RoyGBivCap

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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
Ah HN, where you can denigrate the hell out of anyone as long as you say it politely and sufficiently passive aggressively While clearly following obediently with the new "Elon Musk bad now" doctrine. Being blunt and direct is mor
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
Reading a lot of really good, insightful comments in this thread I have come to this conclusion: It's just another arms race. Like spam, CAPTCHAs, user engagement, and ads. There is no permanent solution and there cannot be because the
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
If inflation is above the savings yield no matter what the particular values are, you're still losing purchasing power.
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
I bought Apple, nvidia, google, amd, intel, and motorola in 2005. Apple smoked all of them.
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Are they still downranking non-mainstream news?
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It's an oligarch's school for oligarchs? I can't speak for him, but that's my guess.
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
It's not SF specific, but nationally violence peaked in the early '90s in America: https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/191219/reported-violent-c... IIRC it was at least partly getting lead out of gas
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
Convictions* People get arrested, their name smeared, presumed guilty, and then go to trial and it wasn't them. Lives get ruined over for crimes not committed. IIRC, Israel doesn't publish arrests, just convictions. So it's n
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
Reminds me of other tools from the past that "allow development with out a developer". With fancy drag and drop UIs that look like circuit diagrams. In trying one you very quickly find out that you still need a developer. Because
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
> “It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office.” CNN and reddit arguably did more than 4chan to get trump elected. They couldn't shut up about him and they have way more reach th
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
> By your definition, literally every human intervention in history, prohibitory or otherwise has not "worked". Correct.
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A ban is supposed to do more than "reduce" it's supposed to eliminate. So no, it doesn't work.
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
You mentioned prohibition, but for some reason left out capital-P Prohibition, which brought us mobsters, speakeasys, and the US government blinding people: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-us-government-enforced... an
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
Banning things rarely works. Educating parents on how it can harm and hinder their children is a harder, but more effective approach.
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I feel like this would be like trying to edit a confluence page. It's in the frustration valley between WYSIWYG and just writing code. The worst of both worlds.
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I found a larger image: https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/elgeya/68107732/1776018/1776...
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Elon just said in the space "that shouldn't be there. Consider it gone"
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
I live in Portland and watching the Portland Police planes circle downtown all night with their data hidden on https://www.flightradar24.com/ , (but visible on https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ (for now)) is a
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The Political Biases of Google Bard(davidrozado.substack.com)
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0 convictions and he's a criminal?
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by RoyGBivCap 4y ago
IANAL but I know that a lot of companies when they lay people off give them various "parachutes" in the form of money and included are anti-disparagement clauses, that if broken you have to return the money. And a lot of settlemen
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Well, yeah. The security of Britain's colonies as a wee bit threatened by the War of Independence. The crown very much considered it a crime. But was it wrong?
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The TSA violates the 4th amendment millions of times a day. I think that covers both grossly, and negligent. Here's the full text of 4a, see for yourself: >The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and