anarchodev

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by anarchodev 7y ago
Consider that nobody breaks into your home/vehicles because it's fun. They do it out of desperation. I'm not alleging any ignorance on your part, it's just not the sort of thing we think about often. The penalties for th
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by anarchodev 7y ago
This isn't a popular sentiment on HN but a lot of software jobs (even at trendy fast-moving startups) are a form of busywork. Once you get to a certain number of devs, accountability slides and it's entirely possible you'll
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Yes, the idea of liberty (for everyone to use free software regardless of intent) and the liberty of immigrants in the US to live without harassment and terrorism of their communities are indeed in conflict. So you have to choose one. By
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by anarchodev 7y ago
> If I'm doing something that I do not want recorded, I'd be using linux with a tor connection and strong opsec. The house can still be bugged as long as I don't have a camera pointed at my monitor. Until the police are lo
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by anarchodev 7y ago
It's absolutely possible to use a smartphone in a way that doesn't severely compromise your privacy. This isn't true of Nest or Alexa.
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by anarchodev 7y ago
"I'm not sure it's fair that you're terrified." This is probably the darkest distillation of 2019 neoliberal energy I've heard across many platforms. "That shouldn't push one into depression to the po
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Exactly this. Also want to add that phone numbers were never really meant to function as identity providers. For this reason I think it's important not to use the real number on your cell phone for anything -- VOIP numbers are best i
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Maybe a better exploratory question would be: what would have been an acceptable way to phrase that criticism, if you feel the substance was acceptable sans its obvious application to the most recent hiring decision?
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Executives get away with more crass offenses all the time but even if they didn’t, you’re ignoring a key power imbalance that defines this struggle. What purpose would it serve for an executive to post in this message board? They have plent
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Of course it's always been understood as poor form to personally attack another employee, there was never any need for a rule saying so. In the same way, a "culture of openness" is always embraced with the implicit caveat tha
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by anarchodev 7y ago
I didn't claim that BB is a "front" for Stormfront -- just that they're closely associated communities. But if Stormfront linked to HN all the time, yeah I'd probably try to figure out what about HN was so appealin
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by anarchodev 7y ago
This is a pretty funny sentiment -- Stormfront in fact links to Breitbart all the time.
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by anarchodev 7y ago
I'm not so worried about the supreme court ruling -- businesses don't usually succeed or fail based on the justices ruling that their business model isn't technically illegal. I want to live in a world where the community em
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by anarchodev 7y ago
> I don't wan't some git hosting startup to be the arbiter of morality for society. The engineers, designers, and PMs shouldn't have an outsized voice in society because they have a specialized useful skillset and ended up
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by anarchodev 7y ago
The difference here is the potential for revenue generation stemming from the ostensibly political stance. Gitlab's goal is to make money, and they're signalling that this goal is firm regardless of who is hurt by their customers,
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by anarchodev 7y ago
It's not. Donating to help lawyers and humanitarian orgs clean up the mess your company is enabling this agency to create isn't the same as refusing to cooperate with them in the first place.
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by anarchodev 7y ago
wait, TSA boots your laptop now? I don't even understand what they'd expect to find?
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by anarchodev 7y ago
For sure, and starting from the assumption that we'd only get these things because they improve our typing is kind of like assuming car collectors only do it to improve their driving. Amusing to watch hackernews reverse-engineer the c
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by anarchodev 7y ago
I actually think the original parent post was a more emotionally reactionary than this response. Yeah, it could be the case that mechanical keyboard enthusiasts are all virtue-signaling snobs chasing clout on the internet... or it could be
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by anarchodev 7y ago
> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people. One of the myriad reasons healthcare in the US expensive is the middlemen who stand to profit from
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by anarchodev 7y ago
These are descriptive terms for what currently exist in the US (and have existed before in the US). If hearing them causes you to feel emotions that don’t allow you to engage in civil discussion I think it’s worth investigating why that is
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by anarchodev 7y ago
I saw their comment and frankly I think it's a perfectly reasonable sentiment. That objecting to incarceration practices in America is viewed as contributing to a "political flamewar" by the mods here is surprising to me.
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Yes it was wrong, which will become clear if you spend any time with the people who were involved. Which you can very much still do, because the coalitions and communities formed during that movement are still active today, struggling agai
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by anarchodev 7y ago
I'd personally love a recommendation for a set of basic security guidelines for static websites. Less interested in OWASP stuff and more as you said, hosting-specific issues. This would also be a lot to cover, from using static-site d
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by anarchodev 7y ago
I think you might be missing out on two important points here. As an amazon worker making ~$15 an hour, what avenue would you suggest to go about "demonizing" market conditions? What does that mean from their perspective? What d
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by anarchodev 7y ago
While you're correct about the meaning of the word scab, there doesn't yet exist a word with appropriately caustic undertones to describe the customer who continues to patronize a service whose workers are striking -- and so we ty
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Exactly, it's meant for high school kids looking for pocket money! That's why McDonald's is always closed during school hours.
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by anarchodev 7y ago
When we talk about whether or not deplatforming "works" we necessarily have to define our goals. If your goal is, for instance, to be able to find as much hateful content on your platform of choice -- deplatforming absolutely doe
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by anarchodev 7y ago
Yes and this already happens — check out the “cluster failure” paper documenting bugs that have been baked into statistical processing packages for fMRI analysis for years. Whole fields of science having no doubt already been built on top o
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by anarchodev 7y ago
This is indeed the most commonly cited reason, but as others have pointed out it’s not a good one, and I’ll posit it’s not the real one either. The real reason is nobody in the lab has any idea if it works or ever worked most of the time.

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