barneygale

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Low-Background Steel(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by barneygale 3y ago|4 comments
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by barneygale 3y ago
This thread should be linked from the wikipedia article for "false dichotomy". Apple fanboys just can't help themselves.
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by barneygale 3y ago
Shoo. You're ruining the web!
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by barneygale 3y ago
The Telegraph published a supplement written by the Chinese government until April 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/14/daily-telegrap...
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by barneygale 3y ago
uBlock Origin is literally free
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by barneygale 4y ago
https://killedbymicrosoft.info/
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by barneygale 4y ago
It's a shame we never got to see a DHCP server implemented in SVG!
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by barneygale 4y ago
> According to statistics - rich kids squander ALL of their wealth in ~ 2 generations, so dont worry about rich kids. Stupid ones (of which there are a majority) wont be rich for long. So it's not a meritocracy - it's an inter-
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by barneygale 4y ago
So like rich kids with generational wealth under capitalism? Sign me up!
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by barneygale 4y ago
> Is there some financial motive I'm unaware of? Precisely the opposite. We do it for free because other people do it for money.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Why are you continuing to argue when you clearly don't understand antitrust?
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by barneygale 4y ago
Have you considered a career in subsistence farming? You're likely to be less damaging to the world.
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by barneygale 4y ago
> unless you made your incidental identity the central topic of discussion in unrelated conversation http://bash.org/?top try ctrl-fing for "fag", "homo", "jew", etc. These insults were rout
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by barneygale 4y ago
> BLM > Endlessly supported Black people are still being murdered by police every day in America.
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by barneygale 4y ago
You answered your own question. The only motivation is greed.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Mindless accumulation of wealth is evil. All major world religions and ethics systems acknowledge this.
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by barneygale 4y ago
The idea is that if you pit those villains against eachother on a level playing field, they'll improve society on the whole. To a certain extent it's true, and it's only failing in the case of Google/etc because we'
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by barneygale 4y ago
> I haven’t ever seen anyone have any difficulty understanding, using or differentiating between either. In our results this simply isn’t a problem with investigating. I'm not sure if this was meant as reassuring, but for me it only
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by barneygale 4y ago
> We elaborate on the relation between affordances and algorithms—defined as computational processes that can run on universal Turing machines—ultimately arriving at the conclusion that identifying and leveraging affordances goes beyond
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by barneygale 4y ago
Highlighting that HN is awash with corporate apologists _is_ a productive discussion. Far more productive than the apologists usually impose.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? walnutclosefarm wasn't commenting on religion and nothing in their comment approached flaming.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Previous HN discussion on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733077
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Who wants to live to 100 on lentil and broccoli slurry? Mostly rich men(theguardian.com)
2 points by barneygale 4y ago|1 comments
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by barneygale 4y ago
This could be clarified by a quick phone call to a Google developer support engineer. If Google is "too big" to run a competent support department then it should be broken up.
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by barneygale 4y ago
The Waffles forums were something truly special. I'm so pleased you were there :-)
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by barneygale 4y ago
Very briefly, yes. OiNK went down on Oct 23 2007, and Waffles launched on Oct 31. What followed within a day or two. The split probably happened around the 27th.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Waffles also had Trent Reznor - he uploaded his albums to both sites. I deleted his first upload of Ghosts I–IV because he messed up the ID3 tags ;)
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by barneygale 4y ago
You're also training google's robots to be more human-like.
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by barneygale 4y ago
> Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. There's some irony to this appearing on what.cd When OiNK was taken down there was a massive community effort to put a successor online within days.
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by barneygale 4y ago
Such cynical views of mankind should not be tolerated in the tech industry.

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