ad_hominem

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by ad_hominem 4y ago
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by ad_hominem 4y ago
> nor is it collecting any PII that would be subject to GDPR Yeah that's not how that works. Reddit is a free text input interface. I'm free to put PII in any post or comment I want to and you have to comply with data protectio
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by ad_hominem 4y ago
Not handy, and I'm not going to spend my evening digging. It may've also been one of the NGOs ideologically aligned with him that credited him for the data + assistance
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by ad_hominem 4y ago
> Pushshift.io Reddit corpus Pushshift is a single person with some very strong political opinions who has specifically used his datasets to attack political opponents. Frankly I wouldn't trust his data to be untainted. These mode
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by ad_hominem 4y ago
If you want to let the ACLU "speak for themselves" here they are arguing against vaccine mandates while Trump was President: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/coronavirus-imm... Under Biden, t
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by ad_hominem 4y ago
It's also "only in the US" where we have the most permissive free speech laws on the planet. Forgive me for expecting a little more from the former top-tier First Amendment defender to keep it that way.
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by ad_hominem 4y ago
I didn't downvote but streaming services could argue that they're paying for on-demand capacity that has to be available for all paying customers who could decide to stream at any moment in time during their subscription. On a per
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by ad_hominem 4y ago
So you don't have any issues with the ACLU's heel turn into partisan activism over the past few years? Like reversing position on vaccine mandates, fighting for mask mandates in schools, fighting against school curriculum transpar
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by ad_hominem 6y ago
A Brahmin Indian immigrant like Sojwal is a pretty good contender for least-oppressed group in America. Top of the charts in income by ethnicity, college admissions, low crime rates. White people falling far behind east asians in practicall
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by ad_hominem 6y ago
> you'd expect there'd be no glass bottles of anything (beer, mustard, maple syrup) if that was the case That's completely different - you're confusing recycling with reuse. The bottles you're referring to are ma
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by ad_hominem 6y ago
Maybe the reason is because of stronger food safety laws and tort law. If some guy used his bottle as a hammer for several months before turning it in for recycling, then someone cuts their hand on a jagged edge or drinks a glass sliver, th
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
Hub was created by Chris Wanstrath, one of the original GitHub founders, so it's not surprising there's no reference to it. There's a damnatio memoriae of GitHub's founders and founding story because of certain subcultur
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
I remember a time when Reddit puns weren't rewarded on here
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
Wow that is very interesting! That would be a worthwhile experiment to test out for sure.
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
ONTs typically terminate to Ethernet at the customer premises so it's effectively the exact same thing as a cable modem. So not any more secure than having cable and using the cable company's provided modem. If you tapped someone&
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
If you have fiber you're probably plugging your SFP into an ONT which is already acting like a modem anyway. > With cable this becomes a lot harder or even impossible due to all kinds of network specific systems such as DOCSIS. Yo
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
Industrial plant agriculture kills and displaces untold numbers of small ground mammals. Thus the urban vegan doesn't get to pretend they have clean hands. A pasture-fed cow kills approximately zero of the same. Assuming your ethics gi
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
> To be honest I don’t feel bad for some of these people in the article. They are opposed to the word co-op. I am assuming it’s too liberal for them. You might want to talk to some farmers in these small towns, because co-ops aren&#x27
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
If you prefer a low effort / high noise comment environment that rewards puns, there's always Reddit
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
It's okay to call yourself a feminist if you're not okay with biological males demolishing female sports records. It's okay to not go down the infinite intersectional/deconstructionist rabbithole to the point where it&#x
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by ad_hominem 7y ago
Power wants to preserve its power. Chomsky is upset that Microsoft and other companies use the World Trade Organization as a weapon, but what does he expect would happen? This is what every entity does whether it be a government or corporat
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
Yeah running the delete in the user's crontab (i.e. in the background and on a schedule) would be a better option IMO.
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
> it may be true that most criminals in an area are of a certain race; that says nothing about the likelihood of a single person of that race being a criminal Huh? If 10% of purple people in an area have been incarcerated, and you sele
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
Not the person you're responding to but I took their meaning to be social engineering in the sense of someone's purposeful planning and intercession in areas where there is a social output, fiddling with whatever knobs are availab
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
You should try reading the HN guidelines first that say not to accuse someone of not reading the article. Sometimes discussions can meander outside the original article's context.
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
I don't see how those adjectives add any clarity to the situation, since you can swap them out interchangeably and you're still describing the same vague, handwavy sense of racism somewhere being a cause for an unequal outcome. La
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
Your account is 6 years old; I assumed you're familiar with how people link previous discussions on here and didn't need to be "instruct[ed]." As far as I could tell the only point of your comment is "repost alert!&
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
When did you stop beating your wife?
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
I mean we did have 3,000 people die from airplanes being hijacked and flown into buildings - the TSA didn't exist before then. Unfortunately our gov't is like an overreacting immune system inflaming the entire body and causing unn
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by ad_hominem 8y ago
The Echo's 3.5mm jack is analog. Chromecast Audio's optical output is digital. The optical output is infinitely more preferable for connecting to my home theater receiver.

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