antithesis

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My Experience at FOSDEM 2019(excerion.github.io)
2 points by antithesis 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What's a good way to wake up to my own music?
1 points by antithesis 9y ago|0 comments
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by antithesis 9y ago
I find it curious that there's a spike on February 14, but not one on November 14. There's somewhat of an increase starting at November 14, but it's not clear if that's a consequence of Valentine's Day. It's as
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by antithesis 10y ago
> If you ask me - many of them deserve it. The point of justice is to avoid further crimes by rendering the criminal harmless, and by making an example out of them to scare away other potential criminals. What does 'deserving it&#x2
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by antithesis 10y ago
I'm curious as to how instrumental automation and illegitimate poll voting have been in producing this result. I'm talking about things like pro-Trump Twitter bots[1], 4chan's /pol/ board mass-voting Trump in online
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by antithesis 10y ago
I think you need to check the definition of direct democracy. The U.S. has never had that form of government, so U.S. history cannot possibly demonstrate the accuracy of Madison's arguments.
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by antithesis 14y ago
Another idea: people who are really annoying get double-hellbanned, and there's a checkbox that says "show very dead"!
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by antithesis 14y ago
Are there any important sites (like news / discussion sites) that require this?
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by antithesis 14y ago
> What did Reddit do right that Digg did wrong? Well, they haven’t redesigned since what appears to be 1997, which has pleased their user base who like the simple look. Reddit was founded in 1997?
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by antithesis 14y ago
> At the root of the problem is the criminal justice system itself. Statistically, once officially accused of a crime in Russia, there is little chance of proving your innocence. Not to mention that it should be the other way around. Pe
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by antithesis 14y ago
One self is not enough.
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by antithesis 14y ago
Just a couple of weeks ago we had an article about why smart people don't think of others as stupid ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3984894 ), and now they're stupid themselves? I'm puzzled.
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by antithesis 14y ago
He isn't being very fair: where the goal at first was to be as right as possible, it later became "to piss off as few of the 300 guests as possible". I'm not sure what exact procedure he had in mind for businesses, but in a situation where
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by antithesis 14y ago
Was it me or was that article written in a rather simplistic and childish way? 'All was good and well, something a bit odd but funny happened, but then this jerk came along and he started to ruin everything!' Near the end he suddenly jumped
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by antithesis 14y ago
> Motorola’s contention that the term has a “plain and ordinary meaning” is ridiculous; Motorola seems to have forgotten that this is a jury trial. Look who's talking.
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by antithesis 14y ago
It's nice to see a page translated through Google on the front page. It's an indication that technology is breaking some barriers.
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by antithesis 14y ago
Richard Magnificent Stallion.
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by antithesis 14y ago
The blackout or 'bat signal' page can contain all the relevant information, reaching out to a lot more people. Many people would miss out on that page because of lazy webmasters.
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by antithesis 14y ago
Footnote: ACTA is in fact older than SOPA.
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by antithesis 14y ago
The correct pronunciation is 'twenty-twelve', not 'two thousand and twelve'.
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by antithesis 14y ago
Yeah, it's certainly noteworthy, but one is allowed to do that. What I wouldn't like, though, is if he were overexaggerating, but we can't check that.
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by antithesis 14y ago
Grimmy things happen there. They ask Doctors to lie.
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by antithesis 14y ago
One could also consider using a Google scraper like startpage.com.
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by antithesis 14y ago
> The net neutrality law prohibits internet providers from interfering with the traffic of their users. Censoring The Pirate Bay is interfering the with the users' traffic. Does that mean the court ruling of Ziggo and Xs4all being force