atomi

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by atomi 6y ago
Because it personally effects this person.
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by atomi 6y ago
A big part of that was people using stocks as collateral to borrow money to buy more stocks. And here we are now, a plague and a massive stock rally. If I were to bet, I'd say people should prepare for history to rhyme.
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by atomi 6y ago
Not especially sane, no. They're particular to the modern conservative party.
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by atomi 6y ago
Whatever your political views are, my point was that there is a clear delineation between parties. Being apathetic to politics is consequential in and of itself. As to your claim about immigration, I'm not interested in defending any p
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by atomi 6y ago
> American politics has long since ceased being about policy and idea's I don't know how anyone can say this and be considered a serious person. One American party denies climate change, downplays COVID19, tries to take health
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by atomi 6y ago
Sort of like the fossil fuel industry?
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by atomi 6y ago
It does and I feel the example is just as contrived. The writer seems to imply that Fritz Haber would not have developed the Haber process without Liebig and effectively without the Mt Tambora eruption. Nice theory, but I don't know if
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by atomi 6y ago
There is something to be said here about greed and only appealing to the masses' basic instincts. In a lot of cases it makes money and people prefer it, but that doesn't equate to being good or being good for society.
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by atomi 6y ago
The landed class loves watching poor folks compete. It makes the poor more productive. You just have to adjust monetary policy to maintain that status quo. Of course, the opposite of that is true as well. Ultimately the race isn't all
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by atomi 6y ago
I have strong convictions and I cannot imagine being so concerned about my livelihood that I effectively self-censor. I guess that's why I've never used my real name. I do also remember when Twitter wasn't so political. But a
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by atomi 6y ago
I understand you wish things to be one way. In my opinion, bigotry in mainstream public discourse is never going to happen. It's a feature of capitalism and why you won't see gas vans as long as we remain a capitalist society. But
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by atomi 6y ago
We had wars over this. Bigotry lost. Don't destroy the world over a failed ideology.
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by atomi 6y ago
No.
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by atomi 6y ago
Code is speech.
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by atomi 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch
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by atomi 6y ago
I've seen what they post when they're "speaking their mind" It almost always devolves into "jokes" about getting state approval to shoot immigrants, refugees, minorities in open ranges, or providing "heli
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by atomi 6y ago
I've started just editing an instance of unbound on my router for custom DNS records. I've gone as far as redirecting all my port 53 traffic to it using iptables on my router as well for those insidiously hard coded DNS servers on
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by atomi 6y ago
It wasn't flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12909752
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by atomi 6y ago
Are we claiming global "intercorporational" conspiracies now? Why aren't these being flagged?
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by atomi 6y ago
Over a long enough period, organizations tend to monopolize and limit what they allow on their platform.
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by atomi 6y ago
And then came Colt's Revolver. > A Texas Ranger, Captain Samuel Walker, wrote Colt a testimonial that read, in part:"Your pistols...[are] the most perfect weapon in the World... to keep the various warlike tribes of Indians and
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by atomi 6y ago
What a bleak future for humanity.
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by atomi 6y ago
Google and others are adding this obfuscation to commercialize everyone else's content. The web was originally designed as an open platform. I would guess most users uploading to Youtube would not want people deterred from watching the
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by atomi 6y ago
It's the opposite of simplistic. I believe the developer's constitutional rights were violated and I would contact the EFF and ACLU for help. For some context, at one point: > the US government designated encryption software as
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by atomi 6y ago
Not to confuse the point, this is about your right to publish your own code.
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by atomi 6y ago
Code is speech. The fight should be an ideological one - akin to first amendment protections.
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by atomi 6y ago
It's not even that. This is an ideological fight we should be having. Code is speech and code should be protected by all like free speech is under the first amendment. This is modern day book burning.
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by atomi 6y ago
I think all coders can agree that censoring code should be pretty high up on the list of developer commandments. This should rally all developers.
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by atomi 6y ago
No kidding. Did op forget that it's actual people who are voting on these referendums? California allows any coalition to initiate referendums and bring the vote to the people, if that's not democratic, I don't know what is.
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by atomi 6y ago
To add, it was Republicans under Reagan who shut down the mental health facilities.

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