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by Zuider 6y ago
Colleen Oefelein's posts on Gab and Parler are publicly available and appear to be nothing more offensive than reposts of her tweets. I don't think that there is any more than meets the eye here. Her announcement that she was usin
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by Zuider 6y ago
Selfish ass? You have made an allegation about this person's character which does not appear to have supporting evidence, either in the article posted or any other source.
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Selective banning carried out by reacting to infractions is is a relatively coarse tool compared to whitelisting a set of users on the basis of credentials or avowed common interest.
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>A fast low-level program was re-written in a high-level language to reduce maintenance costs. These days on HN you usually only hear about the opposite Related, though not quit the same, is the manner in which the Cog VMs for Squeak&#x2
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by Zuider 6y ago
HN is written in Paul Graham's Arc language, specifically, a language built in Racket.
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Social media aggregators intended to post messages to many clients have been tried before, but they have consistently failed because the social media companies, notably Twitter, changed their APIs to frustrate the possibility.
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by Zuider 6y ago
Fr. Caughlin's anti-Semitism was reprehensible, but given the pervasive atmosphere of anti-Semitism at the time, was it actually the distinguishing feature that caused him to be singled out? On a historical note, the 'Protocols&#x
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by Zuider 6y ago
I am sure you meant it in good faith, but your link provides an appalling slander on the reputation of Dr. Wei Hock Soon, a solar physicist of good standing. The lurid claims that a coal company bribed him to produce results that were false
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by Zuider 6y ago
>So the correct conclusion is not necessarily that most climate change skeptics are bots, but rather that climate change skeptics are likely to be characterized by the software as bots. Yes, that is as much as we can deduce from the data
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You may need to test for confirmation bias. I am sure you and people you know are well behaved and courteous on twitter and social media in general, and so would not trigger any alarms. Have you tried the bot-test on more contentious accoun
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The article is distinctly Orwellian. I am a climate skeptic and have participated in such discussions, and found that my bot-rating is very high. Other people whom I know by reputation and online presence elsewhere are also categorized as n
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by Zuider 6y ago
The bot detectors are not very sophisticated, and they definitely have categorised several individuals whom I know to be real humans as 'bots,' apparently based on their political persuasion. It is ironic that human beings can fai
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by Zuider 6y ago
Do you have an opinion on Zettlr, which was specifically designed to accommodate the Zettelkasten note-taking technique? Discussed previously on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23723775
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One possible explanation is that, in order to produce the desired clear outline of a hand, it would be more effective to use the 'stencilling' technique than it would be to attempt to transfer paint directly from the palm on to an
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It is also striking how similar the style is between the Indonesian and European cave paintings, where the heads and feet of the animal are depicted as being smaller and more gracile than in life.
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What is racist about claiming that Obama was born in Africa?
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>You do realize that the current president is the ringleader of birtherism, right? Hillary Clinton, in her 2008 presidential campaign brought the fringe conspiracy theory of 'birtherism' into the mainstream as a rhetorical weap
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This can go both ways. A majority view may be held complacently without being challenged much or often. A minority view encounters constant resistance and reminders that it is not held by many, and may potentially be more robust because of
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It may be a small point, but both Parler and Amazon make some income from advertising, so at least in this sense, they are competing.
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The JS based C compiler has no access outside the browser sandbox, but it is capable of generating actual executables which could potentially break out of the walled garden. That is why Microsoft ActiveX was deprecated as a security hazard
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With PDF, it would not be hard to obscure the presence of only a minimum of legitimate content using many page-breaks to give the illusion of a long document, and filling those pages with space-hogs such as large headers, tables, and algori
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by Zuider 6y ago
Dolphin Smalltalk from Object Arts allows alt-tabbing between native windows. The formerly commercial professional version has been released as open source. It is Windows only, but it apparently runs well via Wine on Linux and Mac. Though t
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by Zuider 6y ago
This is not the Charlottesville event. This occurred several months afterwards. Nor were those white supremacists. In fact, they were old age pensioners taking part in a Trump rally at a retirement complex in Florida. Anti-Trump protestors
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by Zuider 6y ago
A possible explanation for the tactic of sending so many emails is that the subject header of Donald Trump's emails contained the message he wished to transmit, acting like an alternative news feed, similar to RSS or Twitter, bypassing
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China compromised F-35 subcontractor and forced costly software system rewrite(theregister.com)
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Assuming for the sake of argument that light social criticism in response to one's voting preferences being publicly known is always a good thing, can you suggest a means where someone can be exposed to this alone, excluding all the ot
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The title says 'basement.' I wonder if it would be possible to grow grapes (or other crops) indoors using full spectrum LED lights?
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It is not a matter of a political who:whom, but of an impersonal, objective 'what' i.e. the process of rationality. Arguments should be able to stand on their own merit irrespective of whether their origin is 'outsiders'
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I agree. The stance "I defer to the experts" is potentially very damaging to the growth of knowledge, and can quickly lead to what philosopher of science, Imre Lakatos, called a 'degenerative paradigm,' where increasingl
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I think game theory can offer some insight. A tit-for-tat approach has been shown to be an effective long-term strategy over multiple iterations of the Prisoner's Dilemma. Player A will be discouraged from acting adversarially if they

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