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by bigwavedave 4y ago
> Except that the article is about the decision of a US Federal judge. There is no court case filed in NZ, and NZ law doesn't apply in the US. No, the article is about a New Zealand company using the discovery process of a lawsuit i
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
> How exactly are you supposed to prove that an opinion was honestly held? >> You don't in the US. A defendant is presumed innocent and needs to be proven guilty by a finder of fact. What needs to be shown is that the poster p
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
There've been a lot of additional great questions proposed in these comments! The one I like to ask the most has 2-parts: 1. "Why is this position open?" and if the answer is anything other than "we're doubling the
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
> This person did this with 2 separate judges. Why is it so easy? Easy and cheap! TFA says it was only $300 to $5k per election total... Which was then split _at least_ two ways?? I mean, sure, the average politician hasn't been acc
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
> Any plans to revisit the pricing? I've in the Kagi beta for months and it's way better than DDG, but it's hard to justify US$120/year when Google is free. Everyone has different needs, but I've seen this "
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
The voice in my head that narrates whatever I read pronounced it "ally" from the start- it didn't read it as "A-eleven-why" until someone mentioned it, so if nothing else it had the desired effect on me!
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
Agreed 100%. Something I enjoyed doing a lot during the height of the pandemic was getting in my car and simply driving around, looking specifically for places I haven't been before. I'd drive up and down mountain roads, through s
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
I'm not affiliated with either, but I use rathole ( https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole ) and kamatera ( https://www.kamatera.com/ ) as my own kind of ngrok. But I've also heard good things about t
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
> I'm just wondering why the author keeps making those articles about strongly disliking Go, ok we get it your favorite language is Rust, you don't like Go. Why does the author does not move on, exactly? He made a post two year
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
I just wanted to take a sec and say I've been using Calyx for eight or nine months now- sure, there was some pain that came in the first month from adjusting to a new phone OS (there always will be when being a Samsung lifer trying som
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by bigwavedave 4y ago
Nice! I use rathole with kamatera- it's nice to see a fellow ratter :).
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
"You're very clever, young man, very clever- but it's tortles all the way down!"
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> If it works as advertised I don't think people would blink an eye at paying 5 figures for it. >> [snip]And most of the Western world has healthcare where this would be covered for all citizens. Well, let's be honest wit
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I think it's 8 + 8 + 8 + 35. OP just worded things a little strangely. They're saying it's: * $8 remote connect * $8 safety connect * $8 destination assist * $35 wifi connect So $59/mo unless op has multiple Toyotas, I g
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I'll respond to both of you here, since I cba to refute the same thing twice. Let me ask you this: was the colony of Jamestown not a colony? English citizens in a foreign land ruled by a governor beholden to the crown? Because that&#x2
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Oh, by the way, Spain never had colonies. They had provinces and everyone in those provinces was just as citizen of the empire as someone from current Spain. Um. Okay. A colony is: 1. "an area over which a foreign nation or state
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Except they're not supposed to be split. Just like splitting "therapist" into "the rapist" doesn't capture the intended meaning of the thing, neither does splitting "chaotic good" into "chaotic&q
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
What? "Chaotic good" and "lawful evil" are common terms. Why are you trying to split up the grandparent post's wording in a way they very obviously didn't intend?
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> [snip] that doesn’t mean people need to talk so dismissively and condescendingly of them “recruiter spam” and such. What else would you call an unsolicited, undesired, insincere, largely irrelevant, automated message if not "spam&
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> It's not like she would be the first or the only team member with rather controversial political views. As long as these views don't meaningfully impact her work on Rust, why shouldn't she be on the team? Why can't
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
"For the first six months you own it, the Series I bond we sell from November 2021 through April 2022 earns interest at an annual rate of 7.12 percent. A new rate will be set every six months based on this bond's fixed rate (0.00
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I'd like to apologize for how I've been speaking to you. When I saw your product, I was filled with hope- more competition for the behemoth to deal with is always a good thing, especially if it's privacy-focused and at the ve
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
For real. It makes me wonder what the culture is like for the other people working there. Apparently, they're currently hiring; for their sake, I hope one of the open positions is for someone who can do PR.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
The dark patterns, the complete and utter inability to address legitimate feedback appropriately, the excuses, the gaslighting... Yeah, no. I don't need yet another company with these philosophies and this kind of founder in my life.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Especially (from their intro comment, which I can’t reply to for some reason): >> We believe in superior privacy choices without losing convenience. > Their replies in this thread contradicts that - both privacy and convenienc
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> [snip] or to just be a respectable human when interacting with others. He came here to convince the startup and dev community that he's our savior against Google, and then repeatedly told us we're just too stupid to understan
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Considering the responses you've been copying and pasting all day with minor variations whilst ignoring legitimate and relevant feedback from the people you claim to have made this "service" for, I highly recommend you recons
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Wow. Did you really think this nonsense was going to fly? Or that the size of the extension is the problem? Or, frankly, that you're the right guy to be doing unscripted PR of any kind? Somebody paid a lot of money to make this- why ar
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
The saddest bit is that when it does end up failing, he will have convinced himself it's because: 1) "competing with a $2tr company is hard" 2) "people were too dumb to be able to immediately make it their default navbar
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Just to be sure we're on the same page here: * You're pitching this search engine specifically "for devs". * You're pitching it on HN, a community which (correct me if I'm wrong, @dang) is largely composed of y

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