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by colpabar 5y ago
> since the comment section quickly got mobbed by some pretty rabid commenters In my experience, the first few comments of a post are usually pretty low quality, but after a few hours, thoughtful comments are made, and the low quality o
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by colpabar 5y ago
Even if all the comments you find problematic are flagged and downvoted so that no one can even see them? Would you make the same argument for all the conspiracy theories regarding Apple's CSAM scanning announcement; that we shouldn&#x
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by colpabar 5y ago
> But people sometimes report experiencing negative side effects when they try to eat less sugar. Headaches, fatigue or mood changes, which are usually temporary, are among the symptoms. I did keto for a few months a few years ago, and
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by colpabar 5y ago
Haha I drive the turnpike all the time and these ones make me laugh the most. The ones that say "the green new deal is america's off switch" and the ones that were pro coal at least kind of make sense (their message is that
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by colpabar 5y ago
>The media doesn't have a crystal ball any more than you or I do. Sure, but the media is not writing encyclopedia entries. They make hyperbolic claims about how they break stories before anyone else, and how accurate they are. But s
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by colpabar 5y ago
Had you checked the article after this encounter? I guess they eventually realized you were right and made the change, but I wonder when that happened. Other comments here discuss how it's odd that they don't allow their site to b
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by colpabar 5y ago
Does anyone seriously believe that if the US gov levied this tax that it would actually use the revenue in an efficient way? Remember when they "lost" 2.3 trillion dollars? $2,300,000,000,000. Whoops! As an aside, this [1] was e
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by colpabar 5y ago
> Let's just sit here and consider for a minute the inherent racism in referring to anyone being rich as having the quality of 'being white'. I guess you never saw this. https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian
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by colpabar 5y ago
>stop reading American news. Can you recommend good sources of non-american news? I always see this suggestion and truly despise american media in general, but as an american I don't even know where to look.
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by colpabar 5y ago
I believe the demonization of the term "conspiracy theory" is propaganda. Aren't we in a thread discussing a theory that organizations that are not apple will eventually conspire with apple to utilize this invasive new techno
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by colpabar 5y ago
So it seems that the dominant opinion in this thread is that twitter is a private company, and that they are allowed to operate as they see fit. They can ban whoever they want, as long as they say it violated their tos. But in [1], it says
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by colpabar 5y ago
Would you ask that question of literally anything else? There are twitter accounts for all sorts of things. Agree with it or not, the AZ audit is a real thing that is happening in Arizona. It having a twitter account is in no way unusual.
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by colpabar 5y ago
> Do I not know the latest API design principles yet or why are the examples for a de facto industry standard so lousy? Swagger/OpenAPI is not really a standard, it's just a way to document an API. JsonAPI [1] is an example of
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by colpabar 5y ago
Is there a difference? I have used grindr, and if someone is close enough, it will say they are "x feet away." They are well aware of the precision of the location data they serve to users, because it's a feature.
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by colpabar 5y ago
> I'm surprised Grindr doesn't "fuzz" the location enough to at least make it much less accurate. Why would they? Doing that would make their data less valuable. Just because grindr is the "gay hookup app"
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by colpabar 5y ago
I want to agree, but the problem I have this particular case is that it seems that it's only being taken seriously only because the affected party is a massive US corporation. The US is going after someone from another country because
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by colpabar 5y ago
I wasn't arguing anything related to the lawsuit. The comment that started this thread stated that doxxing was wrong, and morality was dragged in in the comment I responded to, which said that doxxing people is ok if you feel it's
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by colpabar 5y ago
If you really think it's ok for someone to abuse privileged access on a supposed "anonymous" commenting platform to dox someone because they didn't like their comments, then I don't think our discussion is going any
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by colpabar 5y ago
> Temple’s own student news site backed Viola’s right to say what she thought: “We don’t believe she should be removed for her alleged comments, although we condemn them.” To be fair, I don't know how representative the student ne
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by colpabar 5y ago
I think the difference here is that in this case, there is a tangible record of what was said outside of work, rather than a story about how someone said something outside of work. I'm sure there are countless examples of employees wis
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by colpabar 5y ago
I remember reading something recently that this site was designed to be ugly and scary so that people just go back to using turbotax.
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by colpabar 5y ago
I think "political tool" is a better term, and I believe it's an incredibly effective tool for dividing people who might otherwise be united on certain issues. I think that after the 2008 financial crisis and the following ba
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by colpabar 5y ago
When every EULA in existence contains a "despite everything we just said, we can actually just do whatever we want if we decide we want to" clause, why would you expect a contract to be binding in any meaningful way? Companies thi
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by colpabar 5y ago
> It largely seems to be a matter that at some point became politically useful in the US and elsewhere, rather than an actual concern. It's diabolical. The ruling class, who benefitted the most from slavery, have figured out how to
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by colpabar 5y ago
I bet some western tourists would get a kick out of some kind of joke "weapons of mass destruction" attraction. I don't know if any Iraqi people would though.
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by colpabar 5y ago
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27125200
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by colpabar 5y ago
And here I was thinking you could only pass a type.
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by colpabar 6y ago
First off, it's not $50 per day, because you're probably paying income tax. But let's assume it is. Second, it's not really "per day", that's an average. Most bills recur monthly. Assuming a month of four
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by colpabar 6y ago
Why shouldn't they? The government taxes everything it possibly can, and for the past year the government has put a ton of restrictions in place that caused a lot of people to lose their jobs. It is now time for the government to start
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by colpabar 6y ago
What's the difference between the front page and the classic view? I didn't know about this. >I spend more of my downvotes on distracting reddit-style comments than on incorrect posts. Is my change in downvoting behavior contri

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