arkona

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by arkona 9y ago
> A distributed, append-only cryptographic ledger Pardon my ignorance, but isn’t that what a blockchain is?
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by arkona 9y ago
Since when is it? If there is one thing that will get you banned from 4chan it is posting or requesting child pornography. I am not a fan of much of the content on that website, but linking them to child pornography looks like a smear job.
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by arkona 9y ago
> They used 4chan and 8chan — websites linked to the distribution of child pornography — to organise their movement, the FBI says. What? 4chan is linked to child pornography? This paragraph alone is casting serious doubts on the journali
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by arkona 9y ago
> Good day, I've received word from the VAC team that this is intentional and not open for discussion on Github. > In general VAC issues are not handled on Github in any capacity and further issue reports on this may result in be
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by arkona 9y ago
> staying away from coffee Huh? Why?
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by arkona 9y ago
We're talking about the UK, so probably "hate speech" aka wrongthink
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by arkona 9y ago
> What crime are they charging him with? Second degree murder seems appropriate
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by arkona 9y ago
https://archive.is/3HgG5
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by arkona 9y ago
Bazinga!
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by arkona 9y ago
If one word needs to be banned, it is “diversity” - an overused and meaningless term.
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by arkona 9y ago
... so basically argumentum ad populum. Galileo should’ve just shut up
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by arkona 9y ago
Tl;dr? This is word salad and isn’t saying anything other than “Sam Altman shouldn’t speak about this because he isn’t a sociologist”. Where is the author’s rebuttal?
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by arkona 9y ago
> You will have every one of your transactions tracked if you use this alt I don’t think you understand the concept of a blockchain.
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by arkona 9y ago
> Bcash It’s Bitcoin Cash. You’re just making the community look like a cult.
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by arkona 9y ago
I will never understand why people insist on using Facebook. What is the appeal? If you’re worth talking to, I will give you my phone number and we can text. For longer messages, I will send you an email. I can keep track of my contacts ins
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by arkona 9y ago
Looks like professor bitcorn is back > trust me I’m an economist
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by arkona 9y ago
Keeping everyone equally poor and miserable is an easy way to achieve this
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by arkona 9y ago
> vice Got any real source? Vice is the king of sensationalist dishonest journalism. I wouldn’t put it past them if they created accounts to post racist comments and take screenshots
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by arkona 9y ago
I don’t want to nitpick your definitions, but nazism usually refers to the ideology of the NSDAP, a party that was disbanded at the end of WW2. You probably meant to say “violent racism”, in which case the comparison to antifa, and to a les
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by arkona 9y ago
Care to give some evidence for your claims?
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by arkona 9y ago
Well it is certainly cruel, but hardly unusual...
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by arkona 9y ago
Is publishing this on Twatter supposed to make some ironic point? I don’t get it...
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by arkona 9y ago
So... stripping the code of significant parts This seems like a pretty good business model idea though!
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by arkona 9y ago
And how would you enforce that? What would prevent anyone with access to the code from building it and using it? I don't see any way except maybe stripping the code of significant parts
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by arkona 9y ago
Hey I would love to debate whether 100% of everything Hitler did was evil, but it's slightly off-topic
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by arkona 9y ago
Step 1) Kalanick creates a successful company that disrupts the taxi industry Step 2) thousands of people are now losing money and get upset at Kalanick Step 3) millions are spent lobbying governments, suing Uber, publishing anti-Uber news,
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by arkona 9y ago
It is a symptom of much deeper irrational thinking patterns. The whole point of the article is the woman complaining that her husband misunderstood how she wanted him to handle the cleaning of the bathroom. She did not tell him specifically
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by arkona 9y ago
> It was obvious that the box was in the way, that it needed to be put back. It would have been easy for him to just reach up and put it away, but instead he had stepped around it, willfully ignoring it for two days. It was up to me to t
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by arkona 9y ago
This. I see this kind of non-tech related "culture wars" prone article creeping into hn. Can we keep on reddit or some other non-tech forum where it belongs?
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by arkona 9y ago
This must be a troll, and it's a pretty bad one...

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