PlzSnow

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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"there are US citizens that are being executed without even a trial" Wow! Edgy stuff. You should present your evidence, it would be the news story of the decade. You do have evidence I presume? It's not as if you would writ
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"I pity your closed-mindedness" This is the main fallacy of the conspiracy theorist, that those who reject the absurd conspiracy have closed minds . For more on this, see here: http://theness.com/neurologicablog
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"it's worth respecting that fact, rather than dismissing it as 'obviously ridiculous'" That's not how the world works. If someone says "I think the government did 9/11", then it doesn't ma
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"are you really implying that the recent attacks in France were planned by the government? Or that the 7/7 bombings in London were?" Welcome to Hacker New, where a sizeable proportion of the readership actually believe thi
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
I'm trying to understand your logic. You are saying that because one conspiracy was perhaps true, then this conspiracy is true? That is the logic that my toddler uses.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
My guess would be £0. Why would they need to? A very sizeable part of the population think he's a creepy nerd who's hiding from sexual assault allegations. The later is true, the former subjective.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Why would Sweden make an exception to their legal processes just for Assange? He's just another person wanted for questioning over allegations over sexual assault. He's not the messiah. Anyway, as another poster said, these facts
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
I'm still baffled by your arguments. We live in a modern democratic society. Professionals in the law system examined the Assange case and decided that there was a case to answer. Just because someone on the Internet is "dubious a
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
I am genuinely baffled by your reply. Assange is wanted for questioning for allegations of sexual assault, and you say he shouldn't have to follow due process and answer them because... because what? Because his political ideals are al
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Assange is wanted for questioning on allegations of sexual assault. Assange is a powerful and connected person, with strong support from a considerable percentage of the population. I am glad that that does not affect the legal process, and
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"And the fact that there isn't nearly enough storage capacity being created in the world to contain said data for any reasonable amount of people?" The mistake you are making is using facts and logic. This is a discussion a
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"That claim contradicts what Glenn Greenwald says. Why is he wrong?" Null hypothesis. His extraordinary claim required extraordinary evidence, and there was none. It is not up to me to prove a negative. But this is a pointless c
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
"kind of a idiot" Errrr...
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
None of these tools are "capturing everything I do on the Internet". They could be used to target an individual in some sense. But not capturing everything that everyone is doing. The problem with discussions about the NSA on HN i
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Why would I assume that the FBI/NSA are capturing everything I do online? It's an absurd proposition without a shred of evidence.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
The 2MB/slowness isn't something that can just be "coded away". It's a direct result of the technology stack chosen. It is not a solvable problem. Therefore Atom cannot succeed beyond niche usage.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Moore's Law should apply, and eventually processing power should catch up. I think we'll see the 2MB limit removed by 1997/1998.
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
I tried Atom for a week. The little half-second delays start to bite after a few days, and after a week you want to throw your computer out the window. Think about it. It's 2015. My PC has 8 cores running at unimaginable speeds. It has
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
I don't understand this line of thinking. For me a closed-source text editor such as Sublime Text makes me much more productive than it's open-source equivelent. The accumulated productivity gains far outweigh the timecost to lear
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
How can it "improve as time goes on"? The developers chose a technology stack that suited them the developers, but which didn't suit the end users of the software. This happens sometimes when developers make business decision
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by PlzSnow 12y ago
Atom is far too slow, and eats battery life. This is because of the technical decision to render text in a web view. The slowness is not a solvable problem. Therefore Atom will fail. On a more positive note, I am so happy to see SublimeText