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by _red 6y ago
The entire OS depends on having different users. Services like apache, chrony, avahi, dbus, etc don't run as root because of the security implications.
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by _red 6y ago
The problem with this will be his employees voting habits. This is 'locust politics'. Now that they have destroyed the old host they are in search of a new host to destroy.
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by _red 6y ago
The largest investigation into electronic voting and its perils is ongoing right now in realtime, yet Hacker News is largely silent on it. I wonder why?
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Erin Brockovich: Joe Biden: are you kidding me?(theguardian.com)
7 points by _red 6y ago|0 comments
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by _red 6y ago
I think voting is the problem. The gamification attracts a certain type of person who for various reasons is willing to spend absurd amounts of time / effort to "acquire more points". This in turn warps the community as a res
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by _red 6y ago
This past year I committed myself to learn ansible and fully script my full desktop setup as a series of ansible roles. This included not just package management but also things like gsettings gnome configuration, gnome extension installs,
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by _red 6y ago
Being a zebra in the middle of the pack is probably the most practical solution. However as things move forward with the great reset its going to become increasingly more difficult for that to maintain its effectiveness. Its obvious now tha
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by _red 6y ago
This is our wonderful new internet at work. Thanks all you Silicon Valley types....
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by _red 6y ago
"Lets Make Great Reset Great Again"
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by _red 6y ago
This is great. We need to declare this mandatory globally. Those anti-science types that refuse should be denied access to any public building, shopping, etc. Such a program is our only hope to bring down population levels to more sustainab
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Michael Burry on Statistical Voting Irregularities(twitter.com)
5 points by _red 6y ago|0 comments
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by _red 6y ago
China
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by _red 6y ago
Unfortunately links to other pages / data-scientist who disagree with above are "flagged".
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by _red 6y ago
In other words, no we can't discuss that here and should have those conversations on other sites....ok...
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by _red 6y ago
They will need vaccine passports to fly.
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by _red 6y ago
Do you mean because of the constant censorship and groupthink? Like how its wrong to discuss data anomalies of the current election?
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by _red 6y ago
Can you speak about Benfords law or post data plots on Parler? Unfortunately you can no longer do that on HN even...
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by _red 6y ago
>Is the new administration planning to tighten the bolts / expand the police state? I wouldn't worry, any of his actions will be backed up by the required votes.
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by _red 6y ago
> Which can most easily be accomplished by increasing taxes on the consumption you want reduced. Or you could make monetary changes to prevent constant inflation. Hyper-consumerist culture with cheap disposable plastic garbage is largely
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by _red 6y ago
>they really don’t want another Hitler why did Hitler appear in the first place? was it because thats just how germans are...or was there some other reason?
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by _red 6y ago
All in all, one of the silver linings of the covid hysteria is the destruction of airlines. I'm someone who has probably flown very close to 1M miles in my life. Spent about 15 years on planes weekly. Flying in my lifetime has moved fr
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Princeton math prof challenges admins 'systemic racism' narrative(campusreform.org)
6 points by _red 6y ago|12 comments
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by _red 6y ago
>its too dangerous to open-source Its a weak argument. The bad guys are still using it, you are just ensuring that only the well-funded groups have it.
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by _red 6y ago
"OpenAI" nomenclature should be rejected. Do not allow this project to claim they are open: Its as closed-source as any for-profit company. What happen to HN "internet culture" that it falls for such obvious ploys withou
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by _red 6y ago
Covid is the new form of this security theater. Just saw local school announced that parents should buy special mask with holes cut in mouth piece so kids can play instruments in band. Wish I was kidding...
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by _red 6y ago
I think your analysis is right, but there is another pernicious issue. We now inhabit a world where no one is encouraged or even expected to do a trade (well except for the modern slave caste: illegals). The result is lots of HS grads who s
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by _red 6y ago
No doubt the competitors will be closely connected to politician families?
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by _red 6y ago
You also would have to worry about housing payments. A very easy and progressive solution to this problem is that the government should construct housing that citizens can stay in. While they are at it, they could also provide basic food. T
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by _red 6y ago
Yes, this is what ended my side-income gig buying / selling used CD's. I half think that its almost racketeering by amazon. Lets suppose you go thru the work of finding low volume CD's...mainly from one-off bands that no long
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by _red 6y ago
Precisely. Everyone fails to see what happen to Brendon was a coup: Not by equality-loving do-gooders, but by cynical MBA middle management who saw their opportunity to loot and plunder once the founders were out of the way. Its pretty amaz

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