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by apostacy 8y ago
This level of heavy handedness was unprecedented in the west, and is more characteristic of China than anything else.
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by apostacy 8y ago
The term I would use is: 4chan users engaged in Live Action Role Playing. They were trying to spook you, and they did, apparently. The most they could muster from the entire world is < 200. I remember when the media tried telling us abou
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by apostacy 8y ago
Nazis don't exist. They used to, before most of us were born, but they don't exist any more. Of course those who want to censor will call their targets Nazis, and try to scare people like you by saying that the world will end if w
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by apostacy 8y ago
Sorry my tone was all off. I was attempting to be sarcastic and call out the hypocrisy of westerners. My defense of China was purely ironic.
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by apostacy 8y ago
> Now, if you want to say, "they're both evil," fine. Evil is a binary thing, so it naturally sidesteps the argument about who is stepping on your toes and who is sawing them off. Still, Chariman Xao sure is holding a shar
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by apostacy 8y ago
I really don't think that he is far left. He is clearly an ethnonationalist. That is the primary feature of his ideology. The fact that he is an environmentalist is just a red herring.
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by apostacy 8y ago
> Few countries are going to block 8chan at the router. So it's going to happen again. Good. Blocking websites is not the answer. But you're probably wrong. The powers that be are itching for an excuse to just start blanket ban
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by apostacy 8y ago
I'm more rustled to again see Firefox again try to emulate the worst of Chrome.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Comedy Central had something like that for their shorts from The Daily Show, back in like 2012. You could drill down with things Person:"Samantha Bee" in place:"New Jersey" in when:2009. It was really quite remarkable. B
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by apostacy 8y ago
I think it is worse than we admit. IMAP will soon be dead, and the only way we can check our emails will be on the terms of Google or whoever. And because of how websites work now, ad blocking is an uphill battle that will only get harder,
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by apostacy 8y ago
This is absolutely about selfishness. Growing up in the suburbs, every Saturday at 10 AM and every weekday at 8 AM, the leafblowers would start. They wouldn't be done until the early afternoon. And most of the people who people used th
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by apostacy 8y ago
But that does sound an awful lot like propaganda. They say the same thing about Trump actually. And basically every dictator is said to have some sort of super human abilities and determination. Not needing much sleep is a very common one.
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by apostacy 8y ago
I do think that history isn't nearly as hard on him as it should be. He is easily as bad as Pol Pot or Hitler. But my college roommate got the symbol of Stalin's state tattooed on him because he said it was cool and ironic. This d
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by apostacy 8y ago
Vintage computing used to be fun because it was cheap. Not too long ago exotic computers were sold for their scrap metal prices. It is still unbelievable to me to see a cigarette stained 386 selling for $500.
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by apostacy 8y ago
You know, I have one that I found at an estate sale in upstate NY. It was never used. But I just can't bring myself to sell it.
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by apostacy 8y ago
This is exactly what happened with the Skype desktop client. I was able to get another year out of Skype for my grandmother's PPC Leopard based Mac by simple nullrouting ui.skype.com.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Git-annex is amazing. It has changed the way I manage my data.
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by apostacy 8y ago
I used TiddlyWiki for awhile, and it will always have a place in my heart. But it just wasn't portable enough for me.
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by apostacy 8y ago
It's not hard to extract the data from your hypercard stack, though.
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by apostacy 8y ago
I feel exactly the same way. But a few years ago I basically found a solution the works for me. I have a pile of interlink Markdown files in a git repo (you can use Dropbox also), and I can use various tools to access it. If you are willing
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by apostacy 8y ago
No, I think that offensive opinions are an order of magnitude LESS serious than a women's tracking app. Are you serious? Publishing misinformation about drugs is more serious than the handmaiden app?
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by apostacy 8y ago
> In that case, Google and Apple should completely withdraw from Saudi Arabia: no iPhones, no appstore, no AdSense, ... Any of these lead to tax revenue which facilitates running that oppressive government. > That's not what peop
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by apostacy 8y ago
> They're curating for user experience, not for political opinions. If someone uploaded a vim clone google isn't taking a stance in the editor war by letting it stay up. That may have been true in 2015. But no, Google us curati
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by apostacy 8y ago
> I'm also confused by the china comparison. I'm not aware of any google tech China is using to oppress, but even if that is true, your China example is technology causing more oppression. This is the opposite. The technology r
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by apostacy 8y ago
I think that American corporations should not facilitate evil. You might be 100% right, I certainly don't know the perspectives of Saudi women, but I will take your word for it. But if Google resisting evil means that the Saudi governm
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by apostacy 8y ago
We're way past the slippery slope though. Google already is removing apps for completely frivolous reasons. They removed gab.com because some nazi trolls were using it, so that is the standard that Google has established. And by that s
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by apostacy 8y ago
I don't know why you are getting down-voted. It would be 100% consistent. People on HN would even rationalize it the same way.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Saudi Arabia only freed their African slaves in 1962. What if a new king re-enslaved them? I guess Google would be fine with hosting slave auction apps then, by this logic. I am so disgusted with the den of cowards and hypocrites at Google.
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by apostacy 8y ago
Carl Benjamin, an "anti sjw" YouTuber actually read and reviewed one of her books[1], and liked her unpretentious and communicative writing style, even if he disagreed with some of her ideas. I for one like her too, but I find tha
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by apostacy 8y ago
JMS, the creator of this show, was way ahead of his time, and did some amazing tricks to get this show produced. He drew heavily from technology culture, and found innovative ways to save money on production. He was able to get consultation

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