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by cooper12 10y ago
You're only proving my point by nitpicking further. Pedantry isn't a virtue, especially in assuming I'm so stupid as to anthropomorphize a piece of metal or trying to utilize a political maneuver. Focus on the article instead
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by cooper12 10y ago
I'm not generalizing, the proof is right in this thread, the top comments are all focusing on the specific numbers and completely missing the point. And that is a specific criticism.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Leave it to HN to completely ignore the point of the article and nitpick statistics. Guns kill more people than terrorism, period. Regardless of the actual numbers, the article's point still stands.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Just another [0] example of why you shouldn't blur sensitive info but completely black it out. [0]: https://dheera.net/projects/blur
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by cooper12 10y ago
Direct video link: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7946-console_hacking_2016 The uploader seems to have recorded themselves playing the video and it's missing the start and has buffering issues,
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by cooper12 10y ago
Say what you will about legacy support or planned obsolescence, but Apple has been constantly pushing the computing envelope exactly because they don't have to be Microsoft and get held back by older technology.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Here's a whole list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...
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by cooper12 10y ago
Nope. Nice strawman though.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Sure you can comment on the absurdity of it, but it's only funny at the expense of the victims.
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by cooper12 10y ago
It would take them a while to get to every guest, and it would require them to break the doors. Not exactly a small inconvenience and likely to ruin many vacations.
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by cooper12 10y ago
A normal person would have some empathy for people locked in/out their rooms and held ransom. It could be especially dangerous if any of them have medical conditions. I doubt it was a laughing matter for them at the time. The only thin
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by cooper12 10y ago
Maybe because American citizens aren't tripping over themselves to immigrate to those countries? Also history has proven time and time again that prejudice against immigrants from American war enemies was always based on xenophobia and
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by cooper12 10y ago
I'm pretty sure this thread is getting brigaded. Two new accounts with usernames like "AtheistPUA" (which stands for pickup artist [0]) and "truthexposer" who both espouse fat-shaming, with the latter explicitly cal
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by cooper12 10y ago
Sigh, since we're on HN I'm obliged to tell you that no, the robot didn't beat captcha. All it did was click a button. The way the newer captcha system works is based on internal data about your browser. The captcha was alrea
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by cooper12 10y ago
I never said anything about it happening in one party only, it was just a singular example, so that's just presumption on your part.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Did you read the article I linked? That's how I know.
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by cooper12 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with having aspirations per se. The issue is when these aspirations lead people to identify more with the upper class rather than their own class and voting against their own interests. For a very recent example,
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by cooper12 10y ago
Wow thanks for sharing. I'm glad to see that an apocryphal quote can have a source backing it up empirically.
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by cooper12 10y ago
I have some quotes that might provide insight: > Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. - purportedly by John Steinbeck > It i
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by cooper12 10y ago
There was actually a HN comment thread on it for the Mozilla announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425609 . The commenters mainly noted how similar the logos are. This could lead to possible confusion and I th
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by cooper12 10y ago
Nice to see them making it clear that there's no conflict at all. Is it just me or does the "L" in curl's logo look too much like a "1"? I think a font with an "L" that's curved like an "S&q
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by cooper12 10y ago
Absolutely agreed. I work on Wikipedia articles on a specific subject where we rely on a select few web resources. Many of them have long since closed down and we use the archived versions instead. It's downright tragic when we've
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by cooper12 10y ago
It's exactly because he's an icon that his brother is overshadowed by him.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Yeah you're correct on both accounts. However the prosecutor in the case still wanted to charge him and it wasn't their decision to make.
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by cooper12 10y ago
I'm assuming you're thinking is that he was going to distribute them. While his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto [0] might support that, it's just one possibility. Or he might have analyzed the papers for personal research, as
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by cooper12 10y ago
Tell that to his brother: https://medium.com/@swartzcr/people-call-me-aaron-3761481871...
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by cooper12 10y ago
Saying that he merely "quit", like he just walked out of the room or something, extremely trivializes depression and suicide. Also, the consequences in this case were disproportionate to the crime, with JSTOR listing inflated dama
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by cooper12 10y ago
Okay sorry for assuming otherwise, you can't really tell from such a succinct phrase. (btw, I ran a search query "is iphone the most popular camera" and the page is full of articles noting that it's the most popular on F
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by cooper12 10y ago
Even on Wikipedia it's disliked. Editors don't like cleanup tags because it signals that you care about some issue, but not enough to resolve it yourself and most tags languish on pages for years. (also people feel it clutters up
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by cooper12 10y ago
Where else do you want to look? Instagram? Facebook? It dominates those as well. Point-and-shoots are dead. While all professionals will prefer DSLRs, they only comprise a small part of the population. By any account iPhone cameras are the

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