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by benlumen 6y ago
YouTube should not be blocking any channels or taking down videos in all but the most egregious circumstances. These companies are absolutely out of control and have been for a while.
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I mean, I assume that most people doing these high-end jobs actually want to be doing them. If they've sold their souls, that's a seperate issue.
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Well, maybe. But it's not like this sort of drama is unusual. Maybe you have to be outside looking in to see the absurdity (I'm not in Silicon Valley, or the US for that matter).
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by benlumen 6y ago
I'm not interested in the details of this, but from a distance - people sure do make life difficult for themselves, bringing politics and their opinions and controversy into workplaces. It's always tech and academia, too - you&#x2
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by benlumen 6y ago
Want an econony built on imitation instead? Like China? No thanks.
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Shhh.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Same. Some sort of cultural phenomenon taking place amongst e-mail users.
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by benlumen 6y ago
I told myself this would be my next keyboard years ago. So know this about mechanical keyboards in general - choose wisely, because you'll be stuck with it. First, you won't ever go back to rubber dome like everyone always says, b
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by benlumen 6y ago
Nice idea. Related - Is there anything that can add the select number of Twitter accounts I want to follow to this Atom or RSS feed? Without exposing myself to toxic replies, toxic suggested tweets and toxic trending topics? I've thoug
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by benlumen 6y ago
Questions about this paper aside, I'd love to see a return of cold weather in the UK. We're made for it, with cosy stone cottages, fireplaces and pubs, all built in colder times. Hot summers just feel wrong to me here. Apparantly,
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by benlumen 6y ago
Utter nonsense for too many reasons to go into. You could just as easily say that the Queen needed to make sure it happened while parliament was trying to stop it.
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by benlumen 6y ago
What did you make of the debacle of the Fixed Term Parliament Act and the government being left unable to call a General Election in 2019 because of it? Supposedly it removed the power of the Queen to dissolve parliament. Lots of British pe
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Ask HN: Where do you go for Bootstrap web templates?
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by benlumen 6y ago
Main thing for me has been quitting caffeine after lunchtime. For most of my life I just drank caffeine as if it were synomynous with hydration - coffee in the morning, diet sodas in the afternoon, teas in the evenings. And for years, I won
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by benlumen 6y ago
It's definitely impressive performance for an ultrabook - my concern right now is external monitor support. I use an eGPU for the sole purpose of running triple monitors. It's a docking station, and the whole setup works brilliant
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by benlumen 6y ago
Such a great point. I feel like this explains the state of Linux desktop in a nutshell, actually.
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by benlumen 6y ago
I'm probably stating the obvious, but I think it's always worth keeping in mind that these software verification systems, both on Windows and now MacOS, are not for us . Ten years ago, I was constantly getting laptops dropped off
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by benlumen 6y ago
It was a figure of speech.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Oh bugger off, I'm not getting into the ins and outs of the safety protocols I've been observing my for seeing my grandmother on hacker news. I'm relieved about the vaccine. You do you.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Who said I was afraid? I'm literally locked in my house in England, and all of the pubs are shut, and I'm banned from hanging out with my friends or my family. I want all that to end. I want to get back to seeing the world and goi
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by benlumen 6y ago
I'm feeling a deep-seated wave of relief that I never thought possible. Like waking up from a year-long nightmare. Thank God.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Good time to buy shares in almost anything that's not related to online meetings or home deliveries, to be honest. Stock markets are skyrocketing.
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by benlumen 6y ago
The article doesn't mention why they're doing it - I hope it's for returning to their roots of real animatronics at the theme parks. Universal went further down the 3D / Simulator ride route than Disney and it's fun
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by benlumen 6y ago
Can anyone actually refute this instead of downvoting it? It's a really important point. Sorry to "both sides" it but I also think there's a good chance that if Democrats were making allegations of voter fraud it'd
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by benlumen 6y ago
Can anyone tell me if the 400 supports Kali with frame injection, as they say the Pi 4 does? Thinking of a Xmas gift for a security student.
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by benlumen 6y ago
I should have articulated it better - i don’t mean literally rounding people up to sway an election. I think it might be something that happens gradually over time with a softer, more subtle effect than that. Say, tougher enforcement in som
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by benlumen 6y ago
I’m in the UK where we also don’t allow prisoners to vote, but I’ve always said they should have it for a simple reason - with the way it is, there’s an incentive for any given government to imprison the political opposition. Even if it’s n
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by benlumen 6y ago
I realise this is a Microsoft one, but roughly how many of these are there now? And are they all just productised frontends for the Python libraries like I think they are?
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by benlumen 6y ago
"The higher-ups" are screening engravement messages? Call me naive but that sounds like nonsense. At least, it SHOULD be nonsense. If true they must be terrified of upsetting the CCP.
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by benlumen 6y ago
And if it’s from China? This is going to be a controversial suggestion, but I have a feeling that we might already be in an asymmetric world war and our leaders might quietly know it. This year has felt like checkmate.

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