Orou

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by Orou 6y ago
HNers: Are you anticipating any sort of 'pendulum effect' where we over-correct for our present situation in the new Democratic executive and legislature, specifically in the area of surveillance and privacy? What changes do you e
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by Orou 6y ago
That's true, but it had nothing to do with violence.
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by Orou 6y ago
I see these reddit bans referenced every now and then as evidence that censorship works. I think it's important to emphasize these bans are not evidence they shutting down communities changed participants' minds about anything. Fu
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by Orou 6y ago
I'm a relative newcomer to the world of DIY computing. I had always been a Windows user growing up, didn't know how to program, and didn't know what open source was. It wasn't until 2016 when I watched Snowden that I bec
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by Orou 6y ago
Over what time frame? A year? Sure. But three years? Five? Ten? It's simply not sustainable for 95% of people. And it's unrealistic to hold everyone else to the standard of that 5% who are 1) naturally hyper-productive or 2) have
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by Orou 6y ago
> you have resigned to believe the corporate/government spin on everything The point of not reading regular news is for it to filter out what you hear about, not the specifics of those things. It's hard to put a spin on basic f
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by Orou 6y ago
How something functions is more important that how it is implemented. I'll take a stateful app that doesn't break history over a stateless app that does any day of the week.
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by Orou 6y ago
Agreed, it's a neat little app but having URL parameters work like this is very anti-user.
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by Orou 6y ago
Data is not meaningful in and of itself. What matters is what that data signifies, i.e. how it changes the reader's understanding of the world. It doesn't matter if the data is made up if what it signifies is complete nonsense any
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by Orou 6y ago
Software has an increasingly large impact on people's lives - including their safety. Consider [ransom attacks on hospitals]( https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/hamst... ) as just one e
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by Orou 6y ago
For clarity, the printing press was for books. Newspapers did not come along until much later. Interestingly, the Catholic church was very concerned about the ability to mass produce literature and wanted to have control over what could be
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by Orou 6y ago
> We also have the recent opioids crisis. It didn't work out very well. The opioid crisis has been terrible, but it didn't happen as a result of drug laws becoming more lax. If anything, existing laws made the crisis much worse
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by Orou 6y ago
I'm familiar with the Stamp Act - which I think reinforces my point because it was about direct taxation on the colonies. Even indirect taxation, e.g. on paper, tea, and glass through the Townshend Acts led to violent confrontation, in
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by Orou 6y ago
> This is largely what prompted the American Revolution The American Revolution was much more about representation and the rights that British Parliament held (or, from the American perspective, didn't hold) over the colonies. The p
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by Orou 6y ago
Most people drink coffee blends rather than single-origin. And in the U.S. at least dark roast coffee is very popular. Once the beans have been roasted that much the subtler coffee flavors are going to mostly disappear and it won't mat
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by Orou 6y ago
Where did they say something was wrong with Sweden's approach?
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by Orou 6y ago
> These were interesting, educated, intelligent, thoughtful and passionate people > there is really an underlying snobbery about it These contrast very interestingly, but I think it's missing an important point. The early interne
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by Orou 6y ago
I'm curious at what point an organism is considered to be capable of thought. From a mechanistic standpoint, it seems like the goal-seeking behavior of a simple organism could be modeled as a gradient ascent toward a local optima. But
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by Orou 6y ago
The article states that the Republican Party is pro-nuclear and anti-government, and the Democratic Party was anti-nuclear and pro-government. While it seems from the headline that both parties are now pro-nuclear, it is unclear how that wi
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by Orou 6y ago
It's probably a combination of hopeful optimism and financial desperation. It's too early to know for sure, but I bet a lot of small, private colleges are hurting and need to do everything they can to have students on campus. Stud
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by Orou 6y ago
> The argument I would make is not about censorship but preventing people from spreading lies. Limiting speech is by definition censorship. There's no value judgement required as to the quality or veracity of that speech to determin
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by Orou 6y ago
You'd think given the amount of time he's spent working on Coronavirus that he might see the distinction between treating the symptoms and treating the cause, so to speak. I've yet to see anyone provide any kind of evidence t
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by Orou 6y ago
It depends whether or not they are sued in a state where SLAPP suits are legal. If Apple isn't forced to provide compelling evidence that they have an actual case up front, they can tie up their opposition in expensive legal battles lo
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by Orou 6y ago
I actually liked Hipchat. It did what it was supposed to do - provide instant chat with colleagues - without the overhead and frills of Slack. It was simple and reliable. I'm not sure why it was so disliked.
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by Orou 6y ago
This is a joke, right?
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by Orou 6y ago
This logic only follows if we assume censorship is applied to everyone, equally, all the time. Someone saying "hey, look there are a lot of instances of people being censored over there, we should be concerned about it because it could
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by Orou 6y ago
I'm not sure that's a compelling argument. In both these cases, individuals are talking about broader societal trends. It's not a contradiction if they aren't talking about their own specific experience (i.e. "I&#x2
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by Orou 6y ago
>You can see how shaming has helped the cause of open source, black lives matter, pollution... I think there's a stronger argument to be made that shaming has hurt each of these causes more than it has ever helped. If you want to
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by Orou 6y ago
It depends on which "left" you're talking about - it's not quite so simple. Clinton's 90's administration is frequently (and I would say accurately) described as neoliberal. The democratic party has become much
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by Orou 6y ago
The "participatory economy" seems like a gross gamification of online social interaction. It's important that people have aspects of there lives that aren't driven by financial incentives. I would argue that online commu

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