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by cderwin 10y ago
For what it's worth, if a reasonable person can make a compelling case that a story is not fake news (i.e. if it is "arguable"), doesn't the question of whether it is "fake" or not boil down to a reader's
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by cderwin 10y ago
I don't agree with tomp's reasoning but you are confusing cause and effect. If tomp is correct, it only implies that a news outlet biased towards one candidate would predict a victory for the other, not that every media outlet pr
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by cderwin 10y ago
I've never worked on anything gaming related, but the bigger cross-platform games certainly have crashes. I can't even tell you how many times Fallout 4 has crashed for me (likely hundreds). I obviously don't know if rust c
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by cderwin 10y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't asyncio in the form of async/await (or any other ways to explicitly denote context switches) solve the problem of data races in that per-thread data structures can be operated on at
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by cderwin 10y ago
Reagan was not a particularly popular actor, and only rose to national prominence as a political figure. So no, not like Reagan.
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Democracy is about balancing individual freedom with the demands of living in society. No it's not. Democracy does not inherently balance individual liberty with societal necessity. In fact, democracy says absolutely nothing abo
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by cderwin 10y ago
For reference, I wasn't able to access any of the affected sites until around 5pm on the day of the attack, and I don't even live in a big city, though I do live on the east coast. If you look at HN comments from posts about the a
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by cderwin 10y ago
As far as (2) goes, they actually need to be too big too fail. Otherwise, it's plainly impossible for internet infrastructure companies to be able to financially weather ddos attacks like this. These sorts of attacks are very expen
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by cderwin 10y ago
For what it's worth, most HNers would be considered part of the "elite" (college-educated, a good portion have graduate degrees, employed and in the top 10% of the income bracket) by most people out there. So it makes sense
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by cderwin 10y ago
hueving is correct, I meant something like this[1]. Of course, something like this[2] also works. [1] https://play.golang.org/p/igdUx6qckf [2] https://play.golang.org/p/_JW5QE_zOJ
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by cderwin 10y ago
Like everything else in language design, it's a trade-off. The negative of the try/catch paradigm is that it's effectively a goto statement, and is often abused as such. Though I haven't worked professionally with a st
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by cderwin 10y ago
To be fair, removing the assignment altogether in your example ignores the error much less explicitly than `try { myFunc(); } except { pass; }`
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by cderwin 10y ago
But they can instead make it illegal to use such software, which would not be an ex post facto law (it would only apply to uses of said software after the law was enacted). IANAL though, so I digress.
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Here's my biased, objective, and anecdotal opinion. Surely you mean subjective, not objective.
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Surely all lives are equal, and it doesn't matter where a person is killed, but only that they are killed. Why do you think this? There seems to be very little basis for this in fact, and surely certain deaths are more tragic tha
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by cderwin 10y ago
> If you want to go a level deeper and ask why this political shift has occurred, it's likely that one contributing factor is urbanization which been underway in the US for some time He was saying America has become more progressive
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by cderwin 10y ago
> I'd be more interested to hear what other possibilities this would open up. Not sure if this is what you meant by "possibilities," but I see a couple of major issues with this: - The cost of buying off a politician (oh s
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by cderwin 10y ago
Out of pure curiosity, what makes you think that someone on hn is more likely to be successful running a startup than anyone else?
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by cderwin 10y ago
Presumably OP is thinking of libel laws, because accusing someone of talking a bribe is tantamount to accusing them of breaking one of any amount of anti-corruption laws. I'm (extremely) doubtful of the claim since the plaintiff would
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by cderwin 10y ago
> You've essentially manufactured a belief here (parent believes humans are most important therefore all others are in the way), projected it onto the parent and then became outraged by it. This is the definition of a "straw ma
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Comparing America, which since World War I has been the wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth, with some backwater country in Asia or Africa which has oppressive, racially motivated policies is not really honest. Who should we comp
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by cderwin 10y ago
Interestingly, despite all the problems in the U.S., there is an argument to be made that America is among the least racist countries in the world[0]. I also imagine fighting a civil war in which race was a controlling issue within the las
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by cderwin 10y ago
Honestly I think you could say any conflict ever was/is/will be about power -- possibly even by definition.
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by cderwin 10y ago
But if you're complaining primarily to further your personal brand (not because you genuinely want to see a problem addressed), why should your complaints even be taken with merit?
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by cderwin 10y ago
> Few 'bugs' in implementation and you have a nice backdoor. This holds regardless of whether WhatsApp is a blackbox or not. Now, that doesn't make the claim of end-to-end encryption verifiable, but if you take Facebook&#
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by cderwin 10y ago
FYI most of the U.S. constitution only uses the word "person" as well, but legally persons outside the U.S. who are not citizens have no standing.
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by cderwin 10y ago
And people who (from a legal perspective) chose to break the law. Why is it morally acceptable to hold criminals in prison but not to employ them (at will, from what I understand) for little compensation during that imprisonment? Is there
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by cderwin 10y ago
It seems to me that they just found common ground, like Charles Koch and Mike Rowe have. ALEC produces models for a huge number of laws, the vast majority with which the Koch brothers are politically aligned. To me it doesn't seem to
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by cderwin 10y ago
I think you've got to understand that Point of View is absolutely crucial in ascertaining how "radical" a view point is. I think to most people here the idea of incarcerating people who choose to abort there pregnancies is t
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by cderwin 10y ago
As a part of a startup that just went under (by "just", I mean literally yesterday) they either can't release the code due to fiduciary responsibility to investors (it could be worth something, particularly if someone decides

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