day, this c

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