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by craftyguy 7y ago
Won't someone please think of the, uh, smartphone wallpaper startups‽ This article seems like clickbait.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> When I moved, the meetings I encountered were extremely hostile to atheists. That's unfortunate, and mostly in line with other experiences I've heard from friends, etc. AA seems like just another bullshit Christian recruitmen
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by craftyguy 7y ago
To be fair, that is the 'official' communication channel from the president of the US to its citizens.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
I'm guessing you have no basis for this comment, and are just trolling age discrimination.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
I know that comparing "hacker" "news" to reddit is "boring" (as dang would put it), but these types of "when this post is X <time units> old <some mundane thing> will happen" are low quali
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Care to explain what "on the ball" would realistically look like for this specific situation we are in right now? Because everyone else seems to be avoiding the question.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
The HN crowd likes to share anecdotes and bikeshed on off-topic topics like this one.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> The concern is people have not been taking this seriously for the past two months. This has resulted in the US being on the back foot and only acting in a reactive manner. The CDC has fallen flat on its face and now state public health
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Most likely a lot of people have the mexican beer virus, but very few have severe enough symptoms to go to the hospital to get tested. I mean, do you go to the hospital every single time you cough or sneeze?
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by craftyguy 7y ago
You just have to look at the front page of 'hacker' 'news' for the last few weeks, it's completely dominated by the mexican beer virus. no technology is being discussed here.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
20% of all US adults (hint: still millions of people) is quite a few.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
I encourage you to share less anecdotes on 'hacker' 'news' that are clearly extreme corner cases.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> but refuse to verify well known but “problematic” public figures... I'm not sure what you are talking about, they verified/allow at least one very problematic public figure (donald trump)
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> Was it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"? Yes. > but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point. Well, I'm not wrong.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> Sign in required >This page may contain erotic or adult imagery. You'll need to sign in if you still want to view it. Fuck that.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
..and "hacker" "news" continues to march towards conflating anecdotes with general trends/statistics. You are 1 American, not all Americans. Just because you don't know anyone doesn't mean there isn&#x27
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by craftyguy 7y ago
> Brave's business-model experiments to support a tracker-free internet – like the crypto-tokens & user-agent-controlled ad-replacement – are opt-in. Shitcoins require public, and trackable, ledgers, so you literally cannot say
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by craftyguy 7y ago
That's absolutely not true, e.g.: https://insinuator.net/2020/02/critical-bluetooth-vulnerabil... There was another one regarding the wifi chip used in many popular phones a few months ago.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Modeling our election campaign laws after NASCAR is probably not the best idea.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
These 'XYZ has died' posts should nearly include a short description of who the person was in the title.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
The answer is in the article.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Well then pointing out you are a 'high skill' worker doesn't really add to the discussion, at all. Your original comment would have been much better if you had explained why (like you just did here).
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by craftyguy 7y ago
I mean, did anyone really expect the UK to stop being xenophobic after they left the EU?
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by craftyguy 7y ago
You're a UK citizen, you don't need a visa. This policy has practically 0 impact on you.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
They aren't running FreeCAD from 2002, they are running FreeCAD from 2020. I bet you couldn't run 2020's Firefox on a system from 2002, even though Firefox existed in 2002.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Don't assume everything you see is financially motivated. Some people extract greater value in tinkering than the extra pennies they save by having someone do the tinkering for them.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
No, it's not smart. It's clickbait, and "hacker" "news" eats it up, every time.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
lol. the risk of it becoming public has increased now that it's accessible by more people. NDAs are a deterrent, but it doesn't deter everyone.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
It was a simple (to implement) system that worked for decades. Not everyone wants to run uber spyware on their phones.
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by craftyguy 7y ago
Nope. Author made a big leap from "it doesn't work for some folks" to "omg we're being actively blocked by an ISP! get out your pitchforks everyone!"

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